[OSGeo-UK] Fwd: Conference Opportunity with Visit Manchester

[Jo Cook]

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.

Jo
On Feb 2, 2015 11:30 AM, "Ian Turton" <ijturton at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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> 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?
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> Ian
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> ---------- Forwarded message ---------
> From: Dickinson, Angela (Marketing Manchester) <
> Angela.Dickinson at marketingmanchester.com>
> Date: Mon Feb 02 2015 at 10:58:02 AM
> Subject: Conference Opportunity with Visit Manchester
> To: <ijturton at gmail.com>
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>        Dear Mr Turton,
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> I understand that you held Co-founder and developer of Geotools project
> 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.
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> I work in the conference team at Visit Manchester – the tourist board and
> convention bureau for Manchester and my role is to research international
> conferences which would be relevant to the profile of our city. I am
> currently investigating the possibility of bidding to host a future
> FOSS4G-Europe conference.
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> I recently spoken to Jachym, Contact for the Association who has advised
> we make contact with the national community to asses the appetite to
> attract this conference to the UK.
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> I would be extremely grateful for any advice you can give in this matter.
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> I would like to thank you for your time in advance and look forward to
> hearing from you.
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> With kind regards,
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> Angela
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> *Angela Dickinson*
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> *Research Assistant*
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> *Direct Line: *0161 238 4584
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> *Visit Manchester*
> Churchgate House , 56 Oxford Street, Manchester, M1 6EU
> *Tel: *0161 237 1010
> *visitmanchester.com/conference* <http://conferences.visitmanchester.com/>
> *marketingmanchester.com* <http://www.marketingmanchester.com/>
> *Blog* <http://visitmanchester.posterous.com/> |  *Facebook*
> <http://www.facebook.com/visitmanchester>  |  *Twitter *
> <http://twitter.com/mcr_conf>
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> <http://www.fusiliermuseum.com/>
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