Show HN: Transparency report for Makerland conference

Show HN: Transparency report for Makerland conference(makerland.org)

22 points by kubindurion 12 years ago | 9 comments

krzrak 12 years ago |

In my opinion, the report should be more detailed, to be considered as "transparency report". I.e. what exactly was 760 EUR / speaker spent on? What is "misc"? Who were the sponsors? Anyway, move in the right direction :)

olasitarska 12 years ago | |

Sponsors are listed on the website: http://2014.makerland.org/

Speakers costs includes flights or hotels for speakers who wouldn't be able to attend otherwise.

Misc (Miscellaneous) are all other small costs like payment fees, or accounting, or hosting - small & boring costs like that.

I think there has to be a good balance and if we will go for all details, it'd be just boring for most of the people.

krzrak 12 years ago | | |

Thanks for the clarification. I was, however, not interested in this specific information, rather giving my opinion about the "transparency" of the report. Some data might be boring, but still important in the matter of transparency.

kubindurion 12 years ago | |

thanks for the feedback!

aeonflux 12 years ago |

It would be nice if there would be an option to purchase swag bag after the conference by non-attendees. It looks pretty awsome and oustanding. btw: Are there any videos somwhere, I can't seem to find anything on the site.

olasitarska 12 years ago | |

Videos are here: https://vimeo.com/makerland/videos

Thanks for the idea of option to purchase swag bag, we will think about it! Right now we only sell MAKE THINGS hoodies: http://store.makerland.org/

sudapl 12 years ago |

This is probably the best conference goodie bag I've seen.

lpelszyn 12 years ago |

Interesting that it's not for profit, that's cool!

haxoza 12 years ago | |

Thanks! That was kind of "people first" conference.