Still only seven 'takers', I'm wishful in thinking people will check back on Pekka's original meta thread in order to become aware that a meetup is set up... a bit of tactical bumping might not go amiss.

Yep. I have ask Alison to pass along the request for a twit or google+ message from Jeff or Joel, but so far, no reply.

Ya, obviously I don't know what is going on behind the scenes, if anything, but kind of looks like we're being left to our own devices for the most part; understandably, to an extent - but just a couple of 'publicity snippets' on our behalf would go a lonnnnng way.

@VonC, do you think I/we should try 'phoning?

@VonC, I've tried a mail to team@. We shall see...

I think this might be a bit too soon right now. I believe @Alison is waiting, understandably so, for us to have a more defined program before advertising anything. Jon Dickinson is doing an outstanding job in doing just that, with " confirmation from about half of the speakers so far."

VonC, can we exchange emails? I wanted to copy you on the mail I sent to team@, but I couldn't :)

(I can't quite understand why it's too soon for us, but two months was too late for them)

@VonC oops, forgot the @ :)

@VonC, I gotta go, catch you later maybe...

@Benjol nope email is fine