Hi Alex,
I hope that you are doing well. I originally started this email thread on Wikimedia-l near the end of September 2018, and four months have passed. I am still hoping to hear an update about WMF's strategy for conferences. I am trying to be patient and considerate, but I think that you may understand that I have difficulty with the length of the delay here. It seems to me that questions like this should not take WMF four months to answer, and that no one should need to send repeated requests for information like this. Once in awhile someone might be on vacation or an email might get stuck in a draft folder so one additional reminder or request might be necessary, but I think that the situation with this email thread should not ever happen. In addition to my original questions regarding conference strategy, I would like to know what has caused the lengthy delay and the lack of responsiveness from WMF. I am trying to be patient, but there is a problem here.
Thanks,