The companies I was planning on negotiating with in person about activities were severely under-represented at a recent Christmas party I attended (i.e. no one showed up). I've been meaning to dispatch some emails as a backup plan, but I've been playing Mr. IT Guy at work for the last week (replacing routers, migrating networks from workgroups to domains, wiping and reinstalling everything from scratch after years of misuse by computer neophytes [i.e. FILLED with viruses, malware, spambots, yadda yadda yadda]) and have not been able to catch my breath.

Might try to send some tonight so they can respond tomorrow.

vysean has some potential dates in mind, and if I can get an idea from these companies about which set works better, hopefully we can get things committed by earlyish next week, maybe...?

If they don't reply, then maybe we'll just pick the dates and run with it, and if these activities don't work out, then we'll just do the ones we can't do this time next year.