Been lurking here for a while, and I think I might be able to help out a little, partly
because I live roughly an hour from Oxford.
If vanilla internet access is likely to be an issue why not look at getting some of those
wireless 3G modem sticks instead? Oxford has fairly extensive 3G coverage and so might be
able to suport it. If it would be of benefit, I can ask the sponsorship team at the
network I work for (O2) and see if they would be interested in lending support.
Gazimoff
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From: joseph seddon
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Sent: Monday, July 14, 2008 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Oxford 2010
I wasn't sure if this has been mentioned before. I couldn't see anything
mentioned previously in the archives. What sort of access to wireless internet is there?
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Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 17:24:22 +0100
From: thomas.dalton(a)gmail.com
To: wikimediauk-l(a)lists.wikimedia.org
Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania Oxford 2010
2008/7/14 Tom Holden <thomas.holden(a)gmail.com>om>:
I've just heard back from the booking officer
at the town hall (an employee,
not a councillor) with a quote. Obviously if the Lord Mayor could help us
then these figures would be revised downwards.
First bit of news is that the weekend of the 7th of August is booked already
(as is the 3rd of July), so we'd probably want to have it at the very end of
July instead.
Second bit of news is that there's a 20% discount if we book all of the
public rooms, so on a 6 hour per day basis he's quoting £10569 (compared to
£2844 for just the main hall).
I honestly don't know if that's a big number or a small number, does
anyone have anything to compare it to? Either way, it's good to have a
number!
The final, and perhaps most important thing to
note is that, and I quote:
"If your organisation is a registered charity I may be able to offer up to
50% discount on the standard fee." I will e-mail back to see if he'll accept
Wikimedia's not for profit status, but I very much doubt he will. Is this a
sufficient motivation to do everything conceivably possible to hurry our
application for charitable status? Or perhaps to just commit to creating a
new charity solely for the running of Wikimania 2010.
They might accept foreign charities, it's certainly worth a try. If
there is any reason in the world (the juries still out!) then creating
a new charity just for the conference should be more work than
finishing sorting out the one we already have in the pipeline.
Hopefully we'll hear something from WM UK soon...
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