We are the Peninsula and South Bay Bicycling Group (PSBBG)! Without exception, we aim to be a clean fun group - no drugs, alcohol, or flouting of California vehicle code on these rides, other than rolling through a stop sign at your own discretion.  We do not welcome cross-posts or suggested rides with other groups which do not follow these guidelines. This group is for experienced group-riding road-bike riders. Owning a road-bike is a requirement to join the group, (as opposed to mtn bikes, hyb …

Bay Area Mountaineering Meetup (BAMM) Meet people who are interested in mountaineering, backcountry skiing/snowboarding, alpine climbing, rock climbing, trekking, backpacking, or simply day-hiking in the mountains. Whether you are currently training for a climb, planning your next one, or just looking to get into the sport, this is a great way to meet people of all experience levels. We do a mix of local meetups as well as trips all around the Sierra, California and the world. We are 100% non-co …

Meet other local current or aspiring engineering leaders who are interested in Engineering Leadership as a strategic competency. Discuss engineering leadership and its aspects: team-building, direction-setting, career planning, project experiences, education, certification, recruiting, organization structure, inter-departmental relations, etc.

Meeting other fabulous and fun girlfriends to hang out with! New in town, make new friends. Happy Bay Area girlfriends, women's social. Girls just wanna have fun. Join our circle of genuine 20s and 30s females, and let's have a good time! We are fun loving girlfriends. We have big hearts filled with passion and love! We are ladies who enjoy cocktails, girls night out, dancing, music, happy hour, and having fun in life! We are professional women with substance Who are willing to make a difference …

Welcome to VLAB on MeetUp, an extension of www.vlab.org. Established in 1990, The MIT/Stanford Venture Lab (http://www.vlab.org) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to promoting the growth and success of high-tech entrepreneurial ventures by connecting ideas, technology and people. We host one of the leading ongoing gathering of Silicon Valley's leading entrepreneurs, industry experts, venture capitalists, private investors and technologists to exchange insights about how to effective …

We are a community of Slackliners here in the Bay Area. Our aim is to promote and get more people involved in this great sport! It can be very meditative and relaxing and challenging and fun. We plan to hold weekly sessions in the Bay Area. We're currently re-energizing to meet at various locations in and around the Bay Area hoping to hold regular events in the South Bay, East Bay and North Bay areas. The beauty of slacklining is, we can setup on beaches, in parks, at events or just about anywhe …

How about having one group where you see your startup dreams coming true? How about meeting the Gurus/Mentors for entrepreneurship/legal/marketing/internet marketing/technology at one stop? And How about not spending a penny for all above? NOPAY is the place for you, whether you are an inventor or designer with product idea or if you have just re-engineered some ideas and you feel you can do better with a start up or if you are a thinker with an idea for startup or if you are a developer/comput …

This group welcomes both business and legal professionals. If you’re in business, you’ll inevitably come into contact with attorneys. Let’s listen to attorneys give presentations on ways to avoid legal pitfalls and/or succeed in business legal matters. In the end, you’ll learn how to avoid a lot of wasted time and legal bills. If you’re an attorney, join our events for legal professionals to help plan the presentations and to strategize, network, and collaborate among fellow attorneys and legal …

Bring people together to share how to make best use of Google+ and learn as it scales and grows. Wired's " Inside Google+ — How the Search Giant Plans to Go Social " plusheadlines.com/silicon-valley-google-plus-meetup-kickoff-with-mashables-ben-parr-500-startups From Google Plus Develop Relations Team to the developer community: To stay updated as the Google+ project develops and get a heads up when we have more details to share about Google+ developer opportunities, sign up here. Your emai …

Come meet other Dobie lovers. More importantly allow our dogs to socialize with similar size dogs. Group Guidelines -Owners must keep Dogs under close supervision. -Leash your dog in the park at the first sign of aggressive behavior. -Owners accept full responsibility for themselves, their pets & children. -Dogs in heat should be left at home. -Puppies & dogs are to be vaccinated & healthy. - Pick up after your dog & yourself. NO SOLICITING FOR BREEDING MALES/FEMALES IF YOU DON'T RESCUE, DON'T B …

Social media is still a new field and there are no experts. If you think you are a social media guru, this group is not for you. The purpose of this group is: 1. To bring together like-minded social media aficionados in Silicon Valley to learn from each other (the good, the bad, the ugly) and network, online and at monthly dinners at Silicon Valley restaurants (you pay for your own food/drink) 2. To plan and execute periodic (at least quarterly) presentations/ panels on social media topics This …

Basically, We Want You to Come Sing with Us. Are you a former or current member of a chorus or acappella group in search of a new outlet for your dazzling voice? Or maybe you sing in a band that performs on campus every now and then? Or maybe you're just a guy with a good voice who never really thought about pursuing it before? Then Pacific Standard might be the perfect ensemble for you! How's that for a marketing pitch? But seriously, we're a new men's chorus in the Bay Area that hopes to offer …

Join us for the Founders Space Roundtables, where founders gather to share knowledge and work together to solve problems. Roundtables are geared to founders and C-level executives of growth-oriented companies for exploring critical issues and business opportunities with peers and subject matter experts. Each Roundtable tackles a specific subject, such as negotiating a term sheet, creating a marketing plan, filing patents, raising venture capital, etc. The session begins with industry experts, wh …

This supportive group will follow the format towards a happier life as laid out by Gretchen Rubin in her book, "The Happiness Project". We will also consult her blog located at http://www.happiness-project.com/happiness_project/. Members may join at any time. All I ask is that you read the book before joining and come prepared to meet at least one goal towards furthering your own happiness!! Meetings will begin on a bi-monthly basis however we can meet more often as needed to support each others …

ZooKeeper is a centralized service for maintaining configuration information, naming, providing distributed synchronization, and providing group services. All of these kinds of services are used in some form or another by distributed applications. This meeting is for users and developers. Discussions will be around roadmap, any issues users are having, and to help plan for the next release. Definitely come if you're a current user of ZooKeeper; or if your company has plans for a huge data store …

Meeting other fabulous and fun girlfriends to hang out with! New in town, make new friends. Happy Palo Alto, San Francisco, Bay Area girlfriends, women's social. Girls just wanna have fun. Join our circle of genuine 20s and 30s females, and let's have a good time! We are fun loving girlfriends. We have big hearts filled with passion and love! We are ladies who enjoy cocktails, girls night out, dancing, music, happy hour, and having fun in life! We are professional women with substance Who are wi …

Join award winning UX designer Phil Dupré and team for a small, informal discussion at Maprehend about managing and collaborating on projects visually. Often times managing projects is too complex to depend on just words for communicating. We learn visually very easily so why can't we have a way to visually communicate easily? Especially when it comes to some of the most difficult things to manage? Like projects involving several complex facets with several complex people. Even if you’re sitting …

This is a crazy idea I have.  To create a kind of virtual, old-fashioned neighborhood of friends to do stuff with when its more fun to be with someone than alone. I have no idea if anyone else has a need for this kind of community, nor have I thought through the details of how to make it work.  I need folks to show interest, share ideas, and share in leadership. Purpose: Create horizontal community that transcends age and interests.  Community for the sake of community.  There is nothing wrong w …

Dear All, The Lean Enterprise and Continuous Improvement meetup is a social learning initiative designed to bring together SMEs, Quality practitioners, Business owners, Technologists, Business Analysts, Managers, Decision Makers, Product Owners, Product Managers; to plan, learn, discuss and share experiences, implementations, best practices, body of knowledge, metrics, methodologies, tools and techniques as applicable; to take an enterprise through a journey of Continuous Improvement with an end …

We represent angel investors and investment funds in the valley whom are providing seed funding for App. developers to grow their businesses. We will be planning a monthly meet where we invite all developers to pitch their ideas. We welcome any kind of idea as long as long as they are related to mobile apps or apps for IP T.V. Join our group, share your ideas, and a best date to meet se we can organize our next event this August.

Want to connect things to the internet? So do we, so much so that we made a company to make that sort of stuff rather easier and more accessible than it was before. To help people get started, the plan is to have regular hackathon type events so they can play with imps in a setting where there are other people doing the same sort of thing. Soldering will be encouraged, but you really just need some imagination. If you don't know what an imp is, see www.electricimp.com

Are you a hacker, coder, or engineer who actually wants to SELL the cool stuff you build? Then Marketing Nerds is for you! We're a growing network of technology startup entrepreneurs who have actually sold many millions of dollars worth of our technology and software products in the real world. Here are some of the topics we love to talk about: What Should I Build, and Who Will Buy It? - A specific technique you can use so you know exactly what to build, before you build it, that guarantees the …

Some think that teaching isn't fun until you learn. Others say that learning isn't fun until you teach. And we embrace both. One without the other does not make sense. because it is a cycle. The more you know, the more you can share and the more you share, the more you learn. So let's have fun doing both. We will cover various topics and various ages. The more diverse, the better.  Or you can suggest and we will plan and organize it and by doing so, we will uncover the beauty in research and dev …

CommCamp is an ad-hoc gathering of passionate folks who want to share, interact and spread the love around the topic of communication design and delivery. This includes everything from storytelling, handling Q&A, elevator pitches, visualizing data -- to revieiwng the latest presentation tools and techniques. Bring your questions, ideas, or even slides to share at our events! Founded in 2009 as PresentationCamp and offered in an unconference (open space) style around the world, we realized that t …

Women coming together and sharing the road to healthy eating, love and a harmonious life with soulful exercise and excursions, food tastings and meditations. Destressing, decluttering and body awareness included! We will be creating your own whole foods eating plan, address the underlying psychology of eating, look at the spiritual connection we have to food and do some self assessment exercises to get a snapshot of your current state. We will enjoy a safe platform to inquire within and explore …

This group is for COEPians who are interested in entrepreneurship. As a COEPian if you want to network with other COEPians in Silicon Valley to learn, share, help, be helped, bounce ideas, form founding teams etc, this is the group. We plan to meet periodically in a casual environment to accomplish the above.

The Silicon Valley Speechwriters Roundtable is modeled on the long-standing Washington Speechwriters Roundtable. It is a casual alliance of speechwriters who work with organizations located in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area who are interested in professional camaraderie, sharpening skills, sharing resources, and exchanging war stories. The group is open to anyone (no matter where you live) who currently works with Silicon Valley companies, or might like to do so. Our members might …

Going step by step how to get through the network of starting out, funding, and making money without giving away the company. In a pre IPO, investors are interested in sales and how they will see a profit. Your plan should be based on current sales. We talk about how to get sales and position a company to be attractive to investors.