Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-04 Thread Richard Farmbrough
We could consider Peterborough. The Town Hall has meeting rooms of 
various sizes available, up to a couple of hundred.

For a further short hop by train, or shared taxi (with a 7 seater it is 
reasonably cheap) Stamford has a lot to see and many eateries, including 
the famous George coaching house, the grave of Daniel Lambert rooms for 
hire in the Arts Centre, the town hall (possibly free 
http://www.stamfordtowncouncil.co.uk/index.php?id=20) .

Both towns are on the A1 and accessible   by various transport, although 
the Harriers only stop a few miles away at Wittering and a short walk 
would be needed, the hot air balloons depart Stamford but do not arrive.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-04 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/4 Richard Farmbrough rich...@farmbrough.co.uk:
 We could consider Peterborough. The Town Hall has meeting rooms of
 various sizes available, up to a couple of hundred.

I'm not sure if we need to find somewhere as formal as a Town Hall.
Where we had this year's AGM would work pretty well (I'm not
suggesting we have in in Manchester again, just a similar venue).
Something with a data projector and screen would be good, but we can
hire those if we need to. We should try and keep costs down as much as
possible - ideally we don't want to charge people to attend, since
that would reduce turnout. I believe we got the room at Kro Bar for
free, and should be able to do similarly elsewhere.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread Andrew Turvey
My suggestion from experience with organising the 2009 AGM - only do it where 
we have members who can help organise it. Trying to do it remotely because we 
think it's a nice idea to have it in a particular place just doesn't work! 

- Original Message - 
From: joseph seddon life_is_bitter_sw...@hotmail.co.uk 
To: wikimediau...@wikimedia.org wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org 
Sent: Friday, 1 May, 2009 23:28:27 GMT +00:00 GMT Britain, Ireland, Portugal 
Subject: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE 

Wikimedia UK Members, 

As you all may be aware I have been tasked to over see Wikimedia UK’s operation 
of and participation in conferences in the UK’s large open knowledge and free 
software movement. The participation of the chapters members is instrumental in 
getting our name out there and to move forward. The Wikimedia UK AGM will be 
used as an opportunity for those involved/interested in open knowledge and free 
software to come and help teach the chapter something and likewise for those 
people to find out more about the movement we are part of. 

This years AGM was held in Manchester in (what I thought) was a very nice 
venue. After only 2 months of existence we managed to reach 26 members., of 
which over 90% were present. I hope and expect our AGM’s to grow and to 
continue with such a high participation rate. 

For the 2010 AGM, I am looking to hold it in or a location south of Birmingham. 
This is to enable those from London etc a shorter journey to travel. This city 
rotation will happen for much of the foreseeable future, but it is not 
guaranteed. What I need from the members is the following: 


• Recommended city 


• 
Possible Venues 
Although a whole year ahead, given that there will likely be other project I 
would like to get as much of a head start as possible on those we know will 
occur. 

No dedication of time will be required so don’t feel that by suggesting a city 
and venue that you are then committed to help out. Volunteers will be dragged 
in at a later date. Things to look at when suggesting venues is cost, wifi, 
food, access and size. For the time being, assume participation of 50+ people. 
This isn’t an official bidding thing like wikimania, just simply to get ideas 
on the table for me to put together for future discussion. 

Yours 

Joseph Seddon 

Events and Conferences, Director 
Wikimedia UK 



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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
2009/5/2 Andrew Turvey andrewrtur...@googlemail.com:
 My suggestion from experience with organising the 2009 AGM - only do it
 where we have members who can help organise it. Trying to do it remotely
 because we think it's a nice idea to have it in a particular place just
 doesn't work!

That is a very good point.

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Re: [Wikimediauk-l] 2010 WMUK AGM/CONFERENCE

2009-05-01 Thread Michael Peel
This shouldn't be restricted just to members ... :-)

My suggestion would be either Oxford, based on the Wikimania bid, or  
London itself, perhaps at one of the universities/colleges. It would  
be nice if we could do something at the same time (or located at)  
with The British Library or similar, but that's possibly a bit  
ambitious right now.

Mike

On 1 May 2009, at 23:28, joseph seddon wrote:

 Wikimedia UK Members,

 As you all may be aware I have been tasked to over see Wikimedia  
 UK’s operation of and participation in conferences in the UK’s  
 large open knowledge and free software movement. The participation  
 of the chapters members is instrumental in getting our name out  
 there and to move forward. The Wikimedia UK AGM will be used as an  
 opportunity for those involved/interested in open knowledge and  
 free software to come and help teach the chapter something and  
 likewise for those people to find out more about the movement we  
 are part of.

 This years AGM was held in Manchester in (what I thought) was a  
 very nice venue. After only 2 months of existence we managed to  
 reach 26 members., of which over 90% were present. I hope and  
 expect our AGM’s to grow and to continue with such a high  
 participation rate.

 For the 2010 AGM, I am looking to hold it in or a location south of  
 Birmingham. This is to enable those from London etc a shorter  
 journey to travel. This city rotation will happen for much of the  
 foreseeable future, but it is not guaranteed. What I need from the  
 members is the following:

 Recommended city
 Possible Venues

 Although a whole year ahead, given that there will likely be other  
 project I would like to get as much of a head start as possible on  
 those we know will occur.

 No dedication of time will be required so don’t feel that by  
 suggesting a city and venue that you are then committed to help  
 out. Volunteers will be dragged in at a later date. Things to look  
 at when suggesting venues is cost, wifi, food, access and size. For  
 the time being, assume participation of 50+ people. This isn’t an  
 official bidding thing like wikimania, just simply to get ideas on  
 the table for me to put together for future discussion.

 Yours

 Joseph Seddon

 Events and Conferences, Director
 Wikimedia UK


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