I'm also going to send off a "will you
sponsor us" e-mail to a contact I
have at Torchbox, an Oxfordshire web-design for charities company. They
sponsor the Oxford Geek Nights events so I'm optimistic they'll be
persuadable to sponsor this.
I've just contacted 3 Oxfordshire coach companies about sponsoring us
with free or discounted transport between Oxford and London airports,
I'll let you know what I hear back.
What are people's thoughts on recruiting
additional people to help with the
bid? I could easily fire off a few e-mails to student mailing lists I'm on
and would probably get some response. Do you have strong "if they don't care
enough about wikis to be on this mailing list..." or "too many cooks"
thoughts?
If you know anyone active on a Wikimedia project that is based in the
UK and isn't on this mailing list, by all means contact them - this
list isn't very well publicised, so there are lots of people that
aren't on it that could be very useful. I'm not sure if there's much
point emailing student mailing lists unless you know there are lots of
Wikimedians on them.