Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-04 Thread Andrew Turvey
ubject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE We could consider Peterborough. The Town Hall has meeting rooms of various sizes available, up to a couple of hundred. For a further short hop by train, or shared taxi (with a 7 seater it is reasonably cheap) Stamford has a lot to se

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/4 Richard Farmbrough : > We could consider Peterborough. The Town Hall has meeting rooms of > various sizes available, up to a couple of hundred. I'm not sure if we need to find somewhere as formal as a Town Hall. Where we had this year's AGM would work pretty well (I'm not suggesting we ha

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-04 Thread Richard Farmbrough
We could consider Peterborough. The Town Hall has meeting rooms of various sizes available, up to a couple of hundred. For a further short hop by train, or shared taxi (with a 7 seater it is reasonably cheap) Stamford has a lot to see and many eateries, including the famous George coaching hous

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread Michael Peel
This shouldn't be restricted just to members ... :-) My suggestion would be either Oxford, based on the Wikimania bid, or London itself, perhaps at one of the universities/colleges. It would be nice if we could do something at the same time (or located at) with The British Library or similar

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/2 Andrew Turvey : > My suggestion from experience with organising the 2009 AGM - only do it > where we have members who can help organise it. Trying to do it remotely > because we think it's a nice idea to have it in a particular place just > doesn't work! That is a very good point. __

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread Andrew Turvey
ph seddon" To: "wikimediau...@wikimedia.org" Sent: Friday, 1 May, 2009 23:28:27 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE Wikimedia UK Members, As you all may be aware I have been tasked to over see Wikimedia UK’s operation of and p

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/1 joseph seddon : > This isn’t an official bidding thing like wikimania, just > simply to get ideas on the table for me to put together for future > discussion. Let's have an official bidding process - we'll see if we can complete it and get a decision before the Wikimania jury makes theirs

[Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread joseph seddon
Wikimedia UK Members, As you all may be aware I have been tasked to over see Wikimedia UK’s operation of and participation in conferences in the UK’s large open knowledge and free software movement. The participation of the chapters members is instrumental in getting our name out there and to