Just head from Greg Larsen yesterday that he just ran out of time to put things together. As I've mentioned before we know that we'll have some events that fail for a variety of reasons, but better to fail before launch than have a bad event. One big thing that leads to success from what we've seen so far is to have a couple people as your sounding board/helpers, and to commit to bi-weekly touches with us to help keep you on track.
Still plenty of events in the pipeline, and we've still got money available for first time events - email me if you run a SQL group and want to give it a try.