• Flat rooms with movable furniture are best
• Comfortable chairs are very important – the rooms in SITE and FTX were fairly similar, but the padded chairs in FTX made it much easier to stay there for an extended period of time.
• There's one room in the rez with a bunch of chairs, foldable tables, etc. that looks like it would be good

• Too much time lost to laptops disagreeing with the projector – collect slides/code/etc. beforehand and stick with one machine for the whole session

• Poor quality audio on the webcast/recording: find some way to get feed from wireless mic into encoding machine
• Bring a spindle of DVDs to dup the recordings during the conference

• Slide numbers (7/12) on the slide are good to have

• For long talks, need afternoon snacks

• Collect a nominal fee for attendance, to cover lunches etc. - that way the budget scales with the number of attendees.

12:57 <rwatson> also a good idea – talks in the mornings, hacking in the afternoon, try to schedule talks that lead to hacking