Oh, definitely! The local college actually has quite a few conference rooms, ranging from holding 6 people to holding 400. One of my roommates was close with the administration there, so he should be able to fill me in on it more. It looks to be the most workable spot right now, but there's also a convention center downtown (and it's actually going to be used for the DevLink programming conference next month; quite a few high-ranking SQL Server experts will be there!) that might be usable, but I doubt that much room would be needed for a little offshoot thingy like this.

Haha, I'm actually kinda giddy to take a shot at this now :-P. Well, planning, setup, and budgeting come first, so I'll try to cast out some lines and see where I get with that.

Thank you for the pointers, and for the random shot of spontaneous motivation! This should keep my brain busy for a good while, whichever way it goes 🙂