Please do!
One of my brilliant ideas for the 2008/2009 bid was to hold the main party
at The o2, but when I spoke to the head of PR, while he seemed keen he told
me to email somebody about it, and that person never replied. I can look up
that email and person if necessary.
Gary
2008/7/14 Gareth Harmer <gazimoff(a)o2.co.uk>uk>:
Been lurking here for a while, and I think I might be
able to help out a
little, partly because I live roughly an hour from Oxford.
If vanilla internet access is likely to be an issue why not look at getting
some of those wireless 3G modem sticks instead? Oxford has fairly extensive
3G coverage and so might be able to suport it. If it would be of benefit, I
can ask the sponsorship team at the network I work for (O2) and see if they
would be interested in lending support.
Gazimoff
----- Original Message -----
*From:* joseph seddon <life_is_bitter_sweet(a)hotmail.co.uk>
*To:* wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
*Sent:* Monday, July 14, 2008 5:51 PM
*Subject:* Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Oxford 2010
I wasn't sure if this has been mentioned before. I couldn't see anything
mentioned previously in the archives. What sort of access to wireless
internet is there?
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:24:22 +0100
From: thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Oxford 2010
2008/7/14 Tom Holden <thomas.holden(a)gmail.com>om>:
> I've just heard back from the booking officer at the town hall (an
employee,
> not a councillor) with a quote. Obviously if
the Lord Mayor could help
us
> then these figures would be revised
downwards.
>
> First bit of news is that the weekend of the 7th of August is booked
already
> (as is the 3rd of July), so we'd
probably want to have it at the very
end of
> July instead.
>
> Second bit of news is that there's a 20% discount if we book all of the
> public rooms, so on a 6 hour per day basis he's quoting £10569
(compared
to
£2844 for
just the main hall).
I honestly don't know if that's a big number or a small number, does
anyone have anything to compare it to? Either way, it's good to have a
number!
> The final, and perhaps most important thing to note is that, and I
quote:
> "If your organisation is a registered
charity I may be able to offer up
to
> 50% discount on the standard fee." I
will e-mail back to see if he'll
accept
> Wikimedia's not for profit status, but I
very much doubt he will. Is
this a
> sufficient motivation to do everything
conceivably possible to hurry
our
> application for charitable status? Or
perhaps to just commit to
creating a
new
charity solely for the running of Wikimania 2010.
They might accept foreign charities, it's certainly worth a try. If
there is any reason in the world (the juries still out!) then creating
a new charity just for the conference should be more work than
finishing sorting out the one we already have in the pipeline.
Hopefully we'll hear something from WM UK soon...
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