It's too bad the Sac Brony Expo thing is dead. I hear the first one was great, but I didn't hear about it until after the fact... and I live in Sacramento! (Looking back it was all over EQD and stuff, but sometimes I kinda live under a rock. To be precise I live under a rock that's literally about 10 minutes away from Sac State!)
I know BABScon is the next best option, but for me even going to SF for a weekend is a bit difficult (due to work and such), and plus BABScon is a huge thing whereas Sac Brony Expo was a smaller more intimate Con, which is more my style.
Ah well... maybe someone else will eventually do a Sacramento Brony con.