The growth of the mobile industry is obvious at first glance. Indeed, as we have seen with the growth of several mobile payment solutions like Square and Google Wallet, mobile has started to force many surrounding industries to adjust to its own rapid expansion. The real question moving forward lies in how these surrounding industries will shift to keep up with the expanding capabilities of mobile devices users. With countless types of mobile security solutions (MDM, Password Management, Anti-M …

:SF Vendors Only Club" is a Private Meet Up group, designed to bring together like minded Sales and Sales Engineer professionals to Socialize, Network, and have some fun. This group is for Vendors only, so no bringing along VARs or customers. There are plenty of nights for that. This group, brings together Networking, Application, and IT Security Vendors without the distraction of competing interests. The first Goal is to have some fun. The secondary goals are to network, share war stories, and …

Meet other developers and ops engineers using Docker. Docker is an open-source engine for building and deploying cloud applications as standalone containers which can run on any server - from the VM on your laptop to the largest EC2 compute instance, and everything in between. Docker is a great building block for deploying web apps, database services, service-oriented architectures, and so on.

Globant is looking to spur innovative and creative thinking through a series of Hackathons, speaker events, guerrilla coding, and experimentation on the bleeding edge of software development and design. We are new to the neighborhood but not new to innovation and would like to make connections in the Bay Area. As South America's tech leader, we are here to learn from the collective genius of Silicon Valley, and help others explore their talent with us. If you are interested in agile software dev …

To apply for a demo, please use the on-line form. This group aims to be the point of contact between User Experience Professionals (product managers, designers, researchers, front end developers, technical writers, customer support professionals) and the developer community in the Bay Area. The purpose of the group is to help the User Experience community talk to who needs us, help you network and find new gigs with some exciting startup that need some UX love and care. Although the main focus …

Committed to bringing in experts on Cyber Security and specifically addressing Ddos attacks. With the increase and evolving threat that Distributed Denial of Service attacks pose to the San Francisco Bay Area's Web start ups, and established companies, we bring together experts, thought leaders, success stories, and current reports and trends in the Ddos security landscape.

Lua's a fascinating, super-fast scripting language perfect for gaming and web applications. This is a very engineering-centric group for those interested in trying out Lua, or for sharing creations. Let the organizer(s) know if you're looking to sponsor, host, or speak at any of our events. We're open to suggestions!

The focus of this meetup is on the growing field of HTML5 and javascript Game development. This is a place to learn or teach, to share tips on programming, game engines, sdks, tools for development on the web and cross platform solutions for HTML5 for iphone android ipad windows phone 7 palm. HTML5 or hybrid solutions, 2d or webgl are explored. Meetings will be held in both SF and Mountain View. Checkout our website at: http://gamesjs.com/ where you will find meetup recaps, further reading mater …

Welcome to the Responsive Web Design SF Meetup Group. This group, based in San Francisco, CA, actively supports the San Francisco Web Design and Development communities, by educating it's members about Web Design, Web Standards, development languages, frameworks, libraries and best practices, and how they all converge in the exciting Responsive Web Design paradigms. Watch this space for the first Responsive Web Design workshop, which will include building a Responsive web site, from design to de …

Despite the attention hogging explosive growth of the mobile app, the browser remains the foundation of the web and is a vital component of the internet. It is not going away and there has been a raft of technical advances taking it to the next level. Faster javascript engines, faster graphics libraries with GPU support, lower latency networking, HTML5 and exciting new technologies such as DART and NaCl are redefining what can be done in the browser. A whole new generation of near native perform …

This is a group for people interested in learning more about or working with the Koding.com platform. Developing in your browser with a real VM and a real terminal.

Welcome! We are the hacker collective. A San Francisco based group passionate about rapidly creating new and exciting things. We tinker with all forms of new technology; hardware, software, music, art, design and whatever else. We try to meet once a month to demo and talk about the things we've been working on. Occasionally we'll get together informally to hack on things together.

Calling all developers, designers and thinkers! Come together to build open source tools and communities to enable the annotation of the world's knowledge.

Bringing developers and comedians together to create hilarious apps. And also, free food and beer.

This meetup group is interested in all the moving pieces that encompass site reliability. Our goal is to have talks that address the issues encountered by technical operations teams running stable and high performing sites at scale.

For hackers and laymen alike. SF Cyber Security is a great excuse to get together and geek out about drive-by downloads, spearfishing, and your favorite Metasploit exploit. For us laymen, we'll be sure to break it down into to plain English and talk about why cyber security matters for business and personal life. We'll aim for a regular slate of interesting speakers and the occasional startup showcase or capture the flag competition.

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium to test their web applications. The SF Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the Bay Area. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related areas of interest, such as …

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.

Cool startup ideas are hard to find! But so are good technology partners. The right execution of cool startup ideas matters! Join the Startup Development meetup group and share your successes (and failures) on developing startup in-house, hiring onshore and offshore contractors, share tips and learn from others.

This meetup welcomes conversation on the cutting edge of APIs, from cloud to business models. We encourage all developers, providers and consumers of APIs to gather and discuss innovations, opportunities and tactical or strategic problems faced. We've seen a lot of conversation and change going on in the API space, driven by cloud computing, SaaS, open source and other disruptions, and would like to get the community together to see how we can work together and come up with ideas on how to make …

Welcome to the San Francisco HTML5 User Group—the largest HTML5 Meetup in the World! We have free monthly events in San Francisco with presentations by the industry's leading experts in HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and other cutting-edge web technologies. Past speakers have included HTML5 superstars like Paul Irish, Bruce Lawson, Steve Souders, Divya Manian, Brian Leroux, PPK, Faruk Ates, Rob Hawkes, Peter Lubbers, and many more. We enjoy free food and drinks from our generous sponsors and encourage …

Often considered as not so serious in the recent past, Javascript has come a long way in becoming the most popular language used on all size projects. A handful of libraries such as jQuery brought it to the masses and unveiled the true potential of JS resulting in a widespread adoption of it. As you may find out it is very easy to get started with Javascript, almost instantly you can see your code being executed in the browser window and strike a superhero pose thinking out loud "I rock!!!". In …

Are you a developer interested in learning how to summarize, visualize and interpret your data? Are you building a website or application that needs to be smarter in making predictions, segmenting users, or generating recommendations? Come by and meet with other developers and learn about best practices, hear about what’s new in building data-driven applications, and drink some free beer.

For readers of the Online Community Report or others interested in the topic of online community management, online social networking applications and online group collaboration. We discuss tools and strategies to enhance participation on various online communities that we support.

API Hack Day brings developers together for an all-day coding fest focused on building apps with APIs. Developers of all experience levels can share ideas, collaborate on projects, start new ventures and find out about great tools and new APIs to play with. API Hack Day events are sponsored by a core group of companies that are built on and around APIs, including Mashery, Twilio, Apigee, SimpleGeo, and SendGrid. Most of the companies are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, but we hold API Hac …

This is the monthly San Francisco Drupal users group. Come on down and discuss Drupal and Drupal technology with other people who use Drupal. We showcase sites which are using Drupal to help us all see real world applications of Drupal. Our Tech Sessions cover all areas of Drupal technology and are very informative. Come on down and join our vibrant community of Drupal enthusiasts.

The explosion of advertiser tracking, both on mobile devices and the web, has led to new Engineering problems to combat the loss of individual privacy. To this effect, the SF Privacy Engineering group serves as a gathering point for developers who work on efforts to identify, quantify, or mediate privacy data on the web and mobile. The purpose of the group is to help the Developer community network as well as learn and discuss engineering efforts in the Privacy space. We're open to all kind …

Do you want to know more about law and technology? Are you an entrepreneur, a business owner, or you work in a tech company and want to know what laws affect your business practices? Are you an attorney seeking to better understand new technologies your clients work with? If so, this is your group! What SEL offers: * EDUCATION * SEL puts the focus on the new technologies and the legal issues concerning them. We provide an opportunity to meet your peers and to learn more about the new developmen …