Mandarin English Bilingual Toastmasters - or MET - is a fun and friendly way to improve your Mandarin and English communication skills. Mandarin-speakers and English-speakers of all levels are welcome! You are invited to visit a meeting and observe as a guest. Meetings start on-time at 6:30 pm. Location: 425 Market Street (New York Life, 16th floor) in downtown San Francisco near the Embarcadero BART.

Jericho is an Urban Game that is a battle of wits, because everyone is a spy! Think of it as a game of capture the flag played in public. We will meet every month to play rain or shine, day or night. All that is needed to play is a Nerf pistol, a baseball cap, a healthy imagination, and an uncanny ability to hide in plain sight. All games are usually played downtown. No advance preparation needed. Just show up at the meeting spot with your gun & hat. Cellphones are not required, but suggested.

Looking to contribute to the open source community? Do you have your own open source project that you'd like to share with others? This group's focus will simply be to work on Open Source projects, with the goal of committing at least one change for each project people have brought forth each night. Standard Open Source projects that we hope to contribute to each week include: - OpenMRS - RapidFTR Have your own project you'd like to add into the regular rotation? Just email us and we'll add …

We are dedicated to bringing the fun and excitement of the zombie apocalypse to our fellow Bay Area denizens. We will meet twice a month in San Francisco to play location-based zombie apocalypse mobile game: conTAGion - You're IT. You can download the game here: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/contagion-youre-it!/id462844047?mt=8 Lucky survivors can win prizes such as iTunes gift cards, zombie shwag, cool custom zombie art and more. We will also grab food, drinks, and discuss various topics invol …

A group for Ad Publishers in the Bay Area to share tips and advice on how to get the most out of AdSense and other advertising networks. The meetup will be an informal gathering for ad publishers to share knowledge of ad optimization and ad networks over beers. As the group grows, we'll have small roundtables with small and large ad networks, like google adsense. General Topics: * Google AdSense & AdManager (GAM) * Google Analytics & Webmaster Tools * Search Engine Optimization & Marketing …

TO PURCHASE TICKETS SCROLL DOWN TO CALENDAR PER NIGHT RSVP! Party at our 6th SWING FESTIVAL December 2010 in SF under the Pyramid at China Town Hilton-financial district DISCOUNTS FOR DANCES FOR DANCERS & NEW DANCER FRIENDS... 2 day workshops in Lindy Hop & of course Balboa! 3 night workshops in Lindy, Blues, Shag, 20's Charleston and of course Balboa! 3 nights of dancing with North American Open Championships in all the dances listed above! More info at http://www.SwingChampionship …

Engage with other women entrepreneurs in the Bay Area! Created by Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence to bring together established women business owners, M3 Meetups support post-startup entrepreneurs to grow their businesses to the next level. Count Me In for Women's Economic Independence is the leading national not-for-profit provider of resources, business education and community support for women entrepreneurs seeking to grow micro businesses to million dollar enterprises. Count M …

Picture this. It's Tuesday night in the city. You've had a crappy week at work already and the rest of it isn't looking so great either. The last thing you want to do is go to the gym or sit on the couch and watch NCIS with a pint of ice cream. All of your friends are too responsible (lame) to go out drinking with you. What's the solution? Pub Quiz. You don't have a drinking problem if you and 8 other friends have a perfectly good reason to be out on the town. ----------------------- Th …

Meeting 1st and third Thursdays to network for the purpose of growing each member's business, by exchanging qualified referrals and committing to provide outstanding service, taking your business to the next level. The focus of the NLN group is real estate and finance. It is the intention of the NLN to network and to grow the group to further its mission.

"Ahead of the Fashion" (AF) is an accelerator program for technology start-ups in the consumer, fashion, and retail industries. For more information, please visit www.afaccelerator.com. Each month, AF gathers entrepreneurs, investors, excutives, and professionals who share the same passion and interest for technology, consumer goods, fashion, and retail. Its primary goal is to secure business and technology partnerships, launch customers who can help companies gain initial market traction, and e …

The SF PHP Meetup is an open forum where PHP developers of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We meet on a monthly basis and generally have speaker from the major web site companies in the bay area. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in the PHP world but our topics encompass the entire LAMP stack. Topics include PHP coding, to memcached handling, db optimizations, server stack, web server tuning, code deploying, hosti …

This group is catered toward people who love to dance, drink, meet new people and just simply have fun! Oh heck, who are we kidding! This group is for people who love to party! We know you work hard everyday so we believe that you should play even harder! Bay Area Clubbing is a group dedicated to bringing you upscale classy and chic events all throughout the Bay Area with its main focus in San Francisco and San Jose. We want to provide an opportunity where you can meet new friends, enjoy g …

Have a cool data visualization to show? Questions to ask? Want to meet others who have a data driven mindset? Let's meetup and talk d3.js! http://mbostock.github.com/d3/