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 …

The SVForum Software Architecture and Platform SIG offers a forum for members to discuss and learn about new and emerging technologies in software architecture, development tools, and platforms. At the monthly meeting, there is a technical presentation involving software tools, techniques, platforms, or architecture used to capitalize on an emerging market opportunity or solve an enterprise computing problem. Software tools include emerging functional languages such as Scala or F#, HTML5 or new …

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.

Startup Pitch Night provides the platform to practice and improve your pitch. The leadership team is dedicated to providing the platform for startups to practice their pitch. Our goal is make it fun to practice your pitch and to have it be within relaxed and supportive peer-driven environment. Additionally, we provide targeted networking and learning opportunities in the Silicon Valley, California region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new start-ups. RSVP to practice your pit …

This group is focused on developers and architects who have a deep desire to collectively solve challenges related to CQ5. This group was created specifically for Bay area (SF and San Jose) professionals. This group’s only intention is to provide a forum where technical practitioners can exchange ideas and seek support.

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 …

We are Tech in Motion: Silicon Valley. This group is designed for anyone and everyone interested in technology. If you are a tech lover, an expert in the field or simply want to know more about the industry this is the place for you. Tech in Motion is designed for you, so let’s make this group amazing and help bring the sprawling Silicon Valley Tech community closer and do something great! Have something cool you want to hear discussed? Tell us about it! *We already have 2 staffing firms dedica …

Hi I'm the new organizer for the group and I am excited to take on the responsibility. Currently I work with the HandsOn Tech Silicon Valley program. We have worked with Google, Microsoft, and Baynetwork volunteers on a number of nonprofit IT projects and hope to recruit more skill-based volunteers. I want to use this meetup as a way where nonprofits, community volunteers, business leaders can come together and make a difference using technology. Just like my predecessor, I am hoping to bring to …

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 …

Learn and Share how to build kick ass HTML5 Mobile Web Apps A place for Mobile Web Apps developers, end-users, entrepreneurs, local industries and communities stakeholders involved in evaluating, developing and providing web and mobile web applications as well as anyone wishing to learn about the business opportunities and mobile lifestyle experiences the newly created Mozilla marketplace and other mobile web development environments (Participants in the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core Community G …

This group is a place for independent game developers who live in the Silicon Valley (near San Jose, Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Los Altos) to discuss design trends, platforms, tools, testing and sales techniques, the media, the IRS, lawyers, cloning, pirates, advertising, publishers, stupid mistakes we've made, and anything else that is relevant to an indie developer who wants to successfully make it in the games industry. There are DOZENS of game development events and groups with very speci …

Come join like minded people to learn about upcoming new changes, tools from startups and how companies are using Pinterest and share your learning too. Developers may be interested in the unofficial api group on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/groups/pinterestapi and the 'old api docs' http://tijn.bo.lt/pinterest-api

TechXploration is PayPal's free, tech-focused speaker series that occurs monthly in San Jose. Hear from Valley-based tech luminaries while sampling the finest craft beer and local eats! All are welcome. Join us!

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 …

API Management meet-up group will help create a community of API practitioners and implementors who can come together to share their experience and learnings on defining, designing, building, launching and managing Web APIs based on SOAP/REST/JSON/XML technologies. The group welcomes audience from various industries with diverse skills with below roles - API Architect - API Developer - Engineering Manager - Engineering Director - Product Managers - Mobile Architect & Developers

Compelling content is key to many entrepreneurial ventures in Silicon Valley. Whether you are a content creator, agregator, or broker, you realize that content is king. Our calendar will have an array of activities and programs to help content entrepreneurs create, package, and market content online.

Engineers talking ROR lingo and stuff

“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.”

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.

Ahoy, BB Developers ! BB10 has the most powerful and interesting set of tools to develop apps: Cascade, WebWorks, Qt, Adobe Air, and Java Android Runtime. This group is for anyone who is interested in developing in action script, c++, qml, java or plain html5 and java script. So all those who love BlackBerry, letz work together for RIM's success and have lots of fun on the way :)

What is this Meetup group about? This Meetup group features an ongoing series of classes on core Ruby on Rails web and mobile technologies that can enable you to build and deploy a sophisticated web or mobile application. Our goal is to have a Meetup class on a new topic about every two weeks. Who is it for? If you are looking to become a competent intermediate-level (maybe advanced!) full-stack Ruby on Rails web and mobile developer, then this Meetup is for you! Some prior computer programming …

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 …

Lean Startup Circle is dedicated to applying lean startup thinking and building lean startup leadership. We bring the San Jose lean startup community together in a variety of formats (many of which involve beer) to learn from each other. What works? What doesn't? Is lean just a buzzword? Or can it really help build businesses? * The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. *

This meetup about developing rich front end web applications with the Backbone.js javascript library. Pair programming, Show and Tell, philosophizing about the "Backbone Way" are prime candidates for how we might spend our time together.