At least for the moment it makes sense if Kaihsu and I focus on the Oxford centric jobs (e.g. dealing with the OII/venues/accommodation/local sponsorship) but I really need someone to take the lead on looking for big national corporate sponsors.

I already seem to be spending about half my day on the bid, so it would be good if someone could take this task off my hands. (It’s pretty damn crucial that someone does it.) It basically just entails firing off lots of emails explaining what Wikimania is, why we need money, how they might benefit, what we’d like to get them from.

It would also be good if someone could start work on improving our presentation. E.g. knocking up a banner, perhaps making a dedicated sub-page of our bid to show sponsors explaining who we are, what Wikimania is etc., tidying up the main bid page.

A final task for someone else (I’ll do this eventually if no one else volunteers) is to start knocking up a Gantt chart working backwards from the bid date. Copying Buenos Aires’s chart would be a good start.

Tom