Wow I have never received so many supporting emails and offers to lend advice to getting a SharePoint user group started in Houston. Thanks so much to all who submitted a comment. I did hear from the evangelist for my area and next step is to look into joining Houston's .Net User Group (HDNUG) as a special interest group.
If you are in the area and want to check out HDNUG, their next meeting is TONIGHT. Sorry for the late notice, and unfortunately I am unable to attend. But if you are available to go and want to put a bug in someone's ear, please do so and let me know!!
The featured speaker for tonight is J Sawyer (who also happens to be the dev evangelist) and his topic is “Building secure applications with Membership and Role Management using Visual Studio 2005 and ASP.NET 2.0”.