On Tue, May 10, 2011 at 10:07 PM, Ed Summers <ehs@pobox.com> wrote:
> for things that require a lot of planning and that's it. We won't have
> to get the board together to agree to hold a meetup, but we will to
> figure out how to raise and spend the $300,000 Wikimania will cost.
So do we know for a fact that a local chapter has to figure this out,
and it can't be done under the auspices of the Wikimedia Foundation?
Well, yes; we (for some vague definition of "we", roughly corresponding to the Wikimania bid team) have been awarded the bid, and it's now up to us to somehow make the conference happen.
The Foundation will help out as it's able, I'm sure; but it has never taken legal responsibility for funding/organizing/etc. the previous Wikimania conferences, and is quite unlikely to do so now, for a variety of legal and financial reasons.
Kirill