This group is for San Francisco Bay-area Web and Mobile Designers/Developers who wants to barter skills. When signing up, let the group know what skills you possess and what skills you are looking to learn. For each meetup, we will pair people up with complementary skills for two hours - one hour to teach, one hour to learn. You should join if you want to learn a new programming language, a new software framework, a new designing tool, etc. The most effective way to to learn is by observing and …

Meet with other web site system administrators, developers, designers and business people who're interested in making their sites work fast to get better user experience, lower abandonment rates and more money.

Freelance web work is lonely and isolating. We want to meet others that we can socialize with, learn from and maybe work with. All web disciplines welcome - design, development, IA, project management, whatever.

This Bay Area meetup is for all interested in Javascript, Ruby, and the Node JS Platform. The idea is to get together, network and share experiences, designs, components, best practices, learn something new and so forth.

Good morning African American web professionals. If you professionally develop code, media, content, or strategy for the web, please come and join us for a networking waffle breakfast.

This meetup is designed to help understand what HTML5 is and how we can use it now. We'll explore the new elements and have some fun debates about browser implementations and new api's. We'll also take a look at the relationship between HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript on both desktop and mobile devices using Responsive Web Design. The meetup is great for the technical web designer/developers, but we encourage anyone to join who wishes to understand HTML5 better.

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 …

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 …

To apply for a demo, please use the on-line form. This group aims to be the point of contact between User Experience Professionals (product managers, designers, researchers, front end developers, technical writers, customer support professionals) and the developer community in the Bay Area. The purpose of the group is to help the User Experience community talk to who needs us, help you network and find new gigs with some exciting startup that need some UX love and care. Although the main focus …

This group is designed for developers looking to discover APIs and services that can help speed up and modularize their development and so time is not wasted re-inventing wheels. We will meet and learn the ins and outs of a new API every week, and why that API is relevant to development. Every API demo will be fun and engaging, and the goal of this meetup is not only to learn, but to also have a great time and make friends!

At OkCupid Labs, we're focused on building great technology to connect and match people. The Labs Technology Meetup group is a forum for intellectually curious engineers, math geeks, designers to meet up and talk about new product prototypes and data systems that help people in their search for connections both on and offline. We're big fans of: Lightning talks Skills workshops Happy Hours Great design User-centric development Some of our Meetups will focus on: Ruby, Rails 3, Backbone, Heroku, P …

Our group is a community of people involved in the creation and delivery of content, including web writers and editors, content strategists, and content managers. We meet monthly to further our shared commitment to creating more effective online and interactive content, network, and grow. If you're interested in content strategy or web content, please join us!

This meetup is for the purpose of networking among an ever growing but over looked group of creative people. If you're in any industry of creativity including but not limited to: Art, Fashion, Music, Web Design, Film, Hair&Makeup, Photography, Videography, Performing Art, or Modeling. Join our group! We will be posting tons of different networking opportunities going on around San Francisco for people in the Creative-Industry; by profession or hobby, come join us, "There's alot of us, Let's meet …

Welcome! We are the hacker collective. A San Francisco based group passionate about rapidly creating new and exciting things. We tinker with all forms of new technology; hardware, software, music, art, design and whatever else. We try to meet once a month to demo and talk about the things we've been working on. Occasionally we'll get together informally to hack on things together.

PageLines Forum is a community of PageLines and WordPress users, developers and designers. The Forum's priority is to improve communication between PageLines & its clients. We encourage anyone interested in using WordPress, (particularly Frameworks) whether it be for development or personal use, to participate in the PageLines Forum.

Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses …

This meetup group is dedicated to learning about the Magento eCommerce platform. Our goals are to stay current on Magento products and topics, discuss extensions and templates, share knowledge and experience and to network with people interested in Magento. We welcome Magento Developers, Graphic and Web Designers, Magento Users and anyone interested in selling products online.

Join our meetup group for events centered around building with Twilio cloud communications, design and development, APIs, and more.

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 …

Opa is the ultimate framework for JavaScript. We've decided to create this group to help people to discover and try Opa. We'll regularly organize events and hackathons. The goal is to give you the opportunity to work on a regular basis with Opa and with other people, to ask all the questions you have and to listen to all our advice. Our partner, DotCloud, will provide you lunch and drinks as well as some prizes for the best apps! Anyone with basic skills in web development is very welcome. We'll …

We are a community of entrepreneurs, artists, architects, designers, musicians, painters, photographers, writers, and creative enthusiasts exploring creativity and the intersection of art and entrepreneurship.

Every month the East Bay WordPress Meetup brings together both newbies and experts to talk about everything WordPress, from the features in new releases to favorite themes, plugins, and widgets, to specialized topics like SEO, theme design, customizing WordPress, and WordPress Multi-site.

This group is for anyone currently practicing open innovation in companies, startups, the social/non-profit sector or local government (any any other industry I may have omitted!). This group is also intended or for people who are interested in the topic and want to learn more. Our first meetup will be a discussion on what exactly we mean by 'open innovation'! Future meetups will include topics such as crowdsourcing, design thinking & innovation, and innovation through social networks.

We are a group of military veterans turned technology entrepreneurs, working to improve society by creating wealth through entrepreneurship. We are passionate about networking, coding, designing, exchanging ideas, and empowering veterans through entrepreneurship and innovation.

On February 15th, we are strongly encouraging developers and charities to show up at the centrally located Microsoft Office at 835 Market Street in San Francisco, in the same building as SF State and the Bloomingdale's Store. Location: San Francisco Microsoft office - 835 Market Street, 7th Floor. Right in the heart of San Francisco's premier shopping venue - Market & Powell. We are planning aGiveCamp, which is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrato …

Berkeley chapter of the Society for Technical Communication. We get together for a monthly meeting with a program and networking, but we'd love to have impromptu get-togethers of technical communicators as well.

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

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …