[Talk-gb-westmidlands] SOTM 2013 bid

[Brian Prangle]

Hi Andy

Are you intending that we bypass the existing wiki page and gaining
consensus from the UK community?  Or do the two in parallel? I can see that
gaining consensus would be messy and time consuming unless we force the
pace but I think one country one bid would be far stronger - for instance
we wouldn't be competing for UK sponsors, and there'd be more people with
more contacts to get things done.

Regards

Brian

On 8 October 2012 13:39, Andy Robinson <ajrlists at gmail.com> wrote:

> Looks good for starters Brian. I don’t think we are restricted to one
> country one bid so we should just get on and move forward if we want ours
> to be the one that gathers pace.****
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> Andy****
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> *From:* Brian Prangle [mailto:bprangle at gmail.com]
> *Sent:* 08 October 2012 13:06
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> *Subject:* [Talk-gb-westmidlands] SOTM 2013 bid****
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> As agreed at our October meeting - here's a proposed text for inclusion on
> the UK SOTM bid wiki page.  Thoughts/amendments appreciated before it's
> published. Ignore the formatting it's a cut and paste from Word. I've
> ignored the issue of timing as that's common to wherever the UK community
> decides on who should bid,****
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