[TheForge] Conference electricity

[Jerry Frost]

I'm certainly not suggesting free admission, I'm 
suggesting making conferences spectator friendly rather 
than closed.

There are just too many good reasons to encourage a 
wide range of attendees. There may be reasons to keep a 
conference closed that outweigh them but I haven't 
heard any. If there are I'd sure like to hear them.

Frosty
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From: "Bruce Freeman" <FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com>


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.