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 …

A group of passionate FreeSWITCH enthusiasts exchanging ideas in an open forum. We're here to explore not just FreeSWITCH but other telecommunications initiatives around open source telephony. The group will consist of formal trainings, informal install fests, lots of Q&A time and general time to just share ideas and meet people. This group is founded by Darren Schreiber - the author of FreePBX v3, FreeSWITCH's mod_nibblebill module and various other open-source telecom software. Meetings are …

This meetup welcomes conversation on the cutting edge of APIs, from cloud to business models. We encourage all developers, providers and consumers of APIs to gather and discuss innovations, opportunities and tactical or strategic problems faced. We've seen a lot of conversation and change going on in the API space, driven by cloud computing, SaaS, open source and other disruptions, and would like to get the community together to see how we can work together and come up with ideas on how to make …

The Gov 2.0 / Open Government movement has been steadily gaining momentum in the last few years. This group seeks to bring like minded individuals (both inside and outside of government) together to seek and create change. Developers, designers, and anyone with ideas are encouraged to join!

This group is a place for developers to learn more about MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented, nosql database. If you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions. We typically meet on the second or third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and enjoy a presentation on Mongo.

Hypertable is an open source project based on published best practices and our own experience in solving large-scale data-intensive tasks. Our goal is to bring the benefits of new levels of both performance and scale to many data-driven businesses who are currently limited by previous-generation platforms. Modeled after Google's well known Bigtable project, Hypertable is designed to manage the storage and processing of information on a large cluster of commodity servers, providing resilience …

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

A single place to find all events related to the jclouds open source project. This includes meetups, tweetups, conferences, webcasts, workshops, and training. All events are open to the public and free unless specifically noted otherwise.

The purpose of this group is to gather Gephi users and share ideas, contacts, datasets and good practices about the tool. Gephi is an open-source network visualization software (http://gephi.org). It is used in various domains to visualize and analyze large networks. This group is open to everyone interested in Gephi and is lead by it's co-founder.

We've been super enthralled with what the NYC Hack and Tell group has done, and we think it's high time to bring the same format to SF. 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 (did you just write a library to access th …

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

The WordPress Open Studio is designed to provide a supportive environment for individuals and groups to pool their knowledge and troubleshoot their questions. Learn the Basics on setting up a custom WP site. Explore features and Plug-ins that you haven't tried before. Resolve issues you may be having with your WP site. All levels of experience are welcome. Please bring your laptop! Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/WordPress-Open-Studio/273161206087797 _______________________________ …

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 …

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.

Open Source Research will be a quarterly research evening. Members will meet prior in order to choose rotating topics and plan test questions and design, facilitate testing 3 users on a rotating topic. Members all share the test results and can use them for their own projects, whether for their own startups or with their employers, to help further their careers. Test #1: Travel Industry with focus on Awareness/Pre-trip Research and In-trip experiences.

A group devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the San Francisco Bay area. Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data analytical solutions.

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.

Meet other developers using Meteor.  Share your knowledge, apps, and get feedback from others. Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

This group is for anyone interested in the largest open source billing provider and for jBilling users to exchange ideas!

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 …

Hello World! This is a group for Apache Wicket users in the SF bay area to meetup for discussions, panels, presentations, forums, and other events! Open to all types of wicket users

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

Lever is the company behind the Derby JavaScript MVC Framework. Learn more at http://derbyjs.com/

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.

Modern machine learning algorithms like Support Vector Machine, Random Forest and Neural Nets are producing very promising results on large scale datasets. However understanding what is happening inside the black box and the nuanced differences of various implementations can be challenging. Topics and presentations will include open source tools, real-world case studies and an occasional talk by a theorist.