This looks like a cool meetup. Considering Mike Schinkels thoughts on LoopConf, I'm hoping that this Coders guild is successful and he's able to use it as a stepping board to create his own LoopConf.

In a way, it's disappointing that he had to go outside of the WordPress meetup guidelines for establishing the meetup but it's understandable. I hope he doesn't experience flack or a lot of push back because of it. You can't be open to all and expect just developers to show up.