Hey. I'm all for it! Can I help?
Hey, Ryan!! A couple of thoughts .....
It appears that Basskiller has volunteered to get the program organized from the GJ side, and Jori from HJE has indicated their willingness to again participate, so it looks like a few of the key pieces are in place and ready to go.
Now, I have no idea of the logistics of how Bull organized these HJE-USA events in the past, but I would think you should contact Jori and provide the “official” word that GJ is in the game. I suspect that what Jori needs is a commitment from GJ that we will promote the program before he goes to the manufacturers and spends a lot of his and their time putting their side of the program together. He certainly isn’t going to want to see the event go bust after investing a lot of his time and good-will capital.
Find out from him what he needs from GJ to make the program work then pass that info on to Basskiller who can then work directly with Jori to set up anything that may be needed. Basskiller can work with Jori to identify the parameters of the program such as name of this year’s program (may be the same as all previous July 4th events), order start/end dates, manufacturers participating, discounts (if any), etc. For simplicity at this late date, it may be wise to keep as many of the details identical to previous years.
You’ll need to get a sticky posted with the specifics and do anything else you can to promote the event. It will be critical to get the word out to as many GJ members as possible as soon as the specifics are set.
You and/or Basskiller will have to closely monitor the sticky and field any questions that GJ members ask. As Administrator, you’ll also have to monitor the overall progress of the event development to assure that nothing goes off the rails.
With only a month until July 4, the timing seems pretty tight so, if it’s going to come off smoothly and give GJ members time to hear about the event and get their pennies saved, the planning will have to move quickly! If it begins to look as if the time is too short to get a good event set up, it may be wise to defer the event until the next USA holiday which would be Labor Day.
Anyway, that’s my two cents! If I can lend a hand somehow, let me know!
I hope he's ok 
) looking at older threads, the announcement usually came out around the middle of June but, Bull put that stuff together and me thinks he's MIA. 
