London Wikimania Bid
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Location: London, United Kingdom
History & Culture
Conference: Venue
Olympic Village
Our sponsors want us to be the first event held in the Olympic Village after the 2012 London Olympics.
Conference: Accommodation
Olympic Village
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.
Hostels
Conference: Parties
VIP Party
Attendee Party
Transport: 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.
Ferry
Air
Transport: Getting to London
Bus
Metrolink
Metroshuttle
Taxi
Organisation: 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
Organisation: Expenses budget
Organisation: Sponsorship
Sponsorship Levels
Confirmed Sponsors
Potential Sponsors
Visa, Google, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Mozilla, BT or Telefonica