Ask HN:Could you give me some advice on how to get started in San Francisco?
idlewords: Pick a project, any project, and work on it.  If you aren't inspired to do your own thing, find some open source tool or library that you really fancy, and do some scut work on it.  Fix bugs, write tests, help with documentation.The Bay Area dev scene is a relatively small world, and once you get to know some of the local nerds you'll find the rest comes easily.  It's the first step that is a challenge, and I find nothing beats having a public project to point at, so that people meeting you for the first time can easily figure out where to place you in their mental rolodex.