This sounds like a very successful retreat! Congratulations to the org team. I also appreciate you doing this writeup; postmortems like this make a great learning tool for other teams.
Organizers have to sacrifice their ability to participate
Yep, that about matches how I’ve experienced organizing events. Thank you for doing it anyway.
Thanks! This was our first big event (>10), so it was kind of a trial by fire. Glad that we could pull it off (obviously with the help of the community). Lots of learnings to digest and incorporate for the next iteration.
This sounds like a very successful retreat! Congratulations to the org team. I also appreciate you doing this writeup; postmortems like this make a great learning tool for other teams.
Yep, that about matches how I’ve experienced organizing events. Thank you for doing it anyway.
Thanks! This was our first big event (>10), so it was kind of a trial by fire. Glad that we could pull it off (obviously with the help of the community). Lots of learnings to digest and incorporate for the next iteration.