Developer's Perception

Odd thoughts from a developer.

#oredev the Bad Parts

Thankfully, this post if going to be a lot shorter than the good parts, but I think with a bit of improvement Øredev can move from being a very good conference, to a brilliant conference.

  • The WiFi was a disgrace! Shouldn’t be that hard to get working.
  • Too many sessions were delayed due to faulty cables, projectors, or other technical problems. With a bit more testing and backup cables, projectors, and such readily available, it should be possible to minimize these kinds of problems.
  • The venue is quite good due to it’s location very close to the train station, but the structure of the building makes it hard to move from session to session, and at lunch the main area becomes as crowded as a metro in a reasonably sized city.

If this is fixed (at least the first 2 items) and the speaker quality stays high, Øredev 2012 is going to be brilliant.

Comments

Nikolaj K N
Hi Emily,

Really nice to hear from you, means my feedback ended up the right place.

I hope you will be able to push the boundaries of the WiFi even further, and improve the experience for all.

I am looking forward to see it and will be sure to test it again next year.

Best Regards

/Nikolaj
Emily Holweck
Hi,

as the organiser of the event, I want to answer your post :) I did read the nice post as well and thank you for both your posts!!!!
I asked our technician Andreas, who has done a fantastic job, why we have so many difficulties with the network, here is his answer:

"I was checking the wifi in different locations every day several times and got good throughput (10mbs/11mbs). We build a completely new hotspot network in 1½ week, The building it self is made of stonewalls and there is allot of steel frameworks in the building so we tried to fine tune the radio during the conference.

The wifi on the paper should handle more than 5000 simultaneous connections, it was the hotspots itself that where the bottleneck and we placed about 20 of those and they should hold 256 simultaneous connections each. The backend delivers more than 3Gbit throughput and up to 500.000 packets per second."

Well, it is not that easy!
I hope we can improve next year. And I hope you will visit us again!

Kind regards,
Emily Holweck, Öredev AB
rafek
That's funny because last year I wasn't able to actually connect to the WiFi with my Samsung smartphone.. but this year, the very same Samsung and I tweeted all the time :)
Nikolaj K N
My recollection is that it was bad last year as well (albeit I recall it as being slightly better back then). Either way I don't think it was good enough. To compare at the GotoCON conference in Copenhagen this year I experienced almost no problems with the WiFi
rafek
WiFi was muuuch better than last year..