Notes from RootsCampNYC Wrap Up Session

To Do

1. post your session notes!
2. talk about rootscamp and un-conference model, if you had a good time, tell people about it (evangelize)
3. join the rootscamp Facebook group

Deltas

• 30 min too short
• too large for 30 min sessions
• facilitation/how to moderate
• schedule on the wiki
• move more sessions to the AM
• wrap up -- what people got out of it
  • Noel says: put it on the wiki
  • Homework: 3 bullets for each seesion
• more blogger outreach (Matt tasked with this next time)
• more generational mix -- more older people (older mindset)
• more success stories, case studies, metrics
• discussion: one track of predetermined sessions? maybe guide process of agenda formation more?
• open agenda means people outside the world may think nothing is going to happen
• lots of pre-listed sessions was a little confusing to the uninitiated b/c seemed like there was something going on in advance but it wasn't clear
• lack of posted session notes

Plusses

• counter: if more at a time, smaller, then 30 min would be okay
• liked short sessions in AM, agenda on wall... created some synergy
• we like Noel
• people passionate about issues
• good mix of people from computer gurus, to hacks, to activists
• breadth of experience
• vendors behaved themselves
• Aussies
• Lots of discussions
• people stayed on topic
• seems like most people for whom this was their first unconference stayed to the end
• gathering/connecting people who had a shared interest to work on a session together
• people were pretty proactive, whatever their initial concerns, to make it work and fill out the agenda when they got here