Techniques, tips and tools for heterogenous computing, from mobile to HPC applications. Learn from practicing engineers, get hints on how to optimize your applications directly from key architects. Multi-language, on multiple ISA's. So why another group? Hetergenous Computing is really broad - discrete and integrated GPUs, DSPs, FPGAs and CPUs - and the resulting applications, and ecosystems. We are looking at what is takes to move these technologies into mainstream computing - from smartphones …

Environmental design, landscape, and horticulture/agriculture issues will continue to be a growing field! I'm seeking members who want to balance both practice and theory to engage in meaningful projects that either build our skills, or make a profit. I believe this approach is the best way for communities to prosper. A good way to achieve this would be to use environmental design programs, such as Foothill and UC Berkeley as templates. Here are some careers that these programs influence; Arbori …

Join us to learn about TIBCO and related technologies, including use cases, new features and exciting networking with other TIBCO professionals.

Data Center Technologies? Technologies Flowing Through Data Centers? How Does A Data Center Make Their Money?

This group is for bringing together virtual switching, software defined networking, OpenFlow, openvswitch, VXLAN professionals & entrepreneurs together. Follow us on twitter @nvirters

Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) is a web organization dedicated to providing web builders with useful and informative resources. We promote technological innovations and address technical challenges facing the web community. SVWB invites expert speakers to address important and critical aspects of launching, building and growing successful websites, web applications and web-based businesses. SVWB efforts cover every aspect of web building including user experience design, information architec …

This is a group for all usability professionals in the Bay Area to socialize, network and share ideas. Long Term Plans are planning to establish a local chapter of the UXPA Intl Association.

Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform for the San Francisco Bay Area.

WordPress is an open source blog tool and publishing platform powered by PHP & MySQL. This MeetUp group gives presentations and holds discussions about WordPress technical aspects and business applications. WP can be used under wordpress.com as a simple blog. Or, download the code from wordpress.org and customize your own Content Management System. It has many dynamic features, including a plug-in architecture and a template system. Our group's WordPress blog is SaratogaMeetup at http://saratoga …

The Qt (pronounced "Q-T" or "cute") Meetup group covers everything Qt: roadmap information, deep architectural discussion, best practices, gotchas and hands on technical support. We will cover the logistics of Qt app deployment to desktop, embedded, tablets and mobile devices including tooling requirements/behavior/usage. Linux is the dominant operating system in the embedded space and it is where Qt5 has made numerous inroads into various verticals. All are welcome.

This is a group for all Apache Hadoop users interested in solving big data challenges. We'll look at topics from data architecture, to technical deep dives, to the future of Hadoop and everything in between using the knowledge we have at Hortonworks. Want us to come to your area? Suggest a meetup and location.

BAFUG ( Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group ) is a users group for Open Source Unix like operating systems, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our primary emphasis is on FreeBSD but enthuist of other Open Source Unix such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, NanoBSD, DragonBSD, etc. are welcome. Since BSD is the preferred base operating system for companies like Apple (Apple OS), Juniper, NetFlix and their products, BSD truly is one of the most robust and popular operating systems in the world. Companies, de …

Navigating through the interior design industry as a new designer/entrepreneur can be difficult. This is a group where new designers can meet and collaborate ideas with other people who understands and can relate to their situation. This is a group where we can share our design/business/client dilemmas and exchange helpful information. A place where we can get a chance to network, but also have the intention of helping each other succeed in this industry. I plan to eventually have guest speaker …

This is a group for anyone involved or interested in learning and discussing new frameworks to achieve greater ROI when adopting Software Reuse. Our group will share real enterprise experience; achievements as well as challenges when implementing reuse methodologies. We will also discuss new technology that is changing the way software is developed and allowing Software Reuse to be fully realized with greater ROI then previously possible.

CMREI is a Commercial Real Estate training, Securities and Investment company supporting motivated, investment-seeking individuals across the world. The Real Estate education and business models that we provide are unmatched by any other professional organization in the industry. CMREI offers basic to advanced level learning and applicable strategies for individuals with a desire to build cash flow and financial independence. CMREI believes that every investor has his or her own blue print for …

"Are you a techie with a passion to work on new ideas/startups ?" Do you wish to have a meetup to connect with other like-minded techies but found that the existing meetup groups are too chaotic to let you meet the right people?" Do you have an idea that you would like to find people passionate to work on? The goal of this group is to help developers and  ideators connect together to work on early stages of developing an idea/creating mockups etc. You can expect to make new friends, brainstorm a …

Meet people in the Silicon Valley Area interested in building a green home or making their homes environmentally friendly. Discuss green construction, remodeling, maintenance, furnishing, and other related issues! Green building increases the efficiency with which buildings use resources — energy, water, and materials — while reducing building impacts on human health and the environment during the building's lifecycle, through better siting, design, construction, operation, maintenance, and remo …

This is a group for those that love mid-century modern design to share; ideas, stories, history, design and special needs. We are a group of vendors, enthusiasts, home owners, developers, architects, stagers... We believe in the preservation of this style of architecture and work to connect with like-minded individuals.

Rengstorff House, Mountain View's oldest home, is one of the finest examples of Victorian Italianate architecture on the West Coast. Well-known as a wedding venue, Rengstorff House is available for rent for your next wedding ceremony reception, team retreat, employee birthday party, retirement celebration, garden party, fundraiser and/or after-work mixer. Rengstorff House is also open to the public for guided tours Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Sundays from 11:00 am – 5:00 p.m. NEW in 2010 for a …

Gallivant: To roam about in search of pleasure or amusement... So let's go climb a hill, hike a mountain, ski, paddle, ride, or just chill with a great meal at a local restaurant! We are a group of dedicated ‘Gallivanter’s’ interested in unique travel experiences near and far… Some upcoming Gallivants include hiking in The Redwoods... Lots of Hiking and Backpacking... Backpacking in The Trinity Alps, and The Hoover Wilderness Ca. We will go Kayaking and attend The Wooden Boat Fest in Port Townse …

Come together to share your sculpture work, discuss different mediums and go to gallery events in the bay area. Feel free to suggest an event or host at your studio.

What is CloudStack? Apache CloudStack (Incubating) is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable, hypervisor agnostic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premise (private) cloud offerings. Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foun …

We are Aerospike.  Our group is focused on having discussions around scaling real-time, high transaction and low latency NoSQL database systems. We will have guest speakers talk about their real world experiences and learned techniques around building and managing mission critical businesses that realize 100% up-time. Collaborate with peers trying to solve the same complex problems that arise when you bet your business on your infrastructure.

This is a meetup group for users and contributors to Apache Flume (incubating). Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. Its main goal is to deliver data from applications to Apache Hadoop's HDFS. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. The system is cent …

Exploring flash acceleration for in-memory, NoSQL, and relational data stores. Join us for discussions, presentations, brainstorming and more.

There's a lot of discussion about SDN and what it means. Hype, tool, or folly. Let's get together and discuss what's real, what's necessary, and what's not.

TC Camp is an Unconference focused on Technical Communications issues, skills, challenges, and the various applications used by technical communicators. The purpose of TC Camp is to provide a local bay area conference for technical communicators that is driven by the members of that community–writers, editors, designers, and the people who support them.

A group for the application of cutting-edge HPC & GPU supercomputing technology to cutting-edge business problems. With an emphasis on the useful application of supercomputing by practitioners, for practitioners. Note: We have a sister groups that meet in Boston, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston", Chicago, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Chicago", and New York, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of New York".