Interested in Graph Databases, Graph Theory, Graph Algorithms, Graph mining? Join us!

A forum for users and aficionados of MySQL to get together and talk about their favorite open source database!

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area Data Warehouse Group! This is a user group to discuss and collaborate on strategies, best practices and experiences building data warehouses. This group is open for everyone interested in networking with other data warehousing professionals (architects, developers, modelers, analysts, data scientists, PMs, directors, recruiters, etc), learning the latest technologies and trends, and sharing best practices and experiences. For those interested in: Data Wareho …

Redis is a powerful and fast key-value store and server. We think it's awesome. There's a growing number of Redis aficionados in the Bay Area. Let's meet up, talk about Redis (and maybe a bit about database stuff in general), have fun, and help grow the Redis community!

If you're a marketer, agency, or entrepreneur engaged with the adtech space on a daily basis, you know that data is an ever-increasingly component of online and offline marketing decisions. But one can easily get lost in the morass that is database marketing and all of its tentacles - audiences, segments, targeting, data providers, marketing platforms, etc. The key is: Activation. Let's informally get together in the City to discuss data activation strategies, success stories, lessons learned, a …

Bay.Net is an open and independent forum for evaluating and extending the knowledge of the .NET architecture, technologies, and tools. All developers are welcome, regardless of your preferred platform or language. We host meetings and activities in San Francisco, Silicon Valley, the North Bay and East Bay areas.

This User Group meets to discuss and collaborate on strategies, best practices and experiences around the Microsoft Business Intelligence stack. You will learn from the experts, meet your peers, and enjoy pizza and drinks at each meeting.  Meetings are free, and are held monthly in either San Francisco or Mountain View. We are a volunteer organization sponsored by the Professional Association for SQL Server and software companies.

This group is based in San Francisco. User group for MariaDB.

Hypertable is an open source project based on published best practices and our own experience in solving large-scale data-intensive tasks. Our goal is to bring the benefits of new levels of both performance and scale to many data-driven businesses who are currently limited by previous-generation platforms. Modeled after Google's well known Bigtable project, Hypertable is designed to manage the storage and processing of information on a large cluster of commodity servers, providing resilience …

Meet others in your local area interested in PostgreSQL: The World's Most Advanced Open Source Database. Discuss this open source database and share the tips and tricks you've learned using it.

The purpose of this meet-up is to focus on developer productivity tools:  a place we can showcase and share ideas to make life easier for us developers...  although SQL / SQL Server is mentioned prominently, this is due to the focus on data, but building complete applications which are based on SQL are also fair game.  The mention of SQL-Hero is not because anyone needs to have a working knowledge of this product or that it will receive prominent focus, but because Joel will inevitably demonstra …

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.

For SFBay area developers interested in distributed discussing CouchDB, Membase, and Memcached

Discussion of nosql technologies and their use cases.

HBase is a robust, scalable, distributed, column-oriented store capable of hosting billions of row of sparse, structured data. HBase is open source and part of the Hadoop project. This meeting is for users and developers. Discussions will be around the most recent release of HBase, any issues users are having, and to help plan for the next release. Definitely come if you're a current user of HBase; or if your company has plans for a huge data store and you're evaluating solutions. Also check out …

BashoChats is a monthly, intimate gathering at BashoWest to discuss issues, trends, and ideas in and around the areas of distributed systems and large-scale computing. The goal is to meet once a month at 929 Market St in SOMA. Basho will provide the pizza, beer, and projector. You bring the hard questions.

R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. R has an estimated one million users worldwide, and its user base is growing. While most commonly used within academia, in fields such as computational biology and applied statistics, it is gaining currency in commercial areas such as quantitative finance and business intelligence. Among R's strengths as a language are its powerful built-in tools for inferential statistics, its comp …

HBase developers meet to tackle big development issues with whiteboarding and hacking. Also check out the SF HBase User Group (http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/) and LA Hadoop Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/hadoopla/)

On February 15th, we are strongly encouraging developers and charities to show up at the centrally located Microsoft Office at 835 Market Street in San Francisco, in the same building as SF State and the Bloomingdale's Store. Location: San Francisco Microsoft office - 835 Market Street, 7th Floor. Right in the heart of San Francisco's premier shopping venue - Market & Powell. We are planning aGiveCamp, which is a weekend-long event where software developers, designers, and database administrato …

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area Jaspersoft User Group. The goal of this group is to get together to learn, share, and collaborate with others that are working with or want to work with the Jaspersoft Business Intelligence Suite, including: * JasperReports * iReport and Jaspersoft Studio * JasperReports Server * Jaspersoft ETL The members of the group will help to decide on topics for future meetings, present their experiences, and learn from each other.

San Francisco SQL Server User Group We meet on the 2nd Wednesday of each month at the Microsoft office in San Francisco. Meetings are free - please join us! * Network with other Developers and DBAs * Get the latest and greatest SQL Server news * Have your SQL Server questions answered by Microsoft insiders * Get the inside track on emerging technologies * Learn valuable information for career development * Enjoy dinner, drinks, and valuable software giveaways 6:30 to 7:00 pm – Introductions, fo …

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 …

The San Francisco Bay Area Tableau Community with John Abdo as the lead organizer is dedicated to serving the needs of Tableau Users in the San Francisco Bay Area.

A monthly meetup for those in the Bay Area to talk Riak, distributed systems, and app. development.

This group is focused on educating developers on how to use the Microsoft .NET platform for web and windows development. Topics include all aspects of development for desktop, browser and web services, as well as architectural choices and application development frameworks. We provide a face to face forum and encourage peer learning and networking. We maintain a focus on development practices, demonstrations and show & tell in developer-centric interactive sessions. Meetings are free - please …

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.

MUFON MARIN SONOMA is a Chapter of the Mutual UFO Network, Inc. :: The scientific study of UFO's for the benefit of humanity... The San Francisco North Bay Chapter of MUFON, known as Marin Sonoma MUFON, has been born out of the need for open-minded and like-minded people to network, study and learn about the phenomenon of UFOs, Aliens and other related paranormal, or scientific studies. MONTHLY MEETING HELD THE 1st SATURDAY OF THE MONTH 1pm - 3pm 11 MONTHS OF THE YEAR (No September Mee …

New tools and technologies appear daily for ingesting, munging, storing, processing, analyzing, visualizing data. These things don't often fit cleanly into existing groups. Wherever possible, we invite the authors and creators to join us to share with us their work -- be it in the form of a presentation, workshop, or happy hour. Events are held throughout the SF Bay Area. This is the sister group of the Data SF Bay LinkedIn group.