@ SACC-guy
None of the developers lives even close to Sacramento. In fact, they are all based in Europe. One was in the Anarctica for quite a while but getting from there to Sacramento would not have been any easier
Stefan Stuntz, who created MUI, is currently in the final stages of biking from Mexico to Canada. It appears that he will leave North America soon, however, so he will not be around long enough to make a "quick detour" to California in time for Amiwest I am afraid :-) (Plus, his US visa is getting close to be expired.)
Also, while AmiWest has a long tradition, which is certainly something to be proud of, in terms of visitors numbers there are many equally important or bigger events in Europe that are simply not advertized as much on amiga.org. For the costs of flying out developers to AmiWest, you can visit a whole series of European events and ultimately show MorphOS to more people.
If we are lucky, AmigaDave will attend again this year and bring his MorphOS hardware. That way, interested visitors will be able to play around with MorphOS itself which is probably the best advertising anyway.
