Every year around the end of April, the Vintage Computer Federation
http://vcfed.org holds VCF-SE in Roswell, GA (just north of Atlanta.) I have attended the past two years supporting a Texas Instruments table, thrilled to see a good Amiga presence at VCF-SE 5.0, but nobody at VCF-SE 6.0 last year.
Earl Baugh, VCF-SE organizer, has expressed he will happily co-lo an Amiga gathering at VCF-SE.
The past two years for me have been amazing. The event is very active and wide-ranging from young kids to college freshman to those in industry, they are all enthusiastic and interested. I had some great chats with kids in the eight year-old to teen range who are interested in learning to program these our old machines and even have an interest in the history of what they use today. Same with new college students, even one who wanted to do a special project for one of his classes. Last year I had an interesting talk with a couple of guys who work in embedded systems and they noted the similarities of embedded and classic system programming. And, of course, everyone loves the games, sights, and sounds. I even sold my CoCo to an old Radio Shack store manager looking to boost his collection.
I propose a grand Amiga gathering for 2019's VCF-SE. Putting our beloved Amigas in front of this kind of crowd cannot be anything but good. I am hoping for everything we can throw out there: classic 68k and PPC, stock or upgraded, MorphOS, OS4, emulation, the works. We need next-gen and old-gen in force, to show the spirit lives on.
And that is just the basic table-showing. We would really benefit from more speakers, designers, developers, our heroes there in the first days all the way to our heroes who are still developing new software and hardware.
Please comment in this thread on your thoughts and ideas, and contact me if you can contribute as an exhibitor or guest speaker. I am happy to take on the coordination of those who wish to participate.