Appreciate the discounted offer & the explanation, times are hard I guess. Hope it goes well. Unfortunately this is still out of my pensioners' finances, no matter.
Regards, Nico Morrison London 2009/6/29 Nico Macdonald <[email protected]>: > At 11:13 +0100 26/6/09, Brian Butterworth wrote: >>Ł150? If you are going to post ads for commercial conferences to backstage, >>how about some free backstage passes? > > At 21:47 +0100 26/6/09, Nico Morrison wrote: >>My thought precisely! I would love to come & cannot afford it. > > Hi Brian and Nico: > > Thank you for your interest in the event -- and your feedback. > > I appreciate both the value that backstagers would add to this discussion, > and also the financial constraints under which many operate. > > As you may be aware, BBC Future Media & Technology kindly underwrote and ran > the event last year, and we were able to waive any booking fee as a result. I > had originally hoped we could at least set aside a block of no cost tickets > this year, but unfortunately we couldn't carry this through due to lack of > sponsorship (recession, media sector crisis, blah, blah, blah). > > That said, I am keen for backstagers to take part in the event and we have > created a Ł75 ticket just for people on this list. You can use this at the > Booking page: > http://www.mediafuturesconference.org/2009/Booking.html > > or go directly to Eventbrite where the code will be pre-filled: > http://mfc09.eventbrite.com/?discount=MFCBSTG > > I hope this offer is sufficient to enable some list colleagues to attend and > look forward to you joining us on Friday. > > Best regards > > Nico Macdonald > > Programmer and Chair, Media Futures Conference > +44 7973 377 897 > > Media Futures Conference 2009: Beyond Broadcast > 3 July 2009, Bloomberg Auditorium, London EC2 > http://www.mediafuturesconference.org/2009/ > > - > Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please > visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. > Unofficial list archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ > - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/
