Hi, 2016-03-16 9:43 GMT+01:00 Iolanda Pensa <[email protected]>: > It would have been nice to have Wikimedia Italia managing all this, but in > 2014 Wikimedia Italia decided that it was too complicated and they did not > have enough staff to do it. > So in Esino Lario we applied for fundings through Associazione Amici del > Museo delle Grigne Onlus (an association of volunteers without staff) > and we established this new association to make the management and the > accountability of Wikimania possible, transparent and correct (also in this > case an association of volunteers without staff). > > This choice was thought through and please do not hesitate to ask any > further question.
I did not participate in the decision (and my role in organizing Wikimania is minimal to say the least), but I can add that this is a quite common solution for organizing events in Italy (e.g. concerts). Cristian _______________________________________________ Wikimania-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimania-l
