Hi,
2016-03-16 9:43 GMT+01:00 Iolanda Pensa iolanda@pensa.it:
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