The primary focus of Arduino Bay is to teach innovation surrounding Arduino, and to facilitate networking.

We aim to connect innovators in the field of arts, culture, and technology. Our meetups are designed to explore the ways in which social media and technology can help bring arts and culture to the masses. "Democratizing" the arts has been a long-standing goal in the art world, and no medium makes it more feasible than the web. The purpose of this meetup is to bring together those working at the intersection of arts and technology to share ideas, strategies, successes, challenges and failures, an …

There is relatively little talk about how technology influences the quality and cost of healthcare given that it consumes one-sixth of the US GDP. Why does this segment lag in taking advantage of the post web2.0 and totally-mobile world?  For the past few years healthcare technology companies are emerging hoping to disrupt the existing care-giving modality, prepared to combat the current insane costs and inefficiencies. The advent of PHRs, social network, open platforms, smart phone, persona …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big and change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions.   Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, financial …

PDWG was created with the intent to develop, build and empower women through networking together.  This group is amazing, full of open-minded dynamic women.  We want our members to find like-minded professional women to create innovative business and social relationships, while delivering a wealth of resources and benefits to foster professional, personal success and life balance.

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 …

This group is dedicated to organizing discussions, meetups, and events around data 2.0. The focus of data 2.0 is about "using the web as your database" and giving people better access to data. "Old Data" is the practice of closing off your data, and data 2.0 hosting data online and making it reusable by other organizations. That includes government open data initiatives, geo-data, business intelligence 2.0, social data analytics, data visualizations, data warehousing, and any new paradigms in ut …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of Silicon Valley -  the innovation capital of the world. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big and change the world in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions in Silicon Valley.   Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, aca …

… like-minded folks with similar passion for awakening Interactive Meditation techniques which are fun to learn and practice Fasten your spiritual awakening by up to 100 times in one month Question and Answer sessions at the end of each class Open minded community of friends for mutual selfless growth How to fuse ancient eastern spiritual wisdom with western scientific thoughts Learn the secrets of blissful living  Unleash your destiny step by step in a short amount of time Learn …

We are a collaborative loftspace for coworking and events in the SoMa district of San Francisco. We host diverse and captivating events for entrepreneurs, startups and independent professionals as well as providing an innovative coworking space with wifi, coffee, work stations and a conference room. We promote the growth of collective intelligence through five core values – community, collaboration, innovation, openness and sustainability.

The evaForge team is working on a Open Design entry into the DARPA uavForge challenge.  Based in the Bay Area the evaForge entry is based on the innovative QuadShot airframe designed by a team based in Santa Cruz.  The QuadShot is "an aerobatic blend of RC helis and planes" which provides the key capabilities of both vertical takeoff/landing like a helicopter and efficient forward flight like a plane. The evaForge team is working on the "mission" payload, which includes the hardware and software …

The iPhone Network Lounge is one of the leading iPhone and iPad-related Meetup groups in San Francisco, for developers, designers, and curious minds. The "Lounge" continues to grow its iPhone community with regular events in San Francisco, designed to share knowledge, be inspired, and connect with other iPhone and iPad aficionados located in the Bay Area. Every event brings a speaker from the industry who presents new iPhone or iPad technology, latest innovation, monetization models, market tre …

… It is with a full heart and open mind to the wonderment of our incredible unconscious abilities, that I endorse this trainable process of successful Controlled Remote Viewing as the course CRV I."   And here are Jennifer’s comments about doing a session in class: "I experienced a rush of excitement and a bit of awe in my own abilities to reach a target, find sensory data around the target, and even create three dimensional depictions of the site. Can’t wait for the intermediate & advanced cou …