----- Original Message ----- From: "Rich Mellor"
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 12:51 PM
Subject: [ql-users] Quanta 2005
Just a quick comment - one of the reasons that the Quanta committee seemed to want the QL 2005 meeting down south was because they thought that Manchester was not capable of holding such a "prestigious event".
Well its now apparently good enough for the Labour Party Conference as they are moving there...
So why not the QL??
Because as an organisation Quanta is not worried by massive Liberal Democrat gains in the Manchester area.
Whilst I would agree there is a general prejudice against Manchester, or anything north of the Thames, in the QL community, that was not relevant to Quanta's decision. It had much more to do with the cock-up theory. Or our old friends, the keywords PISS_UP and BREWERY.
Quanta's current aim is to make the AGM the number one UK show each year. In May 2004 the committee decided to hold a two day show (QL2005) to include the AGM somewhere in the south as it was the south's turn. For reasons that are still unclear to me by the end of October 2004 nothing had been done to organise this. By that time it was too late for the deadlines of both the Quanta Magazine and QL-Today to ensure adequate publicity beforehand or to arrange a show programme. The event was postponed until October and for some reason the decision to remain in the south stuck.
John Gilpin would like to have a major event (+AGM) in Manchester at the end of April 2006. Let's be positive and make something good of that,
Best Wishes,
Geoff (personal)
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