The Orange County VB Users groups have these SIGs. (Special Interest Groups)
One of them is application development, it meets every wednesday night, they work on a project for two months. The other SIGS are once a month on a particular Saturday of the month.
Like .Not on the third Saturday of the month
and VB Data Access on the first Saturday of the month
the link to their site is
http://www.ocvbug.org/ Mark