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 …

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

THIS IS ONLY A TEST USER GROUP - WE ARE EVALUATING NEW PLATFORMS FOR THE USER GROUP PROGRAM INCLUDING MEETUP.  THIS GROUP WAS SETUP IN ORDER TO DO A FULL FEATURE ANALYSIS OF MEETUP.

Introduction The SF/Bay Area Ableton Live User Group is for anyone interested in Ableton Live, music production and performance. The goal of the group is to create a community around music making and performance through the sharing of ideas, projects and lectures on a wide variety of Ableton and music production related topics. This group is rad! Meetings These meetings center around User Group members sharing their projects with the group alongside lectures given by Ableton Certified Trainer …

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.

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 …

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.

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.

Meet other local Lightroom users and the Adobe Lightroom team to trade tips, tricks and ideas. Be a part of a great community!

An independent user group for Ping Identity customers and other interested parties. This group is driven by customers; supported by Ping Identity. If you are interested in federation identity, identity and access management, or Internet-scale identity, this might be the group for you.

Meet other local Photoshop users and the Adobe Photoshop team to trade tips, tricks and ideas. Be a part of a great community! Join us on our PSUG website at http://switchblade-studios.com/psug

The Drug Users Union is an international organization dedicated to the development of leadership and civic engagement/activism in drug using communities worldwide. The so-called War on Drugs has caused far more harm than it has prevented--not only to drug users, but indeed, to society as a whole. The stigma created by WoD propaganda serves only to demonize drug users, transforming us into one of the most unfairly scapegoated communities in the world. When we internalize this manufactured stigma, …

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.

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 …

We all love the breakthrough platform for startups called AngelList [http://angel.co/]. It's time AngelList has a User Group. This cluster will share experience about how to get the most from AngelList. Like the best user groups, we are independent, sponsored by users only. Join us to continuously develop your expertise with AngelList, share stories, have some impassioned conversation and hopefully a lot of fun.

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. …

Silicon Valley New Technology "Entrepreneurs & Founders Showcase" is one of the first meetups that also welcomes consumers.  At the end of the day, all new technology will find its way to the end user! At this meetup, investors, co-founders and consumers will have an opportunity to be early adopters of the New Technology being launched in Silicon Valley! All types of technology are included with the purpose of educating, investors, co-founders, end users, dealers and consumers about the features …

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 …

The Pivotal Tracker User Groups are a forum for product managers, project managers, entrepreneurs, designers and developers to share techniques and discuss the real day-to-day issues surrounding software project management. We’ll talk about upcoming Tracker features and look at third-party integrations. We'll discuss story estimation techniques and talk about what makes a good story. We’ll share our experience with agile planning, discuss patterns and anti-patterns of story management and accept …

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 …

Druid is a distributed, column-oriented, real-time, interactive analytical datastore. It was created to allow consistently fast, multidimensional ad-hoc drill-down type querying for large quantities of data - in real time. If you're searching for a solution beyond what proprietary column oriented, or in memory data stores offer both in price and capability - then join us. The Bay Area Druid User Group is dedicated to bringing together users and developers of Druid to exchange knowledge, insight …

This is a meetup.com mirror for the Bay Area Haskell Users Group. We'll post meetups here whenever a new one is announced by the Bay Area Haskell Users Group coordinator. As a member of this group, please feel free to post the meetup here when you receive the announcement email from the BAHUG mailing list. BAHUG also maintains a Google calendar, which you can subscribe to using the following links: XML: https://www.google.com/calendar/feeds/rkfrhp7lgdr71kdv3m53pa2j9k%40group.calendar.google.com …

Public transit has the potential to be awesome, moving us around our city quickly and easily. But sometimes it really sucks. Buses are never on time, routes can be unfamiliar, and connections are difficult. On the other hand, taxis are too expensive, hard to find and there is no easy way to share a ride with other users. The latest evolutions in transportation provide enough data to plan and develop new mobile apps, where no operative intervention of dispatchers (or other external agents) is req …

This is a community of mobile product managers, UX researchers, developers, and designers who meet to share our experiences with the process, challenges, and joys (!) of developing mobile products (apps and mobile web too!) There are lots of awesome Meetup.com groups that focus on the dev/tech side of building for mobile. The emphasis of this group is on research, requirements gathering, definition, UX, product management, and design of mobile apps and sites. Come on over, we'll put on a fresh p …

Helping teachers grow by addressing common pain points in professional development. In our continuing efforts to encourage Innovative Professional Development (iPD), the Foundation has identified the opportunity to engage various stakeholders in solving some of the common challenges faced by school districts as they implement iPD systems.  While district iPD systems may ultimately consist of a variety of applications from multiple vendors, these applications should work together seamlessly as a …

You developed an awesome mobile app, but to make it successful you need users.. quickly. This group will have lot of activities with only one focus - how to get more users for your mobile app. The intended members of this groups are app developers, founders of mobile app companies, but anyone who likes to be part of app marketing and customer acquisition is welcome to join.

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.