I started one in Seattle three and a half years ago. I handed it off to someone else a year ago, but I was getting ~150 people per event, and the meetup list has grown to 2000.

All you gotta do is pick a time, a place, and get the word out. Then boom! Done. :)

Organize one! I'm in north San Diego county and for a little while we were doing them up here occasionally. I just poked the SD list and found enough interest. If you did one in South OC I'd show up.

I usually post the event details. The event is pretty much self-organizing at this point.

Definitely in Orange County. I can host in Laguna Beach. :)

What should I create? Meetup is workable but kind of annoying IMHO.

+1 for OC meetup :)

Working on it.

Up: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/ochackernews

Another +1 for OC (South OC/Irvine preferably)