Both Buenos Aries and Alexandria got their conference venue for free, so
that was, and remains our target. If we cant then were going to need
fairly serious reductions on accommodation to be competitive. (And even then
its going to be hard, Alexandria got accommodation for $6 per person per
night.) Or of course a major UK only sponsorship deal. Gary Kirk had some
success last year with Jim Knight (junior schools minister), so Im going to
pursue that avenue myself unless Gary wants to volunteer to pick up old
contacts. Ill also pester my google UK contact to see if he can give me a
slightly better way in than he did last year. (Does anyone have any Amazon
UK/Microsoft UK/Ebay UK/etc contacts?)
Jonathan Zittrain is leaving the OII which marginally reduces our chance of
getting anything serious from Balliol/them on the accommodation front but
well see, he has promised to get some of his DPhil students onboard which
should give us a voice on the inside hopefully. Balliols master is away on
holiday for the next week or so, so it will be a while before we hear
anything on that front.
Tom
From: wikimediauk-l-bounces(a)lists.wikimedia.org
[mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of James Hardy
Sent: 14 July 2008 17:51
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Oxford 2010
2008/7/14 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com>om>:
2008/7/14 Tom Holden <thomas.holden(a)gmail.com>om>:
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!
Not sure either. Last year an organiser for the previous year's wikimania
offered to allow access to their budget[1]. I think it would be useful to
look at that and see what sort of figures we are likely to be looking with
regards to the various expenditures we would face in putting on such an
event.
I would further suggest that having the event run directly or indirectly by
a charity would be a big advantage as I believe that having charitable
status would mean sponsorship from corporations could have some form of tax
relief for them as they would count as charitable donations. That is of
course only if such conferences are included in the approved charitable aims
of wikimedia uk, (I haven't checked the charter etc so am not sure if this
is the case). If not then wmuk funds could not be spent on this, and
donations would have to be made directly to whatever entity was organising
the event.
[1]
http://lists.wikimedia.org/pipermail/foundation-l/2007-September/032997.html
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James