This is the San Diego Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, slated to build local interest on computer graphics and interactive techniques, for educational, artistic and scientific purposes. It's free to join this Meetup ($0), but we encourage you to become a Full Member in order to enhance your involvement, opportunities, and chances to receive cool giveaways! To join as a Full Member for a year, just make a $20 PayPal donation (note 'Chapter membership' and member name in the donation comments), or you can …

Scientists, educators, science communicators, scientific skeptics, and Fans of the Genre get together once a month for monthly Science & Suds pub nights and occasional science-theme adventures, such as our Skeptics in the Jeep trips. If you prefer the value of what we know to the false promise of Magic We Wish Were True, then come on down and tip a glass with us.

Africans and Americans meeting to discover education solutions which improve and positively impact both populations.

Are you interested in technology? Are you interested in helping others learn about technology? Well, this is the group for you! We will meet up to discuss what sort of things we can do to increase technology awareness in San Diego. We will work together to develop resources and classes. Although our focus is seniors, anyone is invited!

Our Cosmos is a social group whose purpose is to share and inspire a love of science and of learning, and to develop interest in both the Cosmos and intellectual curiosity.  It encourages exploration into planetary and earth sciences, health, ethics, and society. Various activities include stage and TV venues for science education purposes and trips exploring and learning about our Cosmos, such as archaeological digs, tours of planetary facilities, nature photography and trips to geological/astr …

We're building a community for San Diego hackers and founders by organizing local study groups on technology and entrepreneurship around the free online university classes provided by Stanford, Berkley, MIT, Udacity, Coursera, and others. Sign up for any of the free online classes and join their San Diego study groups.

The Microsoft Store Mission Viejo invites you to come learn with us during our One-Hour Learning Workshops! Our Workshops are designed to provide an interactive learning experience for our community. Whether you are just beginning your journey into the world of technology or consider yourself to be technically savvy our classes are geared to continue your learning process. Our goal is to provide you with the knowledge to spur your growth!

Welcome to a planning group dedicated to offering a free Montessori education to a diverse population through the Charter School movement. Currently a group of educators in the San Diego County area are assessing interest in a public Montessori charter school. In August we will be hosting informational events in the community. We encourage you to attend. We would love to meet you! Dates, locations and times will be available here on Meetup as soon as they become available. If you know anyone …

Ever go back to work on Monday only to feel like you didn't do enough on your weekend? Well, I propose we do something about that! My job is learning about the city we live in and what it has to offer us. No really, I'm a Concierge! I'll be putting together fun activites and experiences that help everyone that participates grow as a person and learn more about their own city. Be it trying something new, finding new connections, or even educating others. I usually do these things by myself or bri …

I got a call several weeks ago, it was a very typical conversation. The lady on the other end was frustrated, bordering on angry. Who was she angry at?  The answer was so common: it was "us": web developers, web solution providers.  She felt cheated and robbed.  Her story as a litany of failed solutions, money wasted, and what she perceived as outright lying and cheating. She no longer trusted anyone in the web development industry. This always makes me a bit angry as well.  Part of anyone's rep …

Are you a digital professional interested in learning about the latest trends and emerging technology in interactive? Our group is dedicated to bringing together the people who make the great website, mobile and interactive projects come alive (including designers, developers, project managers, mobile application developers, business owners, managers, social media gurus, etc.) for continued education in web technologies, trends and networking opportunities.

The San Diego Regional Data Library finds, catalogs and analyzes the data that civic and social organizations need to make San Diego a better place. This meet up group links tech savvy volunteers with organizations that need data and data analysis, and along the way we'll train San Diegans in finding government data, making CPRA requests, and the basics of data analysis.

We are a  small business focused on providing affordable and accessible engineering work space and resources. Our purpose is to contribute to revitalizing American creativity in the areas of product development, prototyping, and manufacturing. Our new facility provides access to basic hand tools, shop power tools such as band saw, table saw, and drill press, as well as laptops and instruments suitable for small electronics prototyping such as oscilloscopes, function and arbitrary waveform genera …

The San Diego Quantified Self Meetup is inspired by the Bay Area Quantified Self Meetup and the Quantified Self blog. It is a regular show and tell for people who are tracking data about their body and conducting their own personal investigations and research into their bodies, minds, and selves. Anything is game -- from personal genetics to ways to digitize and track information, from how to self-diagnose to how to self-experiment with data and statistics. More specific topics include: * self-e …

Join us for a variety of community events, including Summer Camps, Class Trips, Group Outings, Free Workshops, and Xbox Tournaments! To schedule an event, please email sdms@microsoft.com or call (619) 849-5872

Meet other local Macintosh enthusiasts and talk about all things Apple including their latest and rumored innovations! Bring your laptop and share your ideas, talents & software solutions with other like-minded individuals. Each meeting is an "open-forum", we will be doing everything from focusing on specific software and hardware to simply chatting it up on latest gadgets and gizmos. All skill levels are welcome! I, Greg Homyak, have just taken over the meetup and hope to figure out the best pl …

Join us at The Science Cafe for the latest science served fresh with a side of coffee or other beverage. We meet at venues throughout the SoCal region, doing everything from daytrips to lectures. There's something for everybody! Whether it's attending an exhibit on Mummies in Santa Ana with homeschoolers, hearing an astronaut speak in San Diego, singles going on a daytrip to a MCAS Miramar Air Sh...ow, or science hobbyists learning about what happened to poor Pluto up in Altadena, there's somet …

Community Group with the focus on Apache Sling/Apache Jackrabbit and Adobe AEM (formerly known as CQ) We meet every second to last Wednesday of the Month at the Offices of Capital Group in Irvine, CA

Learning opportunities are offered through regular meetings where guest speakers introduce new products and programs and members share show-and-tell presentations that have been requested or suggested. Members include both novice and expert computer users and visitors are most welcome to attend meetings.

Even though the theory of evolution has been around the last 150 years, within the last few decades it has re-emerged as the framework in which to evaluate the sciences and philosophy. The purpose of this group is to explore the hard and soft sciences as well as philosophy with respect to evolution's influence on those topics. My intent is to cover one topic per meetup with some potential topics being Fundamentals of Evolution, Philosophy of Mind and Evolution, Evolutionary Biology, Evolutionary …

Welcome to Internet Marketing Simplified! We have created this community to help support internet marketing enthusiasts who want to come together and learn the most effective, fun, and simple internet marketing strategies that work! Our goal is to create a fun environment where you can feel comfortable to come every month, meet great people, and learn cutting edge internet techniques from people who know their stuff and share a passion to seeing others succeed! I know first-hand how frustrating …

Where is our real estate industry headed?  We invite top leaders to join us in a lively, interactive brainstorm session.  Our vision at RealtyPro Academy® is to raise the bar!

Do you like photography? Do you want to improve your snap shots, family photos, or Instagrams? This group is for you if you want to improve the quality of your images, no matter your level of experience or what equipment you use (some classes will even be for cell phone shooters!). We'll start at the very beginning. Classes will be fun and only one hour, so you won't feel overwhelmed, but you'll walk out of class knowing more than when you got there. If you want to learn how to take more interes …

Welcome new members and visitors! Enjoy great networking with a diverse mix of people from the Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, and the Inland Empire. Join our community of iOS application experts.  Benefit from meeting and sharing with others, including: 1. iOS Developers (coders, programmers, analysts, testers, etc.) 2. Graphics Designers (with or without experience in mobile apps) 3. UX Experts (User Experience experts mostly in the mobile apps) 4. Other Mobile (Non-iOS) Programmers (An …

Startup California and Startup OC are regions of The Startup America Partnership, a public private initiative founded by President Obama and former AOL Chairman Steve Case. The Startup America Partnership is based on a simple premise: Young companies that grow create jobs. As a core American value, entrepreneurship is critical to the country’s long term success and it’s time to step up our game. Startup Orange County is part of the Startup California ecosystem, and has three key goals: 1. Provid …

Our Mission: to educate and empower every girl and woman at every age level, on every skill level, at every income level on computer technology with fun and provide a legacy by giving back and paying it forward. We do this by providing full day Tech Boot Camps, Meetups, Geek Girl for Hire, Speakers, online blogs and help. Our demographics are from 10 years old to 86. Why you should be a part: * You want to learn more about computers, including Social Media, Blogging, Photoshop, Quickbooks, Mac a …

The best way to know what vnext is all about is to view this video (new blog, needs content): http://bit.ly/vnext-interview or on YouTube here:  http://bit.ly/CrescentSolutionsVnextInterview. Although we've had numerous high-profile speakers, including ex-MSFT CTO's, CEO's and some of the best developers in their fields such as Laurent Bugnion of MVVM Light, Brian Lagunas and Craig Shoemaker of Infragistics, and many, many more, we were lucky enough to have Mr. Charles Petzold (Bill Gates named …

Please visit www.sdentrepreneurcenter.com to learn more about us. Help us become the LARGEST Entrepreneurial Eco-system and Membership Network in San Diego, becoming the role model for other US cities to follow, and in developing our San Diego Sustainable Connections Collaborative Community (SDS3C initiative), County Wide!. We are looking for domain experts in a variety of areas who would like to get get involved, and potentially be workshop presenters. Discover - Recognize - Collaborate - Celeb …