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The workshop is closing in fast. I am revising my TODO lists to see what I need to do, what I never got done and of course I attempt to clear my mind of the mistakes I made.

• I inserted a logicLAB ad instead of the general ad for NPW in the The Perl Review we got printed - logicLAB is the sponsor of the issue, but this still bothers me I should have replaced one of the other ads - I ran out of time and panicked.
• I never got posters created for promotion on our local educational institutions DIKU and ITU and perhaps even DTU should have been on the list - again time was against me and budget
• We should have set up an official mailing list for all attendees for news, important announcements etc. we do have the nordic-workshop list, but it is primarily for organizers and then again we keep nothing secret (apart from sponsor amounts), but I do not think that regular attendees are interested in how many napkins we need or similar.
• The t-shirt print should have been done much earlier as for the Perl Review print, again time was working against me - and working with graphics is not my strong side
• I should have been more aggressive towards the sponsors and I should have followed up more on the sponsors that never called back, then again we raised a lot of funds and as it looks right now, we are covered, eventhough I am not clear on the final venue cost.
• Which brings me to, that I should have been more persistant towards the venue contact so we would have had these things cleared first, currently we have a big X in the budget, which will probably eat our surplus, crap.
• We got a marvellous hotel discount, something I have never done before, however they took the promotion code 'logicLAB' because I ordered some hotel rooms via a sponsors, should have been npw2007 or something.
• I did not do a particularly good job of promoting this and the promoting which was done was done way to late so - again a mailing list should have been set up for communicating with attendees

There are probably more stuff I have forgotten and I mean really forgotten, but that is the way it goes apparently.

I am thinking much about whether we should apply for hosting the YAPC::Europe 2008 and right now I guess it could be done. But I am scared of the workload, I am self-employed and I have two kids and a wife. I have a hard time balancing all of this NPW takes focus from work and work take time away from my family and I want to do everything. I think I succeeded somewhat in delegating a lot of work compared to the previous workshops we organized in Copenhagen, but still I would really really like for more Perl Mongers out of cph.pm to chip in, we are still only a handfull of people doing all the work and a lot of the tasks can be done out of office hours.

We are one talk short so I will prepare a talk on the CPAN module Workflow of which I am the current maintainer.

However I am looking very much forward to the weekend and the workshop even though I will not be attending fulltime.