This group is for anyone who is interested in Hadoop technology and how the software can be used to unlock the potential of Big Data. Share insight, challenges and experiences with like-minded individuals. Regardless of your experience, join the troop for networking and an exploration of Hadoop!

With so many exciting technologies being developed around Southern California, the key to reaching scale is to launch your product with a killer digital marketing strategy. The core group is made up of entrepreneurs that have years of experience breaking down business models to recommend appropriate customer acquisition tactics. We love helping software and product-based start-ups reach critical mass and providing you with the essential information, resources and direct feedback during our meet- …

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 …

SD Tech Founders hosts events for high-tech entrepreneurs that provide great speakers relevant to startups, provide opportunities to meet potential co-founders, and facilitate discussions on lean startups, customer development, product development and business model strategies.

Are you a Python programmer or Django developer? Are you interested in meeting other developers? Join the new San Diego Python Users Group meetup! We will be planning monthly events, both technical and social, to build the local community.

UI designers, coders, developers, CSS-style junkies, geeks, nerds, search specialists, and social media moguls - here's a meetup for you to meet and mingle with like minded individuals. Hosted by Enrique Gutierrez, the topics range from web design, software, tips-and-tricks, web site promotion, platforms, and social media. The Web Design Meetup is open to anyone and everyone interested in web design, seeking a designer, or simply looking for something interesting and fun to do near the end of ea …

The purpose of this group is to bring R users in San Diego together for presentations and discussions on topics of mutual interest. R is a free, open source programming language and software environment for statistical computing. It is a premier tool for bioinformatics, data mining, machine learning, business analytics, and a wide variety of other fields.

Refresh San Diego is an open community of web designers, developers, and marketers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet in the San Diego area. Meetings are usually the second Tuesday of each month where we discuss anything from design to marketing and everything in between. Topics that we'll cover include: Design, Development, Marketing, Programming, Usability, Web 2.0, SEO, and more. Everyone interested in "refreshing" the Internet is welcome.

We bring the power of the Drupal content management system to the yearning public of San Diego, CA. We have two meetings each month where we discuss everything Drupal, at all levels from beginner to Drupal ninja. Join the group, come and enjoy the meetings, and learn why people come for the software and stay for the community: Central San Diego: Hall of Champions, Balboa Park Second Wednesday of every Month, 7 pm Carlsbad (North County): Museum of Making Music, NAMM campus Last Thursday of every …

Enough with the imperative languages! Let's get together to talk about functional programming: using Lisp, Scheme, Erlang, etc to get things done. All functional languages are open for discussion; all hackers and curious folks welcome. Come meet other people working and playing with functional languages, or drop by to see what all the fuss is about.

A group for CTO's based in San Diego to get together, share challenges, solutions and a beer.

Meet local Software Developers interested in the Scala programming language. Learn, code, and discuss Scala.

This is a group for perl professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts alike. Whether you wish to discuss language direction, or need a few pointers, this is the group for you. Presentations, speakers and interesting discussions on perl frameworks/modules are commonplace. Meetings generally start with brief introductions. These introductions often spawn discussions on a wide range of subjects (mostly Perl, but all things tech are fair game.) The main objective of our group is simply to get Perl peopl …

PyLadies is an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings. PyLadies also aims to provide a friendly support network for women and a bridge to the larger Python world. Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate!

The SD AWS UG welcomes anyone interested in discussing the cloud in general and Amazon Web Services in particular. We conduct monthly meetings to network, learn, and help others where possible. Join us!

Thanks to the brilliant work of Ryan Dahl, we have node.js, a beautiful and elegant server-side framework built on top of Google's V8 Javascript engine. This opens up a whole new world of possibility for developing web apps, APIs, and lightweight HTTP servers. We're looking to organize a meetup at Beer Co Downtown on a Thursday Night  this month. Join us here to be updated when a final date is set or let us know a good date for you!

Join other San Diego e-Business Owners and Web Entrepreneurs from all corners of the internet: Learning, Networking and giving LOCAL Referrals. Network with other  local San Diego online businesses, small businesses, and e-commerce companies. LEARN how to grow your San Diego small business ONLINE from San Diego experts! SHARE industry insights and business strategies. Partner with other San Diego entrepreneurs and small businesses. Give testimonies and referrals to help others to make $. *Each …

The San Diego Sun is priceless, we all agree on that but as a start up city we need a lot more than just the Sun to catch up with Tech Hubs such as Silicon Valley. We need to do it our way…. the San Diego way!.... the Happy Hour way! Imagine SD Tech Happy Hour as a City wide bar where Web Developers meet charismatic Founders, Entrepreneurs meet the next Investors and Legal Team and App Designers come up with their next big thing right before the happy hour ends. We are all about Happy Hours, Tec …

Come Together For Health™ Improving access to affordable healthcare by promoting innovative technologies that transform healthcare. Health Technology Forum (HTF) is a platform for people worldwide who have a common interest in making healthcare better, more accessible and affordable. Our international network of technology and healthcare entrepreneurs, developers, regulators, and providers are advancing the pace of healthcare innovation by engaging in exciting and productive dialogue between e …

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User 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 s …

This group is for organizing and conducting the San Diego RailsBridge Ruby On Rails workshops. The goal is to increase gender diversity in the Ruby community by helping women learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails. The workshops are geared to help primarily women learn Ruby on Rails. It is a free workshop and any level of experience is accepted. Anything from "I have never coded before in my life" to "I have been doing this for years and just want to see what is up with this Ruby on Rails thing" will be f …

MonkDev Academy is a San Diego based initiative launched by the developers of Monk Development, Inc.  It's goal is to turn people into programmers and good programmers into experts!  Very important to our mission is to create an Alumni of students that forever stay involved in helping each other out and forming connections for future opportunities. Our focus ranges from web applications, to mobile applications, from backend to front end.  Stay tuned for our class schedules.  Classes ranges from …

CocoaHeads is a group devoted to discussion of Apple Computer's Cocoa framework for programming on MacOS X (including the iPhone). During monthly meetings, members present on their projects and offer tutorials on various programming topics.