Welcome to SF Entrepreneurs & Startup Group! From App to Startup! From Developer to Entrepreneur! Meet other local entrepreneurs /founders/Hackers/Developers, VCs, and leaders for the mobile / Internet industry, including iOS, Mobile HTML5, Android,WP, Cloud, Facebook, Chrome! Come to our events to network and share your stories. Hear how others have overcome hurdles and achieved success. All are welcome! This fast growing Entrepreneur community is the the place to network with the like minds. A …

A community of aspiring and existing Product Managers. Want to be a Product Manager? This group is for people interested in entering or learning more about Product Management and for existing Product Managers who wish to be mentors and share their experiences. We will bring in product experts to share their knowledge, help build product skills, have networking opportunities and also work on projects together. These projects can be personal or volunteer challenges posed by non-profits with a goal …

Druid is a distributed, column-oriented, real-time, interactive analytical datastore. It was created to allow consistently fast, multidimensional ad-hoc drill-down type querying for large quantities of data - in real time. If you're searching for a solution beyond what proprietary column oriented, or in memory data stores offer both in price and capability - then join us. The Bay Area Druid User Group is dedicated to bringing together users and developers of Druid to exchange knowledge, insight …

Digital-quick, multi-tasking, rational, logical – our modern, fast-paced Western lives are perfectly suited for authentic, 2550 year-old teachings that unfold the true potential of our mind, increase an effortless joy, dissipate fear, and develop an “unshakeability.” Diamond Way Buddhism SF is part of an international network of over 620 centers that operate under the practical guidance of Lama Ole Nydhal, a Western Buddhist master who has been teaching around the world for 40 years. Diamond Way …

Underwater Hockey is a fast, action-packed (non-contact) sport played on the bottom of a pool by teams of 6 players with masks, snorkels, fins and short sticks. Players move the puck by pushing it or passing it, trying to get the puck into the opposing team’s goal. Underwater Hockey is a co-ed sport in which men and women compete on equal terms. It’s not about strength; it’s about teamwork and skill. And, no matter what your skill level, Underwater Hockey is a great way to have lots of fun, get …

Lua's a fascinating, super-fast scripting language perfect for gaming and web applications. This is a very engineering-centric group for those interested in trying out Lua, or for sharing creations. Let the organizer(s) know if you're looking to sponsor, host, or speak at any of our events. We're open to suggestions!

This is a user group for Salt in the Bay Area. From SaltStack.org: Salt is an open source tool to manage your infrastructure. Easy enough to get running in minutes and fast enough to manage tens of thousands of servers (and still get a response back in seconds). Execute arbitrary shell commands or choose from dozens of pre-built modules of common (or complex) commands. Target individual servers or groups of servers based on name, defined roles, or a variety of system information such as hardware …

I wanted happiness for myself, and I had struggled for a long time. I swore to God that I would make myself a happier person. I was trained in mathematics for 6 years, engineering for 4 years, and I had masters in computer science, and I started pursuing further education. But guess what, I ended up in a situation where my research data went against popular views. I went to all big research institutes to validate my hypothesis, theories, and research. I end up hitting the wall In those interacti …

Redis is a powerful and fast key-value store and server. We think it's awesome. There's a growing number of Redis aficionados in the Bay Area. Let's meet up, talk about Redis (and maybe a bit about database stuff in general), have fun, and help grow the Redis community!

We're teaching designers how to think like entrepreneurs. Whether you work for a corporation, start-up or as a freelance designer, join our group and learn how to stay passionate about your work, communicate with all types of clients effectively, market yourself and more! Learning and applying good business skills are imperative, especially in a fast-moving industry. There is a lot of buzz about design founders. Why not bring the founders, developers and the designers together so the designers …

Beyond The Startup World This is a group for Community & Developer Relations Managers/Advocates/Specialists who have fast growing, diverse, and ever-changing communities that need keeping up with! Join us to learn best practices, share advice, meet cool people, and hear real-world experiences (rather than technical jargon) in a fun and relaxed environment. This group is not exclusive and welcomes anyone willing to share what they know and ready to learn.

This is the Bay Area alliance of cupcakes take the cake originally started by Cheryl of http://cupcakeblog.com.  As a newly stepped up organizer, I would like to expand this group to share thoughts desserts (not just cupcakes) tasting, baking and decorating technique. Bake-and-Taste Meetups The first meetup was great. A bunch of us met in a park with our homemade cupcakes and tasted away. We caused quite a scene! The plan is to have one of these meet-ups every season or 4 times a year - two in S …

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Join our local dining society with fellow food-lovers in the Bay Area! Meet friends, discover new restaurants, enjoy delicious meals and satisfying conversation with friendly dinner companions. We strive for a friendly easygoing dining experience with cordial and intimate dinner conversations between members. We welcome members to participate in recommending new restaurants and venues, and encourage everyone to help to organize events and contribute to our community. Please RSVP early, since ope …

This is where open-minded, progressive, Muslim-American, San Francisco residents get together to celebrate Ramadan together. Maybe each day we can try a new restaurant. Ideally, the members would all be non-judgmental, open-minded, progressive people who are interested in meeting people from all walks of life. The more diverse the better. https://www.facebook.com/groups/SFMuzlimz/

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Hispanics Mean Business (HMB) is a great resource for professionals to build connections and receive: - Event Invitations - Presentations from experts in different industries and - Opportunities to generate more business HMB members are leaders, business owners, entrepreneurs and influencers who are proactive in achieving personal growth, community improvement and business success. HMB supports "Viva Diversity" a campaign that teaches kids about the value of cultural diversity. See video profil …

We aim to provide an extremely high value networking environment for seasoned bay area performance marketing veterans. We will do this by only allowing certain people who have a good amount of experience in our industry to join. This is not a group for anyone who is new and just looking to learn about our industry. Although we are happy to have industry veterans from other parts of the internet advertising realm join us, our group will be primarily focused on performance based marketing; affilia …

A meetup group to discuss the Go Programming Language. (from golang.org) The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program construction. Go compiles quickly to machine code yet has the convenience of garbage collection and the …

Meet other local salsa dancers, would (and should) be salsa dancers, and everyone out to have a great time enjoying San Francisco Salsa Dance, Nightlife, Classes and Social Events. This is the largest Salsa Meetup in the area, and we host some fantastic, fun, and social events around the San Francisco Bay Area. You DO NOT need to know how to salsa! We are a super friendly group, open to EVERYONE who even thinks they MIGHT be interested in Salsa Dance. You show up, we'll take care of the rest …

SF-Startup-Now is a meetup focused on bringing together the forward thinking business mentors to speed-up/accelerate the go-to-market of any start-up product or service! We have launched in SV-SF, also looking to launch in LA then NY etc... We have sponsors like Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn and Box. The sponsors will provide cash and product prizes including wireless internet, cloud storage, back office, and a host of many other business needs to go-to-market and create reven …

Face to face interaction... Speed dating is the fast, fun way for single people to meet – live and in person. We host 2-3 meet ups a month, where everyone gets to meet and mingle with all of the attendees and have 8 one-on-one dates that last 8 minutes each. Amazingly, over 98% of meet up goers tell us that they enjoy these meet ups, and over 90% meet someone who they want to see again.

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The Asian Business League of San Francisco (ABL-SF) is a nonprofit membership organization dedicated to developing current and future leaders by providing resources such as workshops and networking events to address today's relevant issues in our fast-changing business environment. Programs include: Youth Program: Educating and stimulating career considerations of our future business leaders. Leadership Program: Designed for individuals seeking to continue improving their leadership skill …