One of the pleasant aspects of living in the San Francisco Bay Area is the fact that it's fairly easy to find groups of technically like minded (i mean those that are favored toward technology, not those that simply agree with you in certain conditions, oh nevermind) individuals you can gather with and learn from. It's a grand buffet of brainy goodness ready and waiting for your shambling undead jaws to… sorry, bad metaphor.
Still, i've not been a very good social geek. Either in the "My Online Friends are Not Imaginary, Mostly" or the "Let Me Shake Hands with Someone i Swear Was Make Believe" sense. i'm taking steps to remedy that.
So in hopes that folks might also join these burgeoning geek-fests, let me point to the following:
Silicon Valley WordPress Meetup – A fairly nice group of folks of various skills gathered together in a cave and grooving with a pict coffee shop to swap tips and programming help. i'm probably one of the more experienced members, but i like helping folks so it works out well.
Bayjax The Bay Area AJAX group. Do the words "Front end" mean more to you than headlights and a bumper? You need to come to these. They're free, and HUGELY HELPFUL.
MicroFormat Dev Camp– Kinda bummed that i got pulled away from this, but it was a hack day for folks working in subtle ways to make pages far more useful. (Hmm… wonder if these folks know about Object Oriented CSS)
So, there you have it, various meetups that might be of interest presented in just under 300 words to make Christian shake his fist angrily at my propensity to make James Joyce and Jack Kerouac's bastard love child look both clear and concise.
i'm a very bad man, am i not?
