Overall flow and schedule and all that is hard to maintain when it's not all in the same place. People can bring "look but don't touch" signs or guidance stanchions to place in front of their exhibits for times when no one is present to guard the goodies. Of course I never did this, but as a veteran exhibitor it's frustrating that you can't really walk around as much as you'd like, and you miss the things going on at the festival sometimes. Bill On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:57 PM Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
I think exhibitors can make the decision to be responsible and go back to their exhibit at the appropriate time. Best of both worlds. Why should attendees have a talk limited by the availability of the exhibitors?
On Tue, Nov 10, 2020 at 1:42 PM Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote:
At least now we know in the future to allow exhibits to open WHILE the keynote is still going on
Bad idea. The exhibitors would have to worry about the public pawing at their systems unsupervised. That's why I kept a schedule of the keynote and THEN the exhibits, so the exhibitors were free to attend the keynote without fear.