The purpose of this meetup group is to discuss GlusterFS - the world's greatest, open source distributed storage system.

Meet with other local Mozilla developers, QA team members and users to talk about opportunities for getting involved in the project. Learn about the tools that Mozilla uses to test Firefox. Become involved in a cool open source project that has helped Firefox to become the browser of choice for millions of people all over the world!

This group is dedicated to bringing the institutions and practices that constitute science into the 21st century. In recent decades, many disturbing trends have emerged that impede free scientific inquiry, slow lifesaving research, and otherwise impair the practice of science for the benefit of all humanity. Recently, the fledgling, International Open Science Movement has rallied around the promise of networked knowledge sharing possibilities. New P2P tools and paradigms enable science to fin …

We believe that innovations in biology should be accessible, affordable, and open to everyone. We’re building a community biology lab for amateurs, inventors, entrepreneurs, and anyone who wants to experiment with friends.   Welcome to BioCurious   Visit the BioCurious homepage http://www.BioCurious.org   BioCurious Community Lab Opened in Sunnyvale, CA Fall 2011!   Join the discussion at Google Groups http://groups.google.com/group/biocurious   Our successful Kickstarter campaign ( …

… Santa Cruz Web Developers is open to web students and professionals alike. We only ask that you respect the presenters, the space and the supportive atmosphere that we have created, and that you contribute to this good thing that we have going! Presentations are scheduled for the second Saturday of each month, from 10am-noon. We have been known to meet occasionally for an informal Coffee & Code at a local cafe. Meeting Protocol: Turn off cell phone before start of meeting. If you are l …

Plug and Play Tech Center's official Meetup.com page. We run Meetup style events once or twice per month.  Expect great speakers, great demos, great refreshments, and great networking in a startup friendly environment. Open to the Plug and Play community and registered Meetup group members.   Plug and Play Tech Center's Meetups happen at our Sunnyvale headquarters, home to over 250 startups trying to change the world. Or at least their industry.   Video from past event feat. Rich Won …

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. W …

With technologies such as Google Prediction API and mahout, it should now be easier to add for your website users: recommendations, separate ham from spam, and predict what newsletter content they will not consider spam. Let's explore and discuss these new technologies together and how we can use and efficienly implement/deploy them in our websites/projects/communities. Other applications of prediction/classification/clustering/collaborative filtering that I haven't thought of are welcome!

This group is for software engineers interested in discussing Linux related technology. Features and issues with the kernel. Techniques for development. Embedded Linux concepts. Sessions will normally involve a free technical presentation. Thanks to lewing@isc.tamu.edu and The GIMP for the Tux picture.

Bay Area Search Engineering Monthly Meetup Monthly presentation on topics of interest to search software engineers. Query Recall & Expansion (synonyms, spelling, autocomplete, related search) Machine Learning for Ranking (decision trees) Factor development for ranking (page factors, ecommerce factors) Search metrics (DCG, NDCG, RPref, etc.) Hadoop & Data Mining for Search (bipartite graphs, session analysis).

MakersFactory is a new educational maker space in downtown Santa Cruz, CA, where students of all ages will learn and use exciting new technology for 3D printing, modeling, animation, and robotics. MakersFactory students and members will be able to design, prototype, and manufacture a wide variety of items, from simple 3D objects to complex mechanical/electronic products. For more information, visit http://makersfactory.com and follow us on Facebook.

WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP & MySQL. This MeetUp group gives presentations and holds discussions about WordPress technical aspects and business applications. WP can be used under wordpress.com as a simple blog. Or, download the code from wordpress.org and customize your own Content Management System. It has many dynamic features, including a plug-in architecture and a template system. Technical details about blogging, wordpress.com, and wordpress. …

Hey there! I am posting this as a  Meetup to find others interested in talking about development with PHP CodeIgnigter or Expression Engine platforms. If you are, drop me a line and we will set up a meeting time. Thanks, Christian

… Computer Vision Techniques for High-end Visual Effects by Chris Bregler and Kiran Bhat, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the VFX branch of LucasFilm Mobile Visual Computing by Kari Pulli and Radek Grzeszczuk, Nokia Research Center Unity Technologies - Taking the pain out of game development by David Helgason, Unity Technologies Sirikata: Open Source Virtual Worlds by Daniel Horn, Henrik Bennetsen. Stanford Graphics Lab, Stanford Humanities Lab Ray Tracing with the NVIDIA OptiX …

Meet nearby MySQL Users for conversation and fun! Discuss anything related to the world's most popular open source database! Network with MySQL experts and fellow opensource enthusiasts. Learn, share, develop and contribute!

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