I would guess the actual attendance of an event like this would be well below the threshold needed to consider it a success. I know everyone's definition of success is different but I am thinking of what it would cost and how much would I learn or how much fun would I have.

On the learning side I cannot really imagine I'd get more out of it than using the program, reading the manual and asking questions here on the forum.

On the fun side, unless you have a lot of extra money I personally have a whole lot of places to see with my limited funds before I'd wanna see a PG convention for fun! laugh

In planning an event like this you always have to deal with 3 kinds of people,

1) those who are die-hard fans and would travel to the ends of the earth to join their virtual tribe in the real world (this is typically a very small group)

2) those who think the idea sounds pretty good but who will almost always find something preferable to do instead when it comes right down to it

3) those who have no interest from the get go!

My guess is the overall engaged user base is small enough that group #1 has only a few members and not enough to make an event like this happen.