Future of PHP Web Apps is a Hacker Social event for PHP developers developing the future of Web Apps. We're about knowledge sharing, technology exploration, and ad-hoc collaboration on PHP. Come to have fun, learn things, build things, and meet fellow developers. Lightning Talks will be held towards the end of the evening - so come demo your exciting PHP projects!

We are sound enthusiasts - from music to radio to storytelling and beyond. We want to explore how sound is changing online, from simple creation to sharing within our social networks. Topics that we may discuss together may be as diverse as evolution of music apps to the future of radio. We are open to your ideas and welcome your participation!

BAASICS (Bay Area Art & Science Interdisciplinary Collaborative Sessions) is a series of San Francisco-based evening programs that bring together local visual artists, musicians, choreographers, scientists, and interdisciplinary thinkers to present engaging, multi-media lectures and performances (10-15 minutes in duration) that explore a given theme. BAASICS programs are free and open to the public. The first program took place in July 2011; the focus of the program was humanity’s relationship t …

Join us in creating a new future for Energy Use. The California Energy Commission has given us in California an outstanding opportunity to determine how the future unfolds. The CEC recommends, in its Integrated Energy Policy Report, that in 2020 all new residential buildings be required to meet zero-net-energy performance standards, and in 2030, all new buildings are required to meet the Zero Net Energy standard. This means that all new buildings, averaged over a year, take no more energy from t …

Public transit has the potential to be awesome, moving us around our city quickly and easily. But sometimes it really sucks. Buses are never on time, routes can be unfamiliar, and connections are difficult. Let's work together to imaging the future of public transit and use data/technology/design in cooperation with transit agencies to make it real. As a start, I've decided to open-source Transporter, the popular and beautifully designed Bay Area transit I created year and half ago. I'd like to …

Meet people who are interested in Trading the Financial Markets. Ideal for all Traders (Beginners to Advanced) in Stocks, Options, Futures, and FOREX. Our topics would include: Basic to Advanced Technical Analysis, Market Analysis, Performance Trading, Systems and Methodologies, Risk Management Strategies, Money Management Strategies and the most important of all, the psychology of trading. For More Information call our office at 650 320 1714 or visit our website: www.estetrader.com

We meet almost every second and fourth Sundays every month to discuss AI topics such as: - Symbolic and SubSymbolic Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Life, and Artificial Intuition - Complexity theory, Model theory, Model Free Methods - Semantic Web, Ontology based systems - Robotics and Robot Ethics - Linguistics, Document understanding, and Semantics - Evolutionary Computation - GA and GP - Computer Consciousness, Novelty, and Creativity - Neuroscience, Connectome Algorithms …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

The purpose of this group is to provide education and share ideas on short term trading strategies for stocks, options, futures or currencies. Many people begin their trading career with little to no education expecting to become financially independent but what they soon realize is that trading is a challenging venture that first requires the proper knowledge and a proven trading plan. Trading is even more of a challenge if done in isolation. That is why we focus on banding together groups …

If you are an accountant, bookkeeper, or entrepreneur, this is the group for you. We are the Future of Accounting, and we want to help you network, meet other awesome finance professionals, and stay on top of emerging technologies and trends in accounting.     

We are the organizers and attendees of Program For The Future 2008 (http://programforthefuture.org). From that conference, we have a set of initiatives and a growing community - all whose shared objective is to help bring about teamwork and massive collaboration on a global scale in order to avert planetary disaster - the vision that inspired Doug Engelbart to invent the mouse, hypertext, windowed computer interaction, multimedia, outline processing, wikis, and even more innovations the worl …

Bay Area American Dreamers is a fun and friendly group. We intent to meet new friends.  Bay Area American Dreamers is a group of like minded people who support each other to pursue American dreams and for better lives.   Are You Ready To Take Your American dream to next level by building up your business? Bay Area American Dreamers meet in a structured environment, to learn and discuss new business skills of presentation, leader-ship, sales training, running business tips, strategies and ideas f …

This is a group for any and everyone who has a goal of breaking into the advertising industry. I'm talking about all aspects from copywriting and art design to web development and digital creativity- any and everything that is going on in advertising today. The purpose of the group is to network with other individuals who are also on the way towards a career in the ad world, swap horror stories, talk about the ads that are grabbing peoples' attention, and even collaborating on each other's portf …

2012 brings a strong potential for great change and transformation. As the old structures reveal their inability to sustain life and benefit the collective, we begin dreaming up a new future, a future that honors and sustains all life on the planet. For many of us we have felt frustrated, by the limitations placed upon us by current structures and have experienced grief for the destruction of our planet. This destruction has brought our future into question, and we must come together in creativi …

Why this group is started: I want to meet new people and have high quality dialogue with other professionals, which might give you inspiration, knowledge, learning experience and sharing your thought for others' feedback...etc.          “How do you spend your lunchtime?” This group gives you opportunities to share your visions, dreams and get some support for planning future and make actions…at lunch time.           "How about getting out of your office                    and meet up for …

(Note: This intro will be updated soon) The new organizer (Joni) sent the following note to all members of the group on 10/4/09: ----- Hello Cooking enthusiasts! Joni here, your interim organizer. I started a MeetUp group in Lafayette not too long ago and just today found this group ... needing an organizer... and, well, perhaps we can become one. Let's see how things go. Please visit my MeetUp group: www.meetup.com/nourish-now Let's meet this Friday! Please j …