"We are meant to be happy. That has always been something we strive for in this life. In fact, if we look at the motivations behind our thoughts and action conscious and unconscious they are all to get us closer to the feeling, or at least the idea, of happiness. Some of us have long asked why we cannot hold on to happiness. For all of the scholarship and human insights across the centuries, nobody has found a complete and enduring answer. Perhaps because it has been too close to see… The ans …

This group is for Drupalistas in and around Santa Barbara and Santa Barbara County, California, to connect and get to know each other. Most of our online communication (event announcements, job postings, support questions, etc.) are on our sister site at http://groups.drupal.org/sbdrupal

We are a group of people in the San Fernando Valley / Los Angeles area who love and use a variety of programming languages: Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Java, Clojure, Objective-C, C++, C#, C and many more. This group is for Software Developers only!

Santa Barbara Makerspace is a fun place to make interesting things with smart people. Our activities range from robotics and electronics to web development, mobile apps, and computer security. Come join us!

Hi, I'm sure most of you will agree with me that the technology landscape has been rapidly changing and most portable smart devices (phones and tablets) are going to play a major role in redefining how users use the World Wide Web. The coming months and years will take us through an interesting phase fueled with innovations and applications focusing on smart device usage in our professional and personal lives. This group here intends to focus on WWW IN Mobile along with fun,networking and job o …

This group has been created to bring together users of Alfresco Content Management. Technical and non-technical users are invited to become a member to exchange information, code, use cases, case studies, demos, ideas and to make new friends.

We're a group of Linux enthusiasts, from hard core hackers to people who just use Linux on the weekends. We don't judge, we're here to help, and we love meeting new people!

Ruby Power Lunch is a collection of some of the best ruby developers in the world. We meet about once a month for lunch to share ideas, challenges and solutions with our peers. In addition to monthly face-to-face meeting opportunities, we use the group discussion and mailing list to keep on the (b)leading edge of ruby tech.

Welcome to Maum Meditation! The ultimate freedom is to have a completely clear and free mind. The human mind is always changing and is always trying to add more desirable experiences. There is no end to this addition. The way to find peace and clarity is to know the real world, the True world, by subtracting the past that has been recorded and stored within the body and mind as pictures. There is nothing more valuable than one's mind. It shapes the entire world that one knows. Through subtracti …

This is a group based in the Santa Barbara area which gathers to discuss topics in machine learning. This includes, but isn't limited to: classification, clustering, graphical algorithms, information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence, game theory, computational learning theory, reinforcement learning, collaborative filtering, recommendation systems, and predictive analytics. The group will focus on using Python, R, and other open source languages and libraries for getting things do …

Los Angeles Accessibility and Inclusive Design Group We are accessibility and inclusive design practitioners of differing abilities who want to help practitioners who are either unaware of or hesitant to engage in accessible and inclusive design. Many of us work in large organizations with just one or two other colleagues in similar roles, as independent consultants, or in small businesses alone. This is a great way to meet other web accessibility and inclusive design practitioners. If you would …

Santa Barbara Hack Nights is a bi-weekly meet up for anyone wanting to collaborate on a software project, learn a new programming language, join other open source projects with current members, socialize with like-minded developers & designers, or just an excuse to drink plenty of caffeine! Get an opportunity to work with local developers and designers to build something! Jump in on a current open source project, or pitch the group on your own.

This for all those who want to hangout with other web technology aficionados. Topics include design, development, dev-ops, etc. This group isn't really about improving your search engine ranking or getting VC funding for your new mobi-social-dealio-vlog. We'll be talking tech, there are other groups in the area for the business side of things. Antelope Valley geeks welcome too. We're currently gauging interest and will plan meetings accordingly. Please join if you're even remotely interested!

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 Topanga WordPress Meetup Group meets on the third Thursday of every month from 6-8pm in the main meeting room of the Topanga Public Library. We will announce the topics for each session with time for open discussion, QA and time to socialize. This is a free event and open to all. We are Los Angeles based wordpress developers, designers, coders, marketing experts and bloggers united in our passion for the best CMS (content management solution) on the planet. We look forward to sharing ideas, …

This group will focus on the use of Amazon CloudSearch for the development and deployment of search applications. Amamzon CloudSearch is a fully-managed search service in the cloud that runs in the AWS cloud. Presentations and discussions will cover topics such as: Set up and getting started with CloudSearch Configuring search fields Relevance tuning APIs and integration Security Working with other AWS services User cases and lessons learned This group is for anyone interested in search technolo …

Meet up with us monthly to discuss all things Ruby and Rails!

Welcome to the Santa Barbara Cloud Meetup!! We are here to celebrate Santa Barbara as a vital hub for emerging cloud computing technology. If you are interested in meeting the smartest folks in town to learn about cloud infrastructure, AWS, cloud platform, cloud application, etc, please come hang out with us. You'd be surprised by how much you didn't know about cloud computing. ;) See you soon!!

R is a free, open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization, and is increasingly used in both industry and academia. The purpose of this group is to bring Santa Barbara R users together to exchange information and ideas. Depending on the group's interests, we might also want to expand our focus to talk about other topics related to data analysis, such as Python, GIS applications, and d3.js.

Los Angeles CoffeeScript CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath that awkward Java-esque patina, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way. Who We Are We're a group of professionals so in love with CoffeeScript we've developed our own tutorials. We're starting this meetup to show others why we enjoy developing in CoffeeScript and to interact with others who are also using Coff …

"I like writing beautiful code" "I code in the JVM" "I like 'open spaces' conferences" Is this you? If so, then you're one of us!  So join us at our next meetup as we hang-out together for code, beer*, food and fun! *Alternative beverages provided for the rest of us