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 …

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.

We are going to be creating the kind of events only possible in San Francisco and the Bay area with experts from all languages and walks of life as possible speakers in panels and even debates between different languages, IDE's, marketing strategies and more.   This is going to be THE group to join for information on application development, software engineering, OO, cloud, mobile, enterprise, business intelligence, HTML5, Hadoop, Python, Eclipse, JavaScript, JAVA, Machine Learning, HBASE, Mapre …

Data Science Global is a non-profit organization dedicated bringing together the world's communities of data scientists, artists, technologists and visionaries. Our mission and group values are: Free dissemination of Data Science Free debate, discussion, and forum of ideas Building a community of Data Scientists Passionate about Data Science We are technology agnostic We are vendor independent We promote Open Source We welcome sponsors as long as they agree not to pitch their products.

… We encourage open debate so the group can learn from us and each other. On occasions, “StartUp Product Talks” may be led by a guest speaker or a panel of experts. “StartUp Product Talks” is also a networking function. An opportunity for Product Managers,  Strategists, Developers, User Experience, Community Managers, Marketers, etc., to come together to meet, interact, and network. The ideal environment within which sharing and learning can flourish and complement the knowledge base for all on a …

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 …

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 semantic markup. We'll also take a look at the relationship between HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript. The meetup is great for the technical web designer/developers amongst us, but we encourage anyone to join who wishes to understand HTML5 better.

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 …

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 resc …

This is a group for people who are seriously interested in expanding knowledge in all directions! It is not for everyone. I am only looking for members who have specialized knowledge that they are eager to share and who passionately want to learn about a variety of subjects. Each meetup will be focused around a particular topic and lead by one or more members with knowledge thereof. It will be a mix of lecture, discussion, show and tell, and more. Some topic categories might be: various cultures …

This Toastmasters club explores Male/Female communication of all kinds. If you are in ANY relationship (relatives, friends, romance, co-workers, etc) you are invited to learn and share what you know about communicating with the opposite sex.

… We drink some wine, snack on some food, laugh, debate, and just generally celebrate each other for being the amazing mamas and women we are. We would like to start a bit small with this group, so we encourage you to join most especially if you already know someone in the group.  However, if your mama who would really like to (or needs to!) meet some other very cool mamas, please go ahead and send a request for membership.