However, with the wonders of 2003 technology I was able to "attend" in a sense - Skype and Elluminate (skype had nicest voice quality - at least to my ears).
Just a quick update of some new features that fell out of some work that happened during ORF/rule meetup:
Jeff Delong requested that the Scenario runner be able to show an "audit log" of events (tracing the execution of the rules - this is similar to what you can do in the IDE using the logging event listener and the plugin. This was relatively easy to to:

Michael from Franklin American was at the rules meetup, and contributed a feature called "category rules" (more details on this in future) - it is a really clever idea: you specify that rules tagged in a certain category "extend" a specified rule. Before he could do this he had to add the "extends" feature to rules - so a rule can extend another rule (it "inherits" the conditional part - just single inheritance - very simple !).

Also, Joe of Recondotech contributed an enhancement to DSL's to allow drop downs, dates and such to be configured in a DSL and an editor rendered accordingly - which provides a more user friendly way of building form-style UIs for business users.
