All groups showed good productivity and we did not have the large differences that we encountered last year. The scheduling was much simpler this way. A few people asked for the problems beforehand. The event ran very smooth and everybody seemed happy. Personally, I would like to have some more thrill in next years DesignFest.
Participation is still too low.
For an event with 2500 participants, I think we should be able to drag in more people. DesignFest had much more exposure in the program than before, but we did not have much more participants. Next year, DesignFest will become an option on the registration form. This is the first non-domain oriented problem we had. The problems were not are availabe before people made their choice so the choice is independent of the description quality.