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 think - nice and central > to > > the whole UK, so everyone can get there without travelling too far. > > Locations can be so problematic though. I went to the founding meeting of > a national organisation years ago which was held in Manchester (Salford, > in fact) because "it was central and fairer to people attending from all > over the UK". > > Turned out though that *everyone* attending had come up on the train from > Euston (though I'd got on at Watford) which meant that after the time that > had been booked at the venue we carried on on the return train to London > and then in the facilities at Euston for another few hours too! > > Whilst not wishing to suggest that London would 'automatically' be the > best venue on the grounds of easy and fast access from all directions, > getting a pre-indication of who might be most likely to attend and how > their finances / timings are for getting to the possible locations might > be useful (the graph exercise in reducing the overall cost by selection of > location is left as an exercise for the student). > > Alison > > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimedia UK mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_UK > http://mail.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediauk-l > -- "But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread softly because you tread on my dreams." -WB Yeats
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