I'm currently sitting on channel #cocoon at irc.freenode.net so if you want to read on the weblogs what's going on, I'll be glad to both try to answer your questions as well as acting as your proxy to ask questions to the current speaker(s).
See you there!
-- Gianugo Rabellino Pro-netics s.r.l. - http://www.pro-netics.com Orixo, the XML business alliance - http://www.orixo.com (Now blogging at: http://blogs.cocoondev.org/gianugo/)