seems about once a month rich morin coordinates
the bass (beer and scripting SIG) dinner in SF.
Maybe he'll let sf-luggers know if we ask.
briefly: bass focusses on scripting languages
and techniques (e.g. perl, ruby, python, php...).
http://cfcl.com/rdm/bass/
...and our group's info:
http://linuxmafia.com/mailman/listinfo/sf-lug
http://www.sf-lug.com