Bohdan Melnychuk, 26/03/2016 20:50:
That being said, what pops into my mind as a not-far-past large Wikimedia event in Italy is the Wikimedia Conference which was held in Milan a couple of years ago — was there the same model being used? If not, how did they do it?
That's an entirely different model, for instance it's entirely paid by attending organisations rather than individuals. Anyway, Wikimedia Italia is an asociazione di promozione sociale (APS) which has way less legal restrictions than the Wikimania 2016 fiscal sponsor (ONLUS).
Please do translate the documents as fast as possible. Not being able to read them is the thing which prevents me to fill the registration, and that is a major bottleneck for me. I see that some work has already started on Wikimania 2016 wiki: https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Associazione_Comitato_Wikimania_Esi... https://wikimania2016.wikimedia.org/wiki/Informativa_per_la_privacy_dei_volo... , but it really needs to be finished ASAP.
These are really standard documents, they say almost nothing that is not already written in the law. The only interesting articles are 3 and 21 in the bylaws, would you be happier if I translated those?
Sadly, I also cannot stop myself from voicing a thought which is not helpful in any way when the situation is as it is already, but it could be something to lessons learnt section of it all, in my opinion. I do believe that such circumstances as compulsory enlisting of, I guess, 1000+ people into an NGO as a prerequisite of running the event is not something to omit while the very bidding process.
I certainly agree. Considering that the law changed on December 2015, that's hardly something to blame on the organisers. I cannot be more ashamed of my own national parliament and I hope for national sovereignities to be disbanded as soon as possible in the EU, but that's quite far on the horizon.
Nemo