I know that Rusty Klophaus (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RKlophaus http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RKlophaus) has done a really good job organizing t

I know that Rusty Klophaus (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RKlophaus http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=RKlophaus) has done a really good job organizing the DC/MD Hacker News meetups. He's got contact info in his profile, but the meat behind it seems to be Meetup + HN post and a request for upvotes.