The goal of the San Francisco Wingman/Woman Group is to practice meeting & attracting people and is designed to improve your dating and social skills and teach you the secrets of attraction. We meet regularly since practice makes perfect so we'll be doing some "in-field" practice by going out to public venues, whether on the street, at malls, and coffee shops during the day ("Daygame") or at night clubs, bars and lounges in the evenings ("Nightgame") to meet new people, interact and get useful, …

This MeetUp provides a dynamic way for members of San Francisco Regional Mensa to get the latest on Mensa events in the Bay Area and to more easily host their own Mensa events.  The idea is that by eliminating the very long lead time now necessary to post things to the Intelligencer, we will have more, and more varied, events on the calendar. You must be a *current* member of Mensa to join this group.  When you click "Join Us" (above right), please include your full name AND your Mensa membershi …

The San Francisco Symfony Meetup is a forum for open discussion, networking and learning about the best PHP framework out there. The people there generally have an above-average grasp of symfony so it's a great place to get your questions answered. Join the club on Sensio Labs Connect! Symfony website: http://www.symfony.com/ | http://www.symfony-project.org/ Brought to you by: Sensio Labs & ServerGrove Potential Topics: How to get started with Symfony What's new for Symfony? How to build yo …

What is Lean UX about? Lean UX is about learning more, more quickly. Lean UX is about getting more done better for the same investment. Lean UX is about replacing time spent polishing your design artifacts, with time spent polishing your design. Lean UX is about doing research, testing your hypotheses, and building better hypotheses quickly, based on more information, based on reality. Read 10 Principles for Lean UX on Luxr The intersection between Lean Thinking, Agile Development and UX is a …

If you are interested in establishing an active Humanist organization in San Francisco and the East Bay, please join this Meetup.  As meetings and events are organized, you will be invited.  We envision discussions, speakers, social activities and events to work for a better world.  For those who may not be familiar with humanism, below is the Humanist Manifesto III, which describes what many Humanists believe. HUMANISM AND ITS ASPIRATIONS Humanist Manifesto II Humanism is a progressive philosop …

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.

This meetup is focused on spreading knowledge and best practices for the use of Node.js. Already exploding with a massive and dedicated developer community, Node is now moving into enterprise stacks. There is an incredible talent pool out there who can bring their experience back to the community, and our goal is to get them into the group to speak. Topics of discussion include OSS projects, architectures, testing, devops, code management, deployment strategies, the future of Node and emerging t …

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Greetings. There is hardly anything I enjoy more than to read a good book and discuss it among thoughtful individuals! How about you? Please join if you are interested in being an active participant in a book club focused **exclusively** on classic literature, shown on the following lists below, that has stood the test of time. If not interested exclusively in classic lit, if not willing to stick to selections from the lists below, there will not be a match with this group.  The good news is tha …

A meeting of the minds for the startup founders and engineers leveraging Scala to build great startups. Scala allows for distributed data processing and type safe web development, making it possible to build a whole startup in a type safe, functional, test-driven way. Let's discuss how we do it!

I'm a personal trainer/strength coach based out of the Richmond District of San Francisco, and i have a passion for competing in various strength athletic competitions. This group is centered around the following sports/training styles: -Powerlifting -Olympic Style Weightlifting -Strongman Competition -Grip Training -Kettlebell Sport -Highland Games -Odd Object Lifting The purpose of this group is to help others network and build a community with others interested in learning about strength sp …

This group is the home of all the events that Pivotal organizes after hours.

This group is for people who love to read the New Yorker magazine. I love the New Yorker magazine. I generally love people who love the New Yorker magazine. So, I decided to have a meetup where likeminded people can get together once a month to talk about current events, life, and whatever else comes to mind. Whether you are one issue behind, three issues behind, or three months behind; whether you skip the fiction section or only read the fiction section, this Meetup is for you. By popular dema …

This Group will bring software people together to share ideas and experience in the domain of Continuous Delivery. Continuous Delivery addresses the entire software delivery pipeline - from CI to testing to deployment to release - and addresses technology, process and organization. Anything within that domain will be in scope for our Group. The Group shares concerns with other Groups in the Bay area - DevOps, Agile,Puppet/Chef, Cloud, Selenium, etc. - and will be complementary to them. But we'll …

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 …

Are you using or interested in using A/B testing for Website Optimization? Do you believe that words, content, design and layout matter on any website? Do you believe in data-driven decision making? Do you want to engage, talk, and learn with other web marketers who much like you, are constantly looking for ways to present the right thing online, to the right people, at the right time? Join us, as we embark on a journey to share experiences and crack the case on building a better web.

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 group teaches beginners the fundamentals of Object-Oriented, Test Driven, Full Stack Web-Programming. We are a code first, talk second kind of group. No powerpoints, just text editors, Ruby, Rails, Javascript and all the goodies... This is a by beginners for beginners ruby group, ie, a super low stress environment for people new to ruby, rails and full stack development to get a taste for building stuff.

This meetup is for anyone interested in modern, front end development on the web. Group will host talks and workshops focused on JavaScript (client and server side), HTML, CSS, and other web technologies. Anyone with a passion for the web is welcome.

Open Source Research will be a quarterly research evening. Members will meet prior in order to choose rotating topics and plan test questions and design, facilitate testing 3 users on a rotating topic. Members all share the test results and can use them for their own projects, whether for their own startups or with their employers, to help further their careers. Test #1: Travel Industry with focus on Awareness/Pre-trip Research and In-trip experiences.

Welcome To SF Growth Hackers! Growth Hacking: A data-driven approach to marketing, user acquisition and sales funnels. Learn how to leverage user analytics, split testing and modern marketing techniques to improve every step of a sales funnel. As a startup or even a fortune 500 company you can't make informed decision about your product without the right data backing you up. We will discuss how to capture your data, setup experiments and make confident decisions about your business. Come and j …

This is a group for anyone interested in applying lean startup thinking inside large organizations. We are entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs, and corporate innovators who want to test ideas for new products, services, and business models within established companies. Learn how to: - Apply lean startup thinking to the enterprise - Design experiments that align product, business and customer - Conduct internal customer development Whenever possible, we will present actual case studies from large comp …

This meetup group is interested in all the moving pieces that encompass site reliability. Our goal is to have talks that address the issues encountered by technical operations teams running stable and high performing sites at scale.

A community of aspiring and existing Product Managers. Want to be a Product Manager? This group is for people interested in entering or learning more about Product Management and for existing Product Managers who wish to be mentors and share their experiences. We will bring in product experts to share their knowledge, help build product skills, have networking opportunities and also work on projects together. These projects can be personal or volunteer challenges posed by non-profits with a goal …

Have you ever learned something in 5 minutes that saved you hours of work every day? Do you have tips and tricks that you want to share with other developers? Did you ever go to a conference to find out that you learned just 10 minutes worth of new stuff in two hours? Do you work with modern web or mobile technologies, like iOS or Ruby on Rails? If you answered yes to anything of the above, then this meetup is for you!

This is a group started with the express purpose of trying to create a network among the many Probashi Bangalis living in the Bay Area. They all seem to congregate during a Durga Pujo celebration and mysteriously thereafter, go into hibernation for the rest of the year. At least that is the way I feel. Maybe it is a function of the fact that their numbers are so low that the probability of running into someone at random is exceedingly low. I, for one, refuse to believe that. Maybe it is my own f …

Meet other developers and ops engineers using Docker. Docker is an open-source engine for building and deploying cloud applications as standalone containers which can run on any server - from the VM on your laptop to the largest EC2 compute instance, and everything in between. Docker is a great building block for deploying web apps, database services, service-oriented architectures, and so on.

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