You should really go over there and learn more about us. Hackers / Founders is the largest community of early tech founders in Silicon Valley ( that includes SF ). We have an incubator.  Learn more here We run classes under Hackers / Founders University. We do political advocacy for founder immigration reform, healthcare for founders, free internet. We host networking events and meetups in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose. Get together for lunch with other Hackers / Founders …

This group is open to all those interested in Apache Cassandra, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Solr, Hector, Open Source, NoSQL, DataStax, Apache Pig, and high scalability computing. Let's get together and share what we know.

StartupMonthly is a seed fund and an on-going startup accelerator in San Francisco providing a global ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become …

Meet with students, scientists, engineers, and entrepreneurs who are interested in machine learning algorithms. We get together to both study the algorithms and discuss the real-world applications of ML. This is an exciting time for coders that deal with data, so join us!

We're a group of folk broadly interested in the application of data science and sustainability, discussing questions like: what data feeds can improve supply chain sustainability? what algorithms should be applied to water conservation? what challenges of scale lie behind automated energy efficiency? what can be learnt from quantitative finance, search, and other related fields? We meet on the first Thursday of every month at EcoFactor's offices in Redwood City.

About Hacking 4 Health The launch of Community Health Data Initiative by HHS and Institute of Medicine is exciting news for programmers interested in the development of health applications. Under this initiative, HHS and other government agencies are releasing vast amounts of health data developers can use to create applications that will help individuals and communities. HealthTap, in collaboration with Health 2.0, is thrilled to announce a Hackathon where developers can learn more about this …

Join the OpenERP Meetup Group to discuss the application, the business model, the community organization, the company, the latest news, coding practices, sales techniques, implementation methodology,... Come and meet the team in our offices. This group is open to casual and expert users, existing and prospective integrators, business applications enthusiasts, and open source fans. We also webcast live if you can't make it in person! In the meantime, find more info on www.openerp.com.

Meet other local users of the LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP / Perl / Python) platform, a very popular combination for developing OpenSource web applications and the most widely used web development platform.

Meet others in the San Francisco Bay Area interested in Hierarchical Temporal Memory (HTM). HTM is a new computing paradigm that replicates the structure and function of the human neocortex. Join this group to help you understand HTM and begin building intelligent systems.

Google Developer Group Silicon Valley meets on the first Wednesday of the month at the GooglePlex in Mountain View. Our meetings will always be free and open to the general public. However, we may have to limit attendance based on interest and the size of our meeting space. So, early RSVPs on this meetup group are encouraged to ensure your spot at upcoming meetings. Please see the "About" page for more information.

106 Miles is a network of startup founders, engineers, and friends. Our mission is to educate and empower entrepreneurial engineers. Our values are Reputation, Innovation, Solidarity, and Education. This is our Silicon Valley group; see also our Southern California group. Please join us if you're a founder or engineer (or friend!) and... * You have worked at a startup, * You want to work at a startup, * You have started a company, and/or * You want to start a company. We meet several time …

This group is an interactive, developer-friendly introduction to analytics, machine learning and data science topics. The focus will be on learning practical techniques to working with data. We will be doing R, Python, Ruby and a little bit of Java/C++. We will also focus on real-life problems in various domains such as healthcare, energy etc. and apply data to solve those problems. Oh, btw - G.O.D.s => Geeking-out on data science. :-) See you there.

On a Hackternoon, Mobile meets Web meets Cloud, cross platform BlackBerry Developers hack and have fun together. Use this Meetup to fill gaps in your personal tech stack. This Meetup has a strong educational focus through project deployment. We learn by watching, asking, listening, and doing. We use a combo of Paired Programming, brain power, and a project deployment to help you stay caught up.  Usually we meet at a WIFI cafe or a co-working location like Ground Floor, Hacker Dojo, or NextSpace.

We connect startup founders with startup funding from angel investors, seed and venture capital. We attract the most innovative startups in both tech and non-tech industries. At our events you can demo your startup, meet investors and learn how to build startups. We also  cover the following topics:  disruptive startups, pitching your startup, investor relations, startup law, augmented reality, and mobile development. Take a look at our community here, and join us to build successful start-ups. …

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I am planning to form this group to have hands on all Distributed Databases technologies and build our own hadoop cluster and use various hadoop flavors including Hadoop,HDFS,Hive,Pig,HQL. Also have hands on all Nosql Technologies like Cassandra,MongoDB etc. We would also like to go over R programming tool as part of Haddop Analysis. We would like to compare Hadoop vs any Relational DB and MPP Dbs to find some of the use cases where it could really helpful . Also we would like to solve some Indu …

Do you contribute to https://github.com/cloudfoundry Or push apps to http://www.cloudfoundry.com/? Or just want to know about the future of PaaS? This is the right community for you.

This is a group for Russian Speaking Hackers and Developers from the Bay Area and SF. We meet to hack on new technologies, discuss best practices, startup news, talk about our side projects. Join and tell what are you working on!

This group is a place for developers to learn more about MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented, nosql database. If you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions. We typically meet on the second or third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and enjoy a presentation on Mongo.

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 …