Ooooo! These ideas are all interesting. Of course, some of us would have to hitchhike there because our Teacher Assistant salaries are meager at best but....It would be a BLAST! And if you find a gaggle of fans, maybe you can pitch in together. East coasters! UNITE! Hahaha...
Okay...in all seriousness, it's not a terrible idea. It might be -hard- and you would definitely have to start small but so what?! Do it! Start putting a bug in people's ear about it and see what happens.
And you naysayers...stick around cause every project needs an injection of cold hard and depressing facts to slap dreamers in the face hard enough to wake up and come up with a good compromise. HAH!