Being new to SD from Seattle and the bay, I can tell you that it is extremely hard to find information on SDs TechScene. Meetup doesn't seem very useful and it seems like a number of groups aren't interesting or aren't active. Also, there are very few developers that show up at the mentioned hackathons such as startup weekend. I have seem more at small towns in the middle of nowhere. What is even more sad is the lack of overall talent and understanding of the tech space/startups. What I wonder is if this area actually has the necessary talent that cares to be a place for startup?
Derek, you should shoot me an email. jen at sdtechscene dot org. We should chat about this.