I joined the Hacker News LinkedIn group a while back and reached out to a few guys from Kansas City. We had a nice lunch and chatted about projects, work, HN, and kids. I jokingly called it the first official meeting of the Kansas City Hacker News Group. We should really do that again, it was pretty cool. Not that there's anything wrong with a niche website for coordinating those lunches, but for me it's easier to just keep it simple.