Ignite Sheffield #1 roundup

Hi All,

So Ignite Sheffield #1 was last night.  As the dust settles this morning I wanted to write down a few of my thoughts to help make next time even better.

To start with I'd like to say that I think it was a great success.  For our first event I was going to be happy if we got more than 20 people in the audience.  The count was 29, so that's great.

All the talks were really great, there was a slight issue with some of the slides not advancing correctly, which I will have to check more carefully next time.  It was a shame that we didn't have a few reserve talks to give us one to slot in for the speaker we lost due to illness.  We had a great idea suggested to us to vote on a video from another Ignite event to watch instead.  Unfortunately I forgot to bring any speakers so that went out the window!!

I think blocks of 4 speakers was definitely long enough.  If we'd had some more speakers I would have been happy to go down to block of 3 with more breaks.

The venue was excellent, and I would definitely encourage people to use Coffee Revolution as venue.  They were very helpful and really friendly.

Singsoc gave a great performance, we knew it wouldn't be polished, but it was highly successful. A different group who were sitting around the corner even joined in the applause!

We've already got some volunteers for the next session, which I think will probably be Jan/Feb 2013.  Watch this space for more details.

In the meantime, we have a twitter account @IgniteSheffield, and a facebook page https://www.facebook.com/IgniteSheffield, so come and see us there.