Ask HN: Worthwhile hacker events in the Bay Area for March/April 2009?

Bootstrappers Breakfast Mar 13, 17, 27; Apr 3, 10, 21, 24 <a href="http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.bootstrappersbreakfast.com/</a><p>Fibre High: rent a cube for a month as home base <a href="http://www.fiberhigh.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.fiberhigh.com/</a><p>Hackers &#38; Founders Mar 25 <a href="http://www.hackersandfounders.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.hackersandfounders.com/</a><p>New Tech Meetup Apr 7 <a href="http://www.meetup.com/svnewtech/" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/svnewtech/</a><p>Plug &#38; Play: rent a cube for a month as home base <a href="http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.plugandplaytechcenter.com/</a><p>SDForum Cloud &#38; SOA SIG Mar-24 <a href="http://www.sdforum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&#38;pageId=652&#38;parentID=483&#38;nodeID=1" rel="nofollow">http://www.sdforum.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Page.viewPage&#3...</a><p>Silicon Valley Startup Entrepreneurs (many events) <a href="http://www.svase.org" rel="nofollow">http://www.svase.org</a><p>Workit: another good calendar <a href="http://www.workit.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.workit.com/</a>

I hate to shamelessly self-promote, but I've actually been working on an event search web app: <a href="http://www.gocerebro.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.gocerebro.com</a><p>It still has a long way to go (right now only about 10 other people know about this), but hopefully it helps. Any feedback would be welcome as well.

<a href="http://superhappydevhouse.org/" rel="nofollow">http://superhappydevhouse.org/</a> is fun

Actual links for the curious: <a href="http://www.meetup.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.meetup.com/</a> <a href="http://www.sdforum.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.sdforum.com/</a> <a href="http://sf.garysguide.org/" rel="nofollow">http://sf.garysguide.org/</a><p>Also been sifting through: <a href="http://www.churchillclub.org/index.jsp" rel="nofollow">http://www.churchillclub.org/index.jsp</a> <a href="http://www.eventbrite.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.eventbrite.com/</a>

Pivotal Labs does quality (and catered) lunch tech talks every Wednesday. They tend to be web/ruby-centric.<p>Update/Edit: NoiseBridge has weekly meetups in machine learning, synthetic biology, and other subjects. <a href="https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/NoiseBridge" rel="nofollow">https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/NoiseBridge</a>

There's always the web 2.0 expo ... not purely hackerish, of course but there could be some worthwhile speakers and/or connections to be made <a href="http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009" rel="nofollow">http://www.web2expo.com/webexsf2009</a>

Every Wednesday we have the Open Hacker House in San Francisco from 8am to 6pm: <a href="http://archivd.com/open-hacker-house" rel="nofollow">http://archivd.com/open-hacker-house</a>

A really fun one that will be going on soon is Startup Weekend. Here's the URL: <a href="http://sf2.startupweekend.com/" rel="nofollow">http://sf2.startupweekend.com/</a>. It's from April 3rd to 5th.

Thanks for all of the great tips everyone. Should keep us busy :). Looking forward to meeting some of you at some of the events.

If you want to catch up with an ex-pat Aussie for a beer or two while you're here, just drop me a line.