Thomas Dalton wrote:
2008/12/1 J.A. Humphreys u7z44@students.keele.ac.uk:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2008/12/1 Al Tally majorly.wiki@googlemail.com:
On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 12:32 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2008/12/1 Sarah McCulloch sarahmcculloch@gmail.com:
If I may interject, Salford is quite hard to get to, even for locals. Proximity to Manchester Piccadilly and Victoria would be a better criterion. :)
Well, yes, but that doesn't affect Alison's point. Anywhere in Manchester would have been a bad choice of venue.
Not necessarily. You can get to anywhere in the world from Manchester Piccadilly.
Yes, but if everyone is travelling there via Euston, then somewhere near Euston would be a far better venue.
In that case, can I restate a vote for Birmingham?
In what case? The case being discussed was a meeting Alison attended and has nothing to do with our AGM, it was just an example of one of the issues that needs to be considered. There is nothing wrong with Manchester, per se, it's just a bad venue if all the attendees are nearer to somewhere else. We don't know where are attendees are (although we should probably try and find out - there are sites that make maps of such things for you, although I don't remember what any of them are called), so we don't know if Manchester is a good choice or not.
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In case of Manchester not being good for people - I just think that having everyone travel down to London every time is a bit of a mission, particularly for those of us that don't drive - for me, coming down from Keele, for instance, it's pretty much a complete weekend that'd need to be assigned.