[TheForge] Open vs. closed conference.

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The Public gets free or cheap access to display galleries, Auction, sales area where smiths can sell their work, and able to watch the open forge area . Everything else is available at the conference price.
This would be a fair compromise in my opinion.

Rob
---- Grover Richardson <grover.richardson at gtri.gatech.edu> wrote: 
> 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.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [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-----
> From: theforge-bounces at mailman.qth.net 
> [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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