“ I am from Greece/Cyprus ”

“ J2EE, Hibernate, Struts (not a fan), JBoss guy interested in geospatial and social software. ”

“ Hi Everyone, I'm a Java Developer here in Oakland, mostly working with the struts/hibernate frameworks at the moment. I'm looking forward to meeting the group at the next meetup ”

“ Hello! As a long time Java developer/architect, I moved to San Francisco in April 2005 to try my luck in the IT training world. So far it's been both fun and challenging, but such is life. I'm looking forward to meeting you all! ”

“ Techie. Wanna get rid of them tapes. Get HD into my life. No dogon clickin in XHTML. Store in UDF. Go optical. ”

“ Heathen swine. ”

“ CS Prof at USF, project lead for ANTLR and StringTemplate. ”

“ At Sun, I was designer and implementor for JDK4 and JDK5 language features. Chief designer, implementor, and evangelist for the effort to add Closures to Java in JDK7. A member of the Google Calendar engineering team. ”

“ Started learning Java in 2007 so a total newbie, interested in Spring, Hibernate and general web applications in Java technologies. Previously worked with C, C++ embedded RTOS systems. ”

“ Bon, Wake, Frank, Will Eisner, Kim Veitch, Teen Titans, Courtney Crumrin, etc. ”

“ Dining and meeting people about the Bay Area are favorite pursuits of mine; see my Yelp blog at http://josephcjackson.yelp.com . ”

“ I work at SuccessFactors.com.....largest SaaS in the world.......and were looking for developers...anyone interested contact me....and we'll talk it from there :)...cool cheers ”

“ I want these local Meetups because I am seeking developers interested in developing on the vaakya platform ( www.vaakya.com ) ”

“ I always enjoy meeting new and interesting people! ”

“ I am a co-founder of eDream Factory - We build Virtual Worlds like no one else. Check http://www.edreamfactory.com for more information. ”

“ I am interested in Java Data Objects (JDO). I also like to skateboard. ”

“ I want local Java Meetups because I'd like to discuss topics with interesting people. Also, I'm a San Francisco Native. ”

“ Java has proven the viability of semidynamic garbage collected languages in production. It is now time to establish the position of the far superior CLOS family of languages: Lisp, Scheme & Dylan. ”

“ I'm a J2EE developer based in SF. I work in the BEA Weblogic Platform. On the side, I'm interested in Spring and Hibernate. ”

“ basic geek, interested in stuff like virtual machines, dynamic compilation, garbage collection , overlay networks, politricks, philosophy and general goings on in the world. ”

“ I want local Python Meetups because I want to learn innovative techniques ”

“ Just starting with MovableType ”

“ Local java nut/developer. ”

“ How many others have, or are tempted to get a neato Ti Powerbook ”