Hallway Track

Here are some great ideas to add to your next conference from blogwithoutalibrary.net.

Good conferences need good organization and even better speakers. Garr Reynolds has some good advice and a book list to give to your speakers.

Here are some tips from experienced conference-goer and blogger Ethan Zuckerman.

Many conferences are still organized with some spreadsheets, some hacked web forms and maybe a wiki. There are not many programs out there to help you with all the things a conference organizer needs. Here is a short list of some software I came across, although I haven’t used any of them myself:

• Pentabarf (Open Source) created by the people from the Chaos Computer Club
• Open Conference System (Open Source) of the Public Knowledge Project
• Expectnation (hosted web service)
• Act - A conference toolkit (Open Source) created by the YAPC people
• Comas - the Conference Management System