Amazon AWS, VMware vCloud, Google, Microsoft Azure, Rackspace... Cloud computing is changing the way we work and reshaping the way we manage and run companies. From startups to enterprises, it is disrupting the IT landscape. Come join us at the Cloud Club to discuss this coming revolution, and network among experts in the field! Want to tweet about us? Use: #SFCloudClub

This meetup welcomes conversation on the cutting edge of APIs, from cloud to business models. We encourage all developers, providers and consumers of APIs to gather and discuss innovations, opportunities and tactical or strategic problems faced. We've seen a lot of conversation and change going on in the API space, driven by cloud computing, SaaS, open source and other disruptions, and would like to get the community together to see how we can work together and come up with ideas on how to make …

We're interested in open source, open data, and data governance as it applies to cloud computing.

The mission of this group is to: Help web developers to easily get into telephony development. Help traditional telephony/voice developers to leverage the APIs offered by telephony in the cloud companies such as Twilio, and 2600hz. Help the open-source communities such as FreeSwitch and Asterisk to further integrate into cloud computing. Help entrepreneurs to integrate voice, SMS, IM and other telephony services into their business model.

This group provides a social gathering point and a chance to share projects for people who are working on (or are interested in working on) 3D computer vision. The availability of a low cost 3D camera, the Kinect, is causing a surge in software development for 3D vision, and we aim to bring the community together. If you're interested in getting started hacking your own Kinect, see the Being Prepared section from our hackathon for advice.  http://www.meetup.com/3DVision/events/16861225/ If yo …

This group is forum to gather and share experiences around Cloud Computing, especially Amazon Web Services. If you have used EC2, S3, Amazon Payments, Mechanical Turk or are interested in learning more about how others have, come join our group. Cloud Computing is changing rapidly so if you are involved in the cloud or interested in learning about how Enterprise companies are leveraging the cloud, stop on by.

A group to discuss all things Machine Learning! Topics may include (but are not limited to): learning theory, computer vision, natural language processing, data mining, computer audition, etc. Everyone is welcome! Other local Machine Learning groups: https://www.noisebridge.net/index.php?title=Machine_Learning

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!

Come visit us at our downtown office and check out what's in alpha, beta, and let us help you with building your apps.

This group will be a space where both security and cloud professionals can get together and discuss the burgeoning technologies and concerns around cloud computing and the new security issues it raises. We'd like to see a range of meetups from broad discussions to technical, educational meetups. Members can ask questions or suggest topics for meetups so please feel free to jump in with your ideas!

A meeting of the minds for the startup founders and engineers leveraging Scala to build great startups. Scala allows for distributed data processing and type safe web development, making it possible to build a whole startup in a type safe, functional, test-driven way. Let's discuss how we do it!

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.

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 …

This is a group of users of the Joyent Cloud or people who are interested in leveraging the Joyent Cloud for their cloud computing needs. Anyone interested in cloud computing can join. Joyent Cloud customers will find the group particularly useful. We'll be planning events and meetups around topical themes.

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.

Cloud Slam and UP is developed to promote collaborative analysis of the latest trends and challenges in cloud computing, looking at core process and strategies in the rapidly shifting world. We create thought provoking conference panels, workshops, and tutorials which are selected to cover a range of the hottest topics in cloud.

We sponsor monthly meetings on a variety of consumer technology topics. Our group is users helping users learn about computers as well as all types of consumer technology. We help with both PC's and Mac's, members range from nervous beginners to confident mentors eager to share their knowledge.

Today is the age of Scalable Systems and Big Data. Providing a meetup where we can discuss innovation, solutions and have pub nights for drinking and socializing.

ERP (Oracle, SAP, PeopleSoft, SalesForce, SAP etc) Cloud Computing is the future!!! We'll be discussing the scope of this group soon. I'm looking forward to establishing a new cloud based ERP community for those interested in Oracle, PeopleSoft, SAP, SalesForce, MicroSoft, Google, Workday, Netsuite and/or anything related to ERP. Contact me if you have questions I want to dedicate community based knowledge sharing, awareness and best Cloud based ERP practice of any ERP applications through case …

Paint it green! This group is for users of openSUSE and Suse Linux to meet. We will focus on use cases, installs and cool demos, as well as launch parties.

Our goal is to make R more popular especially among women. Inspired by the awesome PyLadies group, I decided to create R-ladies. Anyone with an interest in R is encouraged to participate. It doesn't matter if you never used R or if you are an R expert. The goal is to promote R, exchange knowledge and create a network among women. Come and join us! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ About R: R is a langua …

User Engagement Pros will be a supportive Meetup for Saas/Cloud/UX/Customer Support people who are looking to share and learn the best practices in engaging users, reducing customer support costs, limiting churn, and increasing trial to paid users. We will have top notch speakers, demos, and always have time for networking and schmoozing. Sign up and stay tuned for upcoming events coming soon!

Meetup overview Are you interesting in using thoughts to communicate with computers? If so, then this Meetup is for you. We are seeking like minded individuals interested in building sensors and using brainwave signals for interactive art, performance, or even transcendental meditation. As a Meetup group we are focused on creating new technologies to enable brain to computer interfacing. Presently we are measuring brainwave signals using a brainwave microphone of sorts, based on the technology …

"This group is for all IT's, engineers, and software developers, that want to know about how your environment can have the best connectivity, power, redundancy, and security in a Tier 3/raised floor data center in SF, instead of a hot room onsite that can be a potential hazard for your business because of cooling or connectivity issues.This group will be useful for many data and cloud environment needs for start-ups, mid sized, and enterprise local business" The group plans on meeting twice a mo …

This is a group for people interested in learning more about or working with the Koding.com platform. Developing in your browser with a real VM and a real terminal.

SF Bay Area 3D Animation and Visual Effects Group is for enthusiasts and practitioners in the computer graphics (CG) visual effects and 3D animation industry. The mission of this group is: To provide an opportunity for networking with other people interested in visual effects and animation. To provide educational opportunities on topics relevant to 3D animation or visual effects. To provide (whenever possible) meetup locations that are close to BART or CalTrain to make commuting easy throughout …

This is a group for anyone interested in exploring the interface between the brain and modern computing. Interested in making apps that interface with consumer EEG devices like Emotiv's EPOC, Neurosky's Mindwave and InteraXon's Muse? What about neurostimulation via transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS) or transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS)? Or are you just curious as to what this stuff is all about? It's time to have a group to bring all of us together who are interested in such th …

This is for game engineers interested in battling fellow game engineers at Starcraft II. Come one or bring a team (company) and challenge Apportable Engineering at our office! Complimentary food and drinks will be provided. Please bring the necessary equipment although there may be computers available.