Hi Joe!
I'm not sure if I should reply here to the list or directly to you, so feel free to respond directly if that's more appropriate.
I'm super excited about Pd Weekend! I'd love to participate in some way and I have a few ideas. Over the past several years, I've built a gestural synthesizer using Raspberry Pis and programmed in Pure Data. It was inspired by Onyx Ashanti's Beatjazz Controller, which I'm sure some of you are familiar with. I would love to do a performance or a demonstration/performance for one and I'd also like to do something a bit more hands on as well, like a workshop. Let me know what you think and what I should do from here!
Here's a bit of documentation of what I've been doing recently:
Cheers,
Joey Dodson
a.k.a. Psiforce