What is this Meetup's purpose? This group is for anyone interested in CMSs, like Joomla, Drupal and Wordpress or software engineers that want to put their skills to use to help nonprofit organizations and nonprofit representatives. Looking forward to networking and getting to know everybody. Who should join? Tech geeks that are skilled in CMS and Software Engineering. Also nonprofit reps. that want to recruit volunteers for technology projects are also encouraged to join. Why? Techies + Nonprofi …

Software quality… Testing, Automation, Metrics, Load and Performance. Repeatable, predictable processes and approaches for everything from start up through large scale high availability organizations. Fun and Passionate about Quality.

Interested in SDN (Software Defined Networking) ? This is group to get together individuals and entrepreneurs interested in any of the aspects around SDN. All welcome, whether you are new to SDN or been in this space for the relative short time that this has been in existence. We plan to have a range of meetup events from social, business to technical.

Free Software = free society!  Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) is sweeping earth bringing freedom to people everywhere.  Our little corner of the Libre Planet is the San Jose / Bay Area.  Come join the FLOSS evolution! GNU/Lindepence Hours Have an hour or so now and again to spend advocating for FLOSS? Want to get things fired up in your area? Want to raise awareness for both FLOSS and the Free Software Foundation's Libre Planet in Silicon Valley? Start an GNU/Lindepence Hour! They are …

This group is for Sage Accpac ERP Users in the Bay Area. We will discuss software features, usage, issues, and other. It is a great way for users to get to know one another.

This is a group for anyone interested in Open Source software and Open Hardware for the Internet of Things. I'd like to create an opportunity for engineers and programmers, entrepreneurs, hackers, makers, and enthusiasts from all areas to get together for networking and collaboration. The Internet and the Web today is built on Open Source software. Linux, Apache, Hadoop, Mozilla, Ajax, Python, PHP, Perl, Ruby, Memcached, MySQL; client and server and router software all developed by communities o …

Are you an IT professional or software developer and want to learn more about Agile Software development methodologies (XP, Scrum, Lean, Kanban, etc) and techniques (unit testing, TDD, CI, big visible charts, etc)? Are you an experienced Agile practitioner who wants to share problems and ideas with a group of like-minded colleagues? If you answered yes then join our group!

Our mission: To offer the International mobile technology and services sector an unbiased discussion dialogue on emerging technologies. Analyze their commercial, economical, social and political impact for an audience of senior business executives, researchers, financiers, policy makers and our loyal software developers. In keeping with SVForum’s history of innovation and leadership, we have decided to commit to I.P. protocol technology and the distribution of information associated. Enabling co …

Business Intelligence (BI) is the exciting new discipline of skills, processes, technologies, applications and practices used to support decision making in every organization. The Business Intelligence Special Interest Group (SIG) is a forum for discussing advances in BI. Talks range from industry and process trends, through the software tools that enable BI to best practices and issues that arise from their application. Our mission is to create a community of Business Intelligence professionals …

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

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 …

The San José Selenium Meetup aims to provide a cozy environment in which to enjoy food and drink while discussing our Selenium successes and challenges with each other. A wide array of speakers will appear, from your peers to well-recognized Selenium experts. All in downtown San Jose!!! You can attend in person OR remotely via Adobe Connect. Or you can watch a presentation anytime from the next day onwards via the unique Adobe Connect URL which will always be posted as a Comment at the bottom of …

The Silicon Valley Agile Leadership Network (SV-ALN) is the Silicon Valley’s largest Agile/Lean community. Launched in 2012, we’ve grown from 17 members to nearly 600 members.  Our purpose is to evangelize and educate Agile and Lean skills to our members as well as building our community to serve as a networking platform. Our members include agile coaches, scrum masters, executives, project managers, product managers, engineers, QA, designers, and many others from Apple, Adobe, Cisco, Comcast In …

Learn from and meet with other developers, devops and QA professionals that use JMeter to test web apps.   JMeter User's group is an open forum where JMeter and even Selenium users from all levels (beginner, intermediate, afficianados) can interact, network and share insights and information. Topics include JMeter, Selenium, scripting, performance, load and stress testing, test-driven development, continuous integration, building automated test scripts and other topics. Feel free to request and …

This group strive to enrich you by presenting professionals that provide insights on the latest trends in Agility, Leadership and New Domains.

The purpose of this Cloud Foundry meetup is to discuss opportunities related to Cloud Foundry & Open PaaS with a focus on building services that run on top of Cloud Foundry.

Plug and Play Tech Center's official Meetup.com page. We run Meetup style events once or twice per month. Expect great speakers, great demos, great refreshments, and great networking in a startup friendly environment. Open to the Plug and Play community and registered Meetup group members. Plug and Play Tech Center's Meetups happen at our Sunnyvale headquarters, home to over 250 startups trying to change the world. Or at least their industry. Video from past event feat. Rich Wong of Accel: ht …

This is a support group for single founder software companies. Share ideas and discuss about challenges facing single founders. According to Paul Graham, the #1 mistake that kills a startup is Single Founder http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html Have you ever noticed how few successful startups were founded by just one person? Even companies you think of as having one founder, like Oracle, usually turn out to have more. It seems unlikely this is a coincidence. What's wrong with having …

We meet the 3rd Tuesday of each month at Plug and Play Tech Center to provide networking opportunities for developer, entrepreneurs and large organizations with interest in Health 2.0, mobile health, patient-centered innovation, personal medicine and emerging opportunities in the healthcare industry to come together. SVHealth Meetup is a hub for enterprises, organizations and investors to present opportunities, provide mentorship and engage in conversation with Silicon Valley's developer the ent …

The International Multilingual User Group has been a forum for GILT* professionals and language technology users since 1987. We meet regularly in Silicon Valley. Read on...

There are meet-ups and there are meet-ups! So, why add another meet-up? Well, we felt that it’s time that there should be a meet-up wholly dedicated to all things around “ Big Data” & “ Cloud Computing”. Mankind has never seen so much data as it is seeing today; Big Data is a serious challenge for all businesses, small and big. Cloud Computing technologies are changing the way we conceptualize, design & develop business solutions. These two buzzwords need to lose their “buzz” status and become …

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 …

This is a group for Developers and enthusiasts of the Raspberry Pi. Welcoming engineering beginners and experts that want to make the best of this exciting technology.

Point of sale systems and the POS industry is going through rapid evolution. A reason for this acceleration is mobile commerce (mPOS). However, innovations in almost all POS capabilities is picking pace. Exciting times! This group is for the POS professionals to socialize, network and share ideas!

This meet up is for all QA and mobile QA managers, directors and beyond who are interested to learn about the new technology and methodologies in mobile testing. This is an opportunity for you to learn first-hand from your counterparts on how they are working around the challenges in mobile testing. And of course, network and socialize with like-minded people in the valley.

“This is a group for Entrepreneurs, Businesses, Consultants, Domain experts and those interested in App Development for SAAS Platforms, and Business Service Providers. All skills levels are welcome, from interns to multimillion dollar corporations. We started this group to bring together all SAAS enthusiasts. We are Looking forward to the development of SAAS platforms that everybody can benefit from.”

Where else but the Bay Area could you start a moms group full of engineers, programmers and techies of all stripes? This won't be your typical mommies group! We will promote family friendly tech events and other ideas for sharing technology with your kids or getting away for a while with other tech oriented women. Events we promote may be all over the Bay Area, but many of them will be worth the drive.

We will get together regularly to learn about Oracle database technologies and network with other Oracle professionals. All Oracle professionals are welcome including administrator, developer, data warehouse, engineer, architect, DBA, and data modeler. We will explore all Oracle technologies that relate to databases including RAC, Data Guard, PL/SQL development, tuning, Middleware Applications including Weblogic, Golden Gate, SOA, as well as some of the newer technologies such as Exadata, Exalyt …