Residual Leeds bias :-)<br><br>Ian<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon Feb 02 2015 at 12:31:50 PM Barry Rowlingson <<a href="mailto:b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk">b.rowlingson@lancaster.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Jo Cook <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jocook@astuntechnology.com" target="_blank">jocook@astuntechnology.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">



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<p dir="ltr">I got the same email and plan to respond with a polite negative soon, it's not up to Conference companies to bid, but the local community.
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I got this in my inbox, I currently have no desire to be involved in organising a conference and probably wouldn't choose Manchester if I did but if anyone wants to investigate/follow up.
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<div>It has to be said the typos and general inability to get my details right (surely a copy paste from LinkedIn) makes me wonder about their ability to help us but they might have some cash?</div>
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From: Dickinson, Angela (Marketing Manchester) <<a href="mailto:Angela.Dickinson@marketingmanchester.com" target="_blank">Angela.Dickinson@marketingmanchester.com</a>><br>
Date: Mon Feb 02 2015 at 10:58:02 AM<br>
Subject: Conference Opportunity with Visit Manchester<br>
To: <<a href="mailto:ijturton@gmail.com" target="_blank">ijturton@gmail.com</a>><br>
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<font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black" lang="EN-US">I understand that you held
</span></font><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Co-founder and developer of Geotools project</span></font><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black" lang="EN-US">
 for Open Source Geospatial Foundation -OSGeo and hope that you may help me with some information with the FOSS4G-Europe OSGeo's European Conference on Free and Open Source Software for Geospatial.</span></font><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">I work in the conference team at Visit Manchester
</span></font><font face="Calibri"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri">– the tourist board and convention bureau for
<u></u><u></u>Manchester<u></u><u></u><font color="black"><span style="color:black"> and my role is to research international conferences which
</span></font></span></font><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black" lang="EN-US">would be relevant to the profile of our city. I am currently investigating the possibility of bidding to host a future
 FOSS4G-Europe </span></font><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black;background:none repeat scroll 0% 0% white">conference.</span></font><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black"><u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">I recently spoken to
</span></font><font face="Calibri" color="black" size="3"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Jachym</span></font><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">, Contact for the
 Association who has advised we make contact with the national community to asses the appetite to attract this conference to the
<u></u><u></u>UK<u></u><u></u>. <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">I would be extremely grateful for any advice you can give in this matter.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">I would like to thank you for your time in advance and look forward to hearing from you.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">With kind regards,<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Calibri" color="black"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri;color:black">Angela<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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