You should really go over there and learn more about us. Hackers / Founders is the largest community of early tech founders in Silicon Valley ( that includes SF ). We have an incubator.  Learn more here We run classes under Hackers / Founders University. We do political advocacy for founder immigration reform, healthcare for founders, free internet. We host networking events and meetups in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose. Get together for lunch with other Hackers / Founders …

Meet with other engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems. Sessions will typically involve a free technical presentation and open forum to ask questions.  Target Audience:  Engineers & Sys Admin's who are interested in topics such as scalability, monitoring, troubleshooting,  solving tough web operations issues, Unix/Linux, LAMP and automation. See a video introduction to the group here:  http://bit.ly/c59MWE Follow us on Twitter …

SIP, LEARN AND NETWORK Wine tasting get-to-gethers for Silicon Valley professionals who enjoy wine, socializing or just looking to network with other professionals. Meet and join others through tasting wine at our private wine tasting in a fun and relaxing atmosphere. Make friends, business contacts, meet other couples, singles and or acquaintances. Recent article on our group http://www.examiner.com/article/wine-cheese-and-cake

We mainly explore the San Francisco Bay Area’s many hiking trails, but we also keep our eyes open for other outings such as free summer concerts (Stern Grove anyone?) and the occasional jazz club... and likely more. The hikes are 6-10 miles long and are of an advanced beginner to intermediate level of difficulty. Let’s go out and enjoy the many wonderful outings in the Bay Area!

We are the Peninsula and South Bay Bicycling Group (PSBBG)! Without exception, we aim to be a clean fun group - no drugs, alcohol, or flouting of California vehicle code on these rides, other than rolling through a stop sign at your own discretion.  We do not welcome cross-posts or suggested rides with other groups which do not follow these guidelines. This group is for experienced group-riding road-bike riders. Owning a road-bike is a requirement to join the group, (as opposed to mtn bikes, hyb …

Google Developer Group Silicon Valley meets on the first Wednesday of the month at the GooglePlex in Mountain View. Our meetings will always be free and open to the general public. However, we may have to limit attendance based on interest and the size of our meeting space. So, early RSVPs on this meetup group are encouraged to ensure your spot at upcoming meetings. Please see the "About" page for more information.

Enjoy a variety of hikes/events offered by the Sierra Club's Loma Prieta Sierra Singles section (LPSS), the Black Mountain Hiking Section (BMHS) and the Guadalupe Group which are based in the midpeninsula region. Most leaders have many years of experience leading hikes and often have a great knowledge of many open space areas and parks in the Bay area.  LPSS hikes/events will be "singles events" and BMG and Guadalupe group events are "open to everyone".  Most hikes will have organized carpool po …

We meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Plug and Play Tech Center to provide networking opportunities for developer, entrepreneurs and large organizations with interest in Health 2.0, mobile health, patient-centered innovation, personal medicine and emerging opportunities in the healthcare industry to come together. SVHealth Meetup is a hub for enterprises, organizations and investors to present opportunities, provide mentorship and engage in conversation with Silicon Valley's developer the ent …

About SVCWireless Silicon Valley-China Wireless Technology Association (SVCWireless) is a leading non-profit, non-bias independent professional organization to bridge the technology industries between China and the United States. The organization is founded in year 2000 and now has more than 5000 members and 50 partners around the world. SVCWireless promotes entrepreneurship, innovation, and venture investment with the support from our members, sponsors and partners. US Mobile Apps and Interne …

Hands on meetups (lectures, classes, demo talks) with free compute time sponsored by Amazon AWS. We focus on giving members the opportunity to learn and share with the rest of the programming community.

Join us to learn about Hadoop and related technologies, including use cases, new features and exciting networking with other hadopp professionals. See past meetups on YDNTheater Channel on YouTube, presentation slides available on Slideshare.

Valley-Peninsula Real Estate Investing Group meets once a month for an education and networking meeting. Our monthly meetings are FREE. We meet in silicon valley: Mountain View. Whether you are an investor, broker, mortgage lender, contractor or landlord, you are welcome to join our group if creating cash flow and wealth using Real Estate is your goal. Meet fellow Real Estate Buyers and Investors near you! Come to a local Real Estate Buying & Investing Meetup to discuss properties on the market, …

AngularJS meetup group in Mountain View, CA.

106 Miles is a network of startup founders, engineers, and friends. Our mission is to educate and empower entrepreneurial engineers. Our values are Reputation, Innovation, Solidarity, and Education. This is our Silicon Valley group; see also our Southern California group. Please join us if you're a founder or engineer (or friend!) and... * You have worked at a startup, * You want to work at a startup, * You have started a company, and/or * You want to start a company. We meet several time …

Meet other local programmers interested in Clojure (and other Lisps and Schemes), functional programming, concurrent programming, and other alien technology.

Our group is focused on having discussions around scaling real-time, high transaction and low latency NoSQL database systems. You will hear use cases, customer successes and thought leadership discussions on emerging applications and use cases - and the supporting platforms and technologies that enable them. Collaborate with peers working to solve truly complex, technical issues while betting their business on an infrastructure with 100% uptime. Find Us: http://www.aerospike.com Follow Us: http …

This group is for young women in their 20s, married or single, who are looking to make new friends with other women their age in Silicon Valley. Young 30somethings are welcome as well! We have an amazing group of women. Our meetups are laid back and always fun. Come join us for lunch, coffee, shopping, hikes, movie nights, wine tasting, happy hour, dancing, exploring new places, and more! Two terms for joining our group are that you must upload a clear picture of yourself, and that you must keep …

Shut Up and Write! Meetup is a venue for writers to work in the company of other writers on a regular basis. Writing, whether approached as a profession or as an avocation, is an isolating activity. We provide this forum, writing resources and meeting times as a method of developing a community of creative people. We welcome people who are serious about ‘writing down the bones’ and are looking for the companionship of other writers. Meetup Format Making the time to write one hour per week is an …

Finding it hard to meet nice people?  Tired of the bar/club scene?  Through with spending countless hours on the internet?  We're an inclusive group of genuine and caring individuals who get together for good, wholesome fun. Ultimate frisbee, rock climbing, pick up basketball, potlucks, volunteering, you name it. All activities emphasize sportsmanship, friendly competition, helping each other, and connection. Out of consideration for your organizer and your fellow members, no-shows may result in …

Presentations, discussions, and implementations of In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) or other vehicle / automotive projects emphasizing those utilizing open source or built with open source tools.  Safety, fuel-efficiency, and innovative enabling applications beyond entertainment are especially of interest, as are fleet vehicles, farming equipment, heavy machinery, marine and aviation applications -- all sorts of intelligent transportation systems. Non-coders who are more involved in business, polic …

Bay Area Storm Users is a group for developers and companies using Twitter's Storm real-time data processing and DRPC framework. We get together to discuss best practices, usage patterns, and to exchange ideas. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of …

Organizing a Lesbian Meet-up Group for my home town sounded like a wonderful opportunity. I'm hoping this group will develop into a engaging way to meet and network with "like-minded ladies" Any women and her friends that identifies as or with the lesbian community and wants to make new friends or create new relationships should join. I would like this group to become a safe, fun, space for women from the Bay Area.

Welcome all! We are a fun social group for 1st time moms and dads in the Peninsula/South Bay area who want to come together to make lasting friendships with other new moms and dads. During this exciting, fun and life-changing time in our lives, it's nice to to be with others who are in the same boat with whom we can get advice from, give support to and share a laugh with. We have a few simple criteria for membership: 1) Your first child was born between April 2011 and April 2012 2) Your family l …

The Investor?s Business Daily Meetup group of Sunnyvale, California is a collaboration of subscribers to IBD, eIBD, or Market Smith. Our discussions are focused on learning the methods described in the IBD newspaper and associated publications.

Bay Area Mobile (BAM) was founded in 2010 with an emphasis on cross platform mobile development.  We are expanding our vision of the group to include all connected devices and the services that surround them. Topics will range from native to HTML5, cross platform tools and APIs to power your apps.  These apps are currently on phones and tablets. In the future, I expect you'll see them on TVs, glasses, your wrist and beyond. The meeting format will be a mix of presentations from leading experts, …

This is a meetup group to play tennis and facilitate members to meet with other players. We will organize social tennis meetups regularly. All levels welcome At least for part of the meet up, we will do our best to allow players with similar skills to play together. We encourage you to mention your level when you join the group so other players of your level can find you easily.

I am a licensed Zumba Instructor. Teaching Zumba is my passion. Join me for some real fun and fitness! Men and women...It doesn't matter if you don't know how to dance, if you are not coordinated, if you are shy...you will have FUN and a great workout! First class is FREE! $11.00/class. Punch cards available for 10 classes ($9.00/class).

Success! It's confirmed: Our meetups will now start Wednesdays at 7:00pm (same venue). Improv, the jazz of acting, the free-flowing river of spontaneity empowers us to explore the multiple personalities and characters that each of us is, desires to be, or is curious about. At any given moment, our mood and energy level depend largely upon our perception of our current surroundings. Improv liberates us most profoundly by reintroducing us to our own imaginative capacity in a way that embraces it …