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Do we have a separate AYE WIKI for past conferences vs. upcoming conferences? Should we?

I ask because I feel we're limiting the update permission to paid attendees, but that limits the ability to collect "Why didn't/couldn't/wouldn't you attend the previous conference?" input. If we could open the prior year's WIKI [after backup copy preserved?] to public update we could go beyond "preaching to the choir" in the WIKI.

The experience in the Portland Pattern WIKI, seems to be that people don't bother to abuse it.

I think that the carrot of "pay your admission and you get to play on the *coming* conference's WIKI is sound, and can be played up across the board.

Peter Drucker says the severest shortcoming in marketing surveys is that they only survey the present customers, not the [currently] non-customers. That's what happened to department stores all over the US between 1960 and 1980 - they satisfied their customers, but didn't listen to their non-customers who needed convenience rather than centralized museums to shopping. The working wife changed the shopping dynamic, but it was generational. The old department store customers stayed loyal to the end but aged out of relevance.

Jerry - what's our comfort zone on number of attendees? Are we there? Do we reach a satisfying diversity of maturity and interests?

Your fly on the wall, BobLee

We're not trying for some large number. Indeed, we're purposely limiting the attendants to 100 this year, to keep the nature of the conference.

Drucker's point is well taken, but our non-attendees (like yourself) have other avenues to communicate with us. I and we get lots of letters from people who haven't been able to come for one reason or another, and we respond to each one and add them to our emailing list. We have around 3,000 on that list right now, and are adding all the time. We've added about 100 since the 2001 conference. I added three more today.

We would like to increase the number of participants who refer colleagues to us - we get that now, but that's how we seem to get the most appropriate people. If you can think how to do that, we'd love to hear about it.

We're also intending not to waste participants' money on massive advertising. We're trying to be a different kind of conference, where the conference comes first, not the business. This is not the business for any of us, and thus we can choose the size based on what makes the best (most intimate, for me) conference.

I, personally, like limiting the wiki to past and present participants, but who knows what our marketing team wants to do this year. -JerryWeinberg 02/01/10

It would be very interesting to wander a visual graph of this wiki, ala http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?TouchGraphWikiBrowser

Could this be done?

KeithRay 2003.07.09

Many things can be done given time and motivation. What kind of access to raw bits would you need to get something like this running?

DaveSmith 2003.07.09

I'm missing BackLink s, as they are on e.g. the c2 wiki http://www.c2.com . I use this to find pages (like these) where I left some text on, as well as to find interesting pages.

WillemVanDenEnde 2003.22.09

I'd like the RecentChanges page to show the time that each page was last changed. On other wikis, this feature helps me to know whether I've already seen the most recent additions. -- DaleEmery 2003.09.22

Updated: Monday, September 22, 2003