On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 22:13 +0200, Sam Thursfield wrote: > Hello > > I'm happy to present our bid to put on the 2017 edition of GUADEC in > Manchester, UK. You can download it as a PDF from here: > http://afuera.me.uk/files/guadec2017-manchester-bid.pdf > > We have met some really helpful while putting together this bid, both > at the Manchester Metropolitan University, which is our proposed > venue, and at the Marketing Manchester conference bureau, who have > helped make the bid document. Thanks to both. > > That said, we will need more help to make the conference happen! > Manchester has several free software groups and has a huge number of > software & technology enthusiasts so I'm confident we can put > together > a larger local team, but please don't hesitate to get in touch now if > you are UK-based and would be willing to help with the organisation > of > the conference! > > One aspect which we would need to sort out early on is how to handle > funds for the event (i.e. whose bank account to use). We would save a > lot of money in tax if the money was handled by a charity, but we > don't know of any suitable free-software related UK charities to > approach about this. Any pointers would be welcome. We could also set > up a new charity for the conference, but it would be nicer to spend > bureaucracy
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