… Events in this group will range from educational sessions, penetration testing tutorials, hacking demonstrations, hacking competitions and challenges, discussion panels, and hands on workshops. The content of the events will also range from advanced to beginner, the designation of which will be posted in the event description. The primary audience for this group is web developers, but the information presented should be useful to a wide range of professionals. Advanced sessions are more li …

Hack nights are a great way for developers in the Python community to get to know one another, to find out about new and interesting projects, and to generally get the pulse of the community. Whether you're working on the latest bits of Open Source greatness or planning the application that's going to win you the world, the SF Python Hack Night can provide you with valuable early feedback. Plus, it's fun! Who wouldn't want to hack some Python over beer and pizza?

Live healthy, hack happy is not an oxymoron. It's a way to make sure that when your start up finally does take off you're healthy enough to enjoy it. Healthy Hacker meets regularly to discuss awesome technology and effective ways to stay healthy as you're busy building it.

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

Hack, plot and hang out with the Stripe team and other Stripe users.

Some may think you're a unicorn, but you just want to create. This group is dedicated to bringing out both the hacker and designer in all of us. The old dichotomy of developer vs. designer is a relic of 20th century corporate America. In this experimental group, we study interaction and visual design while simultaneously translating our new-found sensibilities into actual code. This group is about balancing our logical and linear left brains with our imaginative and creative right brains.

Make:SF is an opportunity to get started in the Maker community. You can meet local makers, learn some new skills and grow from there. The goals are to: - Meet other local Makers - Share ideas, skills, and local resources - Gain new skills through mini-workshops - Hear guest speakers who are tackling large projects - Create collaborations between engineers, makers, craft folks, artists, etc. - Get opinions or advice on project execution Learn more at Makesf.org

We are a Silicon Valley (San Francisco) meet-up group, interested in connecting folks who are passionate about the education space and interested in applying technology to hack current problems in the education sector. If you are a developer / hacker / entrepreneur / investor — who is passionate about education  — please join us.  You can follow us on this meet-up, or "like our Facebook page" or follow us on Twitter at @EduTechGroup. We plan to bring together interesting speakers from the t …

This group is made for .io companies by .io companies. New members must be part of companies with a .io domain and apply for membership to the League.

This is a meetup for PR and Tech professionals.

… If you are interested in the above, passionate about UI/UX, hacking on a project, or just curious about what people are doing in the space come join us! Cheers! Stephen, Bruno, Sönke & Alec

Hang out and discuss JavaScript tips, tricks, hacks, and frameworks with some of the best scripters around. Show off cool stuff you've done and learn about what else is going on in the JS community. No pressure, no mandatory presentations. Come, hang out, and hear great people talk about cutting edge scripting.

We are starting a serious of meetups for various QA specialties. Our goal is to build a solid community of QA testers on the Silicon Valley, share our experiences and hacks. Our fierst session will be about Web Testing. Come share your web testing expierence, and learn from other industry leaders.   This is a free event. 

For makers in education and educators who would like to connect around hands-on projects such as those featured in Make magazine. We’ll  discuss ed-tech ideas and tools that you can use to transform classrooms into 21st century hotbeds of learning by doing. MAKE is the first magazine devoted entirely to Do-It-Yourself (DIY) technology projects. MAKE unites, inspires, informs, and entertains a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, an …

Learn more about Erlang, the highly concurrent programming language. Have a chance to meet fellow developers interested in Erlang/OTP, cast messages about interesting tricks and cool hacks, and -- most importantly -- fun with fun()s and a good time had by all.

Parse (http://www.parse.com) is hosted solution and framework which allows mobile developers to instantiate a server stack, database schema, and query APIs automagically. Yes, automagically, as in not having to know how to shh into a remote server for sys admin stuff; no Ruby/PHP/Python/Java/Scala etc or their associated frameworks; no db such as mysql, nosql, or anysql.  On the client side you also don't have to worry about server comm or caching into a local db such as Core Data or sqlite. If …