Welcome! Are you a social entrepreneur, technologist or maybe just interested in meeting awesome people? Then this group is for you! In this meetup group, we host regular group discussions focused on exploring what it means to run a nonprofit business today and in the future, as well as the challenges this community faces. Our goal is to explore what technology can and should mean for the nonprofit industry, while actively collaborating on new solutions for age-old problems. Understanding the tr …

Intimacy Technology is a skills development group. Each necessary skill for intimacy is isolated, deconstructed into practical components, and practiced in a supportive, exploratory and playful environment. In this group, we explore intimacy skills that build the intimacy muscle, with practical strategies and immediately applicable results. Through an embodied learning environment, our skills develop quickly.

We are a Silicon Valley (San Francisco) meet-up group, interested in connecting folks who are passionate about the education space and interested in applying technology to hack current problems in the education sector. If you are a developer / hacker / entrepreneur / investor — who is passionate about education  — please join us.  You can follow us on this meet-up, or "like our Facebook page" or follow us on Twitter at @EduTechGroup. We plan to bring together interesting speakers from the tec …

San Francisco Citizens Initiative for Technology and Innovation (sf.citi) is a 501(c)6 organization created to leverage the power of the technology community around civic action in San Francisco. sf.citi supports innovative policies and works collaboratively with government to find new solutions to historic problems facing San Francisco, and consolidate a voice in promotion of tech sector interests and growth. We actively engage our membership’s employees to focus on substantive issues, and to d …

MAKE unites, inspires, informs, and entertains a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. MAKE celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your will. The MAKE audience continues to be a growing culture and community that believes in bettering ourselves, our environment, our educational system—our entire world. This is much more than an audience, it's a worldwide movement that Make is leading—we call it …

The University of the Commons offers university-level classes in San Francisco, free of charge, for all who wish to attend. We encourage new faculty, students, and the community to participate by taking a class, proposing a class you can teach, or attending a meeting of the collective. For additional information, see UOTC.org. The commons: What we share. Creations of nature and culture that belong to all of us equally. Who are we? The University of the Commons is a collective of teachers, artist …

SF ART FORUM {MEDIA+TECH} San Francisco Art Forum {MEDIA+TECH} is an open resource for SF Bay Area visual artists. Connect with innovative art professionals, art enthusiasts and possible buyers. We promote local and national artists' body of work through our social media channels and industry connections. We provide educational resources and host social media+tech events with art & visuals emphasis in the San Francisco Bay Area. Services include: educational tools (arts & tech), crowd funding r …

This is a group for anyone who wants to prove they know what's next! We'll meet once a month to hear technologists present and defend their ideas about how new science and new behavior will emerge as new technologies. Afterwards, a panel will support or criticize the hypothesis. We will be concentrating on a one to three year horizon and voting on accuracy as the trend unfolds, so bring your best ideas.

Startup Saturdays is all about empowering the global community through offering knowledge to enhance leadership, entrepreneurship and technical skills. With the knowledge and skillset taught though Startup Saturdays individuals are able to explore new business and career opportunities that lead to a better quality of life and higher earnings. Explore new pathways for your life by attending one of our classes. We are here to assist individuals with personal growth and help eliminate unsightly hu …

We seek to mobilize digital citizens with tools and concepts for the public interest. Our goal is to tackle the biggest issues the world and our local communities face today. People of all levels of skill and knowledge are invited. Our group exists to give space for the types of discussions that both inform our understandings and vocabularies around digital and network technology, as well as to be creative and do or make things that hold those in power accountable, give voice to those without, i …

Design&Startups is a group for the best web, mobile, and graphic designers in the Bay Area. With growth and focus shifting from only technology to beautifully designed technology, Design&Startups wants to be the central place to learn about it. We will interview amazing designers, provide access to great products, and showcase beautiful work. Join us if you believe in a more beautiful web.

Description of Community Group: It takes skill, resources and a community to create a successful business, be it a high-tech start-up or a small business. At Golden Gate University, many of our students choose to start their own ventures upon graduation, building on the knowledge they've gained with us. Business owners also come to GGU looking to fill gaps in their training and gain the confidence it takes to compete in the climate today. Many of our faculty are themselves investors and entrepre …

The UniversityNow Campaign aims to make a debt-free college degree available for everyone who seeks it. Join our community and help us change the conversation about what's possible in higher education.

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.

Come out and join us. Our group focuses on ColdFusion and related technologies like AJAX, Flex and AIR. We meet every third Tuesday of the month at the Adobe Offices at 601 Townsend in San Francisco. Meetings are from 6:30pm to 9:00 pm. Our speakers are drawn from the ColdFusion community. If you are interested in presenting please let me know. All levels of topics from beginner to advanced are welcome.

This Meet Up Community is for helping entrepreneurs and startups learn how to expand their creativity around business ideas, problem-solving, and team building to produce expansive results and competitive advantage. This group is being set up to offer a platform and space for creative coaching and guidance to help overcome challenges and learn new ways to be innovative- it makes having a problem, 'fun'. Did you know that most of us are trained automatically, through our education and societal sy …

This group is for 2013 TechWomen Emerging Leaders and Mentors. We hope that you use the group to: View the official TechWomen program calendar Meet your fellow program participants Organize/suggest unofficial events Discuss topics of interest

Welcome to the SSV Network! The "Startups & Societal Ventures" Network http://www.ssvnetwork.com Discuss: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=48286 Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SSVNetwork Follow us on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ycd24uk Check the SSV Network Innovation Hubs' Worldwide Map: http://www.communitywalk.com/SSVNetwork Entrepreneurs, investors and all other resources providers need better relationships matchmaking. SSVN is an internet-based entrepreneurship support system e …

The Quantified Self North Bay Meetup Group is inspired by the Bay Area Quantified Self Meetup and the Quantified Self blog. Based in California's stunning North Bay region of the San Francisco Bay Area and encompassing Marin, Napa, Sonoma, and Solano counties, 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 digit …

This is a group for anyone interested in learning Android mobile development. No programming experience required and we plan to hold free workshops to help people get started with learning programming fundamentals, the fundamentals of Java and building real-world Android applications. Interested in a full-day workshop covering to learn Android development? Check out Introduction to Java (no programming experience) or Introduction to Android (Java experience required)

What is App School? App School is a local based meetup community dedicated to helping people learn to develop apps. We meet in Downtown San Francisco for a free Getting Started with iOS class. During this class we help beginners get the Xcode environment installed on their machine and show them how an app is made in real time. We also offer free Office Hours with some of the best developers in the bay area. So come in learn something new, get a bug fixed, or just come to meet others. We love to …

The San Francisco Quantified Self Meetup is a SF-specific meetup for city-dwellers interested in the QS movement. It's 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.

A branch of the edX Global Community for people who live near the San Francisco Bay Area, CA, USA! MeetUp with other people taking edX courses, have study groups at local coffee shops and libraries, and celebrate your successes!

This Meetup is inspired by the creator of the Coursera Cafe, Belinda Beasley, for her Facebook group for us fellow Courserans: "This is a place for Courserans to get some downtime from studying, discuss Coursera in a general way and chat about things which are not relevant on the study groups. It is also a place for friends to have fun. Anyone can add other Courserans so please invite anyone who you feel should be here. We would ask that you please invite only people who you already know. Apart …

I'd like to start a meetup group for present and future Wikipedians in Berkeley and the wider East Bay area. The group will meet once a month, each meeting including a short presentation on a topic related to Wikipedia or the larger Wikimedia movement, followed by discussion and free socializing. *** Everyone is welcome! No previous knowledge necessary! *** If you're already a Wikipedian, please don't hesitate to bring along your friends, cousins, or (not too) random strangers. The first few mee …

Throughout the week the SF Free School offers free classes to anyone and everyone who wants to learn, have fun and meet new people. Classes we’ve offered have been in dance, drumming, martial arts, philosophy, dating, meditation, improv, yoga, writing - and many other topics as well. Though the mix of classes and events we hold varies over time, some weeks with many events and others with just a few, much of what we held in the past was out of a yoga and dance studio, and hence, in the past, we’ …

This is a regular show and tell for people who take advantage of various personal self-tracking tools and methods to gain more knowledge about themselves, others and the world around them. Come share what you are doing and learn from others. Topics include, but are not limited to: *Self-experimentation *Behavior monitoring *Lifelogging, lifecaching, lifestreaming *Location tracking *Digitizing body info *Biometric data *Psychological self-assessments *Medical self-diagnostics *Personal genome se …

We are the CSUA leadership, former leadership, and hosers! We will reconnect monthly and do random awesome things! [Internal] events  == in Berkeley. Everyone on this meetup implicitly invited. Geared toward current students. Any hoser or officer can create an internal event! [Alumni] events == in Berkeley, SF, South Bay, or maybe even Seattle; who knows? Everyone on this meetup implicitly invited. Geared toward alumni. Any alumn can create an alumni event! Event ideas: Ballmer's Peak, nerd …