So I can’t say when—or, to be completely honest, even if—we’ll have events outside the US. I’d like to do so. Jeffrey would like to do so. But then there a lot of things we’d like to do that can’t or won’t happen for any number of reasons.

Sorry if I sound overly pessimistic, but I’ve made statements of intent in the past on this subject, and every single one of them has not come to pass. I’m just glad I didn’t make any actual promises, because I was hyper-opposed to breaking promises even before I became a parent.

Europe is a likely place, at least at first, and since you have web pros from the tops of Norway to the the bottoms of Spain and Italy I would offer that the first location be somewhere in the middle of the pie. Why not Strasbourg, France. It’s small enough to make it easy to get around for the event and after socials (the tram system is stupid easy and efficient), and large enough to be very interesting to first-timers. The latter is part of the magic too because I’ll bet a lot of people, even Europeans, don’t make it to Strasbourg.

Another good bet would be Brussels, Belgium, but then, like any big European city, you’ve just made inner-city commuting 100 times more difficult.

Regardless of where, the real point is when?

Juan: we’ve considered it, but honestly the European Union is a more likely spot for us if we do go abroad. Although I really, really like the sound of An Event Apart Acapulco.

Sunny: thanks for the link! I sort of suspected there had to be a plugin like that, and I appreciate the pointer. I’m pretty sure I’ve got all the pieces in place to do the upgrade; all I need now is to run a database backup and I should be all set.