Everything that makes, publishes or hides the record costs nothing, by rule. The only thing with a price is how one evening looks: its colours, its logo, its address.
$ ls ~/free — for everyone, with no cap and no tier
› run an evening, open registration, hand out invites
› teams, boards, submissions, judging, the ceremony, the winners
› the page that stays, the showcase, and the cards that travel from it
› certificates as PDF — only their colours are part of the costume
› a private room, and your own numbers: who registered, who shipped, who judged
› taking your name and face back off a page, any time
$ ls ~/costume — bought per evening, on the evening's own page
› costume for an evening — $19 · education $9.50 // since 2026-09-09
› big evening — own domain, priority support that week — $79 · education $39.50 // since 2026-09-09
› six evenings in costume — a pack that never expires — $79 · education $39.50 // since 2026-09-09
› the first evening in costume is free
› education pays half — a checkbox, on trust, no forms
› no submitted project after the gong: the costume comes off and the money comes back by itself
// the price is published with its date and does not rise for anyone who has bought. nothing monthly is ever sold to a person.
$ ls ~/organization — a club, a department or a company that keeps every evening on one wall
› organization licence, one year — every evening of a club, a department or a company, its own address, any number of organizers — $490/year · education $245 // since 2026-09-09
› yearly only, because that is how an organization budgets; cancel any time and the unused months come back
› the organization's page — /o/your-club/ — is free with or without a licence; the licence dresses it
// a school, a university or a kids' club with no budget: write to the address in the footer and the costume is yours — no form, no counter.
$ ls ~/gift — buy a season for someone else's room
› an alumnus for the old society, a company for the local meetup, a parent for the kids' club: open the organization's page and buy the licence as a gift
› the page then carries one line — season gifted by … — a name, never a logo, never a link
$ ls ~/paper — a copy of the page on paper, for the wall or the fridge
› Poster A3 on paper — $24 · partner $14 · our $10 // since 2026-09-09
› Poster A2 on paper — $34 · partner $22 · our $12 // since 2026-09-09
› Badges, pack of 50 — $29 · partner $19 · our $10 // since 2026-09-09
› Certificates on paper, ten — $19 · partner $11 · our $8 // since 2026-09-09
› the poster and the badges as PDF are free for the organizer — they are the record; only ink, paper and shipping are sold
› anyone may order — the buyer does not have to be the organizer; the organizer may turn paper off for the room
// ordered on the evening's own page, /event/…/poster/, once the evening is over.
$ cat ~/costs — what it costs to keep the lights on, and what came in
› the book is empty: the first month with money in it has not ended yet
$ cat ~/rules — how the costume is sold
1. the costume is paid for per evening, not per calendar — never a percentage, never per head, never a meter that grows with the evening
2. everything the evening produces costs nothing; the costume changes colours, an address and a signature, never a feature
3. the price is published with its date and does not rise for anyone who has bought
4. the first evening in costume is free
5. an evening that did not happen is not paid for: no submitted project after the gong, the costume comes off and the money comes back by itself
6. a price is visible in one place — the organizer's costume page — and never to a participant, a judge, or on a project page
7. the cost book is public: server, domains, the language model, the maker's paid hours, and what came in