Honestly, I thought for almost all the participants this time, it went really well, and in the few cases where there were problems, people were able to work them out.
I think taking pictures is nice, and I'm glad my buddy did it, but I don't know if I'd want to force people to take pictures if for some reason they didn't want to. It seems to me the GE relies a lot of good will, and as annamalyssa said, some forethought about what your schedule will be like.
I thought the current rule set worked very well. The only thing I would change is the deadline for gifts arriving (as opposed to the deadline for gifts being sent), since at least one gift coming from overseas spent a long time in transit.
Maybe this other stuff is more "nice to have" rather than hard and fast rules. Just my opinion.
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