07.17.04

Seven Gaffs

Posted in General at 8 pm

Out of 550+ people, 4 tracks with 15+ sessions, Exhibition Hall and 12 hours of on the floor duty we ended up with only seven miscues and problems for the whole day. (That I knew about anyways.)

  1. At 10:30am or so, the audio in the Executives Hall/137-138 went out. Oregon Convention Center (OCC) staff had to reset the room audio to bring it back.
  2. At 1:40 or so the lights in the Panels Hall/134 flickered and went out. OCC had to ‘reset’ the lights.
  3. At about 2:40 or so the lights in the Panels Hall/134 flickered and went out. OCC had to ‘reset’ the lights.
  4. One of our Speakers showed up 5 minutes late to a session. We had to get the laptop and mic together while the speaker was already on stage. (I nearly went ballistic on that one.)
  5. One of our panelists showed up late to their session… because they got lost… In The Convention Center.
  6. Another panelist was with the first one.
  7. At the last minute we tried to play an apology video from a panelist who missed their plane and didn’t make it. The video was supposed to play on the iBook (mine) that was running the interstitial screens. It was only just after the video began playing that I realized the audio was not hooked up to the sound system, therefore we saw a talking head and nothing else. Fortunately, Kevin Smokler, our primary host/MC provided and impromptu retelling of the apology.

Overall, not a bad day. If fact it was a very very good day.

(Later Edit: Thanks to Nick for the list of Weblog mentions:

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