Are you a solo-consultant or running a consulting firm that provides engineering or design in the San Francisco area? Or are you an entrepreneur who might need to contract or partner with such a business? Join our community of people in the area helping to build products and make ideas into reality. Our meetup welcomes engineers and designers from all disciplines and the businesses that support them such as product-based startups and other firms who write custom software. We'll have regular even …

A group for all types of engineers, creative people, architects, and their friends in the San Francisco Bay Area.

Edtech is all about engineering. We discuss platforms, software stacks, programming languages, APIs, UI/UX frameworks, standards, and more.

The explosion of advertiser tracking, both on mobile devices and the web, has led to new Engineering problems to combat the loss of individual privacy. To this effect, the SF Privacy Engineering group serves as a gathering point for developers who work on efforts to identify, quantify, or mediate privacy data on the web and mobile. The purpose of the group is to help the Developer community network as well as learn and discuss engineering efforts in the Privacy space. We're open to all kind …

This group is for software engineers who utilize Eclipse to develop applications of any variety.  We will meet and have presenters, social networking, job opportunities and more. Our meetups will be held between San Francisco and Silicon Valley on a monthly basis. Networking is about building mutually beneficial, strategic and productive business relationships.  We are trying to develop a community of hands-on software engineers who utilize the Eclipse environment and  are interested in JAVA, An …

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 …

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 …

This User Group meets to discuss and collaborate on strategies, best practices and experiences around the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. You will learn from the experts, meet your peers, and enjoy pizza and drinks at each meeting.  Meetings are free, and are held monthly in either San Francisco or Mountain View. We are a volunteer organization sponsored by the Professional Association for SQL Server and software companies.

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.

Meet others interested in developing apps on Google App Engine. This meetup has a strong programming focus, so talks showing working code and workarounds are actively encouraged. Each meetup will have a reasonable amount of time for informal lightning talks to show members' work.

Some may think you're a unicorn, but you just want to create. This group is dedicated to bringing out both the hacker and designer in all of us. The old dichotomy of developer vs. designer is a relic of 20th century corporate America. In this experimental group, we study interaction and visual design while simultaneously translating our new-found sensibilities into actual code. This group is about balancing our logical and linear left brains with our imaginative and creative right brains.

San Francisco の startup などで働く日本人エンジニアが集まって、苦労話なんかを共有できると楽しいかなーと思って作ってみました。コンピュータに限らずエンジニアなら是非参加してみてください。今のところ月に一回くらいどこかで集まるような会を考えています。気を遣わない気楽な会にしていきたいですね。是非日本語で introduction の欄に在米歴職業などの自己紹介を書いてください。 グループ名に“日本人”ってありますが、日本語でコミュニケーションがとれる方なら歓迎します。ただし、日本語会話の勉強グループではないことは理解してください。 If I didn't make my point clear: this group is for expat Japanese, and requires you to speak Japanese.  If you don't write what I asked above, you're gonna be questioned.

JUG-USA is an umbrella Java User Group (JUG) for the United States that individual JUGs can affiliate with. Java Developers living and working in the United States can show their support for JUG-USA by joining this group and by joining our associated LinkedIn group. We will also organize face-to-face community events through this meetup group in various parts of the United States several times a year.

New to Ruby and/or Rails? Join us to get help with your coding questions and learn collaboratively in a supportive environment. This is a social meetup- come to meet others in the same boat as you and to help when you can. I'll also be available to answer your questions (I have a CS background and a few years of Rails experience). Bring your laptop, a project you're working on, and questions to ask. Or just come to hack in a cool environment. Been using Ruby/Rails for awhile? Join to help those …

This group was created to assist bay area locals in learning more from each other. We facilitate small in person classes everyday for groups of 10-20 on all sorts of awesome subjects like  film, photography, graphic design,  cooking, business and technology subjects like programming. We will be holding classes, as well as professional networking mixers in the south bay, and soma Citizen Space locations. What is Citizen Space? We take the best elements of a coffee shop (social, energetic, creati …

This group's mission is to share enterprise best practices for using Atlassian products together as well as with complementary technologies and products. Examples of discussions include enterprise, world-wide deployments, integration with Atlassian and other tools, and developing mission-critical solutions for large organizations.

Tech Recruiter Society's Bay Area Chapter is devoted to creating and furthering a community of technical recruiters for purposes of networking, exchanging best practices, professional development and mentoring, and promoting the field of technical recruiting. We will encourage software engineers to attend our events for insight and feedback as to what they want out of a technical recruiting experience.  Our agenda includes job fairs, seminars, and paid training events.  This is THE group to join …

Ahlan wa sahlan habibis!  Welcome to the San Francisco Lebanese Culture and Social Club.  The idea to start this group came to me over time.  I am a Recruiter and one day I was given an assignment to find an Arabic-speaking software engineer so, I started calling everyone who had "Arabic" on their resume. 20 minutes later :), I ran out of resumes. Then, onto Facebook. In retrospect, it wasn't the best recruiting strategy, I admit, but wow, it was fun! I ended up connecting with some Lebanese fol …

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 …

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 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.

Meet other developers and ops engineers using Docker. Docker is an open-source engine for building and deploying cloud applications as standalone containers which can run on any server - from the VM on your laptop to the largest EC2 compute instance, and everything in between. Docker is a great building block for deploying web apps, database services, service-oriented architectures, and so on.

This group is for wearable tech professionals, industrial designers, R&D groups, entrepreneurs, and enthusiasts to engage in the fashion/tech field through product presentations and workshops. Product engineers/designers, 3D printing professionals, researchers, gamers, crafters, tinkerers, inventors, gadget creators and/or tech artists engaged with mixed prototyping to converge fashion & technology who add digital dimension to their works by fusing advanced materials such as etextiles, wearable …

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 …

A group of hands-on engineers in San Francisco who are using Grails & Groovy at their primary gig or full-time employment who are advocating these technologies.  We have featured speakers, discussions about our tech-stack and are promoting Grails and Groovy to others using the JVM - and beyond.

Free Angular.JS workshop, open bar, door prizes w/ @Domo engineers David Geddes and Aaron Frost! Clift Hotel, SF, May 30 5:30pm Register here: http://bit.ly/11HZStn

We like scaling big systems, do you? ArchCamp is a meetup for engineers, by engineers. The goal is to talk about building systems (often at high scale) without having to listen to any sales pitches. Event format: 20 min - mingle & discussion about the last event 40 min - lightning talks 5 minutes. (laptop setup is on your time, not ours) 60 min - open discussion about the topic du jour We have a meetup every 4 to 6 weeks The cornerstone event for this meetup is the ArchCamp unconference. We ar …

Putting some of the great skills in our community to use on socially responsible software projects of any sort, with a preference toward open source, agile development, and great testing, but open to just about anything. Participants will bring projects of interest, or coding/UI skills, give a short intro to the group, and developers and designers will work together on whichever projects inspire them. An example project I'm working on is a creative collaboration remixing engine -- like a git …