EXPOSED, our monthly critique and workshop series are designed to meet the needs of a diverse photographic community. We offer a wide range of instruction for the beginning photographer exploring the digital medium for the first time, and the professional looking to add to their “tool belt”. Either in the classroom, on location or during the critique sessions, everyone will find something to take away and apply the next time they are presented with a defining moment or a tough problem in the fie …

This is a place for movie fans, crew and talents connect to each other. Please feel free to post your job opening and internship opportunity or resume on our message board. Usually we hang out at restaurants, karaoke bars, fine art galleries, theaters, play bowling, pooling and games and discuss new films and technology. Most of us are hardworking professional, artists, culture lovers, located around San Francisco Bay Area... Let's rock the night! For more meet ups please join the groups below: …

This group is for people who love to build, ride, break then repair, tweak some settings and ride their scooters. I am also personally out to make what I call "The Police Magnet" "The God Scooter". Something so powerful, everyone on earth will want one from us. It's also for casual meetups, dinners, talking about design, testing in a friends garage one day then maybe going on a road trip the next. Scooteringging, is a safe, effective, cheap, and environmentally nice way to get from point A to Po …

This group's focus is to explore the LAMP stack. However, we will not strictly be looking at LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP), instead we will look at a plethora of compatible, complimentary, and sometimes competing technologies...based upon industry trends and speaker availability. The organizer, Tish Wood, has been programming web applications professionally since 2002, began using LAMP in the last few days of that year, and is a veteran of the Silicon Valley Startup Industry. He has taught a var …

You don't put up with obsolete software. Why should you put up with obsolete politics? We care about making the voice of tech heard in Washington DC. We support the political infrastructure that allows innovation to flourish, including: Internet Freedom (stop the next SOPA) Startup visa Open Access for scientific research IP reform Electing tech-friendly candidates of both parties Building the tools to power web-centric politics Politihacks: because the software in Washington needs a good refa …

We are the local group for ACM (Association of Computing Machinery) SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group on Graphics). Our mission is to promote the generation and dissemination of information on computer graphics and interactive techniques. Our purpose is to foster a membership community whose core values help them to catalyze the innovation and application of computer graphics and interactive techniques. We meet roughly every month, usually on the third Thursday. Our local group has been me …

The Autotech Council gathers auto manufacturers, vendors, distributors, startups, and investors every other month for a 1/2 day, deep dive on one segment inside the auto industry where lots of innovation is taking place. These meetings are open to the public and introduce dozens of companies to new ideas, new companies, and new opportunities. They include insight into to what the major vendors and manufacturers are doing as well as exposing them to a handful of new products and services. Startup …

Join the San Francisco's Bay Area most successful network of young professionals and create your own business opportunities. Read the below for details and a list of participating companies. Mail membership@ypn-online.org to join our mailing list. YPN (SJC) is a non-profit community of young professionals in Silicon Valley with sister chapters in Austin, Atlanta, Bangalore, Boston, Dallas, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Raleigh and Vancouver. The group started off as an organ …

Silicon Valley Robotics promotes the innovation and commercialization of robotics technologies. We are a newly formed non-profit business association (501c6). We are also one of the largest, most exciting robotics clusters in the world and we will be hosting some great events and opportunities in the next year. We look forward to your involvement!

Robotics at the Hacker Dojo, a hackerspace where makers and hackers of all ages and skill levels come together to collaborate and network on tech projects.

This group is for people ages 21+ in the South Bay Area who want to meetup and go to Dance Party Clubs voted as the best in San Francisco. Ok, now stop for a moment, put on the song "Memories" by David Guetta.  Do this before reading any further. Resume reading... Here's the whole big idea: Give your mind a break after a long week and give your body the freedom it deserves to move freely and dance dance dance! It will be the best therapy for you.  We will go out every weekend if possible, o …

Learn and Share how to build kick ass HTML5 Mobile Web Apps A place for Mobile Web Apps developers, end-users, entrepreneurs, local industries and communities stakeholders involved in evaluating, developing and providing web and mobile web applications as well as anyone wishing to learn about the business opportunities and mobile lifestyle experiences the newly created Mozilla marketplace and other mobile web development environments (Participants in the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core Community G …

A group for all Robot Enthusiasts and Roboticists in Silicon Valley

A group for writers, illustrators, and publishers interested in learning and sharing information about how to create, publish, and sell electronic books and periodicals.

This is a group gathering of 10,000+ of the smartest minds in design engineering. We meet annually at DESIGN West taking place April 22-25, 2013 at the McEnery Convention Center in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Register today at www.ubmdesign.com for your FREE pass by belonging to this meetup group. Use promo code MEETUP today.

This is a group for anyone interested in networking with NX (Siemens, Unigraphics, UG, UGS) users. We'll meet once every quarter to discuss NX news and updates, job opportunities throughout the Bay Area, and maybe relax a little outside of work. Whether you're a mechanical engineer, designer, hiring manager or CAD enthusiasts, we look forward to seeing you at future meetups.