Thanks, and I want to personally thank everyone who turned out. It was a great deal of fun, and the interaction with the community was invaluable.
One of my big fears when scheduling this event was that ACS was unknown in NYC, and we'd only draw a crowd of 3 or 4 people. [aka "puppet show and ben adida".] Thankfully, this was not the case.
This event was actually a test-run. Because it was so successful, we [ArsDigita] plan to sponsor several of these events in the coming year, in a variety of geographic areas.