I 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-pla

I 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.