After each weekend, we ask you to complete a short survey about your experience. This really helps us understand what's working well, and what we can improve for next time, so please fill it in!
Feedback from the last event
Overall Feedback: Excellent!
You consistently tell us that the range of workshops, quality of teaching and the weekend as a whole are excellent! This is amazing for a community-driven, co-operative event like BIP and means we prefer cautious experiments to sweeping changes.
The longer event
Most people enjoyed having a longer event, but for contradictory reasons! Some enjoyed having more time to relax and socialise, while others said it was more intense, and others were disappointed that there weren't more workshops.
Several people asked about having another long event, but many people were concerned that the additional time off required would make it impossible for them to attend regularly.
While we're not ruling out organising another extra-long event in the future, we need to think carefully about what audience we want to serve with a longer event. For the forseeable, we'll be sticking to the Friday–Sunday timings.
Programme & The App
The biggest area for developmental feedback was about how we share the event schedule with you. Alex has made numerous changes and improvements to this app:
- You can now see all the workshops for the weekend on one page
- The menu is easier to navigate and close
- It takes fewer clicks to set your favourites for each session
- The timings of each event are displayed more clearly
- There's more detail about the evening entertainment again
Other Activities
Last time we took advantage of the longer event to run events to promote community, networking and knowledge-sharing: Improv Speed Dating and Ask the Expert.
Both events were reasonably well received, but Ask the Expert had limited attendees. Most people really enjoyed Improv Speed Dating, but a few people had strongly negative experiences where their partners pushed the conversation in an unwelcome direction. We're giving these a break for this event and will be looking at other ways to encourage making new friends at future events.