I am seriously hoping so. I was down there last year and it was a total blast. If I go this year, I'll probably be heading down Friday evening and attending Saturday - coming home Saturday night. That's probably how it would go down to keep costs down. I should know in the next couple of weeks.
The trick for me is my wife is traveling for work a ton this October - 3 separate times. So balancing that against a jaunt to Portland this year is what I'm contending with. Fingers crossed!
Dude, don't you know the panel with the programmer for E.T. is going to be standing room only to get those stories first-hand?