The Drupal conference happening next week is great! If you haven't checked it out, you should consider going.
A couple of requests:
1) is it possible to provide a spreadsheet list that we can print out of attendees off of drupal.org with people's usernames in one column (sorted alphabetically) and real names in a second column. I know people primarily by their usernames.
2) is it possible to provide a list of developers attending, again by username and real name in alphabetical order? a bunch of us have been struggling to make paypal framework and paypal subscription work. we are talking about putting together a pool to pay a developer to upgrade and maintain those 2 modules, and have it not conflict with the ecommerce. (ecomm cannot replace paypal subscription because it cannot do recurring, automatic debits, or do more than 1 role.)
3) if there are others who are interested, is there a way to provide a time to meet the developers? not during a session I think because we don't want to miss a session. maybe there is a day when we can all go out to lunch together.
if you are thinking of hiring a developer (and I see a lot of posts on this site, particularly for ecommerce), do consider going to the conference. there are about 200 people coming, and about 2/3 are drupal people. they are flying in key drupal people (including dries and chx) from europe. kieran will be there too