{"id":604,"date":"2014-05-29T13:06:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/collaboriscom.wpengine.com\/?p=604"},"modified":"2024-11-11T16:13:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-11T16:13:29","slug":"an-sp24-adventure-after-its-all-done","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/an-sp24-adventure-after-its-all-done\/","title":{"rendered":"An SP24 Adventure \u2013 After its all done"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of a series of posts about the SP24 Virtual SharePoint Conference.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SharePoint24-1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-587\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/SharePoint24-1.png\" alt=\"SharePoint24 (1)\" width=\"161\" height=\"65\" \/><\/a>During the last session, I distinctly remember how desperate I was for it to end. Missing a whole night\u2019s sleep and enduring so many emotions throughout the conference was really exhausting. When the last sessions were complete, we had to clear out the war room, which was like walking in mud. Once that challenge was complete, we headed over to the hotel, checked in and managed to talk the porter into giving us a well earned drink. We all sat down, reflected, pondered and collectively said \u2018Never again\u2019! (Until the following morning;)<\/p>\n<div><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/sp24-asleep.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-605 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/sp24-asleep.png\" alt=\"sp24-asleep\" width=\"600\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/sp24-asleep.png 600w, https:\/\/www.collaboris.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/sp24-asleep-300x211.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: large;\">The conference in numbers<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was the\u00a0<strong>world\u2019s largest<\/strong>\u00a0online conference and the 2nd largest SharePoint \u2018offline\u2019 conference, only beaten by Microsoft themselves.<\/li>\n<li>We had\u00a0<strong>7826<\/strong>\u00a0registered attendees.<\/li>\n<li>Representing\u00a0<strong>193<\/strong>\u00a0countries around the globe.<\/li>\n<li>Bill Baer&#8217;s, Session Room has been viewed over\u00a0<strong>3,200<\/strong>\u00a0times (at the time of writing).<\/li>\n<li>The first run of the conference site received\u00a0<strong>155,000<\/strong>\u00a0page views: Fpweb.net can really scale \ud83d\ude09<\/li>\n<li>We had\u00a0<strong>98 sessions<\/strong>\u00a0with eye-watering SharePoint content.<\/li>\n<li>70% of attendees said they enjoyed the 24-hour format, although,<\/li>\n<li>88% of attendees attended 8 or less sessions.<\/li>\n<li>DocRead assigned 69,233 Tasks to various speakers and attendees.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><strong>Will there be an SP24 2015?<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Up until about 90 minutes after it was all over, we were all in total agreement; Never again &#8211; stupid idea. However\u2026. after a nice glass of wine and reading some of the reaction on Twitter, we slowly came around to the \u201chell yeah, that was fun!\u201d idea. Next time though, we\u2019d need to do it differently \u2013 we\u2019ve learnt a lesson. It has to fund itself. Doing something like SP24 as a purely voluntary effort is way too much to take on and still have a life. I guess we didn\u2019t make it easy on ourselves; somehow we went from 24 sessions to over 100 scheduled (with 2 live tracks). We probably could have done it without SharePoint and just hit YouTube. We didn\u2019t have to put Chat, Twitter feeds, Resources, Session Rooms, Planners and so on. But hey, we\u2019re geeks, and geeks like to play with tech!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This post is part of a series of posts about the SP24 Virtual SharePoint Conference. During the last session, I distinctly remember how desperate I was for it to end. 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