This meetup is designed to help understand what HTML5 is and how we can use it now. We'll explore the new elements and have some fun debates about browser implementations and new api's. We'll also take a look at the relationship between HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript on both desktop and mobile devices using Responsive Web Design. The meetup is great for the technical web designer/developers, but we encourage anyone to join who wishes to understand HTML5 better.

Get S.E.T. to make a difference! We’re a growing group of socially conscious business people dedicated to connecting with each other to collectively support and promote the greater good through the work that we do. We invite you to join us in a provocative learning and business networking environment so that we can all make a more significant difference in the world and in the communities that we are part of. We will cover a range of relevant topics and issues, each focused on an aspect of socia …

An informal philosophy group with discussions focused on readings selected by participating members.

Meet other rabbit guardians, share stories and questions and snuggle/groom rescued rabbits. This group will emphasize rabbit rescue and adoptions from shelters and rescues-- not breeding or buying rabbits. This is not a forum for debate about spay/neuter, breeding or showing rabbits. Learn about the many fun volunteer opportunities to help rabbits at SaveABunny and Bay area shelters. SaveABunny is a creative, contemporary and volunteer-oriented nonprofit rescue group dedicated to rescuing rabbit …

Startup Product, a movement for product excellence through cross-discipline collaboration and holistic product perspective. Startup Product welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence. Everyone is encouraged to contribute their point of view, w …

These are not your typical software engineering events.  BASE is focused on emerging technologies and creating events around topics that have never been attempted.  Events may be around such topics as Big Data, Machine Learning, Robotics, Nanotechnology, 3D Printing, Synthetic Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Computer History, Computer Vision, Augmented Reality (AR), and using software to create art. BASE creates events only possible in San Francisco and the Bay area with experts from all walks …

Semantic Garage is at the cutting edge of semantic and natural language processing. It's where new web companies in the semantic space can showcase live demos and where open discussion and debate about the future and philosophy of semantic technologies emerge.

This specialty Toastmasters club explores communication of all kinds. If you are in ANY relationship (relatives, friends, romance, co-workers, boss, biographer, etc.) you are invited to learn and share what you know about communicating with others. The second hour of each monthly meeting we feature guest subject matter experts -- authors, therapists, coaches, etc. who teach and lead us. As a Toastmasters club we also schedule prepared speeches, work on impromptu speaking and constructively evalu …

Do you want to know more about law and technology? Are you an entrepreneur, a business owner, or you work in a tech company and want to know what laws affect your business practices? Are you an attorney seeking to better understand new technologies your clients work with? If so, this is your group! What SEL offers: * EDUCATION * SEL puts the focus on the new technologies and the legal issues concerning them. We provide an opportunity to meet your peers and to learn more about the new developmen …

The final and essential defense of a free society is an independent, open, and aggressive media. Sadly, the dominant corporate media seems to spend most of its time avoiding real news stories, instead dwelling on distractions and methodically undermining the quality of public debate. This discussion/work group will especially focus on 1) exploring and developing alternatives to mainstream media, 2) promoting open, meaningful and non-confrontational discussion and inquiry in our society, and 3) …

What: Problem-The average so-called Black person has absolutely no clue about his/her REAL heritage prior to slavery (this includes, but is not limited to, so-called Haitians, Jamaicans, and African-Americans). In addition, so-called Mexicans, Hawaiians, Native Americans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Cubans, South Americans, and Aboriginal Australians have a secret heritage that will be revealed here as well. 1. Do you know the origins of your people? 2. How did your people end up enslaved/oppres …

We held the first annual West Coast Community Leadership Summit (CLS West) on January 9th, 2010, at DeVry University in Daly City. Experienced community leaders and organizers met that day to discuss, debate and explore the many avenues of building strong community in an open unconference setting. This group is used to announce future CLS West events. For example, we organize CLS West First Fridays occasionally. These are informal gatherings usually on the first Friday of the month for dinner an …

Sometimes it can feel like very few men are interested in talking about anything deeper than sports, entertainment, or current events. Yet, there is so much that bonds us guys together, especially after the age of 30 - triumphs like marriage and children, and challenges...like marriage and children. I came up with the idea for this group after several weeks of thinking about how different I am now from when I was 19; how I feel so much wiser and more thoughtful, and yet so much less in control t …

*Join our Google Group to participate in discussions in between events!* Artup is a Bay Area community-powered incubator for forward-looking work stationed at the intersection of contemporary art and digital technology. Welcoming artists of all disciplines, Artup provides a foundation for a consistent and engaging stream of high quality work for and by curious aesthetes throughout the Bay Area. The Bay Area is technological ground zero. Bay Area residents are the first to experience the impact …

Join us on a fun film project! Its a party we serve free food and drinks at every meet up! Our way of saying thanks for your interest in our project. As a response to challenged books listed in the Huffington Post, like Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, along with Twilight, Captain Underpants, Harry Potter and many others, we have decided to produce a documentary/drama on HD video to address banned books in U.S. This film project will demonstrate how books become challenged and eventually banned …

The Honorable Order of American Co-Masonry is a fraternity including men and women of every race, nationality and religion. Wishing to do away with all cause for division and strife, it continually seeks the means which to help all human beings to unite and work together for the perfection of Humanity. This discussion group meets monthly to discuss subjects important to humanity. From philosophy and religion to science, history and politics, this group ponders any subject which helps us to bett …

We are a group of avid Disc Golfers young and old that want to see McLauren have a Disc Golf park. We need to participate in every possible community project available for McLauren Park and Bernal Hill and surrounding parks. The mission district also lacks a community of disc golfers. There are tons of us out there playing in GGP course and would be great to meet local disc golfers and build a stronger mission disc golf group that can meetup and play to promote disc golf and practice of course! …

Love to eat. Love to talk about current events. Politics. Entrepreneur. Business. Fashion. People. Well, here is a fun and great way to talk about what's going on in a very busy world. The bay area is a mecca of genius minds of all walks of life. By joining this group, you will be invited to limited events by the host over amazing global cuisine and the latest in community or global talk. I will host 4 times a month, random members of a max 10 persons to be part of a round table discussion of po …