On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 2:53 PM, Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton@gmail.com> wrote:

If we win the bid, there are all kinds of legal stuff we'll have to
sort out - if everything will be done through us (rather than WMF),
which I think is likely, we will need to open a trading subsidiary.

Do we know how other Wikimania organising teams did this (....Delphine...?)

I can't remember having heard of any local trading company having been opened anywhere for this. Was it not usually the WMF that would have signed contracts if necessary?
See also eg. http://wikimania2009.wikimedia.org/wiki/Contact
"Wikimania is a yearly international conference organised by the Wikimedia Foundation."


Michael
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