  ADASS has been a successful conference series for 24 years. If it is to
continue to be successful and relevant we need to ensure that it provides what
we as a community need from an annual conference. Earlier this year the ADASS
Program Organising Committee conducted a survey on the content, style and
governance of ADASS, in order to ascertain the conference needs of our
community of astronomy software, methods and algorithms providers and users.
140 people participated in the survey: familiar faces, newcomers and a
significant number of people who have yet to attend an ADASS.
  We summarise the Birds of a Feather session held on 7 October 2014, which
discussed the findings of the survey and the shape that the community would
like future ADASS meetings to take: What do we like of the current format? What
would we change? What can we do to make ADASS fit our current and future needs?
If we are to ensure that ADASS is vibrant, interesting and at the cutting edge
of our subject we need to take collective responsibility for shaping its
future.
