“ Hi. I have over 10 years of experience in Java and J2EE development. I am interested in meeting other professionals to share ideas and interests. ”

“ I want these local Meetups because it's the best way to learn things. ”

“ I am from Greece/Cyprus ”

“ I am a software engineer with experiences in software development, software architecture, methodologies, system analysis and project management. ”

“ Hi All, I am Srini and I work as a software consultant for a financial company. Thanks, --Srini ”

“ Former programmer for a database based accounting system who is updating to newer and different programming and quality assurance technologies (read: going back to college?). ”

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

“ I run Barbary Codes and Data, an independent development shop. ”

“ Hello, I am recruiter for Direct Apps an IT Solutions company who staffs throughout California. I currently have 6 Java positions open. Send me an email if you are interested in networking. twiley@directapps.com ”

“ Hi This is John Prindle of www.CaliforniaCoaching.net We are currently seeking top notch JAVA programmers for current and future Positions in the SF Bay Area ”

“ 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! ”

“ 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 ”

“ Heathen swine. ”

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

“ 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. ”

“ 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. ”

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

“ I am a engineering management guy, alway interested in learning about important technologies like Java... Don't hold the management part, or that nice dress I'm wearing against me ;) ”

“ 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 want these local Meetups because I'm hoping Ruby becomes the next big language. ”

“ .... happy to provide introductions for J2EE developers that wish to live / work in San Ramon. I am a corporate recruiter (HR Dept) in San Ramon. https://www.officialpayments.com Official Payments Corp, a division of Tier Technologies, Inc ”

“ 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'm the author of POJOs in Action and an architect/mentor/consultant specializing in helping organizations develop better software faster. I'm looking for new clients and new consultants. It would be great together in Oakland and talk about Java. ”

“ I learned Java in 2000 and I have been very strongly interested in it since then. I am a relative new comer to Folsom, CA and I would like to join the local Java professionals community. ”

“ 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 ”

“ Local java nut/developer. ”

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

“ My work is an integration of business applications. We use java a lot. If you would like to know more http://www.webswell.com ”

“ I work for SolarMetric (www.solarmetrc.com). We make Kodo JDO for relational database access. Rick ”