Dude, if you want a meet to happen, you're gonna have to take some initiative and hammer down some dates and specifict locations, and then propose them.
As for me, I'm not going to the NM, and I can't justify going to NOPI (it's fairly expensive, isn't it?), so I'd love to go get together with some CEG'ers and hang sometime. However, August and September are still a long way away, and therefore I can't give any sort of definite Yes or No about coming. I would have to drive down from Murfreesboro, which isn't too bad, but I don't even know where I'm going to be working during fall semester and don't know if I'd be able to get off.
See the delemma? Get some details together, and we might be able to get something done. Take it easy.
Later
Jed
