On Mon, Jan 5, 2009 at 12:23, Evan Farrar <<a href="mailto:evanfarrar@gmail.com">evanfarrar@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> So it is February 20th-22nd huh? I would like to tenatively, unofficially offer Centro's sponsorship of the event (I can confirm it officially following our staff meeting tomorrow). We've got a large conference room, a kitchen, plenty of Cola and Beer and lots of floor space. We could probably host 20-30 people comfortably, but we can't watch over more people than that because only two Centro people would attend (myself and Alex Rakoczy). </blockquote></div> Evan that rocks so bad.  I hope you're able to get access to the space approved.  I know Centro has helped out with various local conferences and events before - that is cool of them.  Maybe we could even hook up one of your Open Sprints setups and have a bugjam bike race??  :)  Ok, I won't get greedy. Richard, don't feel like you're wasting keystrokes.  I'm not sure who you were expecting to hear from, but the thing is over a month away.  We did get a large amount of good responses at the ChicagGLUG meeting from people who aren't even Ubuntu-Chicago members, and who may not even run Ubuntu on their PCs.  The SCALE conflict is a bit of a concern if it will draw other Chicago peeps away from here, though.  Are you thinking of Django or Banshee people might be gone? You being at SCALE, though . . .  that might be a problem, right?  :/  Remember - SCALE lasts a weekend, Bugjam victory is forever. If we keep hacking away at preparations for this, we can figure it out & make it work. Jim