I would love to join in a Virtual Users Group.  The nearest Ruby group
to me is several hundred mails away (wahoo for the central plains!). 
I would love to get involved with a group working on small, realistic
projects, in some organized matter.  I think at this stage, HOW it's
organized isn't terribly important (a rubyforge site to hold code, and
IM/Mail/IRC for communication would probably suffice).  But if anyone
out there is actually attempting to get this organized, throw my name
in the hat, I'm all for it!