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The brochure was incomplete, as if it was missing a page esp. on the "digital futures" track. Not all the talks had a short entry or description, and not all speakers had a profile. This made trying to figure out what the talks on the program were about a bit tricky at times. (there was for example one sessions called "creative action and long term social change" but no description or anything - makes people less likely to risk going to that one) - Iphigenie

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More slack time between sessions. For questions. For catching up. And for moving between places. I missed so many beginnings. - Iphigenie

More people from more places. I enjoyed hearing from the Netherlands and Finland, and Turkey and Brazil. More :D Although I dont want less about the UK either :S - Iphigenie

Hi Joelle, I agree with everything that you have put down on here and I think that it would be a good space for other people to comment as well. In the plenary session on Friday the doors where thrown open and the question was asked to the audience, "How do we make this better, more relevant and open?" I think that we have a great opportunity to really inform how FutureEverything will... more... - Julian Tait

This is going to sound really petty but can we have better seating? After sitting on stools, plastic chairs, squishy sofas in the bar and an assortment of other places to park myself (benches and pull-down seats in Space 1), my back was crippled. So badly that I had to go home on Friday afternoon and miss what for me was probably the most interesting and useful section of #futr09 (as well the bit I was most likely to do press coverage on). It's taken me 3 days to recover. - Louise Bolotin

Wi-fi that works, Twitter-friendly name-badges (inc @handle, larger type, double sided so when they spin round you can still see? though we may not be using twitter next year for all I know!!!) Agree about slack-time - is dead important. More (obvious) workshoppy sessions. - Sam Easterby-Smith

The Wi-fi was a problem all round, even though we had a nice fat data pipe that was donated by the nice people at Manchester MetroNet. The problem we had was that we had a DNS lease time issue, apparently. We must of had over 100 on the go at the same time next time but next time we'll try and accommodate it. - Julian Tait

I noticed the wifi would drop a lot, it makes sense as a dhcp issue. Probably ran out of addresses as people closed and restarted their machines but the dhcp server didnt recycle them fast enough - Iphigenie

I didnt feel that it was that incredibly mono-cultural this year, not compared to other events esp. in tech. Perhaps it depends which sessions, but of course my path took me around people from france, the netherlands, finland, italy, brazil. I like the number of UK people, after all this is in the UK and certainly for me if I knew better what was available and who was doing what across... more... - Iphigenie

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