Sounds Cool!
Who are the residents so far?
All in all, very impressive people.
If you would like to be a resident...
We have sponsors, so we'll be able to pay travel and lodging given the right circumstances.
The way it works is that we get some advanced people (residents) and invite them to stay with us and share what they know. There's no structure; if you come, you can work on whatever you want, as long as you help other people. Maybe some would become contributors to some of your projects. Hacker School NY managed to get Peter Norvig as a resident.
Weekends and Mondays are busier, because then the two editions are in the same room. During the week it's only the fulltime people, who are just a handful, but the most dedicated.