[TheForge] Open vs. closed conference.

[Grover Richardson]

Good idea.  Check the insurance commissioners and run with it.  For it to
work, actually for most anything to work that I have suggested, it will
require a public information liason position for someone to get the critical
information out to the community and/or local schools.

Change that!!  Kids free with adult.  Don't want unattended kids running
around, like at the mall where people drop their kids off for hours at a
time.

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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Freeman
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 9:10 AM
To: theforge at mailman.qth.net
Subject: [TheForge] Open vs. closed conference.

No, we don't check whether the kids are tall enough to ride the ride, we
just charge full admission to everybody.

Maybe a conference could be run with one day open to the public.
Demonstrations on that day would be of two kinds - (1) crowd pleasers and
(2) those so esoteric that ONLY blacksmiths will want to attend them.  There
could be limited open forges that day to get the public interested.  Adults
pay.  Kids free.

Bruce
NJ

>>> grover.richardson at gtri.gatech.edu 3/16/2007 8:56 AM >>>
	I think that I was inexact in my verbosity<G>.  Or not sufficiently
succinct<G>.
	If we let tourists in for free those that pay will be cheated, or at
least feel that way.  Either is bad.
	The conferences that I have been to were for blacksmiths, but there
was never a disclaimer (like a class at JC Campbell) that said you had to be
this tall to ride the ride.  So while they are specifically NOT not allowed,
they never come.
	So, tourists are welcome, but you won't see any because they don't
want to learn how to hammer all day.

	However, I will admit that I haven't been to that many, and it just
may be possible that they WERE closed to the general public, but me being a
blacksmith in training, I didn't see a sign, and they didn't hold an arm in
front of me.

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Bruce Freeman
Sent: Friday, March 16, 2007 8:23 AM
To: theforge at mailman.qth.net 
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Conference electricity

Grover,
The conferences I've seen have been closed to the public.  The blacksmiths
had to pay a significant fee to attend, and the public wasn't going to be
welcomed in free.  I don't say htat this is how it should be...
Bruce
NJ

>>> grover.richardson at gtri.gatech.edu 3/15/2007 5:00 PM >>>
	Ahh.  OK, tourist are welcome, but they ain't gonna come.  Tourists
are welcomed, in my mind, at any event.  But I have seen zero at
conferences.


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