I missed most of the Mesh07 Wrap but it didn’t seem like a lot of people stayed for it either. It was a muggy day and most of us had been out late the night before. The socializing moved over to thePoque Mahones and it seemed pretty quiet there too.

Overall I thought Mesh07 was again a great place to network but still lacking as conference. I really found the bigger panel like discussions to be a complete waste of time and lacked any meaningful content or discussion. The smaller sessions were a lot more insightful so I’d suggest there probably needs to be more of these and less of the big
full session keynotes.

I’d also suggest that Mesh needs to start eating its own cookies ( as Mike McDermett puts it ). The wiki was missing from last year and it would have been great for people to be able to add to the schedule. Specifically the rooms weren’t displayed on the online scheduled and the speaker bios were not available in the paper version.

It was also very hard to track the online activity around the conference without searching Technorati or Google directly. I’d suggest there should be a process for each session to allow people to submit blog links, photos, videos etc.. It should be really easy for me to see what is happening in other sessions. This would also help to
promote mesh for more people who might be on the fence for next year.

I’d also like to see more start-ups and more students participate. I’m not sure the conference can survive otherwise.

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