Have some free time on your hands? Want to help out in the spirit of giving or just to get some added karma points? Want to meet new people and/or make new friends? Want to be part of something bigger than your local curling club? If you said yes to any of those questions, you should come check us out. San Francisco Rotaract is a Rotary-sponsored service club for young men and women ages 18 to 30. Our goal is to address our communities’ physical and social needs while promoting international und …

A place for anyone involved in a bay area start up that has a focus on financial service or has an interest in the space generally. We meet once a month, and will showcase a technology of at least one startup each month and/or look to have one speaker as well talking about issues that are common to startups. To clarify this group is aimed at people who are involved in or interested in technology startups, with a particular focus on Financial Services. Although we welcome everyone there is not …

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The Bay Area Community Exchange Timebank promotes and facilitates the use of Time instead of money in the exchange of goods and services. The foundation of the Timebank is a free, open source online directory, reputation and accounting system. These exchanges help develop stronger, more resilient connections between individuals and community service organizations which participate in them, by improving communication and the distribution of skills and resources among our participants. We work to …

We are an evening club for professionals who fundraise and do service projects locally and abroad.  We meet in a night club and serve food and drinks are even available at happy hour prices! Rotary International is the world's largest service organization with over 1.2 million members in over 160 different countries. Members of Rotary clubs, also known as "Rotarians", are established business professionals and community leaders. In more than 34,000 clubs worldwide, you'll find members volunteeri …

The San Francisco Bay Area New Century Lions are a dynamic group of service-minded individuals. We come from many backgrounds. Some of us are starting families; some are in college or graduate school; and some are professionals in chosen fields. Diverse with individuality, when we come together, we are unified in our service to the local and global communities. We serve. The San Francisco Bay Area New Century Lions have several fundraisers and activities. We throw a marvelous Halloween …

Soroptimist is an international volunteer service organization for business and professional women that works to improve the lives of women and girls, in local communities and throughout the world. Soroptimist International of San Francisco is part of Soroptimist International, comprising almost 100,000 members in about 120 countries around the world. If you would like to know more about the Soroptimist, please also see our website at http://www.soroptimist.org The heart of Soroptimist's mission …

Meetup Group Description Updated on 7/26/11. Hello!  Welcome to "Socialize for a Cause!"  My name is Esther Hwang and I'm delighted to be your host.  Recently I decided to change the direction of this meetup as we were formerly called "Party for a Cause" (see below).  I'm changing the direction of our mission statement because I'm trying to build a network for quality people of substance and of genuine giving hearts who can come together to socialize and help a 'cause.'  After doing this for som …

The Location Based Marketing Association of SF is an international group dedicated to fostering research, education and collaborative innovation at the intersection of people, places and media. Our goal is simple; To educate, share best practices, establish guidelines for growth and to promote the services of member companies to brands and other content-related providers. Members of the LBMA include retailers, agencies, advertisers, media buyers, software and services providers, and wireless co …

We are a team committed to men living successful lives. We do this by providing a safe place for men to be themselves. At our meetings we check in with each other as a gauge of how we are “being the man we’ve always wanted to be”. We also know it’s important to have fun. As a men’s team we are supporting project ELF (Everybody Loves Families). This is a community service project where we - as a team - support families to have a Christmas they wouldn’t have otherwise. This year we need your help. …

Silicon Valley New Technology "Entrepreneurs & Founders Showcase" is one of the first meetups that also welcomes consumers.  At the end of the day, all new technology will find its way to the end user! At this meetup, investors, co-founders and consumers will have an opportunity to be early adopters of the New Technology being launched in Silicon Valley! All types of technology are included with the purpose of educating, investors, co-founders, end users, dealers and consumers about the features …

Meet other developers and ops engineers using Docker. Docker is an open-source engine for building and deploying cloud applications as standalone containers which can run on any server - from the VM on your laptop to the largest EC2 compute instance, and everything in between. Docker is a great building block for deploying web apps, database services, service-oriented architectures, and so on.

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

Client/Server Cloud hosts events for developers building applications in the cloud. Our goal is to have the highest quality speakers on the latest technologies such as Node.JS, NoSQL, Python, Platform as a Service etc. We will organize both formal, structured presentation-centric events along with informal gatherings to just chat.

People using and creating services where work is outsourced to large groups of casual workers.

Come and participate with the Glide Legacy Network, in the regular volunteering events which range from guest bartending, our annual holiday grocerybag giveaway or our Annual Gala Event. Volunteering includes your time, services and efforts in exciting and fun ways which promote community within the Legacy Network as well as the Bay Area at Large. You will not only be making huge contributions to those most in need within our community but you will be guaranteed to meet great people and have a w …

This group is for industry professionals, educators and students who strive to change the way new products and services are developed through human-centered design research and strategy.

This group is for single Asian women(Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Vietnamese, Thai and other Asian women) and upscale professional singles 35-50's(Asian, American, European, international singles seeking dating, serious relationships and marriage.) looking to meet other singles. Matchmaking for Asian women and upscale professional single men. Speed dating, social networking, cultural activity, Asian foods event, cocktail party, exclusive matchmaking event, making new friends ... Non Asi …

Yoga Mob is a group of individuals who together believe that donation-based services offered selflessly to the community will help bring about a powerful shift from a consumer-based economy, to a generosity-based economy.  We believe a community of increased love, generosity, and selflessness naturally leads to a community of greater wealth and spiritual abundance for one and all. Yoga Mob's primary offering is donation-based yoga classes in the San Francisco Bay Area, though meditation classes, …

This group is for all queer professionals in the tech industry. Whether you write code, support customers, recruit, plan events, draft copy, design sites, sell product and whatever else, we want to hear and learn from and with you. This group is about offering support and solidarity to queer folks who generally work in straight spaces. Let's have fun, share stories, offer advice and be together.

Meet with other technologists, retailers, entrepreneurs and investors to share and discover the next generation of technologies to enhance retail! This group is focused primarily on technologies and technology-enabled services focused on real world retail, as well as online/offline convergence. Our members our interested in solutions like mobile payments, video analytics, big data, location based services, advertising attribution and other technology-enabled services that are radically changing …

SF based meetup group for those of us who are interested in infrastructure related technologies such as OpenStack, AWS, AppEngine and more. Our meetups always have beer to drink and the opportunity to make new friends and business acquaintances! You can get a hold of us on Twitter via @stackgeek or by using the #tsfsg hashtag.

Professional networking for health providers and allied services. *Meet and become familiar with diverse health professionals and their practices. *Discuss & critique marketing and business development tools ranging from new media, to traditional media, to in-person opportunities. *Assist in developing public education opportunities for members. *Discuss practice management and networking in an integrative health setting *Explore developments in electronic medical records, HIPAA, and legal …

SF-CAPS:  Consultants, Coaches, Authors & Public Speakers As a service based professional, you are in an endless game to create more clients, charge as much as possible for your services and create extraordinary results with your clients. Join us to learn advanced techniques about how the top service professionals achieve waiting lists of clients, charge more then their peers and create unexpected results. Whether you're an expert or new to the world of consulting, coaching, authoring, and or sp …

Coaches inspire our clients to be the best they can be. One of the activities that this group does is to meet to talk about best practices, share challenges, coach each other, discuss new findings, experiment with new tools, seek support. In general we are there for each to continue our learnings, our skills and our talents. We are a caring, sharing , proactive group of co-active coaches. Our skills and experience are as diverse as we are. You should join us if you are a co-active coach who foll …

There is a huge Cloud meetup group in the valley, but there isn't one here in the city! Let's see if we can get a great group together in San Francisco to discuss Cloud and Cloud technology. Please join if you are interested in Cloud!

Who We Are: From food novices to epicurean gourmands, San Francisco Foodies always have a great time enjoying delicious food. Join us to share a meal with Real Foodies! What We Do: We bring together Real Foodies around delicious food. Our events include restaurant excursions, food pop-ups, cooking classes, potlucks, picnics, food truck runs, food crawls, food festivals as well as food-related book launch parties, film screenings, benefit galas and more! Our group checks out restaurants through …

Developer Force is Salesforce.com's free developer program for the Force.com Platform. The Developer Force website, http://developer.force.com, is a free community-based online portal for developers, where developers can learn, access key resources, and discuss a diverse set of topics anchored around the Force.com platform. As of December 2012, this group transitioned to a more community-driven, developer user group that will meet once per month in San Francisco. Developers are encouraged to sug …