The San Francisco chapter of GTUG aims to provide technical training on emerging google technologies, as well as to provide a environment that facilitates networking. GTUG SF will be hosted once a month in San Francisco #GTUGSF - Google Technology User Group  - San Francisco 

The 6Builder.com Meetup Groupis is a for 6Builder.com users and partners. Topics will include: Setting up and managing your account Making the best use of the tool User feedback User success stories Twitter marketing best practices Only those who have been accepted in to the 6Builder beta program should join.

This group is for techies who are interested in the Art of User Interface Design and it's principles and techniques applied to Software and other Media.

… This group is for current Hypertable users, future users, those interested in open source and large data issues and storage.

The Interaction Design Studio organizes workshops, discussions, and presentations aimed at discovering and sharing knowledge related to user interface and user experience design. We explore and promote useful tips and tools, including design patterns, HTML, CSS & JS templates, and prototyping systems that are useful to web designers and developers. We also host workshops aimed at bridging the knowledge-base gap that exists between designers and developers, especially in the freelance community.

Please join us as we gather to meet new people, learn new Illustrator techniques, and gain design inspiration from our community of users. We created the Illustrator User Group to bring all levels and types of creatives together to share ideas and information. We will learn from Adobe, expert users, and each other as we discuss all the robust coolness Adobe Illustrator has to offer.

Interested in learning how you can can integrate the best CMS on the planet into your website projects? Come join us at our Bay Area Joomla Users Group meetings. Whether you are a newbie just trying Joomla out for the first time or an advanced user interested in creating your own custom extensions, this is the right place to expand your skills and knowledge. The Bay Area Joomla Users Group is a public group. To engage, join the group by clicking "Join Us" at the top right hand side of the page. …

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 …

Mac users that love craft beer! Hoping to gather craft beer drinks that are also Mac users (developers, power users, and just plain fans). Looking to bring together 2 great passions with an eye on building a craft beer related iOS app. Sound intriguing? Let' discuss...over a beer of course.

This is a meetup for Bay Area users of Spark (www.spark-project.org), the high-speed Scala-based cluster programming framework. We'll be rotating among locations in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, and Berkeley. We'll also discuss other Spark-related projects, including the Hive-on-Spark port (Shark), and other new programming tools for big data. The meetup will include introductions to the various Spark features, case studies from current users, best practices for deployment and tuning, and futur …

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.

A San Francisco-based Hadoop user group focused on helping Hadoop users share experiences, problems and solutions, as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Hadoop-based systems.   Please fill out this short survey to help determine the best date/time for most people to meet - http://bit.ly/ajK26U.

Dedicated community for passionate Sitecore developers and end users devoted to learning new things and sharing experience about everything related to Sitecore CMS. Anybody can join. You can be either a beginner or experienced Sitecore developer, or end user.

We are the Bay Area Data Connectors user group for data.com, formerly known as Jigsaw.com. The group meets every 8 weeks, usually the 3rd Thursday of the month at 6:30. Users of Salesforce and Data.com are encouraged to participate! Our local Rainmakers and members are a deep resource of best practices, innovative thought, and creative methods to help everyone get the most of our data.com memberships.

A San Francisco-based Puppet user group focused on helping Puppet users share experiences, problems and solutions, as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Puppet-based systems. Anyone interested in Puppet should join.

This group is for San Francisco Bay-area Web and Mobile Designers, Developers, Information Architects, Usability Experts, User Experience Designers, Web Producers, Programmers, Flash Animators, etc. - anyone involved in the designing, developing, programming and implementation of web sites and mobile applications. At our meetings we'll network with others in the industry; compare the latest tools, trends, theories, languages and templates; trade advice on careers; share knowledge, tips and trick …