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Eric (ETinKC) marked one of Cos' replies in Netroots Nation as useful. Cos replied to the question "No-Shows should be a No-No".

Eric (ETinKC) replied on July 29, 2008 16:02 to the question "Why not record all the sessions and upload them as downloadable mp3s?" in Netroots Nation:

We are working on this request. We have contacted our vendor about making hte audio available and it loks like we will be able to make this happen so stay tuned.

Eric (ETinKC) replied on July 29, 2008 16:00 to the idea "facilitating room changes" in Netroots Nation:

Thank you for the input. I do think we need to info boards next year, one that is for "official announcements" and one that anyone can post on as sometimes information tends to get buried. We should also post any room changes on the doors as well.

A comment on the idea "Box lunches should be recycled and composted" in Netroots Nation:

Actually it just shows you how starved I was for friuts or veggies that week. Usually, the box lunch (if we had a chance to grab one) was the first food of te day and we then wouldn't get a chance to go out for dinner till after the last event and prepping for the next day. Austin was great but 99% of the places stopped serving food at 10pm so it was either deeeep fried bar food at wait til 2 am when the taco carts came out. – Eric (ETinKC), on July 28, 2008 04:41

Eric (ETinKC) replied on July 28, 2008 04:35 to the idea "Saturday Night Fever!" in Netroots Nation:

I like the idea of drinks and light cold buffet starting around 5:30 or 6 and going till 8 latest - then plenty of time to hit the town for more food and or parties.

Eric (ETinKC) replied on July 28, 2008 04:32 to the idea "Women Panelists" in Netroots Nation:

Thank you for the suggestion. Whether or not she becomes a panelist it seems that she is a voice we should all be listening to. I like Amy Goodman as well. Don't know if she was ever approached. It would be great to have her appear as a speaker or as a moderator for a keynote.

Eric (ETinKC) replied on July 28, 2008 04:28 to the idea "Box lunches should be recycled and composted" in Netroots Nation:

nc - i do not know the difference in cost between a buffet setup and the box lunches - but the point about waste is a great one that we should take into consideration. And I thought the apples were the best part.

Eric (ETinKC) marked one of nonconreformer's replies in Netroots Nation as useful. nonconreformer replied to the idea "Box lunches should be recycled and composted".

Eric (ETinKC) replied on July 25, 2008 19:16 to the idea "Early Birds and Night Owls Events." in Netroots Nation:

When you say day before, are you talking about Wedneday or Tuesday? This year we had volunteers (mostly local I think) on Tuesday to help stuff bags - and we openned up Registration on Wednesday so folks could register the night before. I love the idea of having a more formal or at least an event on Wednesday. May even encourage more people to come in the night before and get registered. Maybe some sort of mixer/movie/food/presentaion right where the reg desk is so people can get registered at their leisure and the enjoy each others company.

Eric (ETinKC) replied on July 25, 2008 01:48 to the idea "Women Panelists" in Netroots Nation:

And please - help get the word out about our conference to those you would like to see participate. outreach and diversity will always be a challenge/opportunity that we will look to our community for help.

Eric (ETinKC) replied on July 25, 2008 01:43 to the idea "SWAG Bag detritus has got to go" in Netroots Nation:

But OC, the bag was cool and reusable at least :)

This is a comment we heard a lot, One thought was to have more stuff out on the tables during keynotes so people only took what they wanted, but then their were complaints about all the stuff on tables as well, some of which we have no idea where it comes from.

Bottom line the sponsors pay loots of money for us to get there message into the hands of all of our attendees such that we can actually offer the conference at as low a rate as we do. We really do love our sponsors and want people to patronize them, but I think that it means teaching them the difference between good swag and insting recycled material. However, we got comments from folks who like the reading material. (Personally - I left my book in the hotel room - aarrgg - so I enjoyed my SEED magazine and Mother Jones on the way home.)

Eric (ETinKC) replied on July 25, 2008 01:28 to the discussion "No Netroots Hierarchy Please" in Netroots Nation:

While there are some discussions that may work better in lecture format, those should be few. We also need to do a better job of labeling the panels as such. In addition to the format of the panels we will be looking into how the layout of the rooms can lend itself to be more conducive to casual discussion and debate.