Retrospective
This is a retrospective of the 2017 ACME All-hands Meeting with the aim to identify improvements for the next ACME meeting. Please note what you liked and did not like about the meeting, what you would like to see improved, where did you feel like there was not enough time or if there was too much time spend on something, or maybe something did not get covered that you would like to see added to the next meeting.
If you are agreeing with the statement already made, just add '+1' at the end of a statement, so we have an approximate count on how many votes are for a particular item.
What did we do well?
Deep Dive Performance+4
Science and poster talks during plenary+3
Presentation of tutorials +1
Length of meeting+2
Poster session+4
Venue is beautiful+1
Renaming to E3SM has potentially less opportunity for copyright infringements
It felt more productive and less people just talking...+1
Poster prizes were a nice addition +2
Liked having two separate sessions for the component breakouts. We made good use of the time. +1
Phil Jones's presentations
What should we have done better?
Make ACME t-shirts (swag) before name change
Venue uses disposable service items.
Light refreshments during a poster session are always nice, I don't think there were any?