You're welcome! Some of the credit should trickle back to Tom McCabe too. He noticed that the event that we're piggy backing on was in SoCal and contacted me in case I was interested.

Hopefully we'll figure out some way to organize these more often. The title of this purposefully starts with "July 2010" because I was hoping there would be more in the future with other dates.

I think the trick will be finding a good center of mass. I live in San Diego and would prefer something in Orange county or maybe even south of Camp Pendleton, but I don't know what our density or center of mass is yet. For all I know there will be people coming down from Santa Barbara. (And again, if there is anyone reading this in San Diego, let me know and I can deal with the driving.)

If it turns out that we have enough density, perhaps we could do something monthly on local levels (within each county) and then have a quarterly meetups for the whole region? Honestly, I think we'll just have to play it by ear and see what happens.