Comments on: Fairfield / Westchester Code Camp 2 Even Better than Last Year!

By: Mark Freedman

Mark Freedman — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 18:07:49 +0000

Hehe… Actually, Milan, it was mainly in speaker order, but since you weren’t a speaker (I think your dog ate your homework or something ), I just added you to the end. You actually were close to the first arrivals, probably just after Peter.

By: Milan Negovan

Milan Negovan — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 15:10:05 +0000

LOL! I came last. I gotta drive faster.

By: Mark Freedman

Mark Freedman — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:30:15 +0000

Hmmm. We’ll have to revisit that for next year’s raffle. There’s always room for improvements.

The goal was to increase anticipation towards the top prizes, but we should keep the winners of previous prizes out of the running.

Thanks.

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 19:09:46 +0000

The raffle was setup in such a way that allowed one person to walk away with 2 prizes because he first won a book and then his ticket was put back into the drawing for the better prizes.

The best prizes should of been raffled off first and then the remaining books should of been raffled off. It was not fair that one person got 2 prizes while most people got no prizes.

By: Mark Freedman

Mark Freedman — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 16:01:01 +0000

Thanks for the comments. I’ll discuss discount coupons, etc. with the team.

But I hope people don’t feel like they left with nothing. I hope they left feeling like they left with more knowledge than when they came in with.

I agree with you on the annual dues. A large feature of UGs is that they’re free. But voluntary contributions could be an option we wouldn’t turn down

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 15:35:23 +0000

Thank you and thanks to everyone else involved in organizing another successful code camp.
The breakfast and lunch were much appreciated and all of the speakers were very organized. My only
suggestion for improvement if there is another code camp next year is to have more prizes because
as good as the presentations were some people were left leaving with nothing not even a T-Shirt.
Although it is impossible to have books and an X-box for every attendee there are other items
that can be provided such as discount coupons for O’Rielly books and certification exams.

Someone made mention that we should pay an annual dues for the .NET user group meetings. BAD IDEA!!
This is the subject for future blogs.