This group is for San Francisco Bay-area Web and Mobile Designers/Developers who wants to barter skills. When signing up, let the group know what skills you possess and what skills you are looking to learn. For each meetup, we will pair people up with complementary skills for two hours - one hour to teach, one hour to learn. You should join if you want to learn a new programming language, a new software framework, a new designing tool, etc. The most effective way to to learn is by observing and …

NextSpace is the workplace for the new economy. We provide innovative physical and virtual infrastructure that freelancers, entrepreneurs, and creative class professionals need to succeed in the 21st century knowledge economy. In an increasingly disconnected world, NextSpace creates a collaborative community that is revolutionizing the nature of work. Our business model is simple: NextSpace sells membership in that collaborative community. Our members come from a wide variety of industries: sof …

The SF Data Mining meetup focuses on all aspects of the data pipeline--from data acquisition and big data storage to machine learning and data visualization. Current Goals Host speakers Host educational workshops Host volunteer events Highlight existing events around the bay area and organize transportation, etc Spread awareness of rising data mining technologies Who is this meetup for? Data engineers, analysts, scientists, and other practitioners Data visualization developers and designers J …

Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses …

Monthly event to discuss and show-and-tell new technology: Web 2.0 to Nanotech, Digital content to video games. Cool new tech. Geeks, inventors, new companies with cool products and ANYONE curious about new tech is welcome. Visit us online @ http://www.sfnewtech.com Here's what folks say about SF New Tech: “SF New Tech is the best place in San Francisco to launch, meet or recruit for young tech companies.” –  Lars Leckie, Partner, Hummer Winblad “SF New Tech is a great environment to meet the m …

This group is designed for developers looking to discover APIs and services that can help speed up and modularize their development and so time is not wasted re-inventing wheels. We will meet and learn the ins and outs of a new API every week, and why that API is relevant to development. Every API demo will be fun and engaging, and the goal of this meetup is not only to learn, but to also have a great time and make friends!

Developer Force is Salesforce.com's free developer program for the Force.com Platform. The Developer Force website, http://developer.force.com, is a free community-based online portal for developers, where developers can learn, access key resources, and discuss a diverse set of topics anchored around the Force.com platform. As of December 2012, this group transitioned to a more community-driven, developer user group that will meet once per month in San Francisco. Developers are encouraged to sug …

We are creators of products and our medium is software (and sometimes hardware). We are designers and developers, facilitators and managers, students and teachers. We know building a product is different than writing code or generating designs. Tinderbox is the intersection of product, design, and technology. Our goal is to create a place where folks who are interested in building things people use can discuss, share, meet, create, and exchange useful feedback. Carbon Five is the sponsor of Tind …

Tech in Motion San Francisco offers an exciting opportunity for tech pros and enthusiasts of all ages to network around our beautiful city by the bay. The Bay Area is the epicenter of technological innovation with some of the most talented engineers, programmers, designers, and bloggers in the game. This meetup group is for the SF tech lovers out there to network and stay current. Let’s ‘meetup’ San Francisco! *We already have 2 staffing firms dedicated to offering career counseling services to …

Food Startups is a community of food lovers, entrepreneurs, designers, hackers, bloggers, writers, and thought leaders who are passionate about food and technology. We started Food Startups because of the growing demand for improving how we produce, distribute, discover, consume, and share food through the use of technology. We bring together industry experts, entrepreneurs, investors, journalists and thought leaders, fostering collaborative dialogues to better understand these issues and devise …

A meetup consisting of casual evening talks and demos on the challenges and solutions of building and maintaining Wikipedia and associated sites (Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquotes, …) at the scale of a top five Internet site with over half a billion monthly uniques. This will be followed by Q&A and other informal lively discussion before and after. This consists of a range of topics such as the MediaWiki software (one of the largest open source web projects), website architecture and inf …

SF FASHION+TECH is dedicated to the intersection of fashion and technology in the SF Bay Area. Our events gather thought leaders in the fashion and technology spaces, including designers, bloggers, retailers, entrepreneurs, software developers, marketers, investors, and enthusiastic individuals. Our goal is to promote and drive advancements in new media, ecommerce, marketing, mobile, wearable technology, and other applications. As a member, you can expect all kinds of events, from speaker series …

To apply for a demo, please use the on-line form. This group aims to be the point of contact between User Experience Professionals (product managers, designers, researchers, front end developers, technical writers, customer support professionals) and the developer community in the Bay Area. The purpose of the group is to help the User Experience community talk to who needs us, help you network and find new gigs with some exciting startup that need some UX love and care. Although the main focus …

This is a group for anyone interested in photo apps including shooting, editing, sharing, consuming, organizing, distributing, monetizing, etc. All skills levels are welcome. Rolf and I started this group to meet and share knowledge with other photo app enthusiasts, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers, marketers, etc. Looking forward to exploring the opportunities in the exploding photo app market with everybody.

Calling all developers, designers and thinkers! Come together to build open source tools and communities to enable the annotation of the world's knowledge.

This group is designed to cultivate a network of young entrepreneurs in San Francisco! It is my experience that with the internet every industry is just one degree from being deeply dependent on the next. With that being said, no matter the industry we have chose to dedicate our time to. We can each play a significant role in helping one another's company blast off! I look forward to meeting you all. Look forward to interesting mixers city wide! “The richest people in the world look for and bui …

We are hosting an informal regular meetup for people who like tech or beer pong to hang out and network. The venue is in downtown SF and fear not the kegs will be chilled. If you are interested in hacking, coding, designing, startups, entrepreneurship, beer pong, tech, or just want to watch and mingle then please come and join us. It should be great fun. We also have foosball and airhockey for those that would rather have a different distraction while they drink their lager! Looking forward to s …

We've combined the power of NetSquared & NTEN's 501 Tech Clubs to create San Francisco Tech4Good. We gather to explore an aspect of how technology is being leveraged for social impact projects. We see a big opportunity to share experiences and take action on local and global issues. We're part of a global network of grassroots-organized communities across North America, South America, Asia, Australia and Africa, all exploring social tech tools for social change. We come from a variety of organiz …

Are you interested in the future of health technology? Are you already building it? Would you like to meet other like-minded people in Berkeley? Monsoon Company, a Berkeley-based software firm is hosting a series of networking events for all the cool people in Berkeley interested in empowering people to better manage their health. Come check us out!

We are starting a serious of meetups for various QA specialties. Our goal is to build a solid community of QA testers on the Silicon Valley, share our experiences and hacks. Our fierst session will be about Web Testing. Come share your web testing expierence, and learn from other industry leaders. This is a free event.

Welcome to the meetup! We're just getting the ball rolling here. We have secured a location (http://www.connectionssf.com )  for our labs and meetups, Look here for an announcement about the first meetups in 2013, coming very soon! What is Lean UX about? Lean UX is about learning more faster Lean UX is about getting more done & better ROI for the same investment Lean UX is about replacing time spent polishing design artifacts, with time spent polishing your design. Lean UX is about doing resea …

This Bay Area meetup is for all interested in Javascript, Ruby, and the Node JS Platform. The idea is to get together, network and share experiences, designs, components, best practices, learn something new and so forth.

Hi there, If you're looking to start an apparel manufacturing business, you've come to the right place.  The purpose of this group is to direct people to the resources they need in order to gain knowledge about creating a successful apparel or sewn products venture.  There will be invitations to classes and lectures about how to write a business plan, how to approach resources you need in order to get your product developed and finally mass-produced in S.F. or Oakland.  There will also be real w …

Welcome! We are the hacker collective. A San Francisco based group passionate about rapidly creating new and exciting things. We tinker with all forms of new technology; hardware, software, music, art, design and whatever else. We try to meet once a month to demo and talk about the things we've been working on. Occasionally we'll get together informally to hack on things together.

On February 15th, we are strongly encouraging developers and charities to show up at the centrally located Microsoft Office at 835 Market Street in San Francisco, in the same building as SF State and the Bloomingdale's Store. Location: San Francisco Microsoft office - 835 Market Street, 7th Floor. Right in the heart of San Francisco's premier shopping venue - Market & Powell. We are planning aGiveCamp, which is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrato …

We are a group of military veterans turned technology entrepreneurs, working to improve society by creating wealth through entrepreneurship. We are passionate about networking, coding, designing, exchanging ideas, and empowering veterans through entrepreneurship and innovation.

PrestaShop is an Open-source e-commerce software dedicated to innovative technology and providing online success for merchants and developers. We always want to grow our community and reach out to e-commerce lovers. We are looking to connect with PrestaShop users, web developers, web designers, open-source advocates, start-ups, and technology organizations. We welcome all individuals interested in providing suggestions, encouragement, or simply have questions about e-commerce. It is our goal to …

At OkCupid Labs, we're focused on building great technology to connect and match people. The Labs Technology Meetup group is a forum for intellectually curious engineers, math geeks, designers to meet up and talk about new product prototypes and data systems that help people in their search for connections both on and offline. We're big fans of: Lightning talks Skills workshops Happy Hours Great design User-centric development Some of our Meetups will focus on: Ruby, Rails 3, Backbone, Heroku, P …