HBase is a robust, scalable, distributed, column-oriented store capable of hosting billions of row of sparse, structured data. HBase is open source and part of the Hadoop project. This meeting is for users and developers. Discussions will be around the most recent release of HBase, any issues users are having, and to help plan for the next release. Definitely come if you're a current user of HBase; or if your company has plans for a huge data store and you're evaluating solutions. Also check out …

The San Francisco Symfony Meetup is a forum for open discussion, networking and learning about the best PHP framework out there. The people there generally have an above-average grasp of symfony so it's a great place to get your questions answered. Join the club on Sensio Labs Connect! Symfony website: http://www.symfony.com/ | http://www.symfony-project.org/ Brought to you by: Sensio Labs & ServerGrove Potential Topics: How to get started with Symfony What's new for Symfony? How to build yo …

Come join the Bay Area TYPO3 Users Group. Whether you are totally new to TYPO3 or a seasoned developer interested in networking with other TYPO3 users, this is the place to expand your skills and do a little networking. http://typo3.org http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=25... San Francisco TYPO3 Camp

Semantic Garage is at the cutting edge of semantic and natural language processing. It's where new web companies in the semantic space can showcase live demos and where open discussion and debate about the future and philosophy of semantic technologies emerge.

Welcome to the San Francisco HTML5 User Group—the largest HTML5 Meetup in the World! We have free monthly events in San Francisco with presentations by the industry's leading experts in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and other cutting-edge web technologies. Past speakers have included HTML5 superstars like Paul Irish, Bruce Lawson, Steve Souders, Divya Manian, Brian Leroux, PPK, Faruk Ates, Rob Hawkes, Peter Lubbers, and many more. We enjoy free food and drinks from our generous sponsors and encourage …

We're interested in open source, open data, and data governance as it applies to cloud computing.

We like scaling big systems, do you? ArchCamp is a meetup for engineers, by engineers. The goal is to talk about building systems (often at high scale) without having to listen to any sales pitches. Event format: 20 min - mingle & discussion about the last event 40 min - lightning talks 5 minutes. (laptop setup is on your time, not ours) 60 min - open discussion about the topic du jour We have a meetup every 4 to 6 weeks The cornerstone event for this meetup is the ArchCamp unconference. We ar …

Welcome! We are a group of developers, enthusiasts and users interested in the technical aspect of different geo technologies. This group is meant to be an open, friendly, technical forum where you can find answers to your geospatial questions or learn more about Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A cool geo-project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUU5xSeSaHo&NR=1 If you ever had "traditional" questions like/about: - What is the best way of storing the locations for my mobile app? - How do I …

After hosting an impromptu JRuby Meetup in San Francisco after JavaOne, we realized we were on to something. We've decided to host monthly meetups open to any enthusiastic, interested folks in the area who wanted to join us to learn about JRuby. All experience levels welcome. To cater to San Francisco and Peninsula attendees, we'll rotate meetup locations alternative between Engine Yard HQ in San Francisco (in SOMA, within walking distance from BART), and at LinkedIn HQ in Mountain View. If you …

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 …

The goal of this group is to connect, help and educate BlackBerry developers. We are looking to have monthly meetings. This is a very informal group so we are open to suggestions and feedback on what each member wants out of this group. Feel free to suggest topics for discussion, show off your latest app or what you've learned, or just come to the meetups and meet some other BlackBerry developers. This group is also on Twitter at @BBDevSF

The Bay Area Open Sangha exists to allow people to practice and study the Buddhadharma, the teachings of the Buddha, without concern for sectarianism or the historical lines between traditions of Buddhism. This is not to say that these lines are ignored and traditions are mixed without reflection or regard to their conflicts. The Buddha taught many ways to practice the Dharma and his teachings have come down over two and half thousand years to this day. Many of the differences in doctrine and pr …

The Ember.js San Francisco Meetup is the first Ember.js meetup group, in the birthplace of Ember (we think). Let's get together periodically to talk about code, eat, drink, and generally geek out. See you there!

Have a cool data visualization to show? Questions to ask? Want to meet others who have a data driven mindset? Let's meetup and talk d3.js! http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

An Internet of Things (IoT) community group for the East Bay Area of San Francisco. Following on from IoTLondon, IoTAmsterdam and IoTNYC - we are opening a new community in the East Bay. Here's what our London Group are doing this week http://www.meetup.com/iotlondon/events/57537982/ Join for informal discussions, short presentations and socialise with fellow IoT Enthusiasts. Whether you are a hobbyist, maker or work professionally in this subject - come along for an evening out. Me …

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!

This group is to discuss sensor technology and applications, and we welcome hackers, entrepreneurs, health-care professionals, scientists, quantified-selfers, the DIY community, and anyone else who is excited about sensors and sensor data. We also have a FB discussion group: http://bit.ly/sensorites

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 …

Our goal is to make R more popular especially among women. Inspired by the awesome PyLadies group, I decided to create R-ladies. Anyone with an interest in R is encouraged to participate. It doesn't matter if you never used R or if you are an R expert. The goal is to promote R, exchange knowledge and create a network among women. Come and join us! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ About R: R is a langua …

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 …

This is a group for anyone interested in open source coding on sites like Github and BitBucket. Let's get together and discuss the challenges, ways to get better and how to drive adoption. I'll work on getting the drinks and food together, you work on getting yourself there. Let's connect.

We meet in Downtown San Francisco and discuss iOS and Objective-C related topics, meet other developers and other interesting folks. Tech talks, workshops, hack-athons and more. Meet other iOS developers, find out about interesting projects and opportunities for work and potential employment. Join the group and you'll get a weekly NSMeetup newsletter. Please No Recruiters or Job Postings. If you are interested in posting a job please contact the organizer - Steve Derico. Speaking at NSMeetup If …

Let's use open source technology to fix the financial industry! Large financial institutions caused the Great Recession, but regulators have not reformed them. Before the next crisis hits, let's create a suite of open source financial models and feed them with big data. We can use these technologies to figure out which assets are risky and which aren't. Rather than wait for top down financial reform from Washington DC, we can do it from the group up.

OpenOakland, a Code for America Brigade, is a civic innovation organization that brings together coders, designers, data geeks, journalists, and city staff to collaborate on solutions to improve how our local government serves all citizens of Oakland. We draw on our wide range of expertise and perspectives to build open-source applications and working relationships that promote civic innovation and open government in Oakland. Our projects range from events like CityCamp and the Open Government P …

What is Ripple? The way moving money should be — simple, global, open, and practically free. Ripple is an open source person-to-person payment network — a simple way for anyone in the world to send money to anyone else at practically no cost.

Calling all developers, designers and thinkers! Come together to build open source tools and communities to enable the annotation of the world's knowledge.

The Bay Area meetup for all things workflow and process automation related. Why not come together for business and technical discussions? From how to add forms to workflow, to getting started with BPM, let's share our experiences here. Brownie points if you're also an Open Source and/or Java wiz.

Meet other developers and ops engineers using Docker. Docker is an open-source engine for building and deploying cloud applications as standalone containers which can run on any server - from the VM on your laptop to the largest EC2 compute instance, and everything in between. Docker is a great building block for deploying web apps, database services, service-oriented architectures, and so on.