A group for those interested in learning actionable best practices for improving startup operations. We cover a diverse range of topics, including startup accounting, cash management, runway management, budgeting, tax compliance, legal issues, equity agreements, banking management, business insurance, employee benefits, people management, vendor relations, investor relations, business process automation, lean startup methodologies, operations technology, and much more. Any startup founder who is …

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium to test their web applications. The SF Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the Bay Area. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related areas of interest, such as …

We're a group of folk broadly interested in the application of data science and sustainability, discussing questions like: what data feeds can improve supply chain sustainability? what algorithms should be applied to water conservation? what challenges of scale lie behind automated energy efficiency? what can be learnt from quantitative finance, search, and other related fields? We meet on the first Thursday of every month at EcoFactor's offices in Redwood City.

This is an approximately monthly meetup for people who are into drinking beer and interested in discussing the current trends in Technical Ops & DevOps. We support web-scale production infrastructure for startups or other organizations and are concerned with stuff like network monitoring systems, cloud computing, configuration management, change management, virtualization and nerf warfare with the Engineering team.

This is a group for anyone interested in the Tomcat Container. All skills levels are welcome. I manage a Tomcat based product and started this group to meet other Tomcat enthusiasts. Looking forward to exploring Tomcat with everybody

Salesforce.com Integration & Analytics is a San Francisco meetup for Salesforce.com users, administrators, Force.com developers, sales and marketing professionals, and others interested in extending the Salesforce platform. Topics will include: data integration dashboards analytics reporting sales force automation (SFA) marketing optimization using 3rd party data integrated into Salesforce business intelligence (BI) and more This meetup is not an official Salesforce.com event, but we are all …

This Group will bring software people together to share ideas and experience in the domain of Continuous Delivery. Continuous Delivery addresses the entire software delivery pipeline - from CI to testing to deployment to release - and addresses technology, process and organization. Anything within that domain will be in scope for our Group. The Group shares concerns with other Groups in the Bay area - DevOps, Agile,Puppet/Chef, Cloud, Selenium, etc. - and will be complementary to them. But we'll …

Sometimes you need to get together, drink beer, and talk shop.

Rapid SaaS (formerly Dane Maxwell's Entrepreneurs and Advocates) brings together like minded entrepreneurs committed to get out of the rat race by launching a Software as a Service business that accumulates predictable and automated revenue. For those who understand the profit potential of SaaS but need help starting, we provide a powerful platform and support group One of our goals is to demystify SaaS and web based businesses. If you thought you needed tons of money, a technical background, o …

The purpose of this group is marry the worlds of technology and residential real estate into one. Oftentimes, real estate professionals and customers are unaware of which new technologies exist to make their lives easier.  On the flip side, there are lots of technology gurus who want to learn more about real estate and how it works.  Our goal is to bring people from both worlds into one group so that everyone can learn from each other about something new. This group is perfect for real estate ag …

We are Access/Excel users and developers and are looking to spread the word about how some fancy tricks in Microsoft Excel (VBA Functions, automation) and a few power user procedures Microsoft Access can improve your work performance, take a load off your mind, fingers and eyes and turn nightmares into dreams with the click of a mouse. We will have free lessons and discussion about solutions.  It's a great way to network with other data professionals and learn how to use some of the advanced fun …

There's a lot of discussion about SDN and what it means. Hype, tool, or folly. Let's get together and discuss what's real, what's necessary, and what's not.

I am interested in finding top software developers looking for their next job opportunity!

Chefs getting together to cook the whole infrastructure

There are many people in the San Francisco Bay Area interested in the quickly emerging field of robotics. Whether you work on robots full time, part time, as a hobby, or are interested in getting involved with robots, this group is for you! We are trying to develop a strong community dedicated to moving the robotics industry forward by bringing the best robotics minds in the area together to network, brainstorm, collaborate, and take real action to execute our ideas and visions.

This meetup group is interested in all the moving pieces that encompass site reliability. Our goal is to have talks that address the issues encountered by technical operations teams running stable and high performing sites at scale.

We talk about all things DevOps. We take geek and make it sheek (sic). Our sessions are so cool, we had to call ourselves Cool Geeks. Ah, yeah... we are Silicon Valley geeks so fun is perfectly mixed with knowledge.

The Bay Area meetup for all things workflow and process automation related. Why not come together for business and technical discussions? From how to add forms to workflow, to getting started with BPM, let's share our experiences here. Brownie points if you're also an Open Source and/or Java wiz.

This is a user group for Salt in the Bay Area. From SaltStack.org: Salt is an open source tool to manage your infrastructure. Easy enough to get running in minutes and fast enough to manage tens of thousands of servers (and still get a response back in seconds). Execute arbitrary shell commands or choose from dozens of pre-built modules of common (or complex) commands. Target individual servers or groups of servers based on name, defined roles, or a variety of system information such as hardware …