Hello I'm happy to present our bid to put on the 2017 edition of GUADEC in Manchester, UK. You can download it as a PDF from here: http://afuera.me.uk/files/guadec2017-manchester-bid.pdf
We have met some really helpful while putting together this bid, both at the Manchester Metropolitan University, which is our proposed venue, and at the Marketing Manchester conference bureau, who have helped make the bid document. Thanks to both. That said, we will need more help to make the conference happen! Manchester has several free software groups and has a huge number of software & technology enthusiasts so I'm confident we can put together a larger local team, but please don't hesitate to get in touch now if you are UK-based and would be willing to help with the organisation of the conference! One aspect which we would need to sort out early on is how to handle funds for the event (i.e. whose bank account to use). We would save a lot of money in tax if the money was handled by a charity, but we don't know of any suitable free-software related UK charities to approach about this. Any pointers would be welcome. We could also set up a new charity for the conference, but it would be nicer to spend bureaucracy Please get in touch with comments, questions etc. Sam PS. I've not put this bid on the wiki because I don't seem to have permission to edit the <https://wiki.gnome.org/GUADEC/2017/Bids> page :-) _______________________________________________ foundation-announce mailing list foundation-announce@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/foundation-announce
