B. Mann Consulting

It's settled, I'm heading to Portland. I'm going to be there from Sunday, October 22nd to Wednesday, Oct. 25th.

On the schedule, in no particular order:

• See Dries Buytaert, who is in town for some sort of crazy Java optimization conference
• Catch up with Scott Kveton and the JanRain guys to plan world domination via OpenID v53
• Go to a Geek Dinner - organized by Alex Williams and co. over at Feedia (ditto on the world domination) 
• Go to a Drupal meetup on Tuesday night

I'm staying at the very funky White Eagle Hotel. I stayed at the Kennedy School a couple of weeks back when I was briefly in town for a vacation. These are a cool chain of hotels/breweries/etc. Highly recommended.

It looks like the ICANN Vancouver meeting is bringing several cool people into town...including Gervaise, whom I met at BarCamp Amsterdam, and Joi Ito, who I've never met but would like to (Joi: here are a few other people that want to meet you).

The ICANN meetings don't start until Wednesday, so maybe Tuesday night would be a good night? I'm going to try and get in touch with Gervaise and Joi, and of course ping organizer extraordinaire, Roland, to find us a good place to eat in Vancouver.

Update: looks like Wednesday night (tomorrow) is going to be better...Richard, long time #joiito denizen, spent some time polling and Steamworks might be the easiest choice. I've put the event on upcoming.org, so please indicate if you are attending so I can give Steamworks a heads up on how many people to plan for. This is definitely not limited in any way to only ICANN attendees of course...just come on out and we'll (as usual) talk about building the next version of the Internet as per usual :P