I'm definatly going to try and get there, asking my mum in the face "can I go to a hacking conference" will probably be a bad idea. OliverJenks, that seems a great place to go to! At the most I'm 40 mins from london, with a train station walking distance away.
I don't care about the noobish status thing Pierre, and neither should you, it will be good fun if we can all make it.