+1, great job with the new features this year !  :) -Iani

On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 11:45, Jakob Perry <[email protected]>wrote:

> Adrian setup the schedule on blug.org the first week of april so people
> could see an initial schedule. Its been up for weeks already. We migrated it
> to the current website this week for consistency and to allow people to use
> the interactive features of the site. Most people had access to the sessions
> since Jan when they started coming in. This is not much different than other
> conferences, including Ohio, drupalcon, etc.
>
> As for previous years, there have always been last minute schedule changes,
> which is why we keep the brochure printing to the last minute.
>
> This year, people will be able to browse the schedule via their phones, in
> a readable format. Screen readers for the blind will work, as the old table
> format was not useable for them.
>
> I sent an email to all 'registered' attendees and we've seen a dramatic
> increase of signups and site activity in the past 2 days. Twitter and
> facebook are getting more active, and we're seeing people in the IRC
> channel.
>
> ~Jakob
>
> On Apr 21, 2010, at 9:30 AM, Mark Ashworth wrote:
>
> > Carl Symons wrote:
> >> Well done Jakob!
> >> Response less than 24 hours (by 3 minutes) after the initial
> >> request...quite an improvement over the previous system. You and
> >> Drupal rock!
> >
> > Getting a schedule online only 4 days before the fest is a new record for
> tardiness. This is much later than past years. It's not credible to believe
> that the first request came only 24 hours before that. I've seen emails on
> the fest list that say otherwise. In fact the person who is primarily
> responsible for presenters and exhibitors asked me for help because he could
> not get his work done on time using the fest website.
> >
> > I'm not trying to meddle with the fest. As you made very clear to me I'm
> not on your team. I fully expect that after the fest is over you will try to
> have me removed as the blug.org webmaster so I can't meddle with the
> vision of reality you are trying to project.
> >
> > --Mark
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