I can't make it... I'll be out of town
how about finding out when people are available, or at very least PMing everyone long enough in advance that we can all plan to be there.
if not PMs you could at least send XBL messages right through Xbox.com, you should have everyones gamertag anyway.
the only reason I even saw that you replied here was because I was checking this forum for something else and noticed you left a new reply... judging by the fact that no one else has replied I would suspect that no one else knows yet.
as for me having a gold account... I've been an xbox live member since the xbox 1 days
... never had anything but gold.