With the challenges of launching an internet startup, Ruby frameworks such as Rails and Merb have become a game changer. Web apps are easier than ever to launch. Small teams are developing slick web apps in rapid iterations. Let's meet and discuss Ruby, Frameworks, Rails, Merb, and Entrepreneurship. If you're a ruby startup, we would love to hear about your journeys from idea to launch and beyond. If your a venture capitalist or investor, we would love to hear about trends the ruby community sho …

Come join an informal group of Ruby programmers hacking on our own code and group projects. Bring your own laptop and share in the benefits of learning from others. Ruby is all about making programming more fun. This group is a great way to learn the latest tips and tricks, and meet fellow hackers. A lot of other groups are geared towards presentations and big meetings. They are great for the "see" and "hear" components of learning. This group is all about coding within a small community. Gettin …

Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform for the San Francisco Bay Area.

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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 …

About Hacking 4 Health The launch of Community Health Data Initiative by HHS and Institute of Medicine is exciting news for programmers interested in the development of health applications. Under this initiative, HHS and other government agencies are releasing vast amounts of health data developers can use to create applications that will help individuals and communities. HealthTap, in collaboration with Health 2.0, is thrilled to announce a Hackathon where developers can learn more about this …

svDevOps (Silicon Valley DevOps) is a group of both Dev & Ops professionals (managers, engineers & hackers) and entrepreneurs that meets roughly once per month to discuss topics related to DevOps and whatever it means. Topics that seem to interest us are: - improving the working relationship between dev & ops - constraints within operations and dev within regulated environments - helping developers get visibility into monitoring - systems life-cycle automation (the line between systems & apps …

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 all about fun, fitness and of course ZUMBA! The perfect location, an old church, right in downtown Palo Alto (there is underground parking!). Only the very best teachers; Asya, Ruby, Tristen, Regine and more.

Learn and teach the latest Ruby on Rails topics with other developers. When we meet, we'll create a list of topics we want to learn. We'll pair those that want to learn a topic and have those with expertise advise pairs of hackers on where to start and help them past sticking points. The idea is that we all learn new things quickly and solidify our knowledge and ability to express it by teaching others. Its not "each one, teach one".  Its "every other one spending a little time helping two …

A community of women in technology where we talk tech in a non-judgemental friendly environment. Goals: A monthly happy hours where we will talk about a pre-decided topic based on group suggestions. Eg: technology(Hadoop, Ruby-On-Rails etc.), latest start-up trends, use of latest technology in our daily lives etc.. Please don't feel you have to be an expert on that topic or for that matter know anything about it. If you are just interested in knowing more about it this is the place for you. We a …

On a Hackternoon, Mobile meets Web meets Cloud, cross platform BlackBerry Developers hack and have fun together. Use this Meetup to fill gaps in your personal tech stack. This Meetup has a strong educational focus through project deployment. We learn by watching, asking, listening, and doing. We use a combo of Paired Programming, brain power, and a project deployment to help you stay caught up.  Usually we meet at a WIFI cafe or a co-working location like Ground Floor, Hacker Dojo, or NextSpace.

This group is for people ages 21+ in the South Bay Area who want to meetup and go to Dance Party Clubs voted as the best in San Francisco. Ok, now stop for a moment, put on the song "Memories" by David Guetta.  Do this before reading any further. Resume reading... Here's the whole big idea: Give your mind a break after a long week and give your body the freedom it deserves to move freely and dance dance dance! It will be the best therapy for you.  We will go out every weekend if possible, o …

Do you contribute to https://github.com/cloudfoundry Or push apps to http://www.cloudfoundry.com/? Or just want to know about the future of PaaS? This is the right community for you.

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This Silicon Valley OpenShift group meets to discuss OpenShift and the many ways it can be used to develop awesome apps. Our first meetup will be on April 30th. Let me know if you'd like to participate. Dave

If you can code in C/C++, you can code in any language. Moreover, you can tackle any programming problem you want. No other language can make as powerful a claim. My thinking is that there are other people who would like to learn how to program in C++, and we'd love to be the one to help them, while brushing up on our skills at the same time. Convoluted languages like Java & Ruby dominate the scene, despite being characteristically less efficient, more difficult to scale, and just plain more dif …

We connect startup founders 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. 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 community here, and join us to build successful start-ups. …

This is a group for Russian Speaking Hackers and Developers from the Bay Area and SF. We meet to hack on new technologies, discuss best practices, startup news, talk about our side projects. Join and tell what are you working on!

This is a meetup group for Ruby on Rails Developers who want to build interesting scalable web applications which directly or indirectly affects everyone's life in a positive way. We have many ideas which can help make this world a better place to live. Some of these ideas may not be profitable ideas but which need to be implemented in order to help bring about the social changes that we want to see. We would not build applications with profits in mind, but we would build them for the social imp …

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We're a community for anyone interested in developing and deploying web applications with HTML, CSS, PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, OOP, MVC, jQuery, AJAX, Cloud Server, and Agile. We meet once or twice a month for discussion, collaboration, and networking with other like-minded people.  We have a terrific group of people from varying technical backgrounds.  All are welcome! For more information about us, and what we do, visit us at CodingDojo.co

What is this Meetup group about? This Meetup group features an ongoing series of classes on core Ruby on Rails web and mobile technologies that can enable you to build and deploy a sophisticated web or mobile application. Our goal is to have a Meetup class on a new topic about every two weeks. Who is it for? If you are looking to become a competent intermediate-level (maybe advanced!) full-stack Ruby on Rails web and mobile developer, then this Meetup is for you! Some prior computer programming …

This is a group for anyone interested in Open Source software and Open Hardware for the Internet of Things. I'd like to create an opportunity for engineers and programmers, entrepreneurs, hackers, makers, and enthusiasts from all areas to get together for networking and collaboration. The Internet and the Web today is built on Open Source software. Linux, Apache, Hadoop, Mozilla, Ajax, Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Memcached, MySQL; client and server and router software all developed by communities o …

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.

This meetup about developing rich front end web applications with the Backbone.js javascript library. Pair programming, Show and Tell, philosophizing about the "Backbone Way" are prime candidates for how we might spend our time together.

We are a crowd of innovative problem solvers that want to change the world. The goal of our meetup is to pair entrepreneurs with passionate co-founders/team members (tech and/or business), and investors/mentors/advisers. This meetup is a great opportunity to meet awesome individuals, practice your elevator pitch, and learn. With that being said, we would love to have freelance developers, designers, and marketers that want to join forces with entrepreneurs at an early stage of a project.

This group is an interactive, developer-friendly introduction to analytics, machine learning and data science topics. The focus will be on learning practical techniques to working with data. We will be doing R, Python, Ruby and a little bit of Java/C++. We will also focus on real-life problems in various domains such as healthcare, energy etc. and apply data to solve those problems. Oh, btw - G.O.D.s => Geeking-out on data science. :-) See you there.