Well the idea of the permathread was to kind of centralise the various gathering threads and to make them easier to find...and to prevent them from getting lost in the heap of everything else that goes on here...(if any of that makes any sense)....you see I was kind of afraid that those threads would get buried and people would miss the gatherings and such because they did not know about them...and of course this thread will continue to be updated....and each time a new gathering thread comes about...the event name (including a link to the originating thread) the where, the when and the contact information will be included....and taken down whenever the even has passed...

As for the email thing...I apologise...I know I should have asked first...but I just wasn't thinking...I like your idea on the tips for organising and hosting a gathering....

and I like MMario's idea about a list of links to past gatherings...

like I said this is a work in progress....