Thursday night is the Ask The Technical Committee session and Friday is the Collectors Roundtable which is essentially the schmooze thing you're talking about but without food. I think planning something for Friday would be great idea and then it could move from dinner over to the hotel for the Roundtable session. >either a multi-course Hong Kong-style Chinese dinner< I think that might be the best ida. It's the closest distance wize that most attendees will get to Hong Kong and it makes splitting the cost MUCH easier! (ALWAYS a problem). So, for the moment count me in. (and you might want to also post on 78-L for those not on ARSCLIst too!) Steve Ramm