I'm coming from Claremont so Downtown L.A. is preferable for me (as opposed to anything west of Downtown). I'd love to be able to take the Metro but that only gets me to Union Station. Driving that direction isn't bad later in the evening which works as well. Thanks for the offer Esther.
I'd love to attend the weekend dates as well. Unfortunately so far my available weekends have been filling up. It would cool to meet on days that other Django groups are having meetups in other cities (Thurs. seems to be popular) just for the whole pseudo comraderie thing at least :)