As an aside to the above, this thread is full of great ideas from people who don't think they're capable of making it happen. Truthfully, we need people who will take responsibility for an idea and see it through to completion. I'm willing to put work in to make this event something different and better and I'd love to be involved in discussion with the organizers as part of that.

same here, given that like im sure you have heard i have never been before, i have already started with the Friday game nights (read the thread for info) to get some excitement going... i figure i can help with about everything other then the event itself