Refresh San Diego is an open community of web designers, developers, and marketers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of Internet in the San Diego area. Meetings are usually the second Tuesday of each month where we discuss anything from design to marketing and everything in between. Topics that we'll cover include: Design, Development, Marketing, Programming, Usability, Web 2.0, SEO, and more. Everyone interested in "refreshing" the Internet is welcome.

Live in Southern California and want to get together and talk about NoSQL technologies like Hadoop, HBase, Cassandra? Whether you're an expert or an interested novice, everyone is welcome to come and discuss NoSQL technologies, get and trade tips, network, and learn more from each other.

Want help with your WordPress web site? Welcome to Wordpress Workshops. I'm hoping to offer a friendly and easy way for folks to get help with their WordPress web site in a group setting where we can share questions and answers, make progress on your ideas or goals, and have fun in the process. Since running a web hosting business since 1997, there have been many platforms and programs for building and maintaining a web site (Frontpage, Dreamweaver, Joomla, Drupal, etc), and I've used them all e …

Semantic Web in San Diego Meet local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [ http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Data Web. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web. The existence of a semantic web meetup group in San Diego will hopefully stimulate information exchange, and the growth of this …

The Social Media Chamber of Commerce is an organization whose mission is to enhance business results for local businesses and organizations that employ a social media marketing strategy or that wishes to develop one. It is primarily an educational organization, but also seeks to provide the technical tools necessary for businesses to take advantage of the most powerful and productive marketing platform available in the 2010's -- social media. Not only is social media marketing a good value for …

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The Founder Institute encourages technology entrepreneurs to launch a meaningful and enduring technology company. This group is open to all technology entrepreneurs. Many Founders/Entrepreneurs that belong to this group will be graduates of The Founder Institute. The benefits of belonging gives you access to fellow founders - strong peer group – in the San Diego Market.

This is the San Diego Chapter of ACM SIGGRAPH, slated to build local interest on computer graphics and interactive techniques, for educational, artistic and scientific purposes. It's free to join this Meetup ($0), but we encourage you to become a Full Member in order to enhance your involvement, opportunities, and chances to receive cool giveaways! To join as a Full Member for a year, just make a $20 PayPal donation (note 'Chapter membership' and member name in the donation comments), or you can …

Welcome to the San Diego ExpressionEngine Meetup group! This is a group of web designers and developers who use and love the ExpressionEngine Content Managment System. As you might imagine from our group name our members are based throughout San Diego county. If you are new to the CMS world you might consider joining our group and learning why EE might be a great fit for you and your business. If you are from an agency or company looking to learn more about this great CMS and want to meet the pe …

Our Mission: to educate and empower every girl and woman at every age level, on every skill level, at every income level on computer technology with fun and provide a legacy by giving back and paying it forward. We do this by providing full day Tech Boot Camps, Meetups, Geek Girl for Hire, Speakers, online blogs and help. Our demographics are from 10 years old to 86. Why you should be a part: * You want to learn more about computers, including Social Media, Blogging, Photoshop, Quickbooks, Mac a …

Please visit www.sdentrepreneurcenter.com to learn more about us. Help us become the LARGEST Entrepreneurial Eco-system and Membership Network in San Diego, becoming the role model for other US cities to follow, and in developing our San Diego Sustainable Connections Collaborative Community (SDS3C initiative), County Wide!.  We are looking for domain experts in a variety of areas who would like to get get involved, and potentially be workshop presenters. Our meetup group is barely a year old, an …

San Diego's tech community is growing rapidly, with meetups increasing in number and programmers of all types getting together to learn, hack, and drink beer. Sadly the web community, despite being increasingly dependent on Javascript knowledge to be on the cutting edge, has been lacking a Javascript meetup group to share information about the latest and greatest. No longer! This group exists to connect people of all skill levels who are working with Javascript, facilitate the flow of knowledge …

Meet with other developers, web operations, system administrators, designers, and business professionals who are looking to make their site and application faster, enhance the user experience, and lower abandonment rates and make more money.

The San Diego Joomla Users Group is for Joomla users, administrators, designers and developers to bring the best of Joomla to San Diego. Joomla is the world’ s most popular open source CMS (content management system). With 2.7 percent of the Web running on Joomla, the software is used by individuals, small & medium-sized businesses, and large organizations worldwide to easily create & build a variety of websites & web-enabled applications. All levels of experience are welcome!

Southern California Sencha Developers UNITE! This group is dedicated to ExtJS, Ext GWT and Sencha Touch developers looking to share tips, tricks and code - and also collaborate on projects and find new ways to use the great frameworks and tools produced by Sencha.

A group for CTO's based in San Diego to get together, share challenges, solutions and a beer.

The SD AWS UG welcomes anyone interested in discussing the cloud in general and Amazon Web Services in particular. We conduct monthly meetings to network, learn, and help others where possible. Join us!

Thanks to the brilliant work of Ryan Dahl, we have node.js, a beautiful and elegant server-side framework built on top of Google's V8 Javascript engine. This opens up a whole new world of possibility for developing web apps, APIs, and lightweight HTTP servers. We're looking to organize a meetup at Beer Co Downtown on a Thursday Night  this month. Join us here to be updated when a final date is set or let us know a good date for you!

I am passionate about the PHP community and am just now moving to San Diego. I have participated in OrlandoPHP for a year and a half and want to bring my experience to SD. I also want to meet like minded people, come out of my shell some and help others out of theirs as well. I am looking for members of all ranges of experience.  I feel that there is always something to learn, even if you are a current expert.  And also, sharing your knowledge with others is priceless.

This is a group for perl professionals, amateurs, and enthusiasts alike. Whether you wish to discuss language direction, or need a few pointers, this is the group for you. Presentations, speakers and interesting discussions on perl frameworks/modules are commonplace. Meetings generally start with brief introductions. These introductions often spawn discussions on a wide range of subjects (mostly Perl, but all things tech are fair game.) The main objective of our group is simply to get Perl peopl …

Whether building a web, mobile, or gaming backend, Operations is using development tools to make it work. We primarily focus on systems automation and site reliability engineering. We're interested in the built-in facilities in Linux and the BSDs to programmatically seed and deploy. We primarily focus on Open Source solutions, but it is good to keep an eye out on the alternatives. This includes automated deployment to private cloud (eucalyptus, openstack), public cloud (amazon web services, rack …

Greater San Diego area based user-group focused on bringing Hadoop users together to discuss use-cases, share problems and solutions as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Hadoop-based systems and Bigdata solutions.

106 Miles is a network of startup founders, engineers, and friends. Our mission is to educate and empower entrepreneurial engineers. Our values are Reputation, Innovation, Solidarity, and Education. This is our San Diego group; see also our, LA/OC Group, and our flagship Silicon Valley group. Please join us if you're a founder or engineer (or friend!) and... * You have worked at a startup, * You want to work at a startup, * You have started a company, and/or * You want to start a company. …

SproutCore is an HTML5 application framework for building responsive, desktop-caliber apps in any modern web browser, without plugins. SproutCore works by doing the only thing that can truly eliminate the latency problem: it moves your business logic to the client. SproutCore applications are full-fledged programs, written in JavaScript. That JavaScript executes in your user’s browser, freeing up your servers (and server engineers) to focus on what’s most important in a cloud application: delive …

Second Screen TV, Second Screen is a term that refers to an additional electronic device (e.g. tablet, smartphone) that allows a television audience to interact with the content they are consuming, such as TV shows, movies, music, or video games, extra data is displayed on a portable device synchronized with the content being viewed on television. Beyond the above, using a tablet to select info about a specific object you see on TV like you do with web pages and getting that info on your table i …

Welcome to the San Diego Zesty Meetup group! This is a group of web designers/developers who are interested in learning more about Zesty. The toolset the Zesty platform provides makes creating and managing websites more efficient and profitable than ever. Everyone is welcome! Learn more about Zesty at GoZesty.com

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501(c)(3) worldwide not-for-profit charitable organization focused on improving the security of software. Our mission is to make software security visible, so that individuals and organizations worldwide can make informed decisions about true software security risks. Over 30,000 Subscribers - Over 140 Projects - Over 190 Chapters

This group is for people interested in building search based applications, enterprise search applications, shallow analytics applications using search technologies.