Tried attending two different ones today - unless you've been at the booth for the previous hour and were lucky enough to get a seat, you couldn't get close enough to hear the presenters.

Not a bad idea guys, just poor execution

Stan, I am curious as to why you saw having laptops in play was an issue in the BOF's? I just ask because I was not there and wonder how they were distracting.

It was a disaster. 1 person without a microphone, no beamer, only small Whitboard or only a monitor and a crowd of people around him.

Signed in for the session and standing at the back and could not see anything or hear anything. Some collagues had several of these BOF-sessions. (Remark: signed in several weeks before!!!)

AND we came whole the way from Holland (netherlands) and made hugh costs and then this. It was not known before that this the way the session was presented (organisation) 1 Collegue had 4 of these sessions, but after the first didn't attend the others, but went to Selb-labs and other sessions (if there was a seat availble!!)

We won't come again to VMworld when organizing it in the same way !!

And signing in months before. And on a start-day of sigining for the sessions (already booked the flight hotels etc.) within a ONE hour many sessions where booked FULL (some could sign in a day earlier!!). This is also a reason not to go to VMworld again.

So there is somthing to learn for the organisation or is the number of attendees more important !!

Speaking of fun, I was able to only get into 1 LAB on Monday. The rest have 200 people waiting for 48 seats, made a lot of sense, not.