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The 9th International Workshop on Plan 9 (http://iwp9.org/ http://iwp9.org/) took place in Ontario a few months back. It was free to attend, I believe the venue
by floren 3y ago
The 9th International Workshop on Plan 9 (http://iwp9.org/ http://iwp9.org/) took place in Ontario a few months back. It was free to attend, I believe the venue (a lecture hall at Waterloo) was free, and the t-shirts were donated. Now, it was a very small conference, and it was organized by the Plan 9 Foundation, but to the best of my knowledge (as a member of the Program Committee) it didn't really cost anything.
- ghaff 3y agoThere are still costs though: streamed talks, presumably AV people, the university presumably pays people to clean up. Maybe some of this is volunteer labor but there are still some costs that presumably the university or the department is picking up. There are free events at universities in general but that's just the school picking up the costs. Even FOSDEM (held at a university in Brussels for free) has sponsors as does Devconf.cz.
- floren 3y agoI mean I guess the university did pay the cleaning staff to go through afterward. AV was done by volunteers, and the streaming was free AFAIK (https://bsdtv-player.secdn.net https://bsdtv-player.secdn.net was the host for the stream, I'm not sure who runs it but it worked fine). So yeah, you could say the University of Waterloo sponsored it by allowing us to use their conference room. Somebody did have to empty the trash cans after the attendees left. But to the best of my knowledge the only money that changed hands was for the t-shirts, and as I said I think that ended up being a donation from a Foundation member.