Shoreline at Mountain View is a 750-acre wildlife and recreation area featuring a 50-acre sailing lake; 18-hole golf course; irrigated meadowlands; diverse wildlife and habitat areas, the historic Rengstorff House; and more. Shoreline's Environmental Docent program provides an opportunity to learn more about the area's: maritime history; landfill legacy; unique ecosystems; environmental processes; birds, wildlife; and flood control. Walks occur every Tuesday at 11:00 am and on the 4th Sunday …

Meet other local programmers interested in Clojure (and other Lisps and Schemes), functional programming, concurrent programming, and other alien technology.

Want to learn to program Google Android or learn more about it? Need some help with your latest Android program, or are you interested in helping other programmers? Join Android developers for informal discussions at on the second floor at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View. Want to learn Android? Suggestions for Android beginners are available at http://www.geogad.com/blog/2009/02/05/informal-android-developer-meetup/. The presentations and samples of an Android class series organized by this mee …

Our mission is to offer greater numbers of entrepreneurs and people of passion the opportunity to benefit from all kinds of entrepreneurial events and educational programs. Our group is the place for engineers, innovators, entrepreneurs, students, business owners, startup founders, executives and investors in the entire Bay Area to get connected and ultimately succeed in entrepreneurship and other career opportunities.

The purpose of this group is to bring together working technology professionals (mentors) with local college students (apprentices) in the Bay Area to work on summer projects. We will kick things off with mixers for potential mentors/apprentices in the late spring. There will be separate regional mixers and ongoing BayTAP activities for San Francisco, the East Bay, and the South Bay. Teams of 2 or more apprentices working with 1 or more mentors will work in two week sprints over the summer. We w …

"Public Speaking and Presentation Skills for Everyone" Unleash your hidden power. We all have it as a presenter. Learn to bring yours out. Build and project your confidence in front of an audience, your boss or your customers you know confidence is key to your success. Increase your presence and humor in front of an audience. Learn simple techniques to improve your body language and make others feel at ease around you. Practice your skills in a supportive and safe environment. The secret to lear …

Hands on meetups (lectures, classes, demo talks) with free compute time sponsored by Amazon AWS. We focus on giving members the opportunity to learn and share with the rest of the programming community.

Zoom In Videomakers is a collaborative group of volunteer videographers who are jazzed about local community access to the media.  Our venue sponsor is the Midpeninsula Community Media Center in Palo Alto, California. They cablecast five (5) local channels on Comcast and U-verse and stream live from their website. The Media Center is actively looking for local video content to program on their channels and streams.  One of this group's goals is to create just such local content about local pe …

Welcome to StartupMonthly Startup Accelerator Startup Accelerator in Silicon Valley providing an ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become your …

Discussing and learning about the Forth programming language through: *Monthly meetings http://www.forth.org/svfig/next.html *Active website http://www.forth.org/svfig/ *Email discussion list

CLINE was established to encourage and facilitate the scientific exploration of the intersection of computation, language, information, complexity, and intelligence as they are influenced by, and influence, the process of evolution. Of particular interest to this group is the development of self-evolving systems. The assumption is that apex systems evolve toward greater and greater complexity-handling capacity. Some call this "artificial intelligence," but we have trouble with the term as it: 1 …

A community of women in technology where we talk tech in a non-judgemental friendly environment. Goals: A monthly happy hours where we will talk about a pre-decided topic based on group suggestions. Eg: technology(Hadoop, Ruby-On-Rails etc.), latest start-up trends, use of latest technology in our daily lives etc.. Please don't feel you have to be an expert on that topic or for that matter know anything about it. If you are just interested in knowing more about it this is the place for you. We a …

Bay Area Scala Enthusiasts is a group for Scala users who may also be interested in frameworks such as Play and Lift. We meet to discuss best practices and how the technology is being used successfully by organizations. This group is by programmers, for programmers. BASE covers the entire San Francisco Bay area. Meetings are normally held during week of the second Monday of every month. We ask speakers to present their talks at each of our venues, if they can. Visit our discussion board. If you …

The Silicon Valley DART Meetup aims to: * Promote the use of the DART programming language and related technologies * Educate through high-quality and applicable presentations * Induce interactive discussions and forums * Be a resource hub for whomever is interested in web development in general and DART in particular * Develop close ties and relationships with the industry mentor companies and educational institutions in the United States and worldwide

Bay Area Storm Users is a group for developers and companies using Twitter's Storm real-time data processing and DRPC framework. We get together to discuss best practices, usage patterns, and to exchange ideas. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of …

This is a group for people who want to detox mind, body, and spirit. We are teaching a method of detoxification that is simple, delicious, and sustainable. This program is tailored to busy people who need a low-fuss system of detoxification. This group offers hand-held support and a flexible approach to creating radiant vitality.

Join the world class Startup Leadership Program, a training program for outstanding founders, leaders and innovators who aspire to be exceptional startup CEOs. Startup Leadership Program’s fellows have founded over 300 successful startups in the 6 years since the program’s inception. The Silicon Valley Chapter was launched in 2009 and 60+ fellows have graduated till now. This Meetup is for SLP informational and recruitment events. The 2nd event for the summer is on Wednesday, July 11th!

A group to explore all things Montage: The HTML5 framework as well as the tools to support it.

This is a meetup group for Ruby on Rails Developers who want to build interesting scalable web applications which directly or indirectly affects everyone's life in a positive way. We have many ideas which can help make this world a better place to live. Some of these ideas may not be profitable ideas but which need to be implemented in order to help bring about the social changes that we want to see. We would not build applications with profits in mind, but we would build them for the social imp …

We get together monthly to share projects, opportunities, and how-tos related to developing for iOS and Android. Experienced developers, newcomers, and people with ideas are all welcome. We've enjoyed presentations from investors, entrepreneurs, and experts in all sorts of relevant topics from user interface design to programming to marketing and business development. Each meeting usually contains a couple of fast-paced but deep talks and several demos. We don't do a lot of detailed programming …

NLP Café branches support the development of active NLP communities in their local regions, and may network with each other. All interested people are invited to participate. When we work together on a regular basis, we build ties that span differences in training and lifestyle. We learn to love ourselves and each other. The NLP Café supports our Alumni community.

If you are obsessed with the power of technology to influence learning, then this group is for you! This group is for any parent, educator or child that is interested in teaching other kids to code. Makers, hackers and techies are encouraged to join. Have you ever used MIT's Scratch, Alice, Kodu or GameStar Mechanic to learn programming or teach others, then we'd love to hear your experiences and wisdom to help prepare our kids for the future.

This is a meetup for people interested in Haskell who get together at Hacker Dojo in Mountain View to code and discuss Haskell, and related topics. Our goal is to help Haskell Hackers of all levels find people who can help them improve their Haskell knowledge.

Femgineers is for anyone who has a career in STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics). We host a series of events to address issues related to women who are currently in STEM careers, help with career advancement, and create companies that are friendlier to females.

Insight Meditation South Bay- A center for mindfulness peace and awakening. imsb.org Insight Meditation South Bay (IMSB) offers mindfulness-based meditation practices to awaken heart and mind, and to support the development of ethical living, meditation, and wisdom. We teach skills for developing mindfulness, loving-kindness and compassion, concentration, practical daily life wisdom, and the deep meditative absorptions called jhanas. IMSB and our teachers are dedicated to the Buddhist practice …

We're bringing together the best & brightest in linguistics-related disciplines and in computer programming to solve some of the world's greatest challenges.

Big Brains is a speakers series with some of the top minds in Silicon Valley. All are welcome. Just bring your Big Brain along! We'll be hosting at least every other month, if not monthly. Look forward to seeing you at our office for one of our upcoming events in Mountain View.

Mucho Gusto Bilingual Spanish-English Toastmasters Club is a group to practice your Spanish and English speaking skills. Join us to become a better speaker and presenter, improve your listening skills and develop your leadership skills. Learn at your own pace in a supportive and fun atmosphere. Guests are always welcome and free. Membership fee applies. Come to one of our meetings to learn more. We are part of Toastmasters International. For more information about the educational program and lea …