London Wikimania Bid

In a nutshell

• Country: United Kingdom
• City: London
• Venue: Olympic Village
• Proposed dates: 31st July - 4th August
• Planned attendance: Any Wikimedian!
• Contact: Panyd or email us

Introduction

Our team

User:Panyd

Conference

Venue

The London Olympic village in June 2011 (whilst still under construction).

Our sponsors want us to be the first event held in the Olympic Village after the 2012 London Olympics.

Special events

Parties

Wikimania traditionally hosts two parties, one for attendees (capacity of 250-350) and one for sponsors and VIPs (capacity 40-60).

• Attendees party(ies) propositions

(location, how to get there, what's cool and relaxed about it)

• Sponsor party(ies) proposition

(location, how to get there, what's chic and high profile about it)

Logistics

Accomodation

Hotels

The Olympic village has many hotels on site with 17,320 beds in total. There are a wide variety of buildings from luxury to budget.

Getting to the United Kingdom

International travel to the United Kingdom is extensive. Access to the UK is provided by 30 international airports providing travel to 200 destinations, 8 ports with international passenger ferry services to Europe, and a rail link to mainland Europe via the Channel Tunnel.

Train (via Belgium and France)

Eurostar high-speed trains run between London (St Pancras International), Ebbsfleet and Ashford through the Channel Tunnel to Paris (Gare du Nord), Lille and Brussels. During the summer an additional weekly train operates to Avignon and during the winter a weekly service runs a ski service direct to the French Alps. Through tickets and connections are available in Lille, Paris and Brussels from many European cities to most large UK cities.

Journey times average two hours fifteen minutes to and from Paris, and one hour fifty minutes to Brussels. A second class return from Paris to London costs between €85 and €230. While it can be cheaper to fly from London to Paris using a low-cost airline, bear in mind that the journeys to the airports can be expensive and time-consuming.

Financial

Budget

London Wikimania Bid/Budget

Sponsorship

Confirmed Sponsors

Tech City

Potential Sponsors

Visa, Google, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, BT or Telefonica

Timeline

• Rough draft budget - December 2011
• Venue Viewing - December 2011
• Creation of Budget, Bid documents, venue selection, approaching potential sponsors etc - Now-January 2012
• Start working on bid page and forming wikimedia volunteer bid team - Yesterday - We have User:EdSaperia, User:Panyd, User:HJ Mitchell, User:Marek69 and User:ErrantX working on this
• Bidding officially opens - January 2011
• Bidding closes and winner announced - May 2012
• Conference - July/August 2013

Self-evaluation

• Weaknesses of the proposed location ...and how to overcome those weaknesses

1. Weakness 1

   Solution 1

2. Weakness 2

   Solution 2

• Strengths of the proposed location

1. Strength 1
2. Strength 2