I'll be traveling to the San Francisco Bay Area California in two weeks (including a visit to Scotts Valley). If your company is in the area and you need consulting or training with Delphi (or Web) development, I'd be more than interested. As I'll already be around, I won't be as expensive... I don't know of any local user group or informal gathering, but would be willing to spend some time or have a dinner with friends, book readers, or anyone else interested in talking to me.
PS. I've spent some time today improving my atom feed correctness (using feedvalidator.org) hoping it gets back working properly with Google Reader. In any case the alternative RSS feeds seem to work fine.