On 11 November 2015 at 13:50, Chris Keating chriskeatingwiki@gmail.com wrote:
If there is interest by participants to chip in on scholarships for others to attend, I'm not sure providing an outlet for that interest means opening any cans, full of worms or other critters. It's an efficient matching of donor interest to funding needed.
Quite! I can certainly see there being people (probably some Wikimedians) who would be interested in making a donation to help others (certainly Wikimedians) to get to Wikimania.
Yes, I'd agree with Chris and Sebastian - donating to a scholarship fund is greatly appealing. I probably won't be able to go this year (too much travel in a short time...) but I'd be more than happy to put some of the money I'd have spent towards the scholarship fund, if Federico says they'll be able to accept such donations.