A quick thread recap: There is no proposal from the Austin folks and they have thus far not expressed interest in hosting. So far we've received three "intend to propose" messages, and those are for Vancouver, New Haven, and Ithaca. The deadline for actual hosting proposals is Friday. Voting on hosting proposals will presumably take place in the usual way, via Ross Singer's "el diebold-o-tron-o-matic-o," not in an e-mail thread. -Mike