I wasn't sure if this has been mentioned before. I couldn't see anything mentioned previously in the archives. What sort of access to wireless internet is there?
> Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:24:22 +0100
> From: thomas.dalton@gmail.com
> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Oxford 2010
>
> 2008/7/14 Tom Holden <thomas.holden@gmail.com>:
> > I've just heard back from the booking officer at the town hall (an employee,
> > not a councillor) with a quote. Obviously if the Lord Mayor could help us
> > then these figures would be revised downwards.
> >
> > First bit of news is that the weekend of the 7th of August is booked already
> > (as is the 3rd of July), so we'd probably want to have it at the very end of
> > July instead.
> >
> > Second bit of news is that there's a 20% discount if we book all of the
> > public rooms, so on a 6 hour per day basis he's quoting £10569 (compared to
> > £2844 for just the main hall).
>
> I honestly don't know if that's a big number or a small number, does
> anyone have anything to compare it to? Either way, it's good to have a
> number!
>
> > The final, and perhaps most important thing to note is that, and I quote:
> > "If your organisation is a registered charity I may be able to offer up to
> > 50% discount on the standard fee." I will e-mail back to see if he'll accept
> > Wikimedia's not for profit status, but I very much doubt he will. Is this a
> > sufficient motivation to do everything conceivably possible to hurry our
> > application for charitable status? Or perhaps to just commit to creating a
> > new charity solely for the running of Wikimania 2010.
>
> They might accept foreign charities, it's certainly worth a try. If
> there is any reason in the world (the juries still out!) then creating
> a new charity just for the conference should be more work than
> finishing sorting out the one we already have in the pipeline.
> Hopefully we'll hear something from WM UK soon...
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