reading back through my mailbox, I encountered huge amounts of announcements (mostly by Wikimedia Deutschland) about events taking place in breaks of Wikimania. Without wanting to form an opinion about that just yet, I would like to ask what you think about having many side events going on in the break/breakfast/evening. 

I personally am a bit caught between wanting to do as much as possible in the limited time, and feeling that there was basically no break at all (contributing to the exhaustion), because every break people were basically asking you to attend break sessions. For some of them that is the only choice (they intend to be informal), others probably belong primarily in the schedule (assuming they were interesting). 

Anyway, just a conversation starter to evaluate the concept of break events a bit more in general (I assume the chapters village etc in particular will be evaluated separately too). 

Looking forward to your thoughts,

Best,

Lodewijk