Join us! If if you want to meet fun and friendly Chinese speakers in the San Francisco Bay Area. All Chinese speaking people are welcome! =) ***Organizers speak Cantonese & Mandarin! ########################################## http://www.SFBayChinese.org ########################################## Organizers' contact information Alice Wang Facebook:  http://www.facebook.com/awang619 email: alice.wang@sfbaychinese.org Chris Chen Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/NiceChris Cell: (408) 966-09 …

TThe San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate Investment Association is an organization focused on Networking to find and build your power team. Through casual networking events, the San Francisco Bay Area Real Estate Investment Association is able to bring both new and old real estate investors together to get deals done and develop actionable investment plans that will lead to individual levels of success. If you are an individual looking for a better way to invest your money and time --then come …

This is a community forum for developers in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn, discuss, and extend the JavaFX platform. We meet monthly in person with presentations on JavaFX tutorials, topics, and bleeding edge news. Our meetings are always free to attend or watch online. IMPORTANT: Remote attendees should now sign-up for meetups. You will get asked whether you are attending online or local during registration, which helps us plan for food at the event. To attend remotely, please use the …

Women Entrepreneurs of the Bay Area, also known as WEBA. WEBA is a community of women movers and shakers who have a desire to connect with other outstanding and inspiring women leaders in the San Francisco Bay Area. WEBA welcomes you! Whether you are just starting out as an entrepreneur or a seasoned professional -- all are welcome at the Women Entrepreneurs of the Bay Area Meetup Group. Solopreneurs, professionals, coaches, consultants, speakers, and practitioners or any woman seeking a strong, …

The purpose of this group is to bring together working technology professionals (mentors) with local college students (apprentices) in the Bay Area to work on summer projects. We will kick things off with mixers for potential mentors/apprentices in the late spring. There will be separate regional mixers and ongoing BayTAP activities for San Francisco, the East Bay, and the South Bay. Teams of 2 or more apprentices working with 1 or more mentors will work in two week sprints over the summer. We w …

Hello, and welcome to BayScrum, a Scrum discussion and action group based in the San Francisco Bay Area, California. This group is for local people interested in practicing Scrum and exploring its significance and applicability in the world. An important aspect of BayScrum will be to investigate the potential of Scrum beyond the confines of its software development roots and find ways to take it into new industries. This group is primarily focused on Scrum as a framework for transformation; it …

The Genuine Networking Association was created to provide San Francisco Bay Area Business Professionals with an affordable alternative to meeting other like-minded business professionals. FREE NETWORKING!!! :-) We understand during these trying times that not everyone can afford to spend a lot of money on networking. Also, while we are not discouraging other groups, we feel that you don't need to spend a lot of money or waste your time at other events, that are not going to be the most productiv …

This group is for Games User Researchers or those that are interested in Games User Research in the San Francisco Bay Area.  In addition to keeping in touch on the Games User Research group on LinkedIn, we sought a need to organize face-to-face meetups to further build our community and facilitate the exchanges information and ideas.

Cuddle Club aims to help people: . learn boundaries . communicate boundaries . learn what you want . ask for what you want . say yes to the things you want . say no to the things you do not want

San Francisco & Peninsula Women's Social is a group for girlfriends, who are professional, educated, witty, fun, and have a sense of fashion and style. This group seeks diversity, looking for women from all around the world, living in the US. These women are happy with their lives. They have busy schedules, careers, happy relationships and they are only looking to meet real girlfriends. This group will provide an opportunity to meet like-minded women and make friends. So if you are one of these …

I started this group to create a connection for young moms in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you have young child(ren) and you want more ties in your life to people who relate to your story then this is for you. My aim for this group is for young moms and their children to be able to come together and just hang out, have play dates & some mom's nights out. I want to bring together all of us young mamas who share the common cause of raising our kids the best way we can while still being young spu …

Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts is a group for Scala users who may also be interested in frameworks such as Play and Lift. We meet to discuss best practices and how the technology is being used successfully by organizations. This group is by programmers, for programmers. BASE covers the entire San Francisco Bay area. Meetings are normally held during week of the second Monday of every month. We ask speakers to present their talks at each of our venues, if they can. Visit our discussion board. If you …

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 …

Wonderfest’s Mission is to inspire and nurture a deep sense of wonder about the world. Through science education programs, Wonderfest aspires to stimulate curiosity, promote careful reasoning, challenge unexamined beliefs, and encourage life-long learning.  Wonderfest, the San Francisco Bay Area Beacon of Science, is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation. http://wonderfest.org http://facebook.com/wonderfest http://twitter.com/wonderfest http://www.youtube.com/tuckeroo11

Bollywood X-Trim is Fusion Beatz's unique dance fitness routine that builds your endurance,sculpts your muscles while you have fun to bollywood beats! Come join us at our various location across the San Francisco Bay Area and get fit! We guarantee a rocking good time. Classes are at San Mateo : Sundays 9:00am – 10:00am@ House of Mayhem Studio, 2335 El Camino Real, San Mateo, CA, 94403 Burlingame : Mondays 6:30pm – 7:30pm @1st String Athletics 888 Hinckley Road, Burlingame, CA 94030 Fremont …

The San Carlos Chamber hosts a number of events every month. These events are designed to help members network and reach potential new customers, all while having a great time! Join our Meetup Group to keep up-to-date about all that's going on! Like us on Facebook!  https://www.facebook.com/sancarloschamber

As the global IT industry is rapidly shifting from traditional computer world to emerging Mobile World, the Silicon Valley, the world's base of IT innovations, evolves quickly to become the Global Mobile Valley (Mobile World Center), pioneered by leading Mobile Technology Players such as Apple, Google, Intel, Oracle, Cisco, Facebook, IBM, Amazon, Microsoft, Qualcomm, Samsung, Ericsson, Broadcom, Huawei, Nokia, etc. Based on Delson Group research, over trillion dollar business will be in the sec …

This is to meet and compare notes with managers, engineers, trainers, consultants, and writers involved with Lean manufacturing implementation n the San Francisco Bay area.

We hold evening events for singles in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our group offers a unique way to meet quality singles during managed, structured evenings. Through Connection Circles and other exercises, our events maximize the number of short introductory conversations you have with a wide variety of well-educated, well-mannered, classy singles. We create a supportive, friendly, facilitated environment placing you in many short conversations and making it easy to offer contact information for …

Founded in 2002, Velo Girls is the premier women's cycling club in the San Francisco bay area. We offer rides, clinics, and events for women (and men) throughout the year. Our members include recreational and competitive road cyclists, mountain bikers, and cyclocrossers, ranging in age from teens to 60s, spanning from Morgan Hill to Mendocino, Half Moon Bay to the east bay. Velo Girls has been recognized by USA Cycling as Club of the Year in 2003, 2004, 2006, and 2008. We've also been voted Best …

This group is for Alumni and current students of Northwestern University's Master of Predictive Analytics program who live or work in the San Francisco Bay Area and would like to get together to discuss the MSPA program and issues related to predictive analytics.

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 …

Our goal is to meet during the work week for a night of casual and fun night life. We are looking for fun, social, and enjoyable people in the Peninsula who want to meet more young 20-early 30's. People, lets get up off the couches and spend a couple of hours out at cool events/bars/lounges/restaurants in a respectful and full of laughter environment.

This is a group for anyone involved or interested in learning and discussing new frameworks to achieve greater ROI when adopting Software Reuse. Our group will share real enterprise experience; achievements as well as challenges when implementing reuse methodologies. We will also discuss new technology that is changing the way software is developed and allowing Software Reuse to be fully realized with greater ROI then previously possible.

Fashion+TechSV joins Fashion+TechSF & Fashion+TechNY as the Silicon Valley Chapter. FASHIONTECHSF.org is the longest running monthly workshop and the original event series in the San Francisco Bay Area focused synergistically on building, promoting and educating the vibrant community of fashion and technology. Our mission is to create educational, economic development, social and business opportunities for the fashion and technology industries. From it's inception in February 2010, FASHIONTECHS …

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 …

Your friends and family are great but sometimes they just cannot be there for you when you're going through a rough time. Sometimes the subject matter triggers them and they shut down. Or they cannot imagine you doing the option you're considering.  Or they just don't get the value in this. But you want to talk. It would be really good if you could find someone to just sit with you while you talk about whatever it is. You could hear yourself think and probably figure out what's best for you eve …

I dream of gathering a bunch of wildly creative fiber people and working on the same object at the same time somehow. The goal would be to see just how uniquely we could combine our talents and create something unusual, funny, bizarre - but mostly have fun playing with possibilities by connecting fibers. I think of the quilt circles where all the quilters are working on the same quilt. Well, they are usually kind of working independently but they are working on the same object. And it's more int …