We're about lean organizations in general, and about applying lean thinking to software companies in specific. Lean Software Development can be used to improve the effectiveness of teams that may already be using agile software methods. This meetup is about exploring the philosophy of systems thinking and theory of constraints as it applies to software development.

The Silicon Valley Semantic Technology Group (previously known as Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS) Group) is a forum in which Bay Area people interested in the Semantic Web can meet each other and learn more about this fascinating area of research and its applications. Our discussion will include all Semantic Web technologies with a focus on current projects and potential project and startup opportunities. Discussions may be technical, although those interested in business applications/functionalit …

Meet with great speakers, companies & entrepreneurs who are developing Facebook applications. Do a lightning demo of your Facebook product or idea ! This group was founded by Lawrence Sinclair in 2007.

BAFUG ( Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group ) is a users group for Open Source Unix like operating systems, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our primary emphasis is on FreeBSD but enthuist of other Open Source Unix such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, NanoBSD, DragonBSD, etc. are welcome. Since BSD is the preferred base operating system for companies like Apple (Apple OS), Juniper, NetFlix and their products, BSD truly is one of the most robust and popular operating systems in the world. Companies, de …

Are you a hacker, coder, or engineer who actually wants to SELL the cool stuff you build? Then Marketing Nerds is for you! We're a growing network of technology startup entrepreneurs who have actually sold many millions of dollars worth of our technology and software products in the real world. Here are some of the topics we love to talk about: What Should I Build, and Who Will Buy It? - A specific technique you can use so you know exactly what to build, before you build it, that guarantees the …

Our mission: To offer the International mobile technology and services sector an unbiased discussion dialogue on emerging technologies. Analyze their commercial, economical, social and political impact for an audience of senior business executives, researchers, financiers, policy makers and our loyal software developers. In keeping with SVForum’s history of innovation and leadership, we have decided to commit to I.P. protocol technology and the distribution of information associated. Enabling co …

Are you an IT professional or software developer and want to learn more about Agile Software development methodologies (XP, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, etc) and techniques (unit testing, TDD, CI, big visible charts, etc)? Are you an experienced Agile practitioner who wants to share problems and ideas with a group of like-minded colleagues? If you answered yes then join our group!

Free Software = free society!  Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is sweeping earth bringing freedom to people everywhere.  Our little corner of the Libre Planet is the San Jose / Bay Area.  Come join the FLOSS evolution! GNU/Lindepence Hours Have an hour or so now and again to spend advocating for FLOSS? Want to get things fired up in your area? Want to raise awareness for both FLOSS and the Free Software Foundation's Libre Planet in Silicon Valley? Start an GNU/Lindepence Hour! They are …

as in: "Break-in or breaking in, also known as run-in or running in, is the procedure of conditioning a new piece of equipment by giving it an initial period of running, usually under light load, but sometimes under heavy load or normal load. It is generally a process of moving parts wearing against each other to produce the last small bit of size and shape adjustment that will settle them into a stable relationship for the rest of their working life." (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Break-in_(mec …

The Silicon Valley .NET User Group exists to bring together people interested in developing software using the Microsoft Stack. The topics are aimed at developers and other technical people, and we schedule experts in the field of .NET Development. In this group, you will see much more Visual Studio than you will Powerpoint. Our meetings are free, and are hosted on the Microsoft campus in Mt. View. Please come and join us.

We meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Plug and Play Tech Center to provide networking opportunities for developer, entrepreneurs and large organizations with interest in Health 2.0, mobile health, patient-centered innovation, personal medicine and emerging opportunities in the healthcare industry to come together. SVHealth Meetup is a hub for enterprises, organizations and investors to present opportunities, provide mentorship and engage in conversation with Silicon Valley's developer the ent …

We're all about the Application and SaaS business models and monetization mechanisms ranging from Freemium to Premium, IAP (in app purchases), Bundling, Customer Conversion Analytics - whatever it takes to actually get users (consumer and business) to pay for Apps! We typically have two or three speakers, each of whom shares a deep knowledge of and experience with the software monetization and business models.  All of our speakers will discuss Freemium, since it's the monetization model du jour, …

We meet monthly at the Microsoft campus in Mountain View. Meetings are free and include pizza and drinks - please join us! * Network with other Developers and DBAs * Get the latest and greatest SQL Server news * Get questions answered by Microsoft insiders * Get the inside track on emerging technologies * Learn from the experts and meet your peers * Enjoy pizza, drinks, and valuable giveaways

Cloud Computing and Virtualization are transforming the technology industry. The SVForum Cloud Computing and Virtualization SIG meets monthly to discuss the impact these new technology platforms is having on infrastructure, operations, and applications from a user and vendor perspective. For more information visit: http://www.svforum.org/cloudsig. The cost to attend is $20.00 (note: it is free to attend if you are an SVForum member with proof of membership).

Data Science! It's all the talk these days! Our team, 0xdata, wants you to join the discussion about our new fast analytics engine, H2O. H20 is ran on top of HDFS. H20 makes it possible to learn bigdata at scale. H20 guarantees one thing: move code, not data. move fast. Join our group! Join the discussion!

The Association of C/C++ Users' Silicon Valley chapter is loosely affiliated with its UK-based parent organization. The Silicon Valley ACCU meets bi-monthly, once for a presentation and once as a workshop. Meetings are always open to the public and are free of charge.

The Healthcare IT SIG offers technologists, healthcare providers, and investors in Silicon Valley a forum to promote knowledge sharing, network with one another, facilitate timely debates, and collaborate on critical topics including Software, Medical Devices, Mobile Health, Electronic Health Records, Instruments, Networking & Interoperability, Telemedicine, Imaging, Clinical Decision Support, Standards & Regulations, Privacy & Security, and Economics. The cost to attend is $20.00. SVForum membe …

Want to learn to program Google Android or learn more about it? Need some help with your latest Android program, or are you interested in helping other programmers? Join Android developers for informal discussions at on the second floor at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. Want to learn Android? Suggestions for Android beginners are available at http://www.geogad.com/blog/2009/02/05/informal-android-developer-meetup/. The presentations and samples of an Android class series organized by this mee …

This is a group for anyone interested in Apache Drill, an open source system for interactive analysis of large-scale datasets.

iPhone developers get together for informal discussion at Red Rock Coffee in Mountain View

How about having one group where you see your startup dreams coming true? How about meeting the Gurus/Mentors for entrepreneurship/legal/marketing/internet marketing/technology at one stop? And How about not spending a penny for all above? NOPAY is the place for you, whether you are an inventor or designer with product idea or if you have just re-engineered some ideas and you feel you can do better with a start up or if you are a thinker with an idea for startup or if you are a developer/comput …

BASPIG is a systems-programming interest group for folks in the Silicon Valley area. If you're into programming that maxes out machine perf, works against the bare metal, self-modifies, hypervises, takes in a language, compiles, blits, message passes, saturates available bandwidth, routes, scales, replicates, reaches consensus, dispatches kernels to cores, interprets, JITs, or self-hosts, this is the group for you. We intend to have regularly scheduled talks on prodigious systems-programming top …

Hands on meetups (lectures, classes, demo talks) with free compute time sponsored by Amazon AWS. We focus on giving members the opportunity to learn and share with the rest of the programming community.

A meetup group for people who are interested in autonomous vehicles here in Northern California

This is a meetup group for Ruby on Rails Developers who want to build interesting scalable web applications which directly or indirectly affects everyone's life in a positive way. We have many ideas which can help make this world a better place to live. Some of these ideas may not be profitable ideas but which need to be implemented in order to help bring about the social changes that we want to see. We would not build applications with profits in mind, but we would build them for the social imp …

Meet with other local Mozilla developers, QA team members and users to talk about opportunities for getting involved in the project. Learn about the tools that Mozilla uses to test Firefox. Become involved in a cool open source project that has helped Firefox to become the browser of choice for millions of people all over the world!

We get together monthly to share projects, opportunities, and how-tos related to developing for iOS and Android. Experienced developers, newcomers, and people with ideas are all welcome. We've enjoyed presentations from investors, entrepreneurs, and experts in all sorts of relevant topics from user interface design to programming to marketing and business development. Each meeting usually contains a couple of fast-paced but deep talks and several demos. We don't do a lot of detailed programming …

A group to explore all things Montage: The HTML5 framework as well as the tools to support it.