Well there certainly are larger venues than the town hall in Oxford. (Though the town hall may be able to accommodate more than 500. Their website suggests both 500 and around 750. I’ve sent off a clarification e-mail about this.) The Sheldonian can seat up to 1000 and the Playhouse can seat 613.

 

Using both of the two 450 seating rooms at Exam schools is another possibility perhaps. We could have cameras and projectors in both rooms, and take it in turns between having a live video feed from the 1st to the 2nd, and a live feed from the 2nd to the 1st. (This would obviously only work if there were going to be multiple speakers in the talk.)

 

Tom

 

From: wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org [mailto:wikimediauk-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of Al Tally
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2008/7/28 Sean Whitton <sean@silentflame.com>

Is it reasonable to suggest that we should plan for a lot more because
it could be argued the UK is easier to get to than Alexandria? I may
be wrong in this assumption, but it seems to me that places that are
more accessible for the parts of the world with the largest
concentrations of Wikimedians (US, Europe) are going to get more
people at the conference.

Sean


That's a good point. If it was held in the UK, I can imagine it would be popular with EU countries and the USA. Hence, a large proportion of the Wikimedia community.

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