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I am the poster formerly known as Student of Jefferson. Tom is alive and well and gives me insight most every day.

I hail from Lorton. Apparently few have ever heard of it and most that do say 'prison' next (ouch). It is in the southern area of northern Virginia, just south of Springfield, right on I-95. This pretty much puts me near the Lion's Den of any disruptions that might occur and it has me feeling a sense of urgency, to say the least. You can learn a lot more about me on the "Reader Survey" thread, though you will have to sift through a great deal of intertribal matchmaking banter.

I personally don't mind driving a little to find a good venue. Richmond might be the most accessible, but I would argue that it's a terrible atmosphere in general for this sort of thing. My vote is for the Appalachian region, though I don't have any venue ideas now.  Above all though is taking action and actually getting this together, so I will happily compromise all else to meet this end.

Here's the past 30 days of traffic from VA from Google Analytics (which I have access to as the site owner...sorry, can't give poublic access to the source of the data).

Let me know if you want the surrounding territory to the northeast...

Excellent! Thanks Chris.

Also, Southern Maryland / Baltimore might be helpful if you can find that.

I'm in Leesburg. I wondering about getting some information second-hand from Rowe attendees - looks like at least a couple Virginians were there. I'm thinking perhaps of a Rowe-recap.

Thanks Chris,

I have many friends in the Raleigh area of NC if you want to include their map too.

Cat

Thanks Dogs for starting this Virginia thread!

I'm in Seaford,VA (halfway between Richmond and VA Beach)

Teresa

Thanks Chris -

Does each dot represent a unique IP address, and the size of the dot represent the number of hits from that IP addy or is it hits from a city?

Would it be possible to reflect the northeastern quadrant of NC from Winston-Salem east and north?  I'm thinking anything within a 5-6 hour drive - if we split the difference, a 2-3 hour drive is very manageable.

Also, Chris:

I don't know what your schedule or other committments look like, but when you get a chance, could you consider the possibility of coming down? Your thoughts on this would influence our choice of venue and the potential cost to each of the attendees.

As it stands now, I think I could get 5-10, and I think the Dog / Cat team is hoping for significantly more. Unfortunately, I doubt many of the would-be attendees would all start posting on this thread right now (seems similar to Rowe). If I could pitch the conference by saying that "the guy who made the Crash Course is leading it," I know my recruitment would be more successful.

Here you go!

The way to read these is that when the largest dot represents the largest number displayed on the bar at the bottom.  For example, this means that 507 visits were recorded (by IP addy, DIAP) from Baltimore over the past month.  All other dots are scaled against the largest dot.

I am not sure about the exact methodology beyond that.  Would I be recorded as 10 "visits" if I shut my browser and reopened it to visit the site 10 times in a row? Is there any filtering for such visits?

Beats me.