Monthly Wordpress meet-up?

I'd love to see a list of local Wordpress groups. I know of two:

Seattle WP-Dev, started by Jennifer Hodgdon from Digital Eve, meets at Northgate. This is at http://groups.google.com/group/seattle-wp-dev

Seattle Webloggers, run by Karen Anderson, meets at Greenwood. This is at http://blog.meetup.com/1/

Actually, there is an existing WordPress Meetup which I started in the spring, called WordPress 2.0. We meet monthly. After speaking to Josh Harrison yesterday, we are going to retool the meetup a bit and relaunch in a month or so. So stay tuned. I'm sure everyone who attended WordCamp yesterday will be invited to participate.

We will definitely be organizing something with all the parties in the next few weeks. We would like to find a consistent place to meet every month. If anybody has a place in mind, let us know.

I don't know what kind of numbers we'd need to accomodate but I know that The Outback (convenient West Lake Union location) has a room upstairs separated with glass that can probably do 30 with tables. My recollection is that the room is free if there are $100 spent, which would be easy with some people having dinner and others just having drinks!

Oh, the Pyramid Ale House (across from SafeCo field) has something similar, I believe...

This is Jennifer, the organizer of the current WP Developers group mentioned above by Mike Prichard.

We had a meeting last night -- Josh was there and pointed me to this page...

The Google Group that I started is focused on WP developers (a bit loosely defined, to include those who develop plugins, themes, sites, etc.). We have monthly meetings -- currently we're meeting on the 1st Tuesday of each month at the Northgate branch of the Seattle Public Library. We also have an email list, for discussion of WP dev topics, meetings, etc. Anyone who works on WP plugins, themes, or site building is welcome to join -- just visit http://groups.google.com/group/seattle-wp-dev and it should be fairly obvious.

That said, if someone else wants to organize a different developer-oriented meetup/group, either by becoming a co-moderator of the group I started or via some other mechanism, that would be fine. I think there's room for one developer-oriented meetup and one blogging/business-oriented meetup, and I doubt there is much crossover between them, so I personally think they should be separate. But let's not have two developer-oriented meetups competing!

I would also like to suggest using Google Groups or Yahoo Groups or something like that to organize meetups, rather than meetup.com. I find meetup.com's policies annoying -- you have to join in order to see when/where the meetings are happening, and I think the organizer has to have a paid membership. Both Google and Yahoo groups are free, and allow you to control whether discussions/pages can be viewed by the public (they are in the group I started for WP devs).

Thoughts?