AdeleneDawner and I live together in Durham. Our current apartment is not fit to receive guests, but we plan to move into a house soon (a month or two), and are interested in hosting meetups there then. (Including food provided by yours truly.)
We are moderately unlikely to bestir ourselves to visit more distant places (we don't have a car) but depending on projected attendance could possibly take a taxi; there are a handful of venues within walking distance that we might trek to given nice weather if it's important for some reason that we have a meetup sooner rather than later.
If a meetup is scheduled such that I'm able to come, I can provide the service of ferrying the #3 LW contributor (and guest) in my Helpful Prius.
This post's primary intent is to gauge interest and try to find a possible meeting place.
I will commit to showing up at whatever place we decide on, but I am usually only around during the week. (Though given enough time in advance I could plan for one on the weekend)
The RTP area has three research universities and a fairly large population when taken as a total of the three cities, so hopefully we have enough people. I can also post fliers in several departments at North Carolina State University if people think there would be benefit in that.