I think it's fairly symptomatic of the London-centricity of many people.
What is relatively easy for those living in the City to do is probably a
three-hour journey or more each way for those of us who live further afield
and needs planning. I simply find it discourteous (sorry) to exclude us
provincials, not deliberately, I'm sure, but through lack of forethought.
And if "it was not expected even a few days ago", why do you expect me to
be asking about it last week? I don't mind being criticised for many
things, but a lack of psychic powers is not one of them.
--
Doug
On 8 October 2012 16:58, FT2
ft2.wiki@gmail.com wrote:
> That's a bit of a crappy line to take (sorry). "Sommone can't really care
> to meet people or it would have ben pre-arranged". Quite likely it wasn't
> expected there would be much chance at all to meet generally, a lot of
> things like this are last minute because of time constraints or because
> somethng is resolved quicker than expected.
>
> Did you ask last week "will you have a chance to meet people while over?"
> If so, you'd have learned it was not expected even a few days ago, that
> there would be any chance for other socializing because of tight time
> constraints.
>
>
> FT2
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:40 PM, rexx
rexx@blueyonder.co.uk wrote:
>
>> If she were actually keen to meet UK Wikipedians, shouldn't she have
>> given us a bit more than a couple of hours notice?
>>
>> --
>> Doug
>>
>>
>> On 8 October 2012 15:52, Richard Symonds <
>> richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk> wrote:
>>
>>> All,
>>>
>>> Sue Gardner, from the WMF, is in our office today, along with a few
>>> others (Garfield and Asaf from the WMF). She's keen to meet UK Wikipedians
>>> for a drink - is anyone available for drinks in the Old Street area of
>>> London this afternoon/evening? If so, drop me an email directly!
>>>
>>> Richard Symonds
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