sv2600: The local chapter of the classic monthly hacker gathering takes place at 6 PM in San Jose. As far as cracking open your laptop there — safer than Defcon, less safe than the local Starbucks. [Friday]
WordCamp kickoff party: Take the bus up Market to San Francisco's Embarcadero Center for a dinner and an afterparty at Hotel Vitale with the company behind WordPress. [Friday]
WordCamp 2006: The conference attached to the party above, for users and makers of the WordPress blogging platform. [Saturday]
WordCamp afterparty: All good conferences are excuses for parties. The finale to WordCamp is TBA, and this is its placeholder. [Saturday]
Unofficial pre-WWDC #macsb dinner: IRC geeks dine before Apple's annual Worldwide Developer Conference. [Sunday]