Following the theatre improv principles of "Yes, and...", non-judgment, and deep listening/participation, we have FUN with sound and music, made from instruments and our own bodies. This is like an adult PLAY group using music. So what does this have to do with CREATIVITY, TECHNOLOGY, INNOVATION, ENTREPRENEURSHIP, COLLABORATION, and KNOWLEDGE SHARING? Improvisation requires MAKING THINGS UP, MAKING DO WITH WHAT YOU HAVE, LISTENING, and PARTICIPATING. Give and take. Offer and receive. Lead and fo …

Hello--this is for service providers who focus on clients in the tech sector.

Join the OpenERP Meetup Group to discuss the application, the business model, the community organization, the company, the latest news, coding practices, sales techniques, implementation methodology,... Come and meet the team in our offices. This group is open to casual and expert users, existing and prospective integrators, business applications enthusiasts, and open source fans. We also webcast live if you can't make it in person! In the meantime, find more info on www.openerp.com.

Each time Silicon Valley booms different regions lead the way. With its hot new downtown and terrific location, half way between SOMA and downtown San Jose, Redwood City is already becoming the next hot spot for Silicon Valley start-ups. Whether you are an engineer, entrepreneur, executive, product manager, technologist, marketing, sales, VC or any role in the tech industry - drop by this friendly event and meet your fellow tech industry professionals.

Silicon Barn is not an incubator, accelerator, co-working facility, etc. Silicon Barn is something new. It is a Startup Launcher. Silicon Barn is dedicated to building Startups. A lot of entrepreneurs have a problem finding a technical co-founder.  A good Tech co-founder has 10 job offers. The best Techies are not qualified to determine the viability of your idea if they do not know the industry. The Entrepreneur is asking the Techie to work without pay based on a plan. The Entrepreneur may not …

This is a community forum for developers in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn, discuss, and extend the JavaFX platform. We meet monthly in person with presentations on JavaFX tutorials, topics, and bleeding edge news. Our meetings are always free to attend or watch online. IMPORTANT: Remote attendees should now sign-up for meetups. You will get asked whether you are attending online or local during registration, which helps us plan for food at the event. To attend remotely, please use the …

Compassion Technology is Self-discovery, Self-development, and Service via logical and technological extensions of mindfulness! We welcome developers, designers, tech-evangelists, and all other Good People who are trying to become even better through repeated daily practice, deeply honest self-appraisal, and dedicated inspired study. In particular, folks who practice meditation, prayer, yoga, or other forms of mind+body awareness are especially likely to find a home here amongst like-minded soul …

Connecting entrepreneurs, investors, technologists, hackers, autodidacts and educators who are willing to challenge the status quo of Higher and K12 educational structures. A community of people creating solutions.

The mission of the Cleantech Open is to find, fund, and foster the big ideas that address today’s most urgent energy, environmental, and economic challenges. The Cleantech Open has established itself as the leader in developing clean technology startup entrepreneurs addressing these challenges. Since its inception in 2006, 191 promising teams have availed themselves of the Cleantech Open’s one-of-a-kind hands-on workforce development, nurturing, and funding programs, with impressive results: * …

We are looking for people with startup skills.  It can be front-end, backend, marketing, bizdev, testing, etc. The biggest problem with joining a startup without funding is that it can be a time-sink.  The entrepreneur can have unrealistic expectations of unpaid work. SB is different. We don't hold hackathons.  We hold launchathons.  No ideas thought up on Friday and launching on Sunday.  The startups and entrepreneurs are vetted for weeks prior to development.  The tools are setup and provided. …

Welcome designers, developers and visionaries! Let's learn and discuss core principles for creating effective user interfaces, design strategy and user experiences for mobile devices. We will have industry leader guest speakers and cover the trends such as form factors UI, lean mobile UX, wearable computing, GPS, gestures, augmented reality, tactile experiences, sensors, commerce, tagging and more. Learning about industry practices and techniques for the most popular platforms, and next generati …

This meetup is for anybody trying to aggressively grow their SaaS startup. We all know the grim statistics on the chances of startup success: 3 out of 4 will fail. So how do you become the 1 in 4 that succeeds? What have companies like Box, Zendesk, Docusign, Marketo, FireHost, HasOffers, and others, done to skyrocket their revenue and become the poster children of startup success? One of the key secrets to their success is knowing how to use pricing and packaging to grow the business: acquire n …

Join us to learn about Oracle Big Data/NoSQL and related technologies, including use cases, new features and exciting networking with other professionals.

We love big data, analytics, innovation, and strategy. We're dedicated to smarter, more intelligent methods for using big data in analytics, social media, cloud, and business intelligence. To learn more, visit http://future-bi.tv/

We are a group designed to help anyone in search for information, resources and support to find a new job, change jobs or redirect a personal, professional or financial lifestyle. Looking for a job is difficult these days and can be a lonely time and we need to support each other with possible unemployment questions, insurance needs, housing ideas, etc. I am also looking for anyone who has services to offer to this group to help in our job search, i.e. resume writing, recruiters, headhunters, et …

Navigating through the interior design industry as a new designer/entrepreneur can be difficult. This is a group where new designers can meet and collaborate ideas with other people who understands and can relate to their situation. This is a group where we can share our design/business/client dilemmas and exchange helpful information. A place where we can get a chance to network, but also have the intention of helping each other succeed in this industry. In the future, this group will be expan …

Are you tired of updating profiles on Match, Plenty of Fish, Eharmony? Is self-advertising just too much that never leads to a connection? Tired of emailing potential love partners only to find out they are not who they say they are? After a long day at the office, do you want to relax with that special someone over a nice dinner but instead faced with rating profiles on online dating sites? I am one of those many single professionals who is tired of paying monthly subscription fees to online da …

This is a space for smart, creative folks who have left the academic track and are trying to find community and networking opportunities in the lively Bay Area innovation community. This is not a space to complain about academia, but rather where we can talk about how to translate skill sets developed for academia into tangible and fulfilling opportunities outside of the Ivory Tower. All are welcome, with a special invitation to those folks coming from the Humanities and "softer" social sciences …

EdTech Silicon Valley is a group that brings together entrepreneurs, investors, and other innovators to create a better education future. We meet up to learn about the latest news, meet the coolest new companies, hear from industry leading speakers and be inspired to contribute to the education revolution.

The arguments for the future of gamification and the pending importance of game elements in business tools to motivate and inspire people in their jobs are quite convincing. Come discuss the future of serious games and simulations and how your organization can benefit from them, meet and hear from thought leaders in the field (there are quite a few in our area), and learn to develop games that you can play at work and get promoted for!

Capital Engineering is a group about how we can use technology to bring order to the chaos of finance. It's a group for mobile, web and back-end developers and designers to learn and share their knowledge of building large, multi-client cloud-based systems. Things like architecting single page apps, advanced charting for mobile and Amazon's simple notification service are par for the course, which will typically be a two part talk complemented by food and drink. At Personal Capital we have devel …

Real Life Super Heroes, Masked Crime Fighters, Costumed Vigilantes, & Uniformed Mystery Detectives meet to share case files, organize citizen patrols, review investigations, analyze crime statistics, discuss law enforcement support, teach new techniques, tell success stories, plan charitable and educational events, send inspiring messages, and learn about resources for solving cases. Whether fighting crime, solving cold cases, researching records, or otherwise, this group is a support team for t …

Ideas, learning, experimentation, and conversation about graph data and its value to businesses and consumers alike. Located in Redwood City, the heart of Silicon Valley's Data Corner, the Lab explores the application of graph theory and emerging database and visualization technologies.

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.

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 …

This is a group for anyone who is a self learner, i.e. autodidact, a new word I learned recently. I started this group to meet and learn from fellow self-learners.

A group of people who used to work for Codexis, Inc in Redwood City, CA

This is a group for anyone involved or interested in learning and discussing new frameworks to achieve greater ROI when adopting Software Reuse. Our group will share real enterprise experience; achievements as well as challenges when implementing reuse methodologies. We will also discuss new technology that is changing the way software is developed and allowing Software Reuse to be fully realized with greater ROI then previously possible.