Meetings schmeetings. It would be great if you could attend but not even our staff can attend all of them. We won't expect you to attend very many (but the more the better!) Everyone in this thread who has indicated an interest in volunteering for next year, I am adding you to the Volunteers Usergroup which has its own forum and will later, once we have a Volunteer Coordinator, become a bit more formalized. But for now, at the very least, it will be so we can remember who wants to help out. And if you can't make it to a meeting, we'll use the volunteer forum to correspond with you all.
Thank you so much for wanting to make the convention better!