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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">Ahh OK just the price, I thought by exclusive you might have meant only open to IGDA members or something like that.</span><br>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">The event is non-profit (organisers & staff are all unpaid volunteers), and we keep tickets as low as we can. T</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">he
 way it is financed is to use ticket revenues to pay for the per-head costs like lunch, break catering, lanyards, programmes etc.. the per head revenue is also averaged down by attendees who aren't charged for tickets but still incur most of the same costs
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">2. not dependent on a certain threshold of attendees coming to be able to hold the event. </span></div>
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<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:12pt">So then for all the fixed costs we rely on sponsors. We have a prioritised list of fixed costs (starting with the venue hire itself), and how far we get down that list
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Ticket price aside the event is also live-streamed for free and all the videos go up on YouTube afterwards, so although that doesn't include all the networking that attending in person does that's at least a way to get the content itself out to people who are
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Selwyn Lloyd <selwyn@audazzle.com><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 26 July 2019 12:49<br>
<b>To:</b> Ian Hamilton <i_h@hotmail.com><br>
<b>Cc:</b> games_access@lists.igda.org <games_access@lists.igda.org><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [games_access] GAconf, hackathons, engine support and more</font>
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<div dir="ltr">I went to book the conference day but as an indie developer I can't afford it. sorry if that was cryptic.
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<div>and I meant the comment is aimed at the organiser(s) and I am grateful of your email(s) and enjoy hearing good news from you.<br clear="all">
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 11:09 AM Ian Hamilton <<a href="mailto:i_h@hotmail.com">i_h@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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<div id="x_gmail-m_3267975674770442117divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> Selwyn Lloyd <<a href="mailto:selwyn@audazzle.com" target="_blank">selwyn@audazzle.com</a>><br>
<b>Sent:</b> 26 July 2019 10:27<br>
<b>To:</b> Ian Hamilton <<a href="mailto:i_h@hotmail.com" target="_blank">i_h@hotmail.com</a>><br>
<b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:games_access@lists.igda.org" target="_blank">games_access@lists.igda.org</a> <<a href="mailto:games_access@lists.igda.org" target="_blank">games_access@lists.igda.org</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [games_access] GAconf, hackathons, engine support and more</font>
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great update Ian it's all good news thanks.<br>
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re "<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0); font-family:Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size:16px"> SIG thing, GAconf EU</span>"
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<div dir="ltr" class="x_gmail-m_3267975674770442117x_gmail_attr">On Fri, Jul 26, 2019 at 9:28 AM Ian Hamilton <<a href="mailto:i_h@hotmail.com" target="_blank">i_h@hotmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
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First up a SIG thing, GAconf EU announced for October 21st in London - </div>
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