This is a group for people passionate about helping support dog rescue groups in the Bay Area, our feature rescue group is Doggie Protective Services. We want to help place dogs in foster homes, work adoption days, find ways to educate the general public on the importance of spay and neuter. If you love dogs, have always been aware of the problems but didn't know how to help, join us and together we can make a difference. We don't have all the answers so we look for members to contribute ideas.. …

Join the largest beagle meetup group in the USA! Our group is about meeting other beagle lovers in the SF Bay Area and letting the beagles play together. We travel to San Francisco, the East Bay, South Bay and Peninsula. We meet to let our babies play and the humans discuss happy tales as well as problems or issues. We learn from others who have lived with the breed longer. It's about beagles and humans making friends and building a network. Also, don't forget your friends! Tell those you know t …

This is a group for anyone who has, wants, is thinking about adopting, or used to have a cat. If you HAVE a cat, perhaps you'd like to discuss veterinary care with other feline parents. If you are thinking about adopting a cat, you might want to talk to others about where they got their four-legged friend. If you used to have a cat, aren't ready for a new one, but still want to enjoy the company, a meetup with cat families might be ideal. This also goes for anyone who wants a cat, though circums …

Hello, the reason I am starting this meetup group is to find other Amerasians who were born in Vietnam during the Vietnam War and were adopted into American Families. I, myself came over from Vietnam when I was an infant and was adopted and raised by an American Family in Virginia. My hope for this group is to gather Amerasians of like minds and meet up and talk about our childhood, how we got out of Vietnam, our families, ect., ect., and just open a good dialogue.

3D Printing, also known as Additive Manufacturing, is an exciting and potentially game changing technology that will dramatically alter the way products are designed, manufactured, distributed and financed. A standard digital file (.stl) of an object is created, either by using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software or a 3D scanner, and is sent to a dedicated machine which builds the object layer-upon-layer in a material such as plastic, metal or ceramic. Today the technology is mainly used for ra …

This is a group for local members of the community to come together and have a pragmatic discussion about how we can solve local problems. This is not a debate club. We want to create a serious place for people to have a meaningful discussion, while also being respectful of each other and our differences in opinion. Together, we can build our community. Managed by Civinomics About Civinomics: Our mission is to improve social decision making the collective creativity of communities. We enable an …

Open to Russian Speakers, Russian Expats, Travelers to Russia, People Married to Russians, Russians Married to People :-), Parents Adopting Russians, People who have worked in Russia, People who have lived in Russia...

We understand that the one of the best ways to improve our own business is to utilize the network of people that other members have built. If one person can reach 100 people, then a group of 20 people can reach 2000 and that is very powerful. There have been many fruitful relationships built in our group that will last the rest of our professional lives, and we are looking for more people that share our enthusiasm. This and other Business related Meetups are dedicated to working with small, eme …

As web developers, we are often faced with tough decisions when trying to decide which web development technologies to adopt. Every application is different and each technology has its own set of ideal use cases so wouldn't it be nice to hear directly from multiple experts during a session and have them debate the pros and cons of different approaches?  Instead of having attendees sit through a long talk—and only hear one point of view—we want to foster an interactive discussion that allows ever …

A culturally-diverse coalition, Active Single Parents group is composed of representatives of single parents that went through a separation/divorce, parents of adoptive children, parents of children coming from different families, single parents that found partners in other single parents groups, etc. For our group is critical to consider varied opinions or beliefs within a certain culture. Two people do not have the same opinions because they are both native Americans or from the same culture. …

This is a group for SAP HANA (in-memory database technology) adopters and hackers. This includes programmers, architects and experts who work on SAP HANA or are looking to learn more about it. The goal of this group is to share experiences with working on SAP HANA, or any other Big Data (Hadoop, MongoDB, GreenPlum, Cloudera, Hortonworks) integration scenarios. We will be holding lectures, panel discussions, demos, hackathons and networking for all members.

If you take your IG out a lot (as we all do), you probably hear from people that "Oh! Yeah, I saw one of these the other day." You wonder to yourself, "Where are all these IG's?" So, let's get them together. There are meetups in the north bay but none in the south, and CA IG rescue has confirmed that many many dogs are adopted in the South Bay, so I think we have the potential to get many dogs! Note: I prefer not to charge membership dues, however donations are welcome (info@jlevisw.com is my …

This is a brand new meetup group focusing on Applications using NFC (Near Field Communication) for mobile app developers and creative designers. Many of smartphones already have and will soon have embedded NFC. Google has promoted NFC for mobile payment, however, there are many other applications such as social, marketing, coupons, healthcare, and others. Be part of the NFC Eco-system and accelerate its adoption via collaboration and creative solutions.

Lets get together to understand and develop on the new mobility paradigm, defined by Google Glass. This group is intended to adopt and develop on this new technology, primarily Developing for Glass and Building Glass Services with the Google Mirror APIs.

Shingon Mikkyo Kunimiyama Daikokuji America(previously Mikkyo Zen Eimeiji) was established in June 2010 under the Chief Priest Eimei Kawakami’s strong belief: In order to ensure world peace we must purify the U.S., and that we must establish an educational institute where ones could be taught on gratitude and compassion regardless of any specific religious faith. Through the opening of the branch temple in the heart of Silicon Valley where the strong spiritual power of the Monjyu-bosatsu resides …

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.

Welcome! We are San Jose Mountain Biking Our group’s purpose is simple.  We want to get people out riding whenever and wherever possible.  As the Organizer of SJ Mtb, I’m dedicated to helping people get out on the bike more often.  I don’t care if you ride every day of the week or just a few times a month.  I don’t care if you only ride with us or if you ride with lots of different groups.  Mountain Biking for me isn’t a popularity contest, it’s a way of life.  We’re not out to have the most me …

This group is created to facilitate Growth Hacking practices to allow businesses to accelerate growth in a defined metric. Growth hacking is the art and science of creatively fostering awareness, traction, adoption, engagemant, new customers and advocacy using unorthodox and surprising means (many digital). It’s quite literally a hack for traditional processes to accelerate business. The vision of this group is to hold events and meet ups where entrepreneurs with established businesses get toget …

Hi, IPM started in 1964 when learning about your natural 6th senses, angels or spirtual energy was a radical topic. Yet it caugth on to nearly 40 countries because IPM groups really work. They assisted participants in finding their own voice, discovering adopted attitudes that no longer were benefical (then finding better ones), discussed balancing the thinking and feeling part of life. I found this program as a teen after seeing a friend's little brother in junior high make some huge improv …

Calling all bunny slaves! Looking to get your bunny some play dates with like-minded individuals that have fallen victim to the twitch of a bun's nose? Located in the East Bay and would love to have bunny play dates, where you can come with all your bunny knowledge to share with the rest of the group!

The purpose of this group is to give everyone the opportunity to understand the capabilities and power of the Microsoft cloud computing products including Microsoft Dynamics and SharePoint. Microsoft Dynamics is a line of familiar, adaptable enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) solutions designed to meet almost any business need and help your people make important business decisions confidently. Microsoft Dynamics works like and with familiar Microsoft so …