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 Wong of Accel: ht …

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 (http://biocu …

BayLISA is the premiere system adminstration user group in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in the very early 90s after the fourth Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference, BayLISA has supported and educated systems, network, storage, virtualization, and other technology professionals in the Bay Area for over 20 years. We use Meetup to coordinate meeting attendance, announcements, and reminders. We have our official organizational presence on the web, inc …

Meet with other engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems. Sessions will typically involve a free technical presentation and open forum to ask questions.  Target Audience:  Engineers & Sys Admin's who are interested in topics such as scalability, monitoring, troubleshooting,  solving tough web operations issues, Unix/Linux, LAMP and automation. See a video introduction to the group here:  http://bit.ly/c59MWE Follow us on Twitter …

This is a group of users and others interested in using and learning more about open source business intelligence tools grouped together under the name of Pentaho. These include Weka (machine learning), Kettle for loading data into a database (ETL), Montrian (OLAP), and other java-based applications for reporting.

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 …

Santa Cruz Web Developers is an informal group of web designers, developers, appreciators and visionaries. Started in July 2008, the group is dedicated to the notion that we each have a unique angle and therefore something valuable to offer in this vast, ever-changing digital field. We take turns presenting topics of interest and value to the group, and occasionally bring in guest speakers to share their expertise. Topics range from color and design theory to xampp installation, debugging pages …

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.

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).

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

The Big Data Analytics Speaker Series is an Adobe/Omniture sponsored speaker series that is open to the general public. Meetings will be conducted monthly in a workshop style meet-up at Adobe's downtown San Jose headquarters and present expert speakers from academia and industry to discuss topics related to the analysis of big data sets and range from tutorials to expert roundtable discussions and cover analytical models to best practices. There will also be specific topics related to mobile, so …

Presentations, discussions, and implementations of In-Vehicle-Infotainment (IVI) or other vehicle / automotive projects emphasizing those utilizing open source or built with open source tools.  Safety, fuel-efficiency, and innovative enabling applications beyond entertainment are especially of interest, as are fleet vehicles, farming equipment, heavy machinery, marine and aviation applications -- all sorts of intelligent transportation systems. Non-coders who are more involved in business, polic …

The purpose of this Cloud Foundry meetup is to discuss opportunities related to Cloud Foundry & Open PaaS with a focus on building services that run on top of Cloud Foundry.

Founded in August 2005, WSO2 is a global enterprise middleware corporation with offices in USA, UK and Sri Lanka. Providing the only complete open source middleware platform, WSO2 is revolutionizing the industry by putting traditional middleware on a diet and introducing lean, powerful and flexible solutions to address the 21st century enterprise challenges.

#LSPE Meet-up has been an invaluable platform for engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems! LSPE-W is a much awaited extension of #LSPE providing a collaborative network and learning platform for women in technology. Our Vision: Build a vision for women in technology, and spotlighting thought leaders within the industry Provide problem solving for issues and challenges in Highly Scalable Environments Create a platform that would allow …

There are demands for good mathematicians to write algorithms that can churn through billions or trillions of data points and show where patterns emerge. The Economist data issue raised this issue as follows: "During the recent financial crisis it became clear that banks and rating agencies had been relying on models which, although they required a vast amount of information to be fed in, failed to reflect financial risk in the real world. This was the first crisis to be sparked by big data—and …

Apply software development principles to dwelling environments and optimize/re-invent live-work processes - start at futureLiving.info Imagine your very own multi-purpose dwelling environment that adjusts to your needs throughout the day and over the course of your life, inspires you to fully unfold your potential and effectively works to maximize your well-being/performance. Join the international community to create, build and own the open-source modular, extendable, mobile, service-based arch …

This is a group for anyone interested in Apache Drill, an open source system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets.

BAFUG ( Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group ) is a users group for Open Source Unix like operating systems, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our primary emphasis is on FreeBSD but enthuist of other Open Source Unix such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, NanoBSD, DragonBSD, etc. are welcome. Since BSD is the preferred base operating system for companies like Apple (Apple OS), Juniper, NetFlix and their products, BSD truly is one of the most robust and popular operating systems in the world. Companies, de …

Free Software = free society!  Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is sweeping earth bringing freedom to people everywhere.  Our little corner of the Libre Planet is the San Jose / Bay Area.  Come join the FLOSS evolution! GNU/Lindepence Hours Have an hour or so now and again to spend advocating for FLOSS? Want to get things fired up in your area? Want to raise awareness for both FLOSS and the Free Software Foundation's Libre Planet in Silicon Valley? Start an GNU/Lindepence Hour! They are …

This is a group for anyone interested in Open Source software and Open Hardware for the Internet of Things. I'd like to create an opportunity for engineers and programmers, entrepreneurs, hackers, makers, and enthusiasts from all areas to get together for networking and collaboration. The Internet and the Web today is built on Open Source software. Linux, Apache, Hadoop, Mozilla, Ajax, Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Memcached, MySQL; client and server and router software all developed by communities o …

The Association of C/C++ Users' Silicon Valley chapter is loosely affiliated with its UK-based parent organization. The Silicon Valley ACCU meets bi-monthly, once for a presentation and once as a workshop. Meetings are always open to the public and are free of charge.

This group is for software engineers interested in using and contributing to Netflix Open Source Platform components. Netflix has open sourced many components of our Global PaaS that provide best practices on creating and running highly available services in the Cloud.

Open to all interested in PyData, NumPy, SciPy, pandas, and all the cool new Python data tools.

What is CloudStack? Apache CloudStack (Incubating) is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable, hypervisor agnostic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premise (private) cloud offerings. Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foun …

This is a  group for anyone interested in learning and sharing information about the latest and greatest Open Source solutions for small and mid-size businesses. There are great cloud based or on-premises products as Open Source that we would like to introduce and discuss. Some other groups that may benefit from joining this group are: Small to Mid-size business owners, IT Professionals & Consultants, Start-up Companies, Educators, and .... All skill levels and expertise are welcome. We will try …

This group is open to all those interested in Apache Cassandra, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Solr, Hector, Open Source, NoSQL, DataStax, Apache Pig, and high scalability computing. Let's get together and share what we know.

This is a group for anyone interested in Contributing to the OCP Storage Community by: - Join the OCP Storage project, read the specs, offer comments and suggestions on the specs, help shape the direction of a spec as it is developing. - Feed ideas for new projects to the incubation committee. - Test out a prototype design. - Contribute a hardware or software prototype to a project.