Feedback

I asked Shimon where to send feedback and he suggested creating a page on the wiki so here it is.

It would be useful to have a mechanism to see how many people are interested in two talks that are at the same time (and encourage the moderators to shuffle one). Perhaps as pairs of numbers listed next to a time slot.
It would be helpful if presenters could give a very brief rundown of the context of their presentation before beginning. I attended many talks on things that I had an interest in but had little up-front knowledge about. I found myself having to expend a lot of mental energy just trying to figure out why someone would use these various technologies, which made it more difficult for me to really listen to and absorb the information being given by the presenter.