I suggest trying to get a meeting with someone high up the structure in queen mary and see what you can do with getting
costs down, find out what they can do about this "great hall" etc. Getting a venue and accommodation is however only one
part of this bid. We also need to be looking into sponsors whether that be in the form of equipment or moeny. These arnt
site specific and having people works on these is also something we need to be doing.

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> Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2008 12:56:14 +0100
> To: wikimediauk-l@lists.wikimedia.org
> From: gordon.joly@pobox.com
> Subject: Re: [Wikimediauk-l] Wikimania London 2010
>
> At 18:06 +0100 13/7/08, Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > > Unless anything was brought up today at the London meetup, it would be good
> >> if we could press on with working on this one bid. It would be better to
> >> work on one *brilliant* bid, than two or more good bids.
> >
> >Agreed. Does anyone want to make a case for a London bid, or shall we
> >all concentrate on Oxford now?
>
> I am slowly catching up with this thread...
>
> I still feel that there is a strong case for London. In particular I
> favour Queen Mary College over UCL (I know both venues well since I
> was on the staff of both, and also as a graduate student at Queen
> Mary).
>
> I have just phoned Queen Mary, and they only offer a large hall to
> seat 280 as a standard. "The Great Hall" has seating for 600 or more,
> but at the moment they cannot offer this as a standard feature of a
> package (various issues). The can book for August 2010, and they
> should be offer on site accommodation for all (a few minutes walk
> from the lecture room). But the prices for 2010 can only be finally
> fixed in 2009.
>
> I don't recall any decisions at the London meetup, other than to
> proceed with a bid.
>
> BTW, I like the tie in with the Oxford Internet Institute.
>
> Gordo
>
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