Ask YC: Are people interested in hanging out the weekend of startup school?

I don't know if anything formal had been planned by the Startup School, so if there is something formal already planned, please let me know. I was just thinking that it would be cool if we could give people flying in a chance to hang out a bit more and talk. Also, if people live in the area but didn't get accepted, it would be nice to still be able to get together with other people from Hacker News.

My wife used to do event planning, and has some spare time. We also live in the area, so we'd be happy to put something together if people are interested. But before we did something, we wanted to gauge people's interest, to see if people want to hang out, what size place we'd need, etc...

I know the application deadline is still a month away, but if there's a large enough group of people that want to get together, we should start doing some leg work now.

I'd be interested in hearing from people who went last year. What did people do to get together? How did that work? Any thoughts on something different you'd like?

Interested here, as well; although my attendance is highly dependent on being accepted, as well as other factors.

I'm probably up for it again this year. I live in Mountain View and helped coordinate last year's dinner which Larry mentioned. There's still 2 months until the event, so there's lots of time for someone to get something together. :)

I too would be interested (pending acceptance of course); I think the most effective technique would be to provide some kind of networking ahead of time (not sure how that would work, but a wiki is always a good first step).

Definitely interested, would be great i think...ofcourse, i got to be allowed to be there :-D