/me votes for midlands(Brum) to north midlands (Manchester) Dave Caroline

On 31/07/07, Simon Fryer <fryers at gmail.com> wrote: Agreed - I am sure this has cropped up on the list before, too, with the same conclusion. Venus shouldn't be a problem; there are plenty of possibilities about, ranging from sports halls to places the size of the NEC; although you'd need big pockets for the latter.. Just pick a size and go from there..

came up (no more than a few months ago) that having some experience of organizing a large event, while not essential, would make the whole thing a lot less stressful. A number of other points were made detailing many pitfalls that await the unwary. The thread went very quiet after that :) Yes. Another thing to consider is that you can't just make an event an call it a Vintage Computer Festival. That is a trademark, etc. belonging to Sellam. He's glad to help people who are serious about hosting a new VCF, however.

hey Dan...it goes w/the territory. Instead of encouraging an endeavor, the babies have to fight over silly notions of trademark and whatever. Who's to say a UK version of *CF couldn't be called the Classic Computer Extravaganza or whatever the frig. Yes it is rather nauseating (and uh kind of puzzling)to hear, in the same sentence, that someone doesn't have the funds/wherewithal to organize such an event, yet when one happens to come along, he'll do everything he can to squelch it. Truly unbelievable. I say some of you enterprising Brits should put on a show, and do it now, this year. Start small. It'll build it's own momentum. Better yet why not make it an international event and collaborate w/the mainlanders. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Moody friends. Drama queens. Your life? Nope! - their life, your story. Play Sims Stories at Yahoo! Games. http://sims.yahoo.com/

Ensor wrote: *ducks in for a sec* Yep, lots going on in the near future! I've talked with Sellam in the past about this; it's a definite possibility, but a good couple of years away as we need to really find our feet with the new museum first and get things settled. We'd have to rely on the rest of the Park for exhibition space initially too, which adds a bit of extra complexity (although I suspect not a big deal - since the change in management things are a lot more positive on site). Longer term there's scope for adding some sort of large exhibition space to our building, but that won't happen any time soon! As the spiritual home of UK computing though it always seems a sensible location to me - possibly doing alternate years with an event somewhere up north though so that it reaches more people.