Those of you in the San Francisco Bay Area this weekend should check out TransitCampBayArea, this Saturday and Sunday in Palo Alto. Following in the footsteps of similar events in Toronto and Vancouver, TransitCampBayArea is a “solutions playground” where the emphasis will be on how citizens can help improve the transit experience in the Bay Area via hands-on creative work. (In short, the kind of thing that I love to cover in this blog.)

Saturday is structured with pre-planned talks to help bridge the gap between the transit agency and web 2.0 worlds (I’ll be giving a talk about mashups from both inside and outside of agencies). Sunday will be the traditional self-organizing BarCamp day–any participant can sign up that morning to give a talk.

I’m hoping that this will be a good chance to meet more of the local transit hackers (and agency staff) in person. If you’re going to be there (or at this week’s APTA TransITech conference in Anaheim), drop me a line!