We are a friendly group creative people who want to start a Makerspace in Marin so that people of all ages and types can come in and learn, play, hack, make, create, and rule the world! We hold meetings at various locations throughout Marin with the intent of sampling a variety of locations and spaces until we find our permanent home. Our meetings are held on the first Tuesday of each month. At each meeting we spend a little time discussing the logistics of opening our Makerspace. The rest of th …

Network security has made some major advances in the past couple decades, so much so, that is has become incredibly difficult to attack a well secured network perimeter as a means of accessing the data and systems contained therein. So it’s no wonder that malicious users have begun pursuing other avenues and skirting the perimeter defenses all together. From the attacker’s standpoint, breaching a network is all about economics and ROI. It just doesn’t make sense to mount an attack that will c …

Feel compelled to build the tools for a better society? Find "your people" hacking the future at our weekly meetup. Tuesdays at 6 PM at TechShop San Francisco 926 Howard Street (near 5th) San Francisco, CA 94103 Feel free to share and to bring great people!

We are a group of first-time, non-technical entrepreneurs without a programmer/technical co-founder...and we've decided to go it alone! If you are starting your own company (or thinking about it) and want to learn how to do it yourself, join the Hack Job Mob! Some people call it an MVP, some people call it a Hack Job - we just call it a prototype. Come to one of our Happy Hours, meet other people going through the same thing, find out how they are doing it and learn tons!

A hacker space for JavaScript enthusiasts, coding educators and students, and those who want to make the web a cool and beautiful place. http://hackreactor.com Twitter: @HackReactor

Welcome To SF Growth Hackers! Growth Hacking: A data-driven approach to marketing, user acquisition and sales funnels. Learn how to leverage user analytics, split testing and modern marketing techniques to improve every step of a sales funnel. As a startup or even a fortune 500 company you can't make informed decision about your product without the right data backing you up. We will discuss how to capture your data, setup experiments and make confident decisions about your business. Come and j …

A group for people hacking javascript in any industry (norcal primarily) who have a desire to grow and learn from other similar people. Organized to facilitate short tech talks, demos, discussion topics and chilltime.

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

Come work together with other folks passionate about open government and civic tech! This is a weekly event hosted by Code for America, so come by and work on a civic project you have already started, start a new project, or collaborate with others on their projects. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/code-for-san-francisco http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/brigades/81 https://www.github.com/sfbrigade irc.freenode.net #sfbrigade #codeforamerica

We're a group that uses hacking, stats, and machine learning to dig up alpha in the financial markets. Programmers, traders, and everyone else who enjoys crunching numbers is welcome to contribute and work on ideas.

nReduce is a group of tech start-up founders working on web apps, mobile apps, hardware products, and everything in between. We meet once a month at WeWork Labs to give each other feedback on everything from UX/UI, traction, growth hacks, and investor pitches. We're all about shipping product, execution, getting shit done, and kicking ass. nReduce.com is the online counterpart of our monthly meet-ups. It's a community of 1,500 start-ups all around the world who give each other feedback through v …

Like coding? Want to interact with and learn more from other baller coders? Got an internet connection and a Google Hangouts account? Wow, you rock - it's time for you to get pairing! In this group you'll meet friendly peers to connect, hack, and collaborate with. We meet virtually at least once a week: Why try pair programming if you haven't before? Learn new tricks and skills Teach others and improve your communication ability Get feedback and insight on things you're making Make new friends …

DEDICATED SITE: http://hack.tvot.tv DATE & PLACE: JUNE 22-23, 202 Green Street, San Francisco, California PLATFORMS BEING USED: Connected TV, Tablets, Smartphones, OTT Boxes (e.g. Google TV, Roku, Apple TV), PCs, Others of Your Choosing! SDKs: Android, iOS, Synchronizing Mobile with TV and Metadata (Gracenote), Mobile Video Editing (Ignite Video), Commerce (PayPal), 3D Motion (LeapMotion), Voice Control (Nuance), Connected TV (Samsung Developers AllShare Framework) [itvt] is pleased to announce …

MAKE unites, inspires, informs, and entertains a growing community of resourceful people who undertake amazing projects in their backyards, basements, and garages. MAKE celebrates your right to tweak, hack, and bend any technology to your will. The MAKE audience continues to be a growing culture and community that believes in bettering ourselves, our environment, our educational system—our entire world. This is much more than an audience, it's a worldwide movement that Make is leading—we call it …

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.

Join an incredible group of entrepreneurs, designers, developers, businesspeople, and individuals from all creative disciplines who are applying their skills and experiences to advance common good by ideating, designing, and building solutions that matter.

Geekli.st brings the world's top developers and key decision-makers together to meet, share, build, and grow. Like a 24/7 hackathon online. This series of meetups takes that experience and pairs it with special guest speakers in a friendly environment where the highfives are louder.

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.

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.

"Data Hacker" means any developer, data scientist, data architect, entrepreneur, engineer, or data nerd who is interested in discovering - meeting people interested in - and joining hackathons focused on - new open-source data-centric programming languages and technologies such as Hadoop, Hbase, Hive, Pig, Drill, Mahoot, Lucene, MongoDB, Graph Databases like Neo4J.... pretty much any developer-centric data technology. Data Hackers is a meetup group run by Data 2.0 (data2x.com) that hosts meetups …

Have you ever imagined all that you could get done if you only had a little outside motivation? In this group members help motivate each other to get things done. Whether you are looking to jumpstart your startup or simply want to stay on top of your household tasks, this meetup is for you. Members simply announce the time of day that they plan to dedicate to one particular task and other members looking to get things done at that same time of day will commit to meeting via Skype or GoogleHangou …

Welcome to Ruby on Trails, the Bay Area tech hiking group.Don't let the name fool you.  This group is definitely not limited to engineers working with Ruby on Rails and is open to anybody interested in technology, startups, hacking, designing, hiking, or just need a break from the office.We welcome everybody and their pets, and we can't wait to meet the community on a fun and challenging hike.  Activity stimulates creativity so join us in sharing ideas, talking shop, and having fun!After each hi …

We are demystifying the process of what's called a "liquidity event" in finance language: from getting "acqui-hired", over selling your company to a Fortune 500, to an initial public offering. We will cover the steps that it takes to grow from a seed stage start-up to a different level and a public company - and what to do when that phone call from Facebook comes.

This is a group for anyone who likes hacking on bicycle projects. I like assembling and riding project bikes, as well as building custom cargo and touring racks, decaleurs, LED lights, and various other fabrication and modification projects. OA torches and Unimats turn me on. I know a few people who sew their own bike bags and panniers, and others who dabble in frame-building. I'm interested in fostering some community around these activities to trade ideas, collaborate on projects, and learn ne …

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 a "hackerspace", a colloquial term for a group of people who gather together in order to DIY technology and art, exchange knowledge, and pool together resources and tools. Members have access to 3d printers, laser cutters, CNC routers, woodworking tools, computers, etc.

AngelHack Hackathon Workshops are a place for industry leaders, hackers, and entrepreneurs to come together in a relaxed atmosphere to talk about API's, SDK's, and how to use new and creative ideas to empower a new generation of developers.

Meet the Stripe team and members of the Stripe community.