On 2016-07-08 10:33 AM, Lodewijk wrote:
There is only one body that can make funding commitments: the WMF board of trustees. However, theoretically, Wikimania doesn't have to stand or fall with WMF funding.
That is true, although it would certainly require reexamination of the scope of the conference. Hypothetically, the chapters may be able to take over some of the burden as well.
I suppose you could read the decision of the committee as "we'll do our best to keep one even a year as long as we are able to rather than actually attempt to only set one up every other year".
-- Coren / Marc