SFAdPub is a monthly event that brings together the different parts and pieces of the San Francisco online advertising community. Whether you're on the buy side, sell side or the tech that's making the magic happen in the middle, SFAdPub is a place where you can network, build relationships and keep up with the always changing landscape of the online ad world. Each month we select a relevant topic that we focus on as a group and usually bring in a local expert (or experts) to present about it. T …

This group is an experiment, and partly a selfish one. I just finished grad school, moved out to the city, and finally have had some time to really explore what it is that I want out of life. And, shit! This stuff can be *difficult* to grapple with. For example, how do we achieve true happiness? What does "success" mean? What are the implications of mortality on daily life? Can we care more about the rest of the world than we currently do? Where the *hell* is Waldo? If you're in your twenties …

This group is for women that have a special connection to the South - we were raised there, or lived there, or have some other special affinity that makes you yearn for the comforts of home - fried green tomatoes, football, a cold beer, or good manners!

Welcome! We are a group of developers, enthusiasts and users interested in the technical aspect of different geo technologies. This group is meant to be an open, friendly, technical forum where you can find answers to your geospatial questions or learn more about Geographic Information Systems (GIS). A cool geo-project: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UUU5xSeSaHo&NR=1 If you ever had "traditional" questions like/about: - What is the best way of storing the locations for my mobile app? - How do I …

Are you a home brewer that wants to meet other home brewers? Or, would you like to learn how to brew your own beer? This group's for you! The San Francisco Homebrewers Guild was established to serve as an organizing force for the local homebrewer community. Our goal is to encourage the art and craft of homebrewing and to bring local brewers together. Join us for monthly events including homebrew shares, brew days, commercial and home brewery tours, meet-the-brewer parties, style classes by pro b …

The Community Manager Breakfast is a meetup exclusively for Bay Area community managers who want to have an intelligent discussion with their peers. We love the beer-filled mingling events and big-name-speaker presentations, but we also want a chance to discuss our theories and issues with each other. The Community Manager Breakfast happens on the second Tuesday of every month at the UserVoice offices. The topic for each month is chosen by the group at http://communitybreakfast.uservoice.com. …

Australians, Brits, Kiwis, Safas and the rest of us with a queen. This is a group for all of us that moved here and want to meet new people and have a bit of a chat about the old homeland over a refreshing beer or ale. For those of us more familiar with cricket than baseball and those who have a queen on their currency (though not necessarily supporting it). Come join other people from similar places with similar views and bring along friends to meet soon-to-be friends. If you're not from the …

The SF Data Mining meetup focuses on all aspects of the data pipeline--from data acquisition and big data storage to machine learning and data visualization. Current Goals Host speakers Host educational workshops Host volunteer events Highlight existing events around the bay area and organize transportation, etc Spread awareness of rising data mining technologies Who is this meetup for? Data engineers, analysts, scientists, and other practitioners Data visualization developers and designers J …

American Canyon Fine Art People Photography + Off Camera Lighting + Beer This Meetup is aimed at photographers of all skill levels that aspire to transcend the “craft” of portrait photography and want to push their work into the realm of Fine Art. What is Fine Art Photography? Fine art photographs are made primarily for aesthetics and concept rather than for a practical purpose. Department of Motor Vehicles driver’s licence photographs are a good example of a portrait done with a practical purpo …

I started this group because of one reason. I LOVE BEER! Not just a little, but it consumes my life entirely! I'm always on the quest for the "best" double ipa, the "best" stout or Belgian ale. I've had a beer blog for over a year, www.barleypop.com, and wanted to branch out and not just "write" about beer, but share my beer adventures with a group of beer fanatics like me! So if you love beer and you love checking out great beer spots, join us!

Motion Graphics, 3D Modeling & Rendering, Compositing, VFX, beer, and networking. If it involves 3 dimensions, we're down for it.

PopUpEdu is a series of underground classes centered on food, wine, spirits, and beer. You'll learn everything that you missed out on after you left grade school Home Ec and entered the real world. The Bay Area's top bartenders, chefs, wine makers, brewers, and craft distillers will be at your fingertips in remote locations for a series of education courses where you will get schooled on everything from pre-prohibition era cocktails to gluten free cooking.

This is a meetup for women who appreciate beer and want to brew it. Brewing has predominately been considered a male undertaking. The oldest written document is a Sumerian Clay tablet. It is a recipe for beer. Beer is made up of the same ingredients for bread and everything needed was found in any kitchen of that age. It was women who brewed the beer. They had a goddess, her name was NinKasi. She was a brewmaster. For over a millenium and centuries after, women continued to brew beer. Women entr …

Hi Everyone, Welcome to Alameda Volleyball. This is a group design for anyone that wants to have fun playing volleyball and meet new people. We welcome players of all skills level to join us and drink beer and learn to each other to be a better player. We aren't the most experienced but it's more of a social event. Please sign up so we can better organize this event. Thank you.

Share your Elasticsearch knowledge - with an elastic definition of what 'sharing' means. We have a place (in the financial district), and a pizza + beer budget. Let's meet, talk, and take it from there!

In December 2011, I was sitting in a three-day, 13-hours-a-day Landmark Education self-improvement seminar in San Francisco, and all I could think about was escaping through one of the hermetically sealed windows and making a dash for Nob Hill, the only thing resembling a steep incline in the area. It was during the dinner break during the final day of the seminar that I conspired with Paul Schutzman and Mai-Ling Garcia -- two of the very cool people with whom I'd made a connection during our th …

This Meetup group is for at-home dads in San Francisco! We're all about our kids and doing fun stuff with them during the "work week" (M-F): walks and hikes and playgrounds and sports and art and beer and books... anything really. All of us play a sizable caregiving role with our little ones, but some of us balance that role with part-time work, working evenings or weekends, consulting, project-based work, looking for a job, etc. Our meetups tend to occur on Mondays at 10am (rotating between Dol …

Do you dream of hops? Does the smell of fresh malt make you weak in the knees? Are you the lord and master of billions of yeast colonies? If so, Brewstars is for you! Come join us once a month for some good brews, good conversation, recipe sharing, and maybe even a group brew session. This club is brand new so details have yet to be worked out. Meetings will be during the weekend only to maximize the opportunity for people attend. Join now to help build Brewstars from the botton up!

Welcome to the Ultracode Meetup! This meet-up series invites you - the developer - to demo your projects and interact with an audience of like-minded folks, with a strong emphasis on problem-solving and best practices. Anyone is welcome to present at the next Ultracode, for either cross platform HTML5 or native Windows* 8 development, keeping it within 5-7 minutes and avoiding slide-ware. The presentations will be developer-driven, with a sprinkling of industry professionals and HTML5 expert spe …

Calling all Marketers working in startups in San Francisco. Let's get together and share our experiences while drinking a cold beer!

This group is all about Sunday socializing and bowling. We'll bowl a little bit (doesn't matter if you're good or not), hang out with friends, meet a ton of new ones, and maybe have a few beers at the bar after! We get co-ed teams together of young professionals in their 20s-30s to have some fun while everyone else has gone into social hibernation in the fall/winter - our leagues are typically 400-500 young professionals and young alums! Come bowl with us, bring your friends, and meet some new o …

Hi everyone! We're all about happy hours here! We'll check out dive bars, wine bars, night clubs, festivals, tubing trips and anything else that might involve drink specials! This should be a really fun group of 20s/30s and in-betweens. It doesn't matter if you come alone, or bring your whole crew, just come out and have a few drinks with us!

Come swill some beer and eat pizza with us while we discuss and present on mobile application development and security or the lack thereof!

what is your favorite drink? Coffee? Tea? Bubble Tea? Smoothies? Wine? Beer? and any drink in between. This group was created to discover, share, sample, and learn about the best drinks from around the world. Did you recently travel around the world somewhere and want to tell everyone about the incredible drink that you came across? Tell us!! Do you have a little coffee or tea shop and want people to sample and give you feedback? Invite us!! Looking to learn about new drinks in other cultures or …

This is a group of beer lovers who want to learn to brew, learn more about brewing, or help others learn more and become better at their hobbies. This is also a place to trade their brews and have tasting sessions. All skill levels are welcome.

We are the California Beer Society or CABS for short.  We are a group of beer enthusiast that welcome all.  CA Beer Society was formed to give friends, family, and peers, an opportunity to come together once a month and indulge our taste buds at local breweries. Our main purpose is come together and chill with one another while sampling what the Brewery has to offer. We do rate beers at the breweries. As not all of our taste buds are the same and we don't all favor the same beer, our rating is b …

We are hosting an informal regular meetup for people who like tech or beer pong to hang out and network. The venue is in downtown SF and fear not the kegs will be chilled. If you are interested in hacking, coding, designing, startups, entrepreneurship, beer pong, tech, or just want to watch and mingle then please come and join us. It should be great fun. We also have foosball and airhockey for those that would rather have a different distraction while they drink their lager! Looking forward to s …

ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers in San Francisco and the Valley to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Design, Development and Management, as well as Lean, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include short talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, design and development as well as plenty of time for networking and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to com …