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 …

IGNITE! kicks off Tuesday March 13 at 5 PM at RocketSpace, 181 Fremont Street n San Francisco. Hummer Winblad is our sponsoring VC and Mitchell Kertzman, Managing Director, is our Keynote Speaker. If you are interested in pitching please go to www.ignitefundraisers.com . Ten companies will have demo tables and the top four startups, picked by attendees, will have an opportunity to pitch to a distinguished panel of VC and Angels. The winner gets a pitch session at Hummer Winblad!! If you …

Do you like good beer ? Do you appreciate a decent cocktail ? Do you like relaxing after a stressful week day with a chilled out, friendly, crowd ? Do you hate paying full price fer your booze ? If so then San Francisco Happy Hours and Beer Fans Meet-up is for you. Every couple of weeks or so we'll meet up at a different bar in San Francisco, for a drink or two after work. Usually we'll try and hit up a good happy hour to get the most from our recession hit bucks. Though it's more about t …

Developer Force is Salesforce.com's free developer program for the Force.com Platform. The Developer Force website, http://developer.force.com, is a free community-based online portal for developers, where developers can learn, access key resources, and discuss a diverse set of topics anchored around the Force.com platform. In 2010 we'll be hosting a series of Developer Meetups in locales all over the world throughout the year, catering to developers who are both brand-new to Force.com as well …

District 4 Toastmasters comprises about 230 clubs from San Francisco to Monterey! Each Toastmasters club provides a safe and supportive environment to practice communication and leadership skills. We will post significant Toastmasters events in this Meetup where you can drop in and meet other Toastmasters and see how they have benefitted from being Toastmasters. Speech contests, District conferences and Club Open Houses are opportunities to experience Toastmasters.

Meet with other web site system administrators, developers, designers and business people who're interested in making their sites work fast to get better user experience, lower abandonment rates and more money.

The Economic Round Table is composed of members from different sectors of the business community in San Francisco. We have been meeting weekly since 1940 to hear presentations about current issues in business, politics, law, etc. Although the focus of the group is on economic issues, topics are not limited to this field alone.

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 …

New to the bay area or finding it hard to meet friends to hang out with? Made the mistake of making all of "his friends" yours? Sometimes you just need to get out of the house and hang out with some fun girlfriends, right? This group is about meeting other fun women to explore all the bay has to offer. It is about making connections and enlarging our social circles. If there is anyone interested in being an Assistant Organizer or event planner, please contact me. I think the more people coming u …

So you're in your 30s. You're single. You enjoy dancing to electronic music. This isn't a group created for the purpose of promoting any particular djs or clubs; it's just an experiment in seeing how many like-minded individuals there are out there in the Bay Area who are interested in dancing at SF electronic music events. Know of a great dj who's gonna be in town? Maybe at one of the more established clubs or perhaps at an underground location? Love a monthly party at Mighty, the EndUp, or som …

JumpStartDays is a program that provides free mentoring, feedback, and resources from angel investors and VCs to seed stage pre-funded, pre-revenue tech entrepreneurs. For more information, please visit www.jumpstartdays.com.

JumpStartDays is a mentoring program for seed stage pre-funded, pre-revenue technology startups. Each month 12 entrepreneurs present to a panel of Keiretsu Forum angel investor members and seed stage VCs. The purpose of the program is to provide mentoring and resources to entrepreneurs to 'jump start' their company. The presenters benefit from the involvement of Keiretsu Forum's members whose networks, time, resources, and experience are as valuable as their capital.

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 …

Hello, Asian Business Connectors is dedicated to bringing together professionals of Asian descent to help grow each other businesses by sharing ideas, strategies and helping build networking skills while at the same time passing qualified referrals to each other. We are seeking professionals who want to grow their business through word of mouth and are fun, determined, and motivated individuals in their fields. Examples of professionals the group is looking for are: CPA's, estate attorney, massa …

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