When I was an undergrad, I ran a small TeX conference. I forget how the finances worked out, but I used the college facilities (I may or may not have asked perm

When I was an undergrad, I ran a small TeX conference. I forget how the finances worked out, but I used the college facilities (I may or may not have asked permission for this) to host this. There were some workshops which were an added fee and the workshop presenters got that money. No food or swag, publicity was all done via the late 80s internet venues (so comp.text.tex and TeXhax if I remember correctly). I think I may have run into an issue depositing checks at my bank account since they were made out to “Cal TeX” or something like that and I didn’t have a DBA on file with the bank (or that might have happened later with another project). But I do remember that the amount of work and the low payoff were enough that I never tried to do a second conference.