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

[Bruce Freeman]

Pete,
That's exactly the sort of thing I mean.
Are you still in enough contact with CBA to get from
them info on budgets, etc., that went into such
conferences?
Bruce
NJ

--- Peter Fels And Phoebe Palmer <artgawk at thegrid.net>
wrote:

> 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>
> Reply-To: Sponsored by ABANA
> <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
> To: <theforge at mailman.qth.net>
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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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