The local entrepreneurial community seems to spend a lot of time worrying if Seattle might or might not become the next Silicon Valley. One of the big advantages Seattle has over any other tech hub, however, is the Seattle Tech Startups list. This is the place to go if you have questions, need advice, or are looking to recruit talent for your next project. It is by far one of the best resources in Seattle’s tech community.

This month, the group is meeting to discuss product design and marketing. If you go, you’re guaranteed to learn some useful, practical knowledge and no doubt get some serious networking in as well. If nothing else, you should at least sign up for the mailing list.

The 6 Hour Startup project is settling into a monthly routine now – a new session on the second Saturday of each month. That means this coming weekend, they’ll be running a new project: a Co-Browsing Firefox plug-in built with Javascript, and a Smalltalk variant known as Squeak. The session organizers will be mixing it up this time around, splitting the whole thing out into two days. On Saturday there will be two groups working simultaneously: a technical group running a tutorial on Squeak and Smalltalk, and then a business group doing prep-work for the actual session. Then Sunday afternoon will be the actual implementation session, with a full working product by the end of the day if everything goes well. For more details on the actual project, check out the 6 Hour Startup blog.

As a disclaimer, I’m on the Operational Board for 6 Hour Startup. We’re currently looking for more people to get involved and help us guide the endeavor over the next year. So, if you want to learn more, either show up this weekend, or hop on the mailing list.

For almost a year now, Andy Sack (formerly of Judy’s Book) has been organizing a Seattle Open Coffee for local tech entrepreneurs. This is simply a low-key weekly meeting, for chit-chat and networking. Generally, the crowd is somewhere between 8 and 15.

And if you’re looking for more networking events like this, be sure to check out SFive tonight (Wednesday night!). More techie / entrepreneurial networking goodness!