Seeing as everyone took the time to fill in the (v. low tech) feedback forms at the end of last weeks event, I thought it only fair that I feedback what the feedback was (!)

On the tick boxes it looked like...

• Venue : 18 - Excellent, 10 - Good, 1 - OK, 0 - Rubbish.
• Format : 15 - Excellent, 14 - Good, 0 - OK, 0 - Rubbish
• Talks : 1 - Not geeky enough, 28 - About right, 0 - bit too geeky, 0 - way too geeky

In terms of general feedback the themes were...

• Pretty much everyone was positive about the evening / said they had enjoyed it etc (which was nice).
• On the format front many people said that it worked well to have breaks between the talks, but that they were a bit too long. I think next time we will try and keep the breaks to 20 mins, which leaves enough time to grab a drink & chat to people, plus leaves longer at the end for those who want to stay around and socialise.
• A couple of people thought it would be good to have Q&A after the talks, or maybe a panel discussion or debate about something. My inclination was that people with questions could easily buttonhole the speaker afterwards, but someone made the good point that often people in the 'audience' may have points which would be interesting for everyone to hear. I'll be guided by the group on what approach we should take - perhaps we do need some more interactive sessions?
• One person (who may be called Ben) said "get that handsome Digital Identity guy to talk again"

With respect to the types of talks people would like to see...

• The general consensus was that people wanted a variety of subjects, and not necessarily just topics about computers/tech.
• Specific topics mentioned included - future of web standards / webservices mashups / cloud computing / html5 / open slots /show and tell demos / philosophical / photography / diving / cooking / finding a job in IT / Beginners coding / open source community / hot technologies & trends / Arcane, surprising stuff / snowboarding / presentation skills / front end dev / doc mgmt / e-learning / distributed databases / scala / guest speakers

So thanks to everyone who filled in a form. If you have anything to add then feel free to add your feedback to my feedback about your feedback (I'll stop there) to the comments section.