I think it&#39;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&#39;m sure, but through lack of forethought.<br>
<br>And if &quot;it was not expected even a few days ago&quot;, why do you expect me to be asking about it last week? I don&#39;t mind being criticised for many things, but a lack of psychic powers is not one of them.<br>
<br>-- <br>Doug<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 8 October 2012 16:58, FT2 <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ft2.wiki@gmail.com" target="_blank">ft2.wiki@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div>That&#39;s a bit of a crappy line to take (sorry).  &quot;Sommone can&#39;t really care to meet people or it would have ben pre-arranged&quot;.  Quite likely it wasn&#39;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.  </div>



<div> </div><div>Did you ask last week &quot;will you have a chance to meet people while over?&quot; If so, you&#39;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.</div>
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<div> </div><div> </div><div>FT2</div></font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><div> </div><div><br><br> </div><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 4:40 PM, rexx <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:rexx@blueyonder.co.uk" target="_blank">rexx@blueyonder.co.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>



<blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote">If she were actually keen to meet UK Wikipedians, shouldn&#39;t she have given us a bit more than a couple of hours notice?<br>



<br>-- <br>Doug<br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div>On 8 October 2012 15:52, Richard Symonds <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk" target="_blank">richard.symonds@wikimedia.org.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>




</div></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid" class="gmail_quote"><div><div>All,<div><br></div><div>
Sue Gardner, from the WMF, is in our office today, along with a few others (Garfield and Asaf from the WMF). She&#39;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!</div>






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