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.

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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?

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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
Wikimedia UK
0207 065 0992

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