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 …

We're expanding the focus of our group. Our aim initially was to get our members up-to-speed with Android mobile development. Now we're expanding our focus to include other Google technologies and mobile technologies.

Glitch is a browser-based MMO created by Tiny Speck. Check it out at glitch.com. Our development community focuses on enriching the Glitch world and expanding it across multiple platforms. To promote the creation of new and exciting apps, Tiny Speck released a developer site, developer.glitch.com. There you will find Glitch APIs, iOS and Android SDKs, graphic packs, and developer tutorials. We are excited to see new apps and mobile games that utilize the Glitch API. Look here or on the developer …

Mobile Monday Silicon Valley is one of the largest mobile industry user groups in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since 1999, MoMo has been bringing together mobile enthusiasts for education and networking events. With the fantastic growth of the industry, a significant portion of more than 6,500 MoMo SV members have backgrounds in non-technical fields, such as business, marketing, finance and legal. But we want to make sure the actual mobile builders – yes the coders - can come together to collabor …

This is a group for anyone interested in learning Android mobile development. No programming experience required and we plan to hold free workshops to help people get started with learning programming fundamentals, the fundamentals of Java and building real-world Android applications. Interested in a full-day workshop covering to learn Android development? Check out Introduction to Java (no programming experience) or Introduction to Android (Java experience required)

A community of Developers passionate about building and hacking epic APIs. Based out of our Hacker House in SOMA, we believe in the power of REST, Animated GIFs, and authentic Italian food.

This is a group for people interested in learning all there is to know about Google's new location-aware information application called Field Trip. It's particularly useful for developers interested in adding their own content to the Field Trip database and developing applications that will run with or incorporate the Field Trip app.

This group is focused on helping Developer Advocates and Evangelists to share tips, stories, best practices, developers, anything related to nerd shepherding. This group isn't for: Marketing or Recruiting This group is for: Those who run in the developer relations space / Anybody who wants to contribute to the community and share stories and ideas

Meet others interested in developing apps on Google App Engine. This meetup has a strong programming focus, so talks showing working code and workarounds are actively encouraged. Each meetup will have a reasonable amount of time for informal lightning talks to show members' work.

This group is for software engineers who utilize Eclipse to develop applications of any variety.  We will meet and have presenters, social networking, job opportunities and more. Our meetups will be held between San Francisco and Silicon Valley on a monthly basis. Networking is about building mutually beneficial, strategic and productive business relationships.  We are trying to develop a community of hands-on software engineers who utilize the Eclipse environment and  are interested in JAVA, An …

We are creators of products and our medium is software (and sometimes hardware). We are designers and developers, facilitators and managers, students and teachers. We know building a product is different than writing code or generating designs. Tinderbox is the intersection of product, design, and technology. Our goal is to create a place where folks who are interested in building things people use can discuss, share, meet, create, and exchange useful feedback. Carbon Five is the sponsor of Tind …

On February 15th, we are strongly encouraging developers and charities to show up at the centrally located Microsoft Office at 835 Market Street in San Francisco, in the same building as SF State and the Bloomingdale's Store. Location: San Francisco Microsoft office - 835 Market Street, 7th Floor. Right in the heart of San Francisco's premier shopping venue - Market & Powell. We are planning aGiveCamp, which is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrato …

Welcome! We are the hacker collective. A San Francisco based group passionate about rapidly creating new and exciting things. We tinker with all forms of new technology; hardware, software, music, art, design and whatever else. We try to meet once a month to demo and talk about the things we've been working on. Occasionally we'll get together informally to hack on things together.

To apply for a demo, please use the on-line form. This group aims to be the point of contact between User Experience Professionals (product managers, designers, researchers, front end developers, technical writers, customer support professionals) and the developer community in the Bay Area. The purpose of the group is to help the User Experience community talk to who needs us, help you network and find new gigs with some exciting startup that need some UX love and care. Although the main focus …

What is Lean Coffee? Lean Coffee is a structured, agenda-less meeting.Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking.Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. Who should attend? Everyone! From beginners to seasoned Leanists. Why attend? You like good coffee don't you?! ;-) And there are always great topics brought to the table; everything from "lean startup in large organizations" to "collective quality ownership" and "cus …

The Bay Area Agile Leadership Network (BayALN) was founded in 2006 to support a community of practice in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. We provide a forum for sharing practical experiences and advice. We also explore and develop Agile techniques, understanding and practices at the project, department, organization and enterprise levels.

A meetup consisting of casual evening talks and demos on the challenges and solutions of building and maintaining Wikipedia and associated sites (Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquotes, …) at the scale of a top five Internet site with over half a billion monthly uniques. This will be followed by Q&A and other informal lively discussion before and after. This consists of a range of topics such as the MediaWiki software (one of the largest open source web projects), website architecture and inf …

I'm reviving this group to transfer over the members from the Alameda Public Library Android Classes (which is now called the Alameda - Google Developer Group). This is both to expand the geographical location we're going to have our meetings in and to keep a more Android-topic focused group (while the Alameda - GDG is currently expanding its topics to non-Android related topics as well).

Client/Server Cloud hosts events for developers building applications in the cloud. Our goal is to have the highest quality speakers on the latest technologies such as Node.JS, NoSQL, Python, Platform as a Service etc. We will organize both formal, structured presentation-centric events along with informal gatherings to just chat.

Come meet once a month with other like-minded cloud and API hackers. Having trouble making time to finish that side-project of yours connecting Evernote to Facebook? See how much more you can get done with other developers around. Maybe you'll even meet your next co-founder. This MeetUp will occasionally have speakers from publishers of your favorite APIs, but really it's about getting together in a shared space on a consistent basis and finishing what you've let languish.

PrestaShop is an Open-source e-commerce software dedicated to innovative technology and providing online success for merchants and developers. We always want to grow our community and reach out to e-commerce lovers. We are looking to connect with PrestaShop users, web developers, web designers, open-source advocates, start-ups, and technology organizations. We welcome all individuals interested in providing suggestions, encouragement, or simply have questions about e-commerce. It is our goal to …

If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library, whatever. We're language and software/hardware agnostic, so it's all fair game. After you present, it's an open forum. The audience will ask questions and provide feedback. We w …

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!

A meetup for Twisted Python developers. If you are interested in event-driven networking in Python, come to learning sessions and sprints to see what Twisted is all about. If you already use Twisted, come to the sprints and and fix some bugs/add new features! http://twistedmatrix.com

Are you a marketer looking to apply the Agile principles & process your developers rave about? You've come to the right place. The Agile Marketing meetup will serve as a place to learn from and network with other pioneers in the Agile Marketing field.

Investor Ron Conway estimates real-time data is 1 percent to 2 percent of Web content (2009). In three years, it will climb to 25 percent of the content on the Web. That will make the market a $5 billion opportunity. “I think this is the next multi-billion dollar market.” – Ron Conway The real-time web has the potential to disrupt and fundamentally shift the way we communicate. This is THE meet-up to attend if you are shaping or wanting to know the people, technology and thought-leaders of the …

ERP (Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, SalesForce, SAP etc) Cloud Computing is the future!!! We'll be discussing the scope of this group soon. I'm looking forward to establishing a new cloud based ERP community for those interested in Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, SalesForce, MicroSoft, Google, Workday, Netsuite and/or anything related to ERP. Contact me if you have questions I want to dedicate community based knowledge sharing, awareness and best Cloud based ERP practice of any ERP applications through case …

What is Techmeetups? TechMeetups has been setup to create a global network of Tech communities from San Francisco to Sydney. We believe that Tech communities are isolated and great things can be achieved if we connect within our cities and outside our borders. Our goal is to create a global Tech cluster of over 50 inter-connected Tech communities by 2013. Our global community started out with the launch of the London Silicon Roundabout Tech community in December 2010. Following it's success in …