The objective of the VBE (Virtual Business Ecosystem) group is to help every small business, start-ups, and non-profit organization to harness the power of the latest Cloud Computing, Virtual Events, and Social Media for Explosive Growth & Unfair Advantage! Top 5 Reasons to Join this group: Discover the Secret behind Apple, Amazon, & Google for Sustainable Growth & Unfair Advantage. Brainstorm for the next disruptive business ideas & model for the next Google & Facebook. Meet your co-founder a …

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 …

NextSpace is the workplace for the new economy. We provide innovative physical and virtual infrastructure that freelancers, entrepreneurs, and creative class professionals need to succeed in the 21st century knowledge economy. In an increasingly disconnected world, NextSpace creates a collaborative community that is revolutionizing the nature of work. Our business model is simple: NextSpace sells membership in that collaborative community. Our members come from a wide variety of industries: sof …

Cloud Slam and UP is developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in cloud computing, looking at core process and strategies in the rapidly shifting world. We create thought provoking conference panels, workshops, and tutorials which are selected to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud.

AWS Users Group AWS offers a complete set of infrastructure that enable you to run virtually everything in the cloud: from enterprise applications and big data projects to social games and mobile apps. Join us in discussing the latest in Cloud Technology and network with experts in the field. Tweeting? Use #awssfo Who Should Join: Anyone interested in AWS,  Cloud Computing Discussions & Networking

Like coding? Want to interact with and learn more from other baller coders? Got an internet connection and a Google Hangouts account? Wow, you rock - it's time for you to get pairing! In this group you'll meet friendly peers to connect, hack, and collaborate with. We meet virtually at least once a week: Why try pair programming if you haven't before? Learn new tricks and skills Teach others and improve your communication ability Get feedback and insight on things you're making Make new friends …

The SF Edtech Meetup is the hub for the amazing keynotes, panel discussions, edtech mixers, member spotlights, and hands-on learning experiences that inspire teachers, entrepreneurs, technologists, education reformers, and edtech enthusiasts to connect, collaborate, and innovate. We meet monthly to explore various topics at the intersection of education and technology, to learn about the latest technologies that are supporting teachers, and to hear from teachers about the problems in education t …

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 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 …

SF based meetup group for those of us who are interested in infrastructure related technologies such as OpenStack, AWS, AppEngine and more. Our meetups always have beer to drink and the opportunity to make new friends and business acquaintances! You can get a hold of us on Twitter via @stackgeek or by using the #tsfsg hashtag.

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A networking group to discuss top of mind content to help grow startups and small businesses around the San Francisco area. Meet and learn from other local entrepreneurs and small business owners to learn how you can enhance your business. Participate in this group to learn from subject matter experts, network, find new customers and vendors, share ideas and experiences, get advice and avoid costly mistakes. Topics will vary, to ensure we provide value to companies in a variety of aspects.

We provide innovative physical and virtual infrastructure that freelancers, entrepreneurs, and creative class professionals need to succeed in the 21st century knowledge economy. What does that really mean?  We provide a professional yet comfortable workspace for freelancers, entrepreneurs, developers, designers, consultants, coaches, lawyers - anyone who might otherwise be working from home or trying to work from a coffee shop. The (R)evolution of Work We are a coworking space, but we ain't you …

This meetup group is here to bring San Francisco turntable.fm DJ/fans together and meet each other and play their favorite music for each other using turntable.fm of course. We'll have both a virtual and physical space set-up for you to come and enjoy. While we meet let's vote with awesomes and get to know other turntable.fm fans.

Join hundreds of Office Managers, Administrative Assistants, Executive Assistants, Office Professionals and Secretaries changing their office operations for the better! Share tips with fellow office heroes, and discover great sidekick tools and services that will help you save your team! Leap over buildings in a single bound, we promise we won't reveal your secret identity (or how you manage to do it all).

Game developers today live in a challenging climate: gaming has never been a more crowded space than it is now. In this environment, how do you attract users, differentiate your game from competitors, and still make enough money to keep the lights on? Existing methods of game monetization are starting to get stale.  Virtual goods have become a commodity, in-game advertising intrudes on the user experience, and level packs require continuous time investment to create new content. Game developers …

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There is a huge Cloud meetup group in the valley, but there isn't one here in the city! Let's see if we can get a great group together in San Francisco to discuss Cloud and Cloud technology. Please join if you are interested in Cloud!

Marketing today versus marketing 10 years ago has dramatically changed. CMOs and VPs of Marketing are now expected to do more than create awareness, analyze competition, and create their go-to-market strategies. They are increasingly expected to drive pipeline and prove it too! This is a huge win for Marketing as it is changing the perception of the department across companies. They are being seen more and more of a revenue generator, rather than a cost center. Because of this, Marketers are bec …

Looking for ways to connect with fellow experiential travelers in-person around the globe? Join an AFAR Meetup! AFAR enables the experiential traveler virtually but we also think that talking in person—about travel, culture, food, and many other potential shared interests—is pretty fantastic. AFAR.com members and AFAR magazine subscribers have shown interest in connecting with each other offline worldwide, so we’d like to encourage anyone to attend and organize AFAR events in their own city! …

This is a group of users of the Joyent Cloud or people who are interested in leveraging the Joyent Cloud for their cloud computing needs. Anyone interested in cloud computing can join. Joyent Cloud customers will find the group particularly useful. We'll be planning events and meetups around topical themes.

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

Welcome to the San Francisco Chapter of the Happiness Clubs across the country! The mission of the San Francisco Happiness Club is to teach its member how to be emotionally strong in the face of adversity and how to achieve happiness outside of people, places, things, and circumstances. All the teachings are based on the scientific research of positive psychology, the science of happiness. CNN Hero of the year Nominee, Dr. Aymee Coget, specializes in treating depression, anxiety and stress throu …

Freedoms is a group of fantastic Bay Area folks who are interested in learning more about Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT),  in a safe environment and building community at the same time. EFT often works when nothing else will. This energy psychology technique has been used successfully on a wide range of emotional as well as physical conditions, including anxiety, addictive cravings, depression, traumatic memories, phobias, pain control, stress, disease and personal performance. It has the ab …

The purpose of this group is to provide education and share ideas on short term trading strategies for stocks, options, futures or currencies. Many people begin their trading career with little to no education expecting to become financially independent but what they soon realize is that trading is a challenging venture that first requires the proper knowledge and a proven trading plan. Trading is even more of a challenge if done in isolation. That is why we focus on banding together groups o …

This is the SF Bay Openstack developer meet-up. We are a group of free software developers who are passionate about working together to help make the Openstack project a success!

“In the Future Everything Will Be A Cafe" ! 1. Universities will become Cafes (virtual classes and the high price of an education) 2. Book Stores have become Cafes(Ebooks are coming of age-you can keep your library in your pocket) 3. Cafes will Displace Most Retail Shops (you can shop from the comfort of a Cafe, while avoiding crowds, parking, bad service, etc on Amazon.Com). 4. Offices Become Cafes Again (with the exception of Yahoo employees, notice all of the empty cubicles in most offices?) …