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

[Ian Turton]

Residual Leeds bias :-)

Ian
On Mon Feb 02 2015 at 12:31:50 PM Barry Rowlingson <
b.rowlingson at lancaster.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 2, 2015 at 11:40 AM, Jo Cook <jocook at astuntechnology.com>
> wrote:
>
>>  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.
>>
>
>  I guess a polite negative wouldn't include Ian's "probably wouldn't
> choose Manchester if I did" comment?
>
>  Central in the country, airport, transport, conference centres, hotels,
> university - I can't see why not. The weather?
>
> Barry
>
>
> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>  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?
>>>
>>>  Ian
>>>
>>> ---------- 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>
>>>
>>>
>>>   Dear Mr Turton,
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> 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.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would be extremely grateful for any advice you can give in this matter.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I would like to thank you for your time in advance and look forward to
>>> hearing from you.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> With kind regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Angela
>>>
>>> *Angela Dickinson*
>>>
>>> *Research Assistant*
>>>
>>> *Direct Line: *0161 238 4584
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> *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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