Category : venue facilities

These buildings are killing creativity.

It's dark, cold, and it lacks kind of real lounges (not this strange hall called lounge ;-) to come together.

You won't even get a decent coffee...

I would like to see this taking place at an other intersting place. maybe at the university or such.

It's kind of expensive for this venue quality.

At least one good point: Public transportation is excellent.

I wonder why smoking is allowed inside the building, especially in front of the keynotes room.

The lunch ag was not good - you're in Europe. You cannot do this here.... Adapt or ...

Each day I forked over my 1.75 so I would not have to drag my coat around. As I leave directly to the airport (as most of us probably) I brought my luggage in today. Shocked when I had to hand over just under €6! How can a conference that costs over €1000 charge us every day for this "service"?

I had to take two bags to fill me up! Poor quality and choice for a conference of this cost.

Although the speakers workshops made up for it, the venue facilities didn't. I got the feeling I ended up in a place that didn't expect this event to take place. A very long line at the registration, asking the same information that I already submitted. The waiting contiuned at the one place to get a cup of coffee. Again, I enjoyed the speakers, but got an negative feeling from the place were it took place.

As a developer that doesn't drink coffee, I'm in desperate need of some good old sugar loaded, unhealthy soft drinks.
I'd even settle for some orange juice, if I could find some.

The only thing, all of this water is good for, is for more visits to the loo!

Create meeting points to make it easier for people to find each other.
People could twit, blog or comment on crowdwine: "let's meet under meeting point A at 12H".

Extra point: make funny meeting point: carton, coconut tree, whatever.

The contrast between the yellow links and the gray backgorund is too poor and I need to select all the text on the page in order to read them

(is the website a venue facility? :) )

The whole expo area is much to fragmented. There's no natural connection between the lecture halls and the expo, making the visits to the expo few and the expo floor empty.

I really think the Berlin Messe area is suboptimal for a conference like. There's nowhere to hang out and relax and network.

As regards the facilities and organisation this has been very disappointing. Signposting was bad to non-existent. How about printing passes that let people at the entrance see what kind of pass you have without having to pull you over and staring at you. Why were people forced to wait outside the keynotes room until just before? Why so few seats? And why the awful lunch bags?

There is clearly not enough place for everyone to sit and have some food/

Very long day, interesting presenters and topics that made us engaged the whole day. Yet, trying to relax and rest is not possible. Facilities are not prepared for that, thus, we ended up setting on the floor. Refreshments and coffee to keep us awake is good, yet managing to make them available was so bad.