'The difference (to me) is that the advanced discussions are less "how-to"s and more "here's stuff you probably never even thought about... avoid these pitfalls".'
No not negative at all. It's not the right fit for you. What would you go for out of interest?
Anyway your idea about collecting questions ahead of time is great. I would love to just react to the audience with questions and allow people to get on with things but not everyone will be self directed.
Having questions or topics of interest up front could help strike a balance though!
Yess! All these things. My goal is to make it hands on as possible. Numbers will be capped so I can get around everyone. If more people sign up I'll have an assistant.
When I've done this before it works well. The only snag is where people are at different levels and want to go different speeds. But this is where bonus exercises/stretch goals can set challenge for those racing ahead.
Full stack web-dev specialised in Ruby on Rails/jquery.
Frequently use GitHub, Heroku, AWS, in projects.
Love hacking physical things too with arduino / electric imp / raspberry pi.