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!

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 …

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 …

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

Do you like good beer ? Do you appreciate a decent cocktail ? Do you like relaxing after a stressful week day with a chilled out, friendly, crowd ? Do you hate paying full price fer your booze ? If so then Happy Hour Club for you. Every couple of weeks or so we'll meet up at a different bar in San Francisco, for a drink or two after work. Usually we'll try and hit up a good happy hour to get the most from our recession hit bucks. Though it's more about the socializing than the drinking. To find …

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.

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.

We meet once a month to drink beer & share lessons learned on various topics including computer science, design, HCI, complex systems development, programming languages, compiler optimization, cryptography, computer music, AI... and whatever else the group finds interesting. The common thread is that most of the presenters & audience know at least one dialect of lisp (eg Common Lisp, Scheme, Clojure, Emacs Lisp, etc). But it is definitely a polyglot (not just lisp-related) group & presentations …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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!

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 …

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 …

Come on and join the fun. If you enjoy a bit of trivia while you have some beer and socialize, this group is for you. You do not have to be a hardcore trivia genius to participate. It’s all about having fun. Most of the venues will be in Berkeley and Oakland (near BART or public transportation for those coming from further afield) to start with, e.g. Ben and Nick’s, Albatross, maybe Pyramid. But I am open to suggestions for other spots. I also love hiking and other outdoor activities, so in the …

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

This group is for anyone in the bay area who is interested in sports as well as technology, business, media, or startups. You're perfect for this group if you: think the MIT Sloan Sports Conference sounds cool read espn.com and tech crunch regularly follow Darren Rovell on Twitter are a part of a sports tech startup are interested in the way that technology and sports intersect sometimes use acronyms like FIP and WAR to talk about sports just want to grab a beer or have a fun conversation with …

We are fun, confident and single, and we're ready to get out there and mingle! The ladies have substance and the men like them that way. The ladies of substance are successful, good-looking,  sexy, mature women (usually over 40) who usually look and act a lot younger than their drivers license would indicate. The men are smart, good-looking, energetic and sexy and they prefer ladies of substance who can hold a conversation and know what they like and what they want. We are all looking to connect …

Alate Meaning: Winged Like, the word is comprised of the Latin roots āla meaning "wing" and the suffix -ate which was used in Latin to make a word an adjective. Joining Alate Events & Adventures will allow you to Spread your Wings and try activities you have always wanted to, but maybe just did not have anyone to do them with or you did not know how to plan it out and make it happen. The planning will be done for you! So Come out of your shell, come out of yourself, Spread Your Wings and Grow. C …

Hack nights are a great way for developers in the Python community to get to know one another, to find out about new and interesting projects, and to generally get the pulse of the community. Whether you're working on the latest bits of Open Source greatness or planning the application that's going to win you the world, the SF Python Hack Night can provide you with valuable early feedback. Plus, it's fun! Who wouldn't want to hack some Python over beer and pizza?

This group is meant to be a meaningful, radical gathering of people who relate to the word, "androgynous."  Whether you identify as queer, gay, bisexual, third gender, lesbian, straight, transgender, two-spirit, pansexual... if you don't have a name for yourself at all, and you like it that way! We are a fraternity and a sorority all at once, and we acknowledge all who cross our paths. If you've always yearned for a non-judgmental outlet to explore masculinity, femininity and everything else in …

An Internet of Things (IoT) community group for the East Bay Area of San Francisco. Following on from IoTLondon, IoTAmsterdam and IoTNYC - we are opening a new community in the East Bay. Here's what our London Group are doing this week http://www.meetup.com/iotlondon/events/57537982/ Join for informal discussions, short presentations and socialise with fellow IoT Enthusiasts. Whether you are a hobbyist, maker or work professionally in this subject - come along for an evening out. Me …

This meetup is for people who use Caltrain to and from work. BYO Happy Hour and let's have fun. http://www.caltrain.com/schedules/weekdaytimetable.html I spend almost 2 hrs every day commuting on Caltrain SF-Mountain View. We can use this time to drink and meet other people who spend 450+ hrs of their lives on Caltrain. I also have AT&T mifi. Sharing is caring.

Welcome to Oakland Happy Hour. We meet most Thursday evenings and visit a different clubs, bars and pubs, near BART, and in Oakland. Our target age range is 30's and 40's. However..... we do also travel to other Bay Area locations in the East Bay like Berkeley and Alameda. We sometimes have social events having nothing to do with happy hour. We also occasionally have events on other days of the week, and we do allow people of all ages to join. We're kind of free flowing like that with very lit …

Hey soccer gals, tired of playing with smelly, sweaty, ball-hogging guys? Remember the good ol' days when you could play girls soccer in high school? Need some time to sharpen your skills before GGWSL season? Bladium's too expensive? Want to make new friends in the area that play soccer? Let's play women's pickup soccer!! All ages & levels are welcome. This is friendly, non-competitive soccer, we don't keep score and we try not to hurt each other. :) If you are a woman looking to play some fun a …

Have you ever noticed that you have a different personality when you travel? Are you considering a gap year or sabbatical? Are you dreaming of going on a pilgrimage or a meditation retreat in Bali? Join us for our unconventional travel talk series, where we'll explore expat life, the international languages of love, spiritual travel, travel aliases, what a sabbatical can do for you, and more. The format of each event will vary—we'll host spirited talks, interviews, debates, lectures and round t …

This group is for anyone interested in log management and data analysis. Developers, devops, IT, marketing, sales, anyone that deals with logs can benefit from this group as well as professionals that would use log data for analysis of business processes.   We will have lightning talks and guest speakers, including customers with real-world stories, industry luminaries and more. At heart, this is an informal, social gathering of like-minded enthusiasts that think logs are cool. Who Should Join t …

San Francisco Running group with runs all over the beautiful city of San Francisco. SF Run is a running group that has running events every Saturday at 11am around San Francisco. Anyone is welcome and encouraged to join us. We meet at 11am with the exception on beer festival weekends, bay to breakers{cause its more fun}, 85 degree weather  Runs are between 4 -20 miles. Our weekend runs at a running pace of 9-10 minutes/mile. All runners all welcome.The goal is to have  kick ass run practice sess …