Last I read, Jesse Schell and Shaw Patton are suppose to attend (in person, this time) this Friday. Last time they held a convention, Jesse joined them via Skype only - I believe.
If Jesse and others are getting so intimately involved, this says a lot about the legitimacy and acceptance of games being remade by the general public. It's actually something I had wished for POTCO derivatives (simply because if the 'right' people get involved it becomes difficult to quietly extinguish).