Co-organized by Exygy and Adobe, this is the official PhoneGap Meetup in the Bay Area. Meet other local fans of PhoneGap the best tool for quickly building mobile applications for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Palm, iPad, Windows 7 and more. If you’re an entrepreneur looking to build a mobile application, or a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs, Phon …

This meetup is focused on spreading knowledge and best practices for the use of Node.js. Already exploding with a massive and dedicated developer community, Node is now moving into enterprise stacks. There is an incredible talent pool out there who can bring their experience back to the community, and our goal is to get them into the group to speak. Topics of discussion include OSS projects, architectures, testing, devops, code management, deployment strategies, the future of Node and emerging t …

This group is for anyone interested in log management and data analysis. Developers, devops, IT, marketing, sales, anyone that deals with logs can benefit from this group as well as professionals that would use log data for analysis of business processes.   We will have lightning talks and guest speakers, including customers with real-world stories, industry luminaries and more. At heart, this is an informal, social gathering of like-minded enthusiasts that think logs are cool. Who Should Join t …

This group is all about backbone.js and coffee script.(http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/)

With the launch of Windows 8 Development Preview at the BUILD conference in Anneheim, Microsoft has unleashed the next generation programming environment. How different is it from the previous generation? Very different AND very much teh same. Our Meetup Goal is to help developers usher in that new generation. We will have presentations by industry leaders talking about the best way to develop these new forwarding thinking, touch enabled windows 8 native applications that run on both inexpensive …

This group will meet regularly to discuss cross-device HTML5 developer tools for creating native applications for iOS, Android, and Windows along with HTML5 web apps.  We'll invite guest speakers to discuss new advances in HTML5, JavaScript and CSS3 that empower web and mobile developers to accelerate their time to market and reduce the costs associated with deploying across a variety of devices. Group Meetups will include both technical and market-oriented sessions and will try to meet on a qua …

Bay.Net is an open and independent forum for evaluating and extending the knowledge of the .NET architecture, technologies, and tools. All developers are welcome, regardless of your preferred platform or language. We host meetings and activities in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, the North Bay and East Bay areas.

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/

Are you annoyed that you have to separate the people that "know jQuery" from the people that actually know JavaScript? Know which direction the browser reads CSS and why that matters for performance? Know how opacity alters compositing in the GPU? Have SpeedTracer, DynaTrace, and others installed on your machine? This group is for you. Moderated by a past core developer of Firebug.

Events involving the two of mankind's greatest inventions; Beer and JavaScript.

AngularJS meetup group in San Francisco, CA.

Are you a developer interested in learning how to summarize, visualize and interpret your data? Are you building a website or application that needs to be smarter in making predictions, segmenting users, or generating recommendations? Come by and meet with other developers and learn about best practices, hear about what’s new in building data-driven applications, and drink some free beer.

A meetup consisting of casual evening talks and demos on the challenges and solutions of building and maintaining Wikipedia and associated sites (Wikimedia Commons, Wiktionary, Wikiquotes, …) at the scale of a top five Internet site with over half a billion monthly uniques. This will be followed by Q&A and other informal lively discussion before and after. This consists of a range of topics such as the MediaWiki software (one of the largest open source web projects), website architecture and inf …

Despite the attention hogging explosive growth of the mobile app, the browser remains the foundation of the web and is a vital component of the internet. It is not going away and there has been a raft of technical advances taking it to the next level. Faster javascript engines, faster graphics libraries with GPU support, lower latency networking, HTML5 and exciting new technologies such as DART and NaCl are redefining what can be done in the browser. A whole new generation of near native perform …

Opa is the ultimate framework for JavaScript. We've decided to create this group to help people to discover and try Opa. We'll regularly organize events and hackathons. The goal is to give you the opportunity to work on a regular basis with Opa and with other people, to ask all the questions you have and to listen to all our advice. Our partner, DotCloud, will provide you lunch and drinks as well as some prizes for the best apps! Anyone with basic skills in web development is very welcome. We'll …

Client/Server Cloud hosts events for developers building applications in the cloud. Our goal is to have the highest quality speakers on the latest technologies such as Node.JS, NoSQL, Python, Platform as a Service etc. We will organize both formal, structured presentation-centric events along with informal gatherings to just chat.

This group teaches beginners the fundamentals of Object-Oriented, Test Driven, Full Stack Web-Programming. We are a code first, talk second kind of group. No powerpoints, just text editors, Ruby, Rails, Javascript and all the goodies... This is a by beginners for beginners ruby group, ie, a super low stress environment for people new to ruby, rails and full stack development to get a taste for building stuff.

We are creators of products and our medium is software (and sometimes hardware). We are designers and developers, facilitators and managers, students and teachers. We know building a product is different than writing code or generating designs. Tinderbox is the intersection of product, design, and technology. Our goal is to create a place where folks who are interested in building things people use can discuss, share, meet, create, and exchange useful feedback. Carbon Five is the sponsor of Tind …

This meetup is for anyone interested in modern, front end development on the web. Group will host talks and workshops focused on JavaScript (client and server side), HTML, CSS, and other web technologies. Anyone with a passion for the web is welcome.

Meet other developers using Meteor.  Share your knowledge, apps, and get feedback from others. Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

Australian-founded in 2005, we're headquartered in downtown San Francisco and we build easy-to-use products that help people work smarter with digital documents. We've hired a great team of engineers here in San Francisco in the last few months to not only bolster our desktop products but to also engineer a beta cloud platform to ease the collaborating, signing, and sending process. www.nitropdf.com www.nitropdf.com/jobs www.nitropdf.com/about www.nitropdf.com/nobullshit

Millions of users listen to Spotify's streaming music service world wide. Behind the scenes is a world class technology organization that innovates hard to make the music easy. This Meetup is devoted to exploring how Spotify's technology stack works and to the hackers who use Spotify's APIs. We'll get together to meet both Spotify engineers and business leaders and anyone who takes the time to do something cool with Spotify's APIs.

A hacker space for JavaScript enthusiasts, coding educators and students, and those who want to make the web a cool and beautiful place. http://hackreactor.com Twitter: @HackReactor

Calling all developers, designers and thinkers! Come together to build open source tools and communities to enable the annotation of the world's knowledge.

Lever is the company behind the Derby JavaScript MVC Framework. Learn more at http://derbyjs.com/

A group for people hacking javascript in any industry (norcal primarily) who have a desire to grow and learn from other similar people. Organized to facilitate short tech talks, demos, discussion topics and chilltime.

We're here to... funct... you up. Ok... I'm sorry about the previous statement. Functional programming in javascript isn't a joke. It's serious. Like Yahoo Serious... Oh god, what's wrong with me. Functional Javascript is the language of the future. Come see why and learn about how functional programming in javascript can change your life.

This group is for people interested in learning web and mobile development as well as more advanced people that want to contribute to the group.