This meetup is focused on hands-on coding for Cloud platforms. The goal is ultimately for members to share best practices and innovate. This meetup is about sharing code and building applications that run in the cloud. Although I work for Microsoft as a developer evangelist, I welcome all developers from all cloud platforms. Initially, the meetings will be focused on the Windows Azure Platform (Azure). Azure is new and initial meetings will be designed to get developers up and running and workin …

These are not your typical software engineering events.  BASE is focused on emerging technologies and creating events around topics that have never been attempted.  Events may be around such topics as Big Data, Machine Learning, Robotics, Nanotechnology, 3D Printing, Synthetic Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer History, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality (AR), and using software to create art. BASE creates events only possible in San Francisco and the Bay area with experts from all walks …

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 …

We're a group of web developers in San Francisco who use SilverStripe, the PHP-based MVC framework and website CMS built by the New Zealand firm Silverstripe.com. We plan to meet periodically to trade development methods and tricks, and to stay current with SilverStripe updates.

We connect startup entrepreneurs with startup funding from angel investors, seed and venture capital. We attract the most innovative startups in both tech and non-tech industries. At our events you can demo your startup, meet investors,  and learn how to build startups from successful entrepreneurs. We also  cover the following topics:  disruptive startups, pitching your startup, investor relations, startup law, augmented reality, and mobile development. Take a look at our entrepreneur community …

This meetup group is dedicated to learning about the Magento eCommerce platform. Our goals are to stay current on Magento products and topics, discuss extensions and templates, share knowledge and experience and to network with people interested in Magento. We welcome Magento Developers, Graphic and Web Designers, Magento Users and anyone interested in selling products online.

Women Inspire Tech is a solution based meetup. Our goal is to increase the number of women leaders in tech. Our Mission Statement is to take action and impact ourselves, to support women who also aspire to reach higher. Our meetups will be orchestrated to inspire boldness, with the intent to grow ourselves into leaders who touch people emotionally and empower others to contribute more than they ever have before. We view leadership as an action. We think leaders are made not born. We become leade …

Come out and join us. Our group focuses on ColdFusion and related technologies like AJAX, Flex and AIR. We meet every third Tuesday of the month at the Adobe Offices at 601 Townsend in San Francisco. Meetings are from 6:30pm to 9:00 pm. Our speakers are drawn from the ColdFusion community. If you are interested in presenting please let me know. All levels of topics from beginner to advanced are welcome.

Ever wanted to deploy on Engine Yard but didn't know how? Had questions about how our platform works? Want to collaborate and host events with us? Well this is the perfect group for you! Come hang out, chat, eat and drink with us.

This group is a place for developers to learn more about MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented, nosql database. If you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions. We typically meet on the second or third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and enjoy a presentation on Mongo.

Join our meetup group for events centered around building with Twilio cloud communications, design and development, APIs, and more.

StartupMonthly is a seed fund and an on-going startup accelerator in San Francisco providing a global ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become …

Come join the Bay Area TYPO3 Users Group. Whether you are totally new to TYPO3 or a seasoned developer interested in networking with other TYPO3 users, this is the place to expand your skills and do a little networking. http://typo3.org http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=25... San Francisco TYPO3 Camp

If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library, whatever. We're language and software/hardware agnostic, so it's all fair game. After you present, it's an open forum. The audience will ask questions and provide feedback. We w …

Good morning African American web professionals. If you professionally develop code, media, content, or strategy for the web, please come and join us for a networking waffle breakfast.

Many analysts have predicted 2011 will be a pivotal year for Connected TV. As business models adapt and the market matures, new opportunities will arise to redefine how we experience and consume media. Lean Back, is an event focused on bringing together developers, platform owners, partners and advertisers interested in Connected-TV. For more information, please go to http://adRise.com.

The WordPress Open Studio is designed to provide a supportive environment for individuals and groups to pool their knowledge and troubleshoot their questions. Learn the Basics on setting up a custom WP site. Explore features and Plug-ins that you haven't tried before. Resolve issues you may be having with your WP site. All levels of experience are welcome. Please bring your laptop! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/WordPress-Open-Studio/273161206087797 _______________________________ …

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 …

This group is for anyone interested in log management and data analysis. Developers, devops, IT, marketing, sales, anyone that deals with logs can benefit from this group as well as professionals that would use log data for analysis of business processes.   We will have lightning talks and guest speakers, including customers with real-world stories, industry luminaries and more. At heart, this is an informal, social gathering of like-minded enthusiasts that think logs are cool. Who Should Join t …

We're building a great community of Hackers and friends that want to come out and meet other awesome people. Find out more at http://www.SFHackerNews.com/

Welcome to Ruby on Trails, the Bay Area tech hiking group.Don't let the name fool you.  This group is definitely not limited to engineers working with Ruby on Rails and is open to anybody interested in technology, startups, hacking, designing, hiking, or just need a break from the office.We welcome everybody and their pets, and we can't wait to meet the community on a fun and challenging hike.  Activity stimulates creativity so join us in sharing ideas, talking shop, and having fun!After each hi …

Collaboration Alley is a group building a place where freelancer's and entrepreneurs can come together, work on projects together, and hopefully garner larger contracts together.

The mission of this group is to: Help web developers to easily get into telephony development. Help traditional telephony/voice developers to leverage the APIs offered by telephony in the cloud companies such as Twilio, and 2600hz. Help the open-source communities such as FreeSwitch and Asterisk to further integrate into cloud computing. Help entrepreneurs to integrate voice, SMS, IM and other telephony services into their business model.

SF Tech Engineers is creating a community of Tech Engineers coming together to meet like-minded Engineers and exchange ideas and best practices in the evolving Tech scene in SF. Within this community we are promoting mentoring along with professional development within a general forum for Tech Engineers to share their experiences. And we plan to have fun doing it. Software engineers are also welcomed to join this group to gain knowledge and give feedback on what they seek from a technical recrui …

Advocate the use of MediaWiki technology and create a forum to talk about technology that improves and enhances the availability of well organized, community generated freely available information.

For SFBay area developers interested in distributed discussing CouchDB, Membase, and Memcached

This meetup is all about the 'Press, from beginning blogger through to hardcore hacker. 10% of the internet runs on WordPress; that's insane and awesome. The hype is real, so come and learn everything there is to know about WordPress! photo "Guitar Hero" courtesy of green kozi

We gather online and in-person to discuss all aspects of the eZ Publish Enterprise Content Management System. All skill levels (from beginner to expert) and roles (from end user to marketer to developer to purchase decision maker) are welcome. We are an extension of the broader, global community, focused on North and South America. We have two regularly scheduled monthly conference calls: one about the eZ Ecosystem in general, usually featuring an eZ Systems employee as a guest attendee; and one …