We believe innovation happens when bright minds get together to discuss, share and implement their ideas. Our Mission: We want to enable great minds like yours and help you bring your passion to life with the support of a community of like minded driven individuals. Who we are : A startup community of engineers, designers, investors, advisors and entrepreneurs co-working on innovative ideas big and small. How we operate : We are a startup community facilitating knowledge sharing events, entrepre …

Environmental design, landscape, and horticulture/agriculture issues will continue to be a growing field! I'm seeking members who want to balance both practice and theory to engage in meaningful projects that either build our skills, or make a profit. I believe this approach is the best way for communities to prosper. A good way to achieve this would be to use environmental design programs, such as Foothill and UC Berkeley as templates. Here are some careers that these programs influence; Arbori …

There are DOZENS of game development events and groups with very specific topics in the Bay Area. Attempting to go to all of them is insane. Let's use this group to discuss what we've learned at other venues. This will be our crowdsourcing for indies project! This group is a place for independent developers who live near Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Los Altos to discuss design trends, platforms, tools, testing and sales techniques, the media, the IRS, lawyers, cloning, pirates, advertising, pub …

The WebGuild holds monthly events for web professionals in Silicon Valley. If you fall into one of these groups this is the perfect forum for you. 1. User Experience - web designers, localization specialist, qa, web analytics 2. Web Applications & SaaS - developers, architects or technologists and other on the web operations side. 3. Internet Marketing - Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization, web analytics and social media Our events provide you with a forum to learn abo …

Meet others interested in all aspects of Web, Digital, Social Game and Social Media Analytics. Gather to discuss key trends and updates around advanced analytics,as it applies to marketing and tech offerings, upcoming web, search, BI, sentiment analysis, reporting and predictive analytics software (Web Trends, Google Analytics, Net Insight, Omniture, etc.) Open to anyone interested in learning more and sharing thoughts about digital analytics, SEM, SEO and social media as it relates to web desig …

Let's build tomorrow's Smart Cities  and Networked Society together    A place for Mobile Web Apps developers, end-users, entrepreneurs, local industries and communities stakeholders involved in evaluating, developing and providing web and mobile web applications as well as anyone wishing to learn about the business opportunities and mobile lifestyle experiences the newly created Mozilla marketplace and other mobile web development environments (Participants in the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core C …

Greetings web, social, console, mobile game and application developers, game designers and entrepreneurs. You will recognize the Silicon Valley, San Francisco, East Bay IGDA Chapters and other Bay Area Game and application developer group friends here. All are welcome. Join us to grow and present your games and apps and related tools and platforms. Find other game developers for your projects. Get or give advice on design, funding, art, technical architecture, careers for your game or applicatio …

This is a group for any and everyone who has a goal of breaking into the advertising industry. I'm talking about all aspects from copywriting and art design to web development and digital creativity- any and everything that is going on in advertising today. The purpose of the group is to network with other individuals who are also on the way towards a career in the ad world, swap horror stories, talk about the ads that are grabbing peoples' attention, and even collaborating on each other's portf …

On a Hackternoon, Mobile meets Web meets Cloud. Use this Meetup to fill gaps in your personal tech stack. This Meetup has a strong educational focus through project deployment. We have no presentation; instead we learn by watching, asking, listening, and doing. We use a combo of Paired Programming, brain power, and a project deployment to help you stay caught up.  Usually we meet at a WIFI cafe or a co-working location like Ground Floor, Hacker Dojo, or NextSpace.

Meet start ups and PHP Developers near you! Come to a PHP Meetup to exchange ideas and talk about code, architecture, innovation, and open source in general. Anyone interested in PHP, LAMP, technology, and start up's is welcome!

The SVForum Software Architecture and Platform SIG offers a forum for members to discuss and learn about new and emerging technologies in software architecture, development tools, and platforms. At the monthly meeting, there is a technical presentation involving software tools, techniques, platforms, or architecture used to capitalize on an emerging market opportunity or solve an enterprise computing problem. Software tools include emerging functional languages such as Scala or F#, HTML5 or new …

This Bay Area meetup is for all the Flex, Flash, and AIR junkies working on Flex apps or want to get involved in Flex on the Flash Platform. The idea is to get together, network and share experiences, designs, components, best practices, learn something new and so forth. We have a strong relationship with the Adobe development teams and Evangelists who frequently present at our monthly sessions in San Jose and San Francisco. Website: http://www.silvafug.org Twitter: http://twitter.com/silvafu …

We are a collaborative community consisting of women engineers, developers, or who are interested in learning web development.  We make it possible for women who are working on their projects to ask for advice and get feedback from members of our group. If you are working on a project (or want to get started with your project), you can join our private Posterous blog. http://womenintech.posterous.com This will be our main place of discussion where we share our ideas and give each other feedback. …

We meet regularly to explore, discuss, and share Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques and general issues related to Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Our organizer, Bill Belew, is The Traffic Professor = his primary source of income is from blogging AND he pays his sizable Silicon Valley mortgage from his blogging revenue. He is also the author of the best-read How to Blog for Money and Web Traffic series. We will also explore topics related to SEO: social media marketing, blogging, affiliat …

Rather than focusing on one specific profession, we want to mingle with varieties of visual creators; graphic designers, interior designers, product designers, architects, videographers, photographers, filmmakers and more. Visual creators should have something in common and expand their expertise in different directions, but we all probably want to get inspired by other visual creators. The main activity of this group is social mixers, which help members meet new visual creators, get inspiration …

  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.