Several of us have done get togethers. Craftybear does a lot of them in Indinana, they do a bunch of them in Texas, I have done 1 in Ga. If you are willing to do the work to get one going, just start a couple of threads in different places. I asked about interest first, then tried to get a general feeling for when the most folks could come. Then I also put a thread in the outside events area.
We got about 15 folks on a 3 day weekend so I thought we did pretty well. I will do one again but it will take me a while to recover from our road trip, we just got back from 2 months traveling.
We did it at a local quilt shop who was very nice about providing space and 4 other quilt shops provided door prizes or little gifts for everyone. They were also very nice about it, I was kind of surprised that they were eager to give stuff to someone who just called up and said I'm doing a get together fro the QB, tho I did also provide them the website if they wanted to check.