Parse is the mobile app development platform for iOS, Android, JavaScript, and Windows 8. Parse allows your team to focus more on creating a great user experience and less on server maintenance and complex infrastructure. We offer push notifications, social integration, data storage, and Cloud Code which lets you add rich custom logic to your app’s backend. With Parse, you can add a scalable and powerful backend in minutes and launch your app in record time without ever worrying about server ma …

Imagine lively people-scaled  communities dotting the San Francisco Bay Area - places co-created by their residents for raising kids, for  retirement, for growing food or simply  living well by sharing more. The Bay Area already has  ecovillages, and cohousing neighborhoods, resident-owned housing cooperatives, and group houses -- real world places where we can live more sustainably through a more cooperative way of life. You can have both privacy and community when you know your neighbors on pu …

DEDICATED SITE: http://hack.tvot.tv DATE & PLACE: JUNE 22-23, 202 Green Street, San Francisco, California PLATFORMS BEING USED: Connected TV, Tablets, Smartphones, OTT Boxes (e.g. Google TV, Roku, Apple TV), PCs, Others of Your Choosing! SDKs: Android, iOS, Synchronizing Mobile with TV and Metadata (Gracenote), Mobile Video Editing (Ignite Video), Commerce (PayPal), 3D Motion (LeapMotion), Voice Control (Nuance), Connected TV (Samsung Developers AllShare Framework) [itvt] is pleased to announce …

The SVForum Emerging Technology SIG is a bi-monthly meeting focused on the future. The goal is to talk about technologies that aren’t quite here yet, to discuss trends in software technologies, and, in general, to examine what’s coming down the pipeline. We meet on the second Wednesday of every other month.

This Meet Up Community is for helping entrepreneurs and startups learn how to expand their creativity around business ideas, problem-solving, and team building to produce expansive results and competitive advantage. This group is being set up to offer a platform and space for creative coaching and guidance to help overcome challenges and learn new ways to be innovative- it makes having a problem, 'fun'. Did you know that most of us are trained automatically, through our education and societal sy …

There seem to be a lot of software-related learning/coworking/entrepreneuring groups in San Francisco and the Peninsula. What about those of us on this side of the BART tube? Are you starting a new programming or web project, and looking for someone to bounce ideas off of, or maybe chip in? Are you taking a break (voluntary or otherwise) from wage slavery, and want to hang around some other people who are upgrading their skill sets? Do you want to contribute to someone else's project? Or are yo …

A SOMA Meetup for start-ups, entrepreneurs, engineers with great ideas, VCs, Angels and anyone else who wants to build systems, platforms, products or services using elite level Ruby on Rails development.

Come join National Instruments engineers and developers for a discussion of tips, tricks, and best practices of working with LabVIEW. In this user group you will network, ask questions, and share code with fellow LabVIEW users when we meet every 3 months.

Good morning African American web professionals. If you professionally develop code, media, content, or strategy for the web, please come and join us for a networking waffle breakfast.

Welcome to the meetup! We're just getting the ball rolling here. We have secured a location (http://www.connectionssf.com )  for our labs and meetups, Look here for an announcement about the first meetups in 2013, coming very soon! What is Lean UX about? Lean UX is about learning more faster Lean UX is about getting more done & better ROI for the same investment Lean UX is about replacing time spent polishing design artifacts, with time spent polishing your design. Lean UX is about doing resea …

An Internet of Things (IoT) community group for the East Bay Area of San Francisco. Following on from IoTLondon, IoTAmsterdam and IoTNYC - we are opening a new community in the East Bay. Here's what our London Group are doing this week http://www.meetup.com/iotlondon/events/57537982/ Join for informal discussions, short presentations and socialise with fellow IoT Enthusiasts. Whether you are a hobbyist, maker or work professionally in this subject - come along for an evening out. Me …

The East Bay Ruby Meetup Group is for anyone interested in learing or sharing experiences with "Ruby" or "Ruby on Rails". We meet every third Tuesday of every month. (Brought to you by the UC Berkeley RadLAB. http://radlab.berkeley.edu/) Note to recruiters: The mailing list is for technical and informational postings only. There is a message board reserved for job postings, please use it. (Will Sobel) If you have trouble getting into Soda hall, give me a call at: 510-684-6400. (Just don't gi …

Come discuss Javascript with some of the most talented programmers in the East Bay. Show off some of the cool projects you've been working on and talk about everything happening in the JS community. Let's share tips, tricks, hacks and frameworks! We don't have a JavaScript group in the East Bay so I thought I'd start one. Our first topic is an intro to Node. Come check it out! Logo provided by Oakland's Where It's AT-AT. http://www.oaklandiswhereitsatat.com/

Get together with other hackers and engineers to share experiences and tips for getting the most out of the Raspberry Pi. We'll also post and promote Raspberry Pi-related events by others.

This group is for people of ALL skill levels and users of ALL versions of Microsoft Access. We also include SQL server topics in our discussions. This group typically meets monthly at various locations in the San Francisco East Bay. We were previously named the Berkeley Access Database Users Group but have expanded our area of geographical coverage and our area of technical coverage.

We will learn about intellectual property issues—how to acquire, maintain, enforce, and defend against. In addition to intellectual property attorneys and agents, anyone dealing with intellectual property issues is welcome to share their knowledge and experience. This group is about patents, copyrights, and trademarks.

We are a "hackerspace", a colloquial term for a group of people who gather together in order to DIY technology and art, exchange knowledge, and pool together resources and tools. Members have access to 3d printers, laser cutters, CNC routers, woodworking tools, computers, etc.

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!

BIG strives to demystify the video gaming industry for people of color. We assist individuals in evolving from consumers to producers of video games and apps. To accomplish our goals, BIG provides networking, outreach, mentoring, and entrepreneurship guidance to professionals and students.

We are the CSUA leadership, former leadership, and hosers! We will reconnect monthly and do random awesome things! [Internal] events  == in Berkeley. Everyone on this meetup implicitly invited. Geared toward current students. Any hoser or officer can create an internal event! [Alumni] events == in Berkeley, SF, South Bay, or maybe even Seattle; who knows? Everyone on this meetup implicitly invited. Geared toward alumni. Any alumn can create an alumni event! Event ideas: Ballmer's Peak, nerd …

This group welcomes both business and legal professionals. If you’re in business, you’ll inevitably come into contact with attorneys. Let’s listen to attorneys give presentations on ways to avoid legal pitfalls and/or succeed in business legal matters. In the end, you’ll learn how to avoid a lot of wasted time and legal bills. If you’re an attorney, join our events for legal professionals to help plan the presentations and to strategize, network, and collaborate among fellow attorneys and legal …

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!

AFWA is "Education, Inspiration, Networking and Fun" and is a member-driven organization. We increase your technical knowledge, skills and abilities, help in keeping members abreast in their field of expertise and provide career management, transition guidance and assistance. Our benefits include: • Business contacts locally and across the country • Personal and professional support • Scholarships for new and returning students and displaced homemakers • Job referral network • Leadership opportu …

We are Access/Excel users and developers and are looking to spread the word about how some fancy tricks in Microsoft Excel (VBA Functions, automation) and a few power user procedures Microsoft Access can improve your work performance, take a load off your mind, fingers and eyes and turn nightmares into dreams with the click of a mouse. We will have free lessons and discussion about solutions.  It's a great way to network with other data professionals and learn how to use some of the advanced fun …

I would like to start a meet up for people interested in learning software testing and methodology.

Our mission is to educate and support our community about Autodesk developments, tools and best practices in computer animation. We are a social group formed to serve the needs of highly talented individuals. We gather to discuss technical issues in animation and computer graphics. Covering all aspects of Entertainment and Serious Games.

Hi there, If you're looking to start an apparel manufacturing business, you've come to the right place.  The purpose of this group is to direct people to the resources they need in order to gain knowledge about creating a successful apparel or sewn products venture.  There will be invitations to classes and lectures about how to write a business plan, how to approach resources you need in order to get your product developed and finally mass-produced in S.F. or Oakland.  There will also be real w …