Refresh San Diego is an open community of web designers, developers, and marketers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet in the San Diego area. Meetings are usually the second Tuesday of each month where we discuss anything from design to marketing and everything in between. Topics that we'll cover include: Design, Development, Marketing, Programming, Usability, Web 2.0, SEO, and more. Everyone interested in "refreshing" the Internet is welcome.

Want help with your WordPress web site? Welcome to Wordpress Workshops. I'm hoping to offer a friendly and easy way for folks to get help with their WordPress web site in a group setting where we can share questions and answers, make progress on your ideas or goals, and have fun in the process. Since running a web hosting business since 1997, there have been many platforms and programs for building and maintaining a web site (Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Joomla, Drupal, etc), and I've used them all e …

Pro or Amateur - Do YOU LOVE PHOTOGRAPHY? If you want to take better photos of people, understand lighting, directing, posing, and more, we are professionals, teachers, with more than 45 years experience between Britt and Daniel M in Education and Photography. We offer regular creative shoots and proven classes to meet all Photographers needs, and are the busiest, largest, most successful (and longest running) model / photography group in San Diego or So Cal. We welcome the nicest of people as …

Inviting all the best of San Diego's young professional marketers, entrepreneurs, and the charity driven to be part of a great networking community while contributing to great causes: kids. This is a new chapter of an already great group. The original chapter of LFOK continues to raise tens of thousands of dollars a year for a children's hospital. The San Diego chapter will also support the local children's hospital, but will also support, fundraise, and build awareness for other children's char …

FAB LAB is focused on developing creative learning experiences for people of all ages, and engaging students and community to explore ideas through the use of innovative technology. We welcome anyone interested in discussing or promoting physical fabrication and community-building based on digital techniques (2d cutting and folding, 3d printing and milling, etching, circuits, microprocessors, Web design, etc). FAB LAB San Diego was founded by Xavier Leonard and Katie Rast.

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

We are San Diego's Ruby community. If you're interested in Ruby or Ruby on Rails, this is the group for you. MONTHLY MEETINGS We kick off our monthly meetings with two talks given by SD Ruby members. Topics can include Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Javascript -- basically anything related to web development or computer science. This is a great place to show off your latest project, gems and plugins, or something you recently learned. Open to all skill levels... just show up and join the fun! When: 1 …

Welcome to the San Diego ExpressionEngine Meetup group! This is a group of web designers and developers who use and love the ExpressionEngine Content Managment System. As you might imagine from our group name our members are based throughout San Diego county. If you are new to the CMS world you might consider joining our group and learning why EE might be a great fit for you and your business. If you are from an agency or company looking to learn more about this great CMS and want to meet the pe …

Please visit www.sdentrepreneurcenter.com to learn more about us. Help us become the LARGEST Entrepreneurial Eco-system and Membership Network in San Diego, becoming the role model for other US cities to follow, and in developing our San Diego Sustainable Connections Collaborative Community (SDS3C initiative), County Wide!.  We are looking for domain experts in a variety of areas who would like to get get involved, and potentially be workshop presenters. Our meetup group is barely a year old, an …

This is a professional group for San Diego conscious business owners who are committed and passionate about people, the planet and profit. Find us on Facebook - Conscious Business Network - San Diego. Join our fan page and 'like' us. This page is here for you to use to post your events, give 3rd party testimonials about other members of the group and interact with each other between events. We will use this page to keep in touch with you and share in upcoming events. It all about you. You will s …

Mobile development for iOS/Android using a single environment. developers, hackers, and groupies are all welcome.

Southern California Sencha Developers UNITE! This group is dedicated to ExtJS, Ext GWT and Sencha Touch developers looking to share tips, tricks and code - and also collaborate on projects and find new ways to use the great frameworks and tools produced by Sencha.

Meet people and business owners who are interested in Search Engine Optimization (SEO) techniques, Social Media (SMM) and online marketing related to Search Engine Marketing (SEM). Share advice and create business and expert relationships. SEM San Diego is an SEM group created by me, local SEM Marketer Todd Meisler, and associates. We are pleased to announce that we are going to be holding regular meetups throughout the year for those interested in SEO, Search Marketing, Social Media and other r …

A group for CTO's based in San Diego to get together, share challenges, solutions and a beer.

Are you a Python programmer or Django developer? Are you interested in meeting other developers? Join the new San Diego Python Users Group meetup! We will be planning monthly events, both technical and social, to build the local community.

MonkDev Academy is a San Diego based initiative launched by the developers of Monk Development, Inc.  It's goal is to turn people into programmers and good programmers into experts!  Very important to our mission is to create an Alumni of students that forever stay involved in helping each other out and forming connections for future opportunities. Our focus ranges from web applications, to mobile applications, from backend to front end.  Stay tuned for our class schedules.  Classes ranges from …

Thanks to the brilliant work of Ryan Dahl, we have node.js, a beautiful and elegant server-side framework built on top of Google's V8 Javascript engine. This opens up a whole new world of possibility for developing web apps, APIs, and lightweight HTTP servers. We're looking to organize a meetup at Beer Co Downtown on a Thursday Night  this month. Join us here to be updated when a final date is set or let us know a good date for you!

This is a group for perl professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts alike. Whether you wish to discuss language direction, or need a few pointers, this is the group for you. Presentations, speakers and interesting discussions on perl frameworks/modules are commonplace. Meetings generally start with brief introductions. These introductions often spawn discussions on a wide range of subjects (mostly Perl, but all things tech are fair game.) The main objective of our group is simply to get Perl peopl …

The mission of Seductive Instinct is “to evolve the human race”. We do this by providing those who are deserving with the tools they need to find the inner peace and strength to empower themselves to take full control of their own lives. We serve only individuals of high integrity, who are driven by a desire to find happiness for themselves in a fashion that does not cause suffering to others. We are specifically not interested in providing anyone with selfish intent with the tools they need t …

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

PyLadies is an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings. PyLadies also aims to provide a friendly support network for women and a bridge to the larger Python world. Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate!

Welcome to the San Diego Zesty Meetup group! This is a group of web designers/developers who are interested in learning more about Zesty. The toolset the Zesty platform provides makes creating and managing websites more efficient and profitable than ever. Everyone is welcome! Learn more about Zesty at GoZesty.com

We bring the power of the Drupal content management system to the yearning public of San Diego, CA. We have two meetings each month where we discuss everything Drupal, at all levels from beginner to Drupal ninja. Join the group, come and enjoy the meetings, and learn why people come for the software and stay for the community: Central San Diego: Hall of Champions, Balboa Park Second Wednesday of every Month, 7 pm Carlsbad (North County): Museum of Making Music, NAMM campus Last Thursday of every …

p.arts lab is a San Diego based monthly meetup for digital artists, creative coders, software developers, generative artists, interactive designers, animators, circuit benders, VJ's, DJ's, music producers, motion artists, 3D artists and anyone creating works with powered mediums. It’s an opportunity to gather, inspire and be inspired while learning and networking. The lines between these skills can sometimes blur and p.arts lab invites participants to expand beyond their typical toolset to learn …

With so many exciting technologies being developed around Southern California, the key to reaching scale is to launch your product with a killer digital marketing strategy. The core group is made up of entrepreneurs that have years of experience breaking down business models to recommend appropriate customer acquisition tactics. We love helping software and product-based start-ups reach critical mass and providing you with the essential information, resources and direct feedback during our meet- …

The Excel Refresher Meetup is here for beginning and intermediate users of Excel who would like to learn and share tips and tricks with fellow users. Maybe you are upgrading from or to Excel 2007 2010 2013 or maybe your new to Excel all together. This is a great place to help get acquainted and we will be a great support when Excel 2013 comes out soon. Excel is an extremely dynamic and useful program and there are TONS of resources out there on the web for MS Excel, but sometimes it’s hard to se …

This group is for organizing and conducting the San Diego RailsBridge Ruby On Rails workshops. The goal is to increase gender diversity in the Ruby community by helping women learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails. The workshops are geared to help primarily women learn Ruby on Rails. It is a free workshop and any level of experience is accepted. Anything from "I have never coded before in my life" to "I have been doing this for years and just want to see what is up with this Ruby on Rails thing" will be f …

The San Diego Sun is priceless, we all agree on that but as a start up city we need a lot more than just the Sun to catch up with Tech Hubs such as Silicon Valley. We need to do it our way…. the San Diego way!.... the Happy Hour way! Imagine SD Tech Happy Hour as a City wide bar where Web Developers meet charismatic Founders, Entrepreneurs meet the next Investors and Legal Team and App Designers come up with their next big thing right before the happy hour ends. We are all about Happy Hours, Tec …