Re: GUADEC 2017 Manchester bid

[Bastien Nocera <hadess hadess net>]

On Mon, 2016-05-02 at 22:13 +0200, Sam Thursfield wrote:
> Hello
>
> I'm happy to present our bid to put on the 2017 edition of GUADEC in
> Manchester, UK. You can download it as a PDF from here:
> http://afuera.me.uk/files/guadec2017-manchester-bid.pdf
>
> We have met some really helpful while putting together this bid, both
> at the Manchester Metropolitan University, which is our proposed
> venue, and at the Marketing Manchester conference bureau, who have
> helped make the bid document. Thanks to both.
>
> That said, we will need more help to make the conference happen!
> Manchester has several free software groups and has a huge number of
> software & technology enthusiasts so I'm confident we can put
> together
> a larger local team, but please don't hesitate to get in touch now if
> you are UK-based and would be willing to help with the organisation
> of
> the conference!
>
> One aspect which we would need to sort out early on is how to handle
> funds for the event (i.e. whose bank account to use). We would save a
> lot of money in tax if the money was handled by a charity, but we
> don't know of any suitable free-software related UK charities to
> approach about this. Any pointers would be welcome. We could also set
> up a new charity for the conference, but it would be nicer to spend
> bureaucracy

Tried FLOSSUK (né UKUUG)?

Cheers