I'm at Oxford so I could potentially be of some (limited) help if people
were serious about Oxford. (But I don't have that much time so I'm afraid
I'm not volunteering to be the sole Oxford coordinator...)
I'd also point out that choosing Oxford over London on cost grounds is
probably a false economy. Oxford is very expensive these days. (I'm paying
£115 a week for my single, non-en-suite room in student accommodation and
conference guests can expect to pay a premium.) The conference market is one
of the colleges' main sources of income as they're all so bad at pestering
old members.
On the other hand, a few years I tried to arrange for Jimmy Wales to come
and speak at the Oxford Internet Institute which both sides seemed keen on
at the time, (though for one reason or another it never happened), so
potentially there might be enough academic interest to get a few things for
free.
Tom
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[mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Michael
Bimmler
Sent: 09 October 2007 22:28
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania 2009 locations
On 10/9/07, geni <geniice(a)gmail.com> wrote:
On 09/10/2007, Majorly <axel9891(a)googlemail.com>
wrote:
And is also very expensive.
It is safe to assume the majority of the attendees from outside Europe
will arrive in London and most of those from Europe will arrive in
London or the southeast. As a result logistics mean that Scotland and
northern england would be problematical. In terms of facilities people
are generally looking at universities so in practice we are probably
looking for universities within striking distance of London.
Oxford! Oxford! Oxford! With this, I hand again over to you who
actually have to organise it :)
Michael
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