I think Skip and I and the other guys who are doing the work are settling on seattle. The site of the meeting is still not fixed. But the airport has great connections and great mass transit to a nice downtown; the hotel prices are great; it's a very nice city to meet in; and, well, nobody has come up with anything better than Skip came up with.
That's my current take on it. I'm also proposing that we go with more of a "work" workshop format, i.e. people bring guruplugs and other cool hardware and we have sessions like using jtag on your plan 9 plug computer and other such down 'n dirty stuff, and people actual do lots of participation, rather than watch power point slides. ron