Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-23 Thread joseph seddon
Then lets all get to work on the bid :) Date: Sun, 21 Dec 2008 21:38:26 -0500 From: thomas.dal...@gmail.com To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM - Oxford is chosen at the location for the Spring 2010 AGM in the run up to Wikimania That's only

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-22 Thread AndrewRT
On Dec 22, 12:53 am, AndrewRT ratur...@yahoo.co.uk wrote: Informed by the discussion we've had here, I'm going to propose that the next Board meeting on tuesday I should of course have said _next_ tuesday, i.e. 30th! Just confusing myself again!

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-21 Thread AndrewRT
Informed by the discussion we've had here, I'm going to propose that the next Board meeting on tuesday decide the location of the AGM so that we can start organising it. There seems to be a broad consensus that the location should be easily accessible by transport and should rotate around several

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-21 Thread Thomas Dalton
- Oxford is chosen at the location for the Spring 2010 AGM in the run up to Wikimania That's only useful if we win the bid! ___ Wikimedia UK mailing list wikimediau...@wikimedia.org http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-19 Thread Thomas Dalton
Umm, +m? And sure you can hold actual discussions, it's just all moderated through the Chair. I generally find, if anything, that the meetings are more effective and efficient. Do you know how long that would take? The chair having to either forward every message or voice and unvoice people

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-18 Thread James Forrester
2008/12/14 Thomas Dalton thomas.dal...@gmail.com: 2008/12/14 David Gerard dger...@gmail.com: 2008/12/14 AndrewRT ratur...@yahoo.co.uk: There are advantages in having in person meetings as well, though - it gives us an opportunity to discuss things more informally and get to know each other

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-14 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/1 Michael Shilliday mjshilli...@googlemail.com: I have never commented here before, but why the need for a physical AGM? Incorporated companies have been having online AGMs for years now. It may be necessary for a small group of people to be sitting in a room together, but the voting

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-14 Thread AndrewRT
On Dec 1, 12:37 pm, Michael Shilliday mjshilli...@googlemail.com wrote: I have never commented here before, but why the need for a physical AGM?  Incorporated companies have been having online AGMs for years now.  It may be necessary for a small group of people to be sitting in a room together,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-14 Thread David Gerard
2008/12/14 AndrewRT ratur...@yahoo.co.uk: There are advantages in having in person meetings as well, though - it gives us an opportunity to discuss things more informally and get to know each other more that you can with an online meeting. For an AGM, a meeting in person may be appropriate,

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-01 Thread Sarah McCulloch
If I may interject, Salford is quite hard to get to, even for locals. Proximity to Manchester Piccadilly and Victoria would be a better criterion. :) Dev 2008/12/1 Alison Wheeler [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, December 1, 2008 08:03, James wrote: Manchester or Birmingham would be a good bet I

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-01 Thread Paul Williams
On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 10:56 PM, AndrewRT [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Oxford would also be a good choice, as its the location for our Wikimania 2010 bid so would be a good opportunity to familiarise ourselves with the city (and have some experience organising an event - albeit much smaller

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-01 Thread Tom Holden
The population center of Great Britain is currently a bit south of Appleby Parva ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_population#Great_Britain ), which is roughly halfway between Birmingham and Leicester: http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=Appleby%20Parva.ie=utf-8oe=utf-8rls=org.m

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-01 Thread Thomas Dalton
2008/12/1 Tom Holden [EMAIL PROTECTED]: The population center of Great Britain is currently a bit south of Appleby Parva ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_population#Great_Britain ), which is roughly halfway between Birmingham and Leicester: The population centre by distance, maybe, but

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-01 Thread Sarah McCulloch
I'm not considering centrality - I'm considering that if you all come to Manchester I'll be able go to the AGM :P 2008/12/1 Thomas Dalton [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008/12/1 Sarah McCulloch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Just because everyone turned up from Euston in this case simply confirms what I was saying

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-12-01 Thread geni
2008/12/1 Sarah McCulloch [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not considering centrality - I'm considering that if you all come to Manchester I'll be able go to the AGM :P Maybe but what else is there to do in Manchester wikipedia wise? Oxford has pitt rivers. While there is the Museum of Science and

Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Location of AGM

2008-11-30 Thread Sarah McCulloch
If you want to meet in Manchester I may be able to provide meeting space for up to 200 people in our student union/university depending on time of day. Dev 2008/11/30 AndrewRT [EMAIL PROTECTED] At the last Board meeting, one of the matters that was briefly discussed what where the AGM in