Duchess is a global network for women in Java technology. We have been growing since 2007 and are the only global Java User Group. We are recently starting up a chapter in the SF Bay Area to connect the women who work with Java technology in one of the most innovative regions in the world. We believe that women have a role in shaping the future of IT as it becomes more aligned to business goals and customer needs. Come join us to connect, share, and get inspired. Go to http://jduchess.org to be …

Groovy is the second standard language for the Java platform. Grails is an open-source web application framework that leverages the Groovy language and complements Java Web development. Let's get together and talk about these important new technologies.

… Azure is new and initial meetings will be designed to get developers up and running and working on code, using C#, Visual Basic, PHP, and Java. The developer tooling will be Visual Studio or Eclipse. IDC, a well regarded technology market analysis firm forecasted (in October 2008) that IT spending in cloud services will grow by a factor of almost three and reach $42 billion by 2012. Silicon Valley is the startup capital of the world. Being a successful software engineer means being able to code …

… This is weird, since equally convoluted languages like Java & Ruby dominate the scene, despite being characteristically less efficient, more difficult to scale, and just plain more difficult to write properly in. Sure you can program something fast, but we all know projects don't end after the first demo. Please join if you're in the SF area, know C++, would like to know C++, or just otherwise are piqued.

… We are trying to develop a community of hands-on software engineers who utilize the Eclipse environment and  are interested in JAVA, Android Development, OO programming, mobile application development and relevant cutting-edge technology.   The group is limited to hands-on software programmers. We will only allow hiring managers into the events based on criteria that they are seeking Eclipse developers for an Eclipse based project.  If you are a hiring manager and wish to be considered for the a …

These study groups are off-shoots of the Alameda Library Android Programming Classes. I'm giving anyone who's attended my class the access privilege to schedule his/her own study group. These study groups can be used to follow the learning tracks and the programming homework assigned in the main class, but if they grow large enough, or if any of you are so inclined, you guys are more than welcome to use such a study group to start your own separate Android programming meetup/class.

These are short Saturday half-day (or Sunday) paid classes for people who are new to Android mobile programming. Our classes are not affiliated with Android(TM) or Google Inc. Android is a trademark of Google Inc. Use of this trademark is subject to  Google Permissions.  Portions of this page are reproduced from work created and  shared by Google and used according to terms described in the  Creative Commons 3.0 Attribution License.  

Developers interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. We host hands-on lab sessions, technology reviews, topical lectures, and plenty of social beer nights. Curious about graphs, want to pimp your non-RDBMS skills? Join us!

Welcome to Bay Area Eucalyptus Cloud 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 …

A group of hands-on engineers in San Francisco who are using Grails & Groovy at their primary gig or full-time employment who are advocating these technologies.  We have featured speakers, discussions about our tech-stack and are promoting Grails and Groovy to others using the JVM - and beyond that. 

BASES (Bay Area Software Engineers Society) is a professional career organization specific to software engineers, application designers, and hands-on coders. BASES is applying for Section 501(c)(3) nonprofit status and assembling a board of directors. The mission of BASES is to build an eco-system to support local software engineers, by providing direct communications with local small business, technology start-ups, local employers, and established enterprises. BASES will be providing inf …

  We are an interactive group of Android developers and contractors discussing trends in technology, business, and job outlook. Our meetings are technical but also people-oriented. We encourage both front presentation, group discussion, as well as get-your-hands-dirty-with-cool-app-development. We typically meet on the last Tuesday of each month and our meetings are FREE and OPEN to the public. If you are an employer, a recruiter, or simply someone looking for Android employment opportuni …

The San Francisco chapter of GTUG aims to provide technical training on emerging google technologies, as well as to provide a environment that facilitates networking. GTUG SF will be hosted once a month in San Francisco #GTUGSF - Google Technology User Group  - San Francisco 

The mission of this group is to: Help web developers to easily get into telephony development. Help traditional telephony/voice developers to leverage the APIs offered by telephony in the cloud companies such as Voxeo, Twilio, and CloudVox. Help the open-source communities such as FreeSwitch and Asterisk to further integrate into cloud computing offers, such as Adhearsion. Help entrepreneurs to integrate voice, SMS, IM and other telephony services into their business model.

The goal of this group is to connect, help and educate BlackBerry & PlayBook developers. We are looking to have monthly meetings. This is a very informal group so we are open to suggestions and feedback on what each member wants out of this group. Feel free to suggest topics for discussion, show off your latest app or what you've learned, or just come to the meetups and meet some other BlackBerry & PlayBook developers. This group is also on Twitter at @BBDevSF

Meet others interested in developing apps on Google App Engine. This meetup has a strong programming focus, so talks showing working code and workarounds are actively encouraged. Each meetup will have a reasonable amount of time for informal lightning talks to show members' work.