We are women who code: in any framework any level of experience any size of company or just code for fun! We will get together monthly to meet, greet, eat snacks, and work on our projects. It will be low key and laid back. Future/aspiring coders welcome. Bring your laptop and a friend!

Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses …

PyLadies is an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events, and social gatherings. PyLadies also aims to provide a friendly support network for women and a bridge to the larger Python world. Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate! Join our mailing list fo …

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 …

3D Printing, also known as Additive Manufacturing, is an exciting and potentially game changing technology that will dramatically alter the way products are designed, manufactured, distributed and financed. A standard digital file (.stl) of an object is created, either by using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software or a 3D scanner, and is sent to a dedicated machine which builds the object layer-upon-layer in a material such as plastic, metal or ceramic. Today the technology is mainly used for ra …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

Calling everyone interested in the future of video games. Neurogame developers are using the latest emotional, cognitive, sensory and behavioral technologies to create radically compelling experiences to engage and entertain gamers worldwide. We are at the dawn of the neurogaming age, on the cusp of making the impossible possible. Come hang out and see what's next and experience everything from brain-controlled games to true augmented virtual reality experiences.

Feel compelled to build the tools for a better society? Find "your people" hacking the future at our weekly meetup. Tuesdays at 6 PM at TechShop San Francisco 926 Howard Street (near 5th) San Francisco, CA 94103 Feel free to share and to bring great people!

This is a discussion group for interested new investors, veteran investors, and those wanting to manage or self-direct their own accounts. We will share strategies and opinions of popular investing topics related to how to make money in today's stock market. Even if you are totally new to investing, or just curious, please feel free to join us, I guarantee you will learn something useful. The primary purpose of this group is to promote financial literacy. Those who can not afford a financial pla …

Come and meet other bright, ambitious internet marketers! Find new business partners, share innovative marketing strategies, find co-working buddies, talk about what worked and what didn't work, talk about your super-secret traffic sources, share victory stories or get help on your current challenges. This meetup is perfect for: Affiliate marketers Infoproduct entrepreneurs SEM / SEO specialists Bloggers Passive income builders Mini site empire owners eCommerce store owners Website flippers & d …

Are you interested in the future of health technology? Are you already building it? Would you like to meet other like-minded people in Berkeley? Monsoon Company, a Berkeley-based software firm is hosting a series of networking events for all the cool people in Berkeley interested in empowering people to better manage their health. Come check us out!

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 …

With the tough times going on right now in the architecture industry, this is a place to make connections, meet cool young people, and probably enjoy some drinks and food.  You do not need to be an architect to join us, just be interested in design and architecture and interested in meeting people with the same interests. We may talk about architecture and the theory behind gentrification, but we will probably talk more about what is going on locally and what we have been doing lately and will b …

Are you observing the game being changed in Health, Education, Journalism, Finance, Economic Development? Have you been pondering what's happening and what kind of future is unfolding? Have you wondered if and how the game might be changed? "I at least have so much to do in unravelling certain human lots, and seeing how they were woven and interwoven, that all the light I can command must be concentrated on this particular web, and not dispersed over that tempting range of relevancies called the …

Ubiquitous Media is the messy collision of ubiquitous computing, augmented reality, physical computing, personal sensing, transmedia and urban systems. It's like that old parable of the blind monks trying to describe an elephant; the parts all feel very weird and different, and we're trying to catch a glimpse of the future in its entirety. We are an open network of geeks, artists, experience designers, social scientists and other fellow travelers interested in answering the question "If the worl …

The Wine Country Designated Driver's Club is a social networking meetup group geared towards wine enthusiasts visiting wine country in a responsible manner. Let's face it, after two wineries you can easily blow a DUI. If you like to frequent wine country the way we do, this is a major factor that requires forethought to every tasting trip. My group is designed to put likeminded people together, visiting Napa, Sonoma, etc. in a fun manner but someone needs to be the sober skipper. Meet new friend …

This group is for anyone currently practicing open innovation in companies, startups, the social/non-profit sector or local government (any any other industry I may have omitted!). This group is also intended or for people who are interested in the topic and want to learn more. Our first meetup will be a discussion on what exactly we mean by 'open innovation'! Future meetups will include topics such as crowdsourcing, design thinking & innovation, and innovation through social networks.

This is a group designed to bring local Network & Infrastructure folks together for relevant discussion and networking. We meet once a quarter for lunch, dinner, or drinks.  Majority of our meetings will be in the Silicon Valley area. We welcome all ideas for locations of meetings and future topic ideas.

Social information (our preferences, shares, tags, comments, collections, etc.) is the fastest growing and most valuable type of information on the web.  We have given the responsibility of stewarding that data to just a couple companies.  This is a problem. We need to rethink social.  Does it need to be an end-to-end service where the price of participation is the forfeiture of our data?  Does it need to have just a single interface, designed and served by the company that sells our data? Or ca …

Are you doing something new with traditional content? Making it more visual, social, interactive, whatever? Are you in ed-tech, corporate e-learning, journalism, interaction design, the arts? Once a month, let's leave our silos for a few hours and teach each other how to MAKE IT NEW.

Are you a professional in a web-related field? A Tibet supporter? Interested in helping to make change happen? This group is for professionals working in web-related fields who support the Tibetan people's cause and want to help by contributing their ideas, skills and energy in a collaborative, stimulating atmosphere with like-minded people. We would like to form a think-tank of talented people from multiple disciplines to creatively explore how web 2.0, digital video and social media can be us …

TinyMCE is one of the most popular open source JavaScript online text editors. It is used by Wordpress, Facebook, Jive Software and many others. In fact, even Meetup.com uses it :) We are organizing a TinyMCE developer meetup in downtown Palo Alto to discuss integration tips, prioritize bug fixes and gather ideas for the future roadmap.

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 …

Beyond Academics Young Homeschoolers (B.A.Y. Homeschoolers) not only provides activities for homeschooling families, but offers support, advice, encouragement, and most importantly life-long friendships all while having fun! This group is designed for younger homeschooled children ages 2-8 years old. Younger and older siblings are welcome too! It is a great way to meet other local families that are taking the responsibility for educating their children by using resources in the home and communit …

Mastery for Women is a call to action, a movement, a safe place where women can support each other to reach the goals and desires that tug at their hearts and souls. MFW is more than just networking - it is a development of self and others; providing a blueprint for making the lives of others better and in the process enriching our own. We have just begun. Mastery for Women is a division of Successful Thinkers Network, where building relationships is the key. Our groups are designed to foster a …

FASHIONTECHSF.org is the longest running monthly workshop and the original event series in the San Francisco Bay Area focused synergistically on building, promoting and educating the vibrant community of fashion and technology. Our mission is to create educational, economic development, social and business opportunities for the fashion and technology industries. From it's inception in February 2010, FASHIONTECHSF.org has become the leading network for all things fashion and technology in Silicon …

100 Committed Businesswomen Women Business Owners, Corporate Executives, Business Managers, Consultants... Are you looking for a way to grow your business and a group of likeminded women in business to make meaningful connections with? Then get to know your WON 100 sisters and friends and let us grow your business for you! WON 100 – Peninsula (Sister organization of Women Owned Networking SFBA) is for the businesswoman who is very serious about the growth of her business and who has a heart to e …

Sick of setting goals but not meeting them? .. of having aspirations and desires but not the balls or perseverance to reach them without giving up or getting distracted? .. of desiring closeness but sabotaging it or pushing away? "Self Sabotage is when we say we want something and then go about making sure it doesn't happen." GET OUT OF YOUR OWN WAY You will open to more ease and aliveness through: - learning to recognize self sabotaging forces/ voices/ behaviors - gaining tools to manage th …