<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Eh?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Location is up for debate?</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">I vote for "anywhere on the BART network, especially Oakland or Berkeley"</DIV> <BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">That would be a great idea except I think most people who would attend</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">are in the Silicon Valley region.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>If near BART is a key criterion,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">why aren't there a lot of successful user groups in SF and the East</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Bay?<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Or are there, and we just don't hear much about them?</DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>Hrm, I wonder. Perhaps the answer to this set of questions is.. There's more to do</DIV><DIV>in SF? I hang out with a good circle of techies rather regularly, but it's more in the</DIV><DIV>form of alpha geeks drinking scotch at good restaurants and arguing over design</DIV><DIV>issues. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#0000DD"></FONT></BODY></HTML>