Am 28.07.2014 18:36, schrieb Maarten Dammers: > Different chapters are looking into organizing next years hackathon. One > of the recurring questions is how much it costs to organize such an > event. To make it easier to answer this question we published the budget > of the Amsterdam hackathon at > https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Amsterdam_Hackathon_2013/Budget . I > believe it's the intention to also publish the budget of this year > (Zürich) and 2012 (Berlin). That should give quite a complete overview.
I just did that: https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Z%C3%BCrich_Hackathon_2014/Budget Please take the figures with a grain of salt. Not all WMF scholarship receipts have been handed in yet, so those numbers are not accurate. Also there have been some re-arrangements of costs between entities offering scholarship and what was a scholarship or a business travel. But the Youth Hostel bill (and that is the main part) has been settled already. There were obviously further costs not covered in this budget: Hotel accommodation not booked through us. I know that WMF and WMDE had a bunch of people in some hotels. These costs are NOT included. Also we do not know the reimbursed travel costs by other chapters - we just got the cost estimates in the scholarship applications and later invoiced the accommodation to them. A note for the Wifi: We had planned to get a sponsor for our own Wifi hardware we could re-use in other events. Our search for sponsors was unsuccessful - too late, as we learned, six months is for most companies NOT ENOUGH! Apply for sponsorships BEFORE SUMMER, at least in Switzerland. So I bought Wifi gear by myself (as a private person with a freelance business) and rented it to WMCH for 10 EUR / day per device and 25 EUR / day for the server. The switch I already owned was included for free. This obviously didn't make up for the investment (~2.500 EUR) and the equipment is meant to be re-used. I just bought a big box for it and shipped everything to London, for Wikimania. https://www.facebook.com/x80686/posts/321911134652244 If you need it, let me know. When the return of investment is reached I am also happy to rent it for free. /Manuel -- Wikimedia CH - Verein zur Förderung Freien Wissens Lausanne, +41 (21) 34066-22 - www.wikimedia.ch _______________________________________________ Wikitech-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikitech-l
