[Fwd: RE: [TheForge] Conference electricity]the public

[Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer]

What i've seen work, is that there's a day where the public gets 
invited into an area that's set up to thrill and educate them 
,for little or no cost. There's the gallery where they can admire 
and even buy BS and there are the vendors..Further,there's a path 
set up, where folks who want more involvement can get some..and 
after that there's membership.
I just got my receipt back for the CBA spring conf...admission is 
$95, several days, fairgrounds, food vendors or eat at your camp 
site....good demos..gallery...vendors..tailgaters....power 
hammers and hydraulic presses..and so on...pretty close to world 
class for one, um, affiliate.
Shouldn't there be economys of scale coming into play here?...pf

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: RE: [TheForge] Conference electricity
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 08:23:13 -0400
From: Bruce Freeman <FREEMAB at pt.fdah.com>
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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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