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Cormac Lawler wrote: | | | On 7/31/08, *Tom Holden* <thomas.holden@gmail.com | mailto:thomas.holden@gmail.com> wrote: | | Balliol is just for accommodation and social spaces. People from the | OII are going to get in contact with its master imminently to see | how they could help. We will however need at least one other college | for accommodation though, which the OII is also investigating for | us. A £50 per person per night figure sounds like the upper bound at | the moment (fingers crossed). | | | Thanks for all your work Tom, and this update. Though this accommodation | situation is another thing I would identify as already being a point of | concern. One of the criticisms of this year was that attendees' | accommodation was scattered across different places, meaning that social | potential was compromised. Of course, it was still liveable with :-) - | but just to point out that it would probably be a "perceived weakness" | of the bid. If there is any way of accommodating people all together, | and as near to the venue as possible, that would be best. These | practical questions are the things most likely to swing a bid IMHO, more | than partnerships with prestigious organisations (even though these are | of course *great*). | | Cormac
And if you must house the staff in a completely different venue (which, if housed with board and advisory board, may be the case) please make sure it's a short (2-3 minute) walk from the dormatories... Or just stick me in with the attendees...
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