[Foundation-l] A question for the Wikimania jury

[Ray Saintonge]

Jason Safoutin wrote:
> foundation-l-request at lists.wikimedia.org wrote:
>   
>> If you're interested in establishing a more regular North American or
>> Europe-wide conference the for years when we don't have Wikimania in the
>> area, then great! We can certainly use more local organization of this
>> sort in the US, and at the Europe-wide level in addition to the numerous
>> country-wide groups there.
>>     
> Well that would be nice but would WMF pay for all these conferences? Who 
> would organize them other than one person? This isn't a task for one or 
> two people much less someone with no experience in doing so.
>
> Last I heard the "Conference of The America's" is not happening. Why? 
> Not too sure why but if I cannot afford a trip to Buenos Aires or Egypt 
> I certainly cannot afford to make my own conference.
The funding may need to come from the chapters and their own 
fundraising. Apart from the high costs of travel to far-away places, the 
organizers have done an excellent job of keeping costs, including 
accommodations,  down.  If you feel that a Conference of the Americas 
should be happening, what are you doing to help organize it?

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