Show HN: Transparency report for Makerland conference

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22 points·kubindurion··9 comments

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 :)

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.

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.

thanks for the feedback!

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.

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/

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

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

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

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