I enjoyed OSFest, and performing and seeing the different displays, however, I must say that I found 3 weeks was too long of an event, especially being in the same month that OSGrid celebrates it's birthday/anniversary. Not only is it confusing with location and stages, it's also confusing with people getting the events mixed up. I had several people ask me, how to get to stage 2, or if I had landmarks etc. I tried to explain the difference as best I could. "OSFest celebrates opensim and all of its grids, events and venues.. while the OSGrid Bday Bash was a celebration of 15 years with the grid that started it all". Having both events in the same Month.. with OSFest being 3 weeks long was a little too much, I did notice a decline in attendees at the OSFest events after the first week. I agree with CyberGlo, it's very confusing to hold them at the same time, 6 months apart would be great!

I really don't like that both events happen at the same time. It's very confusing. And people won't be so encouraged to work as hard on duplicate expositions,which halves the talent put into each of the events, which is why there were many many empty spots in each event. Perhaps a better idea would be to hold the two events 6 months apart. Also create land as people sign up, so we don't see mostly empty sites everywhere we go. This will help keep the show close together, so people don't feel like they are walking through a ghost town.