[netskrill]

Run a meetup group. There are/were 2 guys who ran the Ruby on Rails meetup group in Houston, and were constantly being asked by companies who were trying to look for RoR devs to hire but would often just ask them to do short-term work. I think their abandoning the group now....but someone should snatch up the opportunity.

[raleigh_user]

I originally had a meetup group and it being local really limited the opportunities. I then switched to building an online Facebook group and scaled that. All of what I do can be done remote so it didn't make sense to limit geographically.

If there is no requirement to be onsite, I'd steer clear of meetup. For the same effort you can grow something across the US/outside/etc