I totally love that this is happening in a small midwestern city I've never heard of before and it already has about 100 RSVPs. I'm impressed - and if that sounds condescending it's b/c I've written this poorly. I think it's damn cool.
It seems a lot of smaller towns with local Universities or Colleges have more activity than one might expect. Slashdot came out of Holland, MI while Rob Malda and Jeff Bates were attending Hope College.