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This cuts down my transport time down to less than half of what it has been the last few months. 🚂
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Mara Bos
Mara@hachyderm.ioI was asked recently about the cost of running a (#rustlang) conference and why the ticket prices are what they are. We figured we can just publicly share the numbers for RustWeek, in the name of #transparency. :)
RustWeek has many subevents (conference, hackathon, unconference, workshops, Rust All Hands, etc.), but I've tried to extract just the two day conference part of RustWeek 2026:
Venue rent: € ~50k
Lunch, snacks, drinks two full days: € ~130k (incl. catering services and exclusive access to 1000 person restaurant all day)
A/V services: € ~30k (incl. livestreaming, professionals operating the cameras/microphones/screens in the rooms, editing the recordings, etc.)
Stuff we set up at the venue: € ~20k (sponsor booths, entertainment, banners, stickers, wifi, etc.)
Travel compenstation for speakers: € ~10k
External services: € ~25k (accounting, registration & payment, event management, insurance, etc.)
Miscelaneous: € ~15k
This adds up to roughly € 280k for just the two conference days. (The total for all of RustWeek is ~€ 400k.)
The money we get from sponsors covers roughly half of the costs. The other half has to be covered by tickets.
We are currently the biggest Rust conference with 850+ attendees. We give free tickets to all the speakers and volunteers, which is almost a hundred people total. The sponsor packages also include a total of roughly 100 tickets. That leaves ~650 sold tickets.
Those are roughly 250 corporate tickets (~410 euro after tax), 300 individual tickets (~190 euro after tax), and 100 student tickets (~30 euro after tax). Accounting for the various discounts (early bird, discount codes, etc.) and overhead, this leaves us with roughly 140k.
Those student tickets are sold at a significant loss, but it's very important to us to not just run this conference for those with a well paid job.
Setting the ticket prices is very tricky, because you have to set them a year in advance, before you know what amount of sponsorship to expect. We only find out *after* the event if we guessed correctly or if we ran at a loss. This year, we made a (very small) profit, which we'll spend on our Rust Maintainers Team: https://rustnl.org/maintainers/
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SMK – Statens Museum for Kunst
smk@expressional.socialGudskelov for Wikipedia!
Vi er glade for åbenhed, og i de sidste 15 år har SMK haft stor glæde af Wikipedia. Samlingen er fornemt repræsenteret, og har igennem årene bevæget sig ud på over 9.000 forskellige opslag på det store, fælles onlineleksikon.
Hvilke værker bruges mest? Tak for spørgsmålet, for vi har netop kigget dybt i statistikken. Og det drejer sig om:
🖼️ Cornelis Cornelisz. van Haarlem, Titanernes fald, 1588 – 1590.
🖼️Nicolai Abildgaard, Hamlet hos sin moder, 1776 – 1779
🖼️C.A. Lorentzen, Dannebrog falder ned fra himlen under Volmerslaget ved Lyndanisse (Tallin) i Estland den 15. juni 1219, 1809
🖼️ Henri Matisse, Selvportræt, 1906
Samlet vises SMK-kunst omkring 2.2 millioner gange om måneden på Wikipedia 👌
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But I can see how they are possible to find scary if you don't know about it, I was a bit surprised the first time I heard them in the Netherlands, but I had some coworkers who could tell me that it was normal.
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Mara Bos
Mara@hachyderm.ioImagine organizing a Rust conference and having zero women on stage. That's just embarrasing. https://oxidizeconf.com/
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Like for those two it would be:
U32 IP for [192, 168, 88, 5]: 3232258053
U32 IP for [255, 255, 255, 0]: 4294967040
( small playground to calculate them as I could not find a thing online for it: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2024&gist=613c59bcfe48840216cf1f2f70e2a704 )
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Rust Copenhagen
rust_cph@mastodon.socialThis months meetup is up. Looking forward to seeing everyone :)
https://www.meetup.com/copenhagen-rust-community/events/315767999
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Took a cool self-portrait of me on the boat at dusk.
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