Defrag 2008 Conference – Nov. 3-4, Denver, CO – Tuesday at 1pm Ilya will be presenting on a panel entitled Fixing Foundational Information Channels: Email, Calendars, RSS, etc.. Carol and Jim will also be attending.
ApacheCon US 2008 – Nov. 3-7, New Orleans, LA - Jim will be attending this one, and is looking to connect with SOLR-minded folks.
RubyConf 2008 – Nov. 6-8, Orlando, FL – Ilya will be presenting Ruby Heavy-Lifting: Lazy load it, Event it, Defer it, and then Optimize it on Friday at 3:05pm.
To say hi or connect with our folks while they’re out in the wild, their Twitter handles are: @carolleaman, @jimmurphy, and @igrigorik. You can also ping @aiderss and I can be your switchboard operator. 
The rest of us will just be back here in Ontario, enjoying the grey skies and sleet of November while our compatriots nibble beignets and sip mojitos and such… Not that we’re bitter…