This is a Santa Barbara SEO and social media marketing meetup aimed at small business owners seeking to learn more about online marketing and social media marketing strategy on the web. The group will analyze your web site live and offer objective advice to help you optimize your web branding and online presence. Meeting time: 6pm - 7:30pm every Monday Location: The Santa Barbara Veterans Building located at 112 W. Cabrillo Blvd, Santa Barbara, CA 93101 http://www.santabarbaraveteransbuilding. …

Meet other local users of Google, the popular search tool. Delve into discussions that encompass All Things Google!

A monthly Meetup where local start-ups, not-for-profits and businesses can meet, learn and share with each other. Investors, entrepreneurs, local businesses, anyone interested in learning about good causes, trends in business and technology or that has ideas should come!

We are a group of people who love and use the Django web framework. Whether you consider yourself a professional developer, a hobbyist, or are simply curious to see if Django is for you, please join us for our monthly meeting!

Tired of working in solitude from home? Feeling unmotivated? Working out of the coffee shop and always smelling like espresso? (not that smelling like coffee isn't the hip new thing...) Or maybe you are paying WAY too much for one of those fancy shmancy, stuffy -- er I mean, executive -- suites? That’s why we created CoLoft. The main theme here is that we work better together, not alone. CoLoft is a coworking space where you can get work done, run your business, and meet and converse with like-m …

Talk about latest trends in Web Development, with an emphasis on PHP programming and Javascript. You'll learn about new Frameworks, tricks, and tips, and I'm sure you'll have many things to teach us as well. Follow us on Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook

SOCAL Business Ties group meetings where Trendsetters, Innovators, Entrepreneurs and Start Ups come together to Engage, Network, Mentor, Collaborate, Participate and Innovate. You will meet our contributors who are high achievers and successful in their own right, considered experts in their field of industry. Check out their profiles at www.caypen.com. Gain access to people who have “been there” and “done that” including venture capital financing, authors, a renowned industrial designer, an i …

Wine tasting events for LA proper and Costal Los Angeles couples (married, dating, life partners) who enjoy wine, socializing or just looking to network with other couples. The groups goal is to have monthly events throughout Los Angeles. The age of our group members range anywhere from 35 to 65.

We are a group of people in the San Fernando Valley / Los Angeles area who love and use a variety of programming languages: Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Java, Clojure, Objective-C, C++, C#, C and many more. This group is for Software Developers only!

Santa Barbara Makerspace is a fun place to make interesting things with smart people. Our activities range from robotics and electronics to web development, mobile apps, and computer security. Come join us!

Tech events for startups in the 805. Our first few events have been amazing, and hope you join us for more.

FounderPanel are monthly technology panel discussions that teach entrepreneurs actionable skills to scale their companies into successful businesses. Twitter: @FounderPanel Facebook: Facebook.com/FounderPanel LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Founder-Panel-4793064 Please do not join this group if you are a Recruiter OR if you are going to advertise other events to our members. Our team actively searches through profiles and will remove yours without notice.

Connect the digital people (tech entrepreneurs, programmers, and designers...) and high quality venture investors in Santa Clarita, CA to establish, mentor, and grow technology companies in the Santa Clarita Valley. The next great tech companies will come from SCV!

We Silicon Beachers do a lot of things really well. We can code, sell, develop and pitch. We're generally pretty good at partying too. Another thing that I'm sure we could be really good at is making our corner of the world a better place. Our purpose is to bring the Silicon Beach community together to do some good ol' volunteering and community service around the neighborhood... And to share a drink or two afterwards. We gladly welcome suggestions from our members for other opportunities where …

We offer classes and workshops specifically for company founders or founders-to-be who are looking for comprehensive, unbiased instruction and information pertaining to how to raise startup capital. The content is based on knowledge and insights provided by 25 years of local startup investment experience. The classes are taught by Jon Funk of Ocean Road Partners, a local vc veteran who's backed some of the area's top companies, including Rent.com, Shopzilla and Sandpiper Networks. Jon's also an …

Ruby Power Lunch is a collection of some of the best ruby developers in the world. We meet about once a month for lunch to share ideas, challenges and solutions with our peers. In addition to monthly face-to-face meeting opportunities, we use the group discussion and mailing list to keep on the (b)leading edge of ruby tech.

We will be meeting monthly to showcase new technology from around the world followed by networking. 5-7 presenters show demo of their technology and answer questions (5+5min). The idea is to promote new technologies to tech-interested public, as well as potential clients, employees and investors. Finally, to provide inspiration and networking opportunities to those who want to find their passion by watching and interacting with others who are pursuing what they love. Marvel at the latest in cool …

This is a group based in the Santa Barbara area which gathers to discuss topics in machine learning. This includes, but isn't limited to: classification, clustering, graphical algorithms, information retrieval, data mining, artificial intelligence, game theory, computational learning theory, reinforcement learning, collaborative filtering, recommendation systems, and predictive analytics. The group will focus on using Python, R, and other open source languages and libraries for getting things do …

Los Angeles Accessibility and Inclusive Design Group We are accessibility and inclusive design practitioners of differing abilities who want to help practitioners who are either unaware of or hesitant to engage in accessible and inclusive design. Many of us work in large organizations with just one or two other colleagues in similar roles, as independent consultants, or in small businesses alone. This is a great way to meet other web accessibility and inclusive design practitioners. If you would …

San Fernando Valley is still considered Los Angeles, but being as LA is so big, it would be great to have regular meetups with local entrepreneurs, startups, non profits, small businesses, investors, or anyone who's ever had a great idea and can benefit from the local community by sharing. Anything tech related or ways to improve lives in general are welcome to join.

Borne from the SprintZero conference in SF, June 11 2012, this group serves as local LA-based extension of the movement, to facilitate further definition of agile marketing best practices; and to identify opportunities to promote Agile marketing, and the adoption of Agile practices within Marketing teams and agencies.

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Santa Monica Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Santa Monica serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who complim …

This for all those who want to hangout with other web technology aficionados. Topics include design, development, dev-ops, etc. This group isn't really about improving your search engine ranking or getting VC funding for your new mobi-social-dealio-vlog. We'll be talking tech, there are other groups in the area for the business side of things. Antelope Valley geeks welcome too. We're currently gauging interest and will plan meetings accordingly. Please join if you're even remotely interested!

I'm organizing the Kinect Meetup. We're in the planning stages. If you'd like to participate, please let me know. This is an opportunity to meet with other kinect developers from L.A.. We will have live mocap demos, scanning demos, software tips and company demos...The purpose of this meeting is to showcase the best software I'm aware of for production purposes, create a community of kinect developers, showcase application of the software, and look toward future development. The Kinect, Xtion, L …

These are not your typical software engineering events. Our events cover topics related to software engineering along with business but aim to change the perspective of those who attend. Our focus is on emerging technologies such as Big Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, 3D printing, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Semantic Web technologies, alongside more traditional topics like Ruby on Rails, HTML5, PHP, node.js, and Python. We reach out to the entire Los Angeles metropolita …

This is a group for anyone interested in YouTube! Let's take YouTube to the next level!

Welcome to the Santa Barbara Cloud Meetup!! We are here to celebrate Santa Barbara as a vital hub for emerging cloud computing technology. If you are interested in meeting the smartest folks in town to learn about cloud infrastructure, AWS, cloud platform, cloud application, etc, please come hang out with us. You'd be surprised by how much you didn't know about cloud computing. ;) See you soon!!

A diverse group of technology, health care, big data, and quantified selfers meeting each month to discover, showcase and discuss the future of health in the digital era. Our goal is to stimulate ideas, explore new technologies and add to the startup ecosystem of health innovation in Southern California.