Postmortem report for the FOSS United Chennai March Meetup
For Event Details: March FOSS Meetup
Event Photos: Ente Photos
The Good
- We got 50+ diverse participants, which was good to see after a long gap.
- The venue was so friendly except for the security part; they were happy with the meetup and took care of the F&B.
- Participants were so interactive and very much involved in the talks and community discussions.
- Chennai chapter used to open discussion after each monthly meetup, which turned out so a fruitful discussion this time. We got very impressive thoughts and suggestions on upcoming meetups and also concerns about the March meetup.
- We had a good number of volunteers at the meetup, which we used to lag in most of the meetups.
- The Event started too late but we closed the event at the right time since one speaker dropped since he was not well.
The Bad
- Considering the feedback, the participants felt few talks were not interactive rather was like a college lecture.
- Few of the participants left the meetup after the break.
- The HDMI Cable was not connecting properly with the speaker Laptops unless the venue technician helped them.
- Participants felt difficulty in the visibility of the screen especially when it is presented in a dark theme.
- Participants felt the talks weren’t structured as per the time ( kind of non-tech talks at the time, where participants seemed less interactive).
The Ugly
- Organizers were late ( ~30 mins from the event start time ) to the venue, which made the participants wait so long. For few participants who came by 1:30 PM were waiting an hour for the event to start.
- Till the event started, the venue was playing some promotional videos in a loop mood, which created an inconvenience to the participants.
- Though there was one organizer who was there at the venue on time the event was not started.
Takeaways
- The Organizers should make sure the event starts on time
- We should host different types of meetups ( dev sprints, workshops, panels ) rather than just talks.
- Spend more time on framing the agenda.
- Add more interactive sessions and fun activities.
