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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.

This is a group for anyone that uses, or is considering using Project Sprouts to improve their software development and deployment workflow. Our meetings will generally begin with a quick presentation of Sprouts or a particular aspect of Sprouts, followed by an informal question and answer period from the attendees. Feel free to join whether you're a die hard Flash/Flex/Rubyist or just trying to figure out what all this stuff is... Everyone is welcome!

After hosting an impromptu JRuby Meetup in San Francisco after JavaOne, we realized we were on to something. We've decided to host monthly meetups open to any enthusiastic, interested folks in the area who wanted to join us to learn about JRuby. All experience levels welcome. To cater to San Francisco and Peninsula attendees, we'll rotate meetup locations alternative between Engine Yard HQ in San Francisco (in SOMA, within walking distance from BART), and at LinkedIn HQ in Mountain View. If you …

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 …

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 …

Alt.Net was founded in 2007 as an alternative community for developers wanting more out of .Net. It was founded for the purposes of reaching outside the mainstream .Net world to find the best practices and tools. This is the San Francisco group, pulling from the Bay Area as well, where we plan dinners, presentations, and conferences. Alt.Net was created on these principles: *You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. *You reach outside the …

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 devi …

Love to build amazing things quick? Then you've found the right place. Bay Area Hackathons are hosted at Bay Area companies and a are a great way to meet new people, build amazing things, and win killer prizes.

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 …

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.

Welcome to StartupMonthly Startup Accelerator Startup Accelerator in Silicon Valley providing an 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 your …

This group is the home of all the events that Pivotal organizes after hours.

Are you a developer interested in learning how to summarize, visualize and interpret your data? Are you building a website or application that needs to be smarter in making predictions, segmenting users, or generating recommendations? Come by and meet with other developers and learn about best practices, hear about what’s new in building data-driven applications, and drink some free beer.

Intense lab like coding + awesome beer, or maybe it's awesome beer + coding, can't remember. Either way, each meetup will be fuzzily focused on design patterns, nosql, and technology.

RubyMotion is at the intersection of two amazing communities: Ruby and iOS. Lets see what great stuff happens when we put them together. Whether you've always wanted to write mobile apps or you've been involved with RubyMotion since day 1, we're going to have some really great meetups for everyone. This is not a group to pitch your app idea or hire developers from. Attempts to do so will be met with frowns and undoubtedly awkward conversations.

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.

We're looking for founders, developers, and designers who want to build real tech startups at the hackathons of our DataWeek.co and DeveloperWeek.com conferences! Our hackathons are usually the 'kick-off' events for our giant conferences where we invite dozens of speakers, advisors, and partners to provide coaching and free services for our hackathon teams. You can expect direct coaching from 12+ silicon valley VC's and engineers in Node.js, MongoDB, Ruby on Rails, Javascript, HTML 5..... We've …

There's some debate in the startup community about which is the superior technology, Python or Ruby. This is a meetup for those who've considered the available evidence, carefully weighing the pros and cons of each language, and made the obviously correct choice: Python. We discuss everything a young Python developer needs to know, from the nitty gritty of the Python GIL all the way to how one should pair Python with leading-edge technologies like Backbone.js and MongoDB. If you're a dedicated P …

We talk about all things DevOps. We take geek and make it sheek (sic). Our sessions are so cool, we had to call ourselves Cool Geeks. Ah, yeah... we are Silicon Valley geeks so fun is perfectly mixed with knowledge.

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/

A place to learn and discuss new developments in web technologies. We are not focused exclusively on any one language or framework. Instead, this group is to help developers explore the rapidly changing world of web development and understand new technologies and techniques that might fit their needs. We'll try to have a diverse set of events from speakers, to tutorials, to hack nights.

The Elegant Ruby Web Framework: Padrino. This group is for anyone interested in Padrino or already uses Padrino on a regular basis. http://www.padrinorb.com/

Imagine if there was a place, where at one table an entrepreneur meets her next $100,000 investor. A designer meets a new client, a web developer with a great internet startup. A Ruby engineer meets a charismatic founder that excites him with her vision, so much so that he can picture leaving his day job for the exhilarating experience of working tirelessly for technology stock options that could be worth millions one day... We're building this community. --- Part of the Tech Happy Hour Allianc …