The Silicon Valley Spring User Group aims to: * Promote the use of the Spring Framework and related technologies * Educate through high-quality and applicable presentations * Induce interactive discussions and forums * Be a resource hub for whomever is interested in web development in general and Java in particular * Develop close ties and relationships with the industry mentor companies and educational institutions in the United States and worldwide

Capital Engineering is a group about how we can use technology to bring order to the chaos of finance. It's a group for mobile, web and back-end developers and designers to learn and share their knowledge of building large, multi-client cloud-based systems. Things like architecting single page apps, advanced charting for mobile and Amazon's simple notification service are par for the course, which will typically be a two part talk complemented by food and drink. At Personal Capital we have devel …

If you can code in C/C++, you can code in any language. Moreover, you can tackle any programming problem you want. No other language can make as powerful a claim. My thinking is that there are other people who would like to learn how to program in C++, and we'd love to be the one to help them, while brushing up on our skills at the same time. Convoluted languages like Java & Ruby dominate the scene, despite being characteristically less efficient, more difficult to scale, and just plain more dif …

The place to be for Google Android developers, users, startup entrepreneurs, involved in planning and implementing applications as well as those wishing to learn more about the development knowledge or the business opportunities related the technology. We get together few times a month to share projects, opportunities, and how-tos related to developing for the Android Platform. Experienced developers, newcomers, and people with ideas are all welcome. We've enjoyed presentations from developers, …

A group dedicated to learning and mastering the Play! web application framework. The group was started by engineers in the Silicon Valley to help foster and learn from the local Play! and Scala communities. As we dived deeper into this amazing web framework, we wanted to be able to connect with other engineers in the area to share our experiences, evangelize, and learn. No matter if you're a Play! expert, a Scala beginner, or just interested in what makes this web framework different, the Play! …

This Silicon Valley OpenShift group meets to discuss OpenShift and the many ways it can be used to develop awesome apps. Our first meetup will be on April 30th. Let me know if you'd like to participate. Dave

Founded in August 2005, WSO2 is a global enterprise middleware corporation with offices in USA, UK and Sri Lanka. Providing the only complete open source middleware platform, WSO2 is revolutionizing the industry by putting traditional middleware on a diet and introducing lean, powerful and flexible solutions to address the 21st century enterprise challenges.

We are a Silicon Valley meet-up group, interested in connecting folks who are passionate about the certification space and interested in building certifications for the Devsquare OpenPBT platform. If you are a developer/hacker or a subject matter expert (SME) — who is passionate about certifications — please join us. For more information: http://devsquare.com'

We love to talk about what Amazon Web Services is doing in the Bay Area & to connect on ideas, technology & passion for the cloud space. Anyone interested in some of the crazy-interesting goings on should swing by!

The purpose of this Cloud Foundry meetup is to discuss opportunities related to Cloud Foundry & Open PaaS with a focus on building services that run on top of Cloud Foundry.

South Bay Competitive Programmers is a social and educational group based in the SF south bay area for people interested in programming competitions. Whether competing for solution time (like Topcoder Algorithm and Google Code Jam and many other competitions), solution performance (like topcoder marathon matches), code brevity (like Perl Golf), or robotics, when outside of a university it's much harder to meet and socialize with people who share this passion. So if you are a competitive programm …

Google Developer Group Silicon Valley meets on the first Wednesday of the month at the GooglePlex in Mountain View. Our meetings will always be free and open to the general public. However, we may have to limit attendance based on interest and the size of our meeting space. So, early RSVPs on this meetup group are encouraged to ensure your spot at upcoming meetings. Please see the "About" page for more information.

StartupMonthly is a seed fund and an on-going startup accelerator in San Francisco providing a global ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become …

This group is an interactive, developer-friendly introduction to analytics, machine learning and data science topics. The focus will be on learning practical techniques to working with data. We will be doing R, Python, Ruby and a little bit of Java/C++. We will also focus on real-life problems in various domains such as healthcare, energy etc. and apply data to solve those problems. Oh, btw - G.O.D.s => Geeking-out on data science. :-) See you there.

Hazelcast is an open source in-memory data grid that helps you to build Highly Scalable and Available applications. Join this group if you want to learn more about Hazelcast, in-memory data grids and some similar technologies. Let's share our ideas, work on case studies and dive into the technology.

SVPG started last century in Cupertino. See http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?SiliconValleyPatternsGroup We meet every Tuesday at 7pm at Hobees and study books. We have recently covered "Beautiful Code", "Actors in Scala", "Java Concurrency in Practice", "Clean Code"... To participate, you are supposed to get the book we study, come over, have dinner if you feel like it, and participate in the book discussion. We do it chapter by chapter. From time to time we have social meetings, and we decide which …

About Hacking 4 Health The launch of Community Health Data Initiative by HHS and Institute of Medicine is exciting news for programmers interested in the development of health applications. Under this initiative, HHS and other government agencies are releasing vast amounts of health data developers can use to create applications that will help individuals and communities. HealthTap, in collaboration with Health 2.0, is thrilled to announce a Hackathon where developers can learn more about this …

Monthly hack sessions at Citizen Space.

The Silicon Valley BlackBerry Developers Group exists to connect developers in Silicon Valley interested in gaining and sharing knowledge about developing on the BlackBerry platform. This includes all BlackBerry handsets and emergent BlackBerry devices such as the PlayBook. We meet about once a month in the Santa Clara area. Meeting topics and styles will range from month to month but will primarily be technically oriented. Anyone interested in BlackBerry development is welcome to join a meetin …

Do you contribute to https://github.com/cloudfoundry Or push apps to http://www.cloudfoundry.com/? Or just want to know about the future of PaaS? This is the right community for you.

This is a group of users and others interested in using and learning more about open source business intelligence tools grouped together under the name of Pentaho. These include Weka (machine learning), Kettle for loading data into a database (ETL), Montrian (OLAP), and other java-based applications for reporting.

TinyMCE is one of the most popular open source JavaScript online text editors. It is used by Wordpress, Facebook, Jive Software and many others. In fact, even Meetup.com uses it :) We are organizing a TinyMCE developer meetup in downtown Palo Alto to discuss integration tips, prioritize bug fixes and gather ideas for the future roadmap.

This is a group for Russian Speaking Hackers and Developers from the Bay Area and SF. We meet to hack on new technologies, discuss best practices, startup news, talk about our side projects. Join and tell what are you working on!

Micro-lending is hitting its stride and now we have some major problems to solve: whether it be in risk assessment, scale, measuring social impact or in tapping into new signals about the people we serve. This groups focus will be to bring together like minds whom are serving the under or unbanked consumers through software and engineering amazing solutions.

I am planning to form this group to have hands on all Distributed Databases technologies and build our own hadoop cluster and use various hadoop flavors including Hadoop,HDFS,Hive,Pig,HQL. Also have hands on all Nosql Technologies like Cassandra,MongoDB etc. We would also like to go over R programming tool as part of Haddop Analysis. We would like to compare Hadoop vs any Relational DB and MPP Dbs to find some of the use cases where it could really helpful . Also we would like to solve some Indu …