Jim,
We here in CNY are broke and always try to get local CME but it sounds lovely. How much are we talking about and might we try and get this more around a weekend so we don't have to close our offices as much for those of us driving out??? Friday, Saturday kind of set-up or something.
The other thing I really want to do with any such a thing is to try and get Jon and some of his team to tag along so we can all brain-storm together while they clue us in on what can or can not work or is more or less worthwhile to try. Kind of get a synergy kind of thing going here. And I think finally meeting eachother face to face would be really great.