BarCamp - How to Run Your Own/Schedule and the wall


 * Even if you have many rooms as we had, limit the tracks to 4 rooms so the attendance does not suffer.
 * Make sure you have at least 8 rooms for the event so sessions will be smaller and more discussion (many to many conversations) take place as opposed to one to many lectures. 4 rooms is not enough.
 * Make sure there is plenty of gathering room in front of your wall, people will want to gather round.
 * Don't put the wall in one of the session rooms, People will want to look at it mid-session sometimes.

The Event Slots

 * There are different slot sizes you can do, 25 minute slots seems to be about right
 * Ensure you give at least a 5 minute break in between sessions

The Wall

 * 5x3 index cards on a whiteboard or physical wall works best
 * We used masking tape to form an actual grid
 * Put breaks and lunch in as session sized slots - and put cards in that say Lunch or Break
 * Don't just write on the tape in between 2 sessions "lunch" people won't see it
 * Post it notes tend to fall off in my experience, I prefer index cards with blutack or magnetic whiteboard pins