If you want to access Harman Tech Service through Photrio, start a conversation with them here.
If you want them to participate in an Ilford related thread, do the same.
I miss Simon's participation, but I can certainly understand why Harman is devoting more of their marketing efforts to venues where they aren't "preaching to the converted".
They do, of course, continue to financially support Photrio.
I wish that Kodak Alaris (and Foma?) offered the same access on technical issues that Harman does now.
And as for Bob's symposium, I would love to have been at both of them. 5000 km in distance, Canadian plane ticket and Toronto hotel prices had a lot to do with my not being there.
More importantly though with respect to the difference in attendance, my sense at the time when the first symposium was happening was that it and APUG were a single Island in a sea of change that threatened the existence of film and analogue photography, which might disappear entirely at any moment.
Whereas the recent symposium was just a wonderful event, among a selection of other good choices, highlighting the strength of the niche that analogue (including hybrid) photography has become.
Damn I wish I could have gone!
And as for crossing the border for you "mericans", its a lot easier than navigating Seattle traffic! I know, because I was doing that yesterday.
Of course, a whole bunch of you don't have Passports or other appropriate travel documents.