Bay Area Photography Shoots and Workshops All Photographers, Models, Make-up Artist are Welcome to join this Meetup group! Welcome to Bay Area Photography Workshops Meetup! This group is open to all level of photographers from beginners to professionals, and models to stylist at any level. If you have a pssion for photography and want to learn more about the craft then this is the group for you. We will be offer meetings, classes, workshops and group outings in studios and on locations all over  …

Bay Area has immense expertise and interest around Eclipse platform. With Helios launch just around the corner and e4 launch soon after, there is a lot to share and learn. This meetup will regularly meet to share experiences and experiments with Eclipse Platform from Eclipse community members in Bay Area. Any developer, manager, or enthusiast of Eclipse Platform should join this group.

Bay Area Search Engineering Monthly Meetup Monthly presentation on topics of interest to search software engineers. Query Recall & Expansion (synonyms, spelling, autocomplete, related search) Machine Learning for Ranking (decision trees) Factor development for ranking (page factors, ecommerce factors) Search metrics (DCG, NDCG, RPref, etc.) Hadoop & Data Mining for Search (bipartite graphs, session analysis).

Aloha and welcome to the Bay Area Hula Dancing Meetup Group! As a lifelong hula dancer, I have a passion for sharing my Hawaiian culture and the joy of hula with those who want to learn. NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! This Meetup group will provide you with the opportunity to learn hula in a FUN and inviting atmosphere, enjoy the company of other fun-loving folks and make new friends. While we now have a "permanent home" I'd love to meet at different locations throughout the San Francisco Bay Area so …

Whether you are from Britain, married a Brit, or just spent some time over there, Bay Area Brit's is the meetup for you! Missing Brit-life? Looking for people with a similar sense of humour? Trying to maintain your Brit accent? Want to have a chat in Queens English without blank looks? Come join us!

A group for Bay Area professionals in their 20s & 30s who are looking to meet new friends and participate in fun local events. (The group is sponsored by Immanuel Lutheran Church in Los Altos, but you don't have to be Lutheran to join!)

Calling all Bay-Area mid-20-something year-olds, this group has one goal and one goal alone: Have fun. We're a group of mid-late 20 year olds, the type with jobs to wake up to in order to afford the alcohol to forget them. What do we do? Random things. Happy hour here, rafting there, kickball over there, barbecues, so many awesome things that while I type this up at work, I can't think of them. Maybe a wine party. What? Wine's classy. Deal with it. Maybe you're new to the area, maybe you're just …

Meet other local West Highland White Terrier (Westie) owners & lovers! Plus other small dogs and their owners (can't leave them behind)! We often meet at an off-leash dog park in the South Bay area where the dogs can run around and have some fun! We also have a Walking Westies Walkabout Group that walks in various venues in the South Bay Area. Please check this page for dates and times of the dog park meetups and the Walking Westies Walkabouts. We look forward to seeing you at one of our meetups …

Welcome! We are San Jose Mountain Biking Our group’s purpose is simple.  We want to get people out riding whenever and wherever possible.  As the Organizer of SJ Mtb, I’m dedicated to helping people get out on the bike more often.  I don’t care if you ride every day of the week or just a few times a month.  I don’t care if you only ride with us or if you ride with lots of different groups.  Mountain Biking for me isn’t a popularity contest, it’s a way of life.  We’re not out to have the most me …

The 45+ Bay Area Savvy Singles Group is for fun-loving Singles in a certain age range (45+ - 65ish) to come together for fun and develop nice connections with others.  Perhaps a spark will ignite and a closer relationship develop.  If so, great.  If not, at least you've met another great friend...without feeling pressure to do anything you don't want to do. We are all here to enjoy each other's company at fun events......single we are today.....single we may not be forever.  Still, we can enjoy. …

Hi there - and Welcome to our Meetup group! My name is Rick Haffner... a long-time South Bay, professional actor, director, vocalist and clown. LIVE Theatre is my passion! I earned a Master of Fine Arts degree in Acting & Directing many years ago and enjoy sharing my knowledge of theatre history, literature, and any "insider information" I may know, with others. Join us and Meetup with other FUN guys of all ages in the South Bay and the greater SF Bay Area who enjoy LIVE theatre! Let's share som …

Searchlight Fellowship is an accepting church that welcomes everyone, with fellowships in the San Francisco, East Bay and South Bay areas. Our church is made up of a main christian service meeting in Los Gatos as well as satellite home groups meeting in San Francisco, East Bay and San Jose. Every Wednesday at 7pm, Searchlight Fellowship holds modern church services at the Los Gatos Lodge in Los Gatos, convenient for everyone in the Los Gatos, Campbell and San Jose areas. These services include w …

Meet fellow paranormal researchers near you! Bay Area Ghost Hunters (BAGH) is primarily a networking group for the free flow of paranormal information both in person and on the internet. Skepticism is appreciated, but close-mindedness is not. We meet at least once a month at a haunted location somewhere in the San Francisco Bay Area to socialize. We also organize other functions, such as ghost tours and investigations in between. For anyone looking to have a haunted site investigated, please con …

Since the Bay Area Climbing group is focused mainly on SF and East Bay climbing, thought I'd put this out there as an alternative way for people from the South bay/SJ/Campbell/Sunnyvale/MTN View Areas to hook up and climb together. There are amazing places to go climbing in the south bay and north bay, indoor and outdoor. Planet granite has a beautiful facility in SF and Sunnyvale. Supposedly there are some new places popping up as well. Castle Rock and the Pinnacles are not far from here. The …

“ Live where you want, but Invest where it makes sense”. Join us each month to learn and share your experiences with new and experienced investors.  Join us on our Fieldtrips as well!  Contra Costa County has proven to provide many of the best investment opportunities in the Bay Area, as well as the entire State. Why go out of state when the best deals are right here in your own backyard? Home values have plummeted for 5 years now in much of the Bay Area. However, values have stabilized and are …

We are a business support group that brings together individuals from different professions and industries. We are focused on exchanging referrals within the group, generating leads for group members, building professional alliances, developing long lasting friendships, and the growth of our businesses. The members of our group are not only concerned with the growth of their own businesses, but we are also committed to helping our fellow group members become successful. Our group is speci …

The South Bay Ramblers is a Bay Area hiking group that was formed in the South Bay with the goal of gathering people together to have fun, while getting plenty of exercise and making new friends. The South Bay Ramblers Hiking Group has been in existence since 2005 and we have been offering community hikes at least twice monthly since that time. Our hikes generally cover six to ten miles and can be fairly strenuous. Our group has many wonderful organizers who are avid hikers who post regular hike …

I am a new SAHM to a beautiful boy, Liam. My husband and I just moved back to the Bay Area from the OC a few weeks ago. During my time in SoCal, I made friends with a wonderful group of mommies through Meetup (if every you're a mom in the OC area, look up: OC Asian Moms). I enjoyed the conversations, advice and suggestions, but above all, I cherished the friendships. I would like to create the same kind of environment for my son and myself back home. If you are an Asian mom or have any kind of A …

Legal Grounds is a group for Bay Area attorneys to get together over coffee, meet new colleagues, swap war stories, learn about different practice areas and refer clients.

You should join this group if you love and involve yourself with standup comedy.  An ideal member is someone who writes, produces, and performs comedy in the Bay Area, Southern California, and onward.  We are looking to network with other comics, producers, and writers.  Though we respect mime, poetry slam, puppet, and magic show art forms, this group is focused strictly on standup comedy only.  We love the Jeff Dunhams and Carrot tops, just not in our showrooms. Hello! We are a group of comedi …

Bay Area Urban Recreational Nerf (B.U.R.N.) is a Nerf combat group located in the South Bay Area. B.U.R.N.'s goal is to unite individuals interested in participating in Nerf wars, discussing the latest mods and helping each other grow as Nerf enthusiasts. If you have drive, ingenuity, or just a passion for foam blasters, then B.U.R.N. is looking for you!

The Bay Area Money Makers (BAMM) team is a group of dedicated options and technical analysis students working together to achieve financial freedom by following CAN SLIM trend trading techniques. The team was originally formed in 2004 in the Bay Area and has expanded to include serious traders who have obtained advanced educations in the industry and are committed to achieving success in this business. The group meets monthly and discusses market posture, sector rotation, specific strategies des …

This group is for Bay Area Desi Divorced Singles. No age restrictions! To become a member there’s 3 basic requirements to be member of the group: You must be a “Desi”, i.e. of Indian origin. You must be local, i.e. a resident of San Francisco bay area. Any unattached single from (not in live-in together relationship) Indian origin that is above 18 years of age is welcome. If you are Divorcee, Widow or Separated but Divorce in process this is the group for you. Initially I started this group for …

Welcome to the San Francisco Bay Area Large Format Photography Group! This group is for the large format (LF) photographers, the LFers, from the San Francisco Bay Area who are interested in the large format photography using view or field cameras - a relatively small group of people among a very large number of digital shooters. The group is created to make it easy for the members to meet with the like-minded LFers and get involved in the activities such as the following: * Location photography …

Join Big Data Marketing in the Bay Area for exclusive invitations to BlueKai hosted data marketing focused events. Audience targeting driven by 3rd party data intelligence is crucial to achieving scale and efficiency for any digital media plan. BlueKai sits at the center of this growing industry as a DMP solution. From this position we interact with agencies, marketers, service and data providers. Our goal is to help cultivate relationships between data buyers and sellers through Bay Area events …

Do you like to meet new people and make new friends while doing what you like to do? I know I do!!! Most of us in the Bay Area are very busy and it can be struggle to expand our social network of friends. This group is about having a lot of fun with other people who share the same passion as you. There will be wine tasting events in Napa, to concerts, to horseback riding, to Giants or Sharks games to happy hour events. White water rafting or skydiving is on the list. I love to exercise, so some …

Welcome to "BAY AREA WINE LOVERS"! Come savor and explore boutique wines while enjoying the company of fellow wine lovers! This is an appropriate venue for new tasters and seasoned connoisseurs alike. It's the best way to taste, learn, and shop for your wines... Share wine with fellow lovers of the vine! We vary our meetups between home wine tastings, visiting wine bars and trips around the bay exploring hidden wine hot spots! Join us on these fabulous tasting adventures and prepare to test the …

MBCG is a group of professional consultants based in the Monterey Bay area of California that has been meeting monthly since 1996. The group is one of the Area Breakfast Clubs sponsored by the Institute of Management Consultants (IMC). Members include a wide range of specialties. Monthly programs are currently held in the Santa Cruz area and are intended to add skills and contacts of value to professional consultants. Those investigating the consulting profession are welcome to attend a meet …