This group is focused on educating developers on how to use the Microsoft .NET platform for web and windows development.    Topics include all aspects of development for desktop, browser and web services, as well as architectural choices and application development frameworks. We provide a face to face forum and encourage peer learning and networking. We maintain a focus on development practices, demonstrations and show & tell in developer-centric interactive sessions.   Meetings are free - plea …

People using and creating services where work is outsourced to large groups of casual workers.

Welcome to Bay Area Eucalyptus Cloud Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises,  start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing …

This Group is for people who want to make bring the the Open Technologies available in the Mkt, along with other to the table and create applications targeting Social, Casual, Online Apps for both WEB and DEVICES together... Open, Free & other Technologies like: - Google CODE - Android - Chromium - Android - iPhone OS - Microsoft technologies Social Platforms: - Facebook - Web - Android & Chrome Mkt place - Windows Mkt place - iPhone & iPad Mktplace - Kindle Mkt place - Devices: - iPhone, iPa …

Are you a professional in a web-related field? A Tibet supporter? Interested in helping to make change happen? This group is for professionals working in web-related fields who support the Tibetan people's cause and want to help by contributing their ideas, skills and energy in a collaborative, stimulating atmosphere with like-minded people. We would like to form a think-tank of talented people from multiple disciplines to creatively explore how web 2.0, digital video and social media can …

A place for anyone involved in a bay area start up that has a focus on personal finance or has an interest in the space generally. We meet once a month, and will showcase a technology of at least one startup each month and/or look to have one speaker as well talking about issues that are common to startups.   To clarify this group is aimed at people who are involved in or interested in technology startups, with a particular focus on Financial Services.   Although we welcome everyone there is not …

Bring Your Site, Improve Your Design Are you building a website without a designer? Do you feel like there's something wrong, but can't quite put your finger on it? Are you a designer looking for some feedback? No matter how much time you’ve put into your website, chances are it could still benefit from a designer’s “fresh pair of eyes”. We’ll review your website and make suggestions for improvement. We’ll go through examples and analyze the content, typography, look and feel, accessability, etc …

Hello--this is for service providers who focus on clients in the tech sector.

DocuSign eSignature Hackers have joined together to eliminate paper out of consumer, business and mobile apps. Any time there is an application that has a print button, sends a document attachment or has an OCR module for the sake of getting data and signature from users - a DocuSign Hacker can get the app into the 21st century. Viva La Green Revolution!

Ruby on Rails San Francisco!

… "SF Mobile" is a networking group of Silicon Valley professionals - we bring web services and processes to legacy mobile networks. Our events always focus on a particular topic to which we invite a few select speakers from Silicon Valley start-ups and sometimes more established companies - all however with significant expertise in the mobile industry. If you're not from the mobile industry, you can follow our job board and our job tweets: www.sfmobileboard.com twitter.com/sfmobilejo …

I decided to start this group for local ebay sellers so that we can share ideas, support each other and have a sense of community.

Co-organized by Exygy and Adobe, this is the official PhoneGap Meetup in the Bay Area. Meet other local fans of PhoneGap the best tool for quickly building mobile applications for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Palm, iPad, Windows 7 and more. If you’re an entrepreneur looking to build a mobile application, or a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs, Phon …

We are developers helping other developers learn about full-text search.  For our first meetup, we will be talking with IndexTank, a hosted solution currently used by many developers as well as large companies such as Reddit.com We will discuss how to quickly get search implemented using IndexTank's services, as well as discuss other search alternatives.  

We had such a great time at the SummerMash San Francisco stop that we want to see everyone again. Join Mashable and San Francisco's tech elite for an evening of meeting, mingling and conversing about web's hottest new services while enjoying light appetizers and drink tickets. We're coming together in a venue that hosts multiple levels, which in turn means a variety of activities. We're bringing the people of San Francisco together, along with local bloggers and press, to have a chance to meet …

Social information (our preferences, shares, tags, comments, collections, etc.) is the fastest growing and most valuable type of information on the web.  We have given the responsibility of stewarding that data to just a couple companies.  This is a problem. We need to rethink social.  Does it need to be an end-to-end service where the price of participation is the forfeiture of our data?  Does it need to have just a single interface, designed and served by the company that sells our data? Or ca …