After sleeping two nights after the last day of codebits and posting this, and finally back to reality, there are some aspects of the event I would like to review. The green lights inside codebits must have induced some kind of subliminar hipnose state from which only now I’m starting to recover.
Still I think it was, as always, a wonderful event, one of the best - if not the *the* best - organized events I have attended. Still, and since I loved it, I would like it to reach perfection, so I’m here dumping my thoughts on it.
Chairs
As much as I love bean bags, I’m not able to sit comfortably with a laptop for more than 30 minutes without getting a sore neck. When I arrived on thursday morning there were no chairs left - and I was not the only one to complaint.
Food
Last year pizza was coming out all the time. This year meals were only coming at a certain time (but snacks were a constant) - you could go out to eat (while there were places open outside), but that can break the flow of socialization / developing / talks. And it’s also like pulling bats out of the cave during daytime - very painful…
Talks
The secondary stages were too close to each other, and there was constant noise bleed between them. Even on main stage the talkers were now and then feeling interrupted by the next door activity (I think the gaming consoles). Maybe devise some way of separating them more - or have less of them and make shorter 20 minute talks like in jsconfeu…
My talk
As a talker, I felt a bit uncomfortable with the surrounding noise. I also felt uncomfortable for not being able to talk while moving: I had to stand behind a pulpit like a polititian, and that introduced some stiffness in my talk, since the microphone was directional and I had trouble getting heard and looking sideways to my slides.
On the next day some talks requested the “Madonna” microphone, which the company promptly supplied. I should have done the same…
The contest
On my last post I forgot to mention a presentation I really liked: “Shave Dare”. It must have been the most imaginative presentation I’ve ever seen at codebits.
The aftermath
I’m already missing codebits, work life should constantly be like that. Back to reality now - *sigh*.
