This is a face-to-face version of the online LinkedIn group (see http://www.linkedin.com/groups?home=&gid=1895501). This group is dedicated to all such researchers and analysts who are interested in innovative research methods and analytics, as well as related software tools. It is a forum for researchers, analysts and practitioners to discuss about research methodology, research computing, research applications, research flow management, and research process standardization. It is also a place …

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.

This group is to bring together those interested in or working with Big Data and Hadoop. Understanding and managing Big Data technology is now a vital part of successful organizations. Share insight, challenges and experiences with like-minded individuals. Regardless of your experience, join the troop for networking and an exploration of Big Data and Hadoop!

How to make Intelligent Email Marketing Easy and Efficient ? This Meetup Group joins professional Internet Marketers who want to learn or have knowledge on every aspect of Email Marketing. Come here to find out correct techniques, learn, get ideas, and give ideas…

This is a group for DBAs in the Silicon Beach (or greater Los Angeles) area who want to learn together, meet regularly to exchange techniques and knowledge and generally to improve their professional capabilities. Our group is not vendor specific: we include DB2 UDB, Oracle, MySql, MS-SQL Server, and even the newer No-SQL databases and Jena Triple Store. Anyone interested in database administration, design, configuration, integration, and/or development and who is willing to share knowledge and …

MESS: Media/Entertainment & Scientific Storage. This group is all about large files, big data, and workflow optimization. It's a place that peers can talk about storage challenges, discuss ways of dealing with them, and hear about the new technologies that are making a difference. Food, fun and smart storage people, all in one place.

"It's not that MS Excel is a soft skill, it's that people's MS Excel skills are soft. Excel is called Excel for a reason..." -Steven Bugge The benefit of being a member of this meetup group is improving one’s knowledge of MS Excel and learning how it can be leveraged at both work and home. The Excel Refresher Meetup is here for beginning, intermediate and advanced users of Excel who would like to learn and share tips and tricks with fellow users. Maybe you are upgrading to Excel 2007 2010 2013, …

This is a group for anyone interested in talking about using Chef as part of building and maintaining an automated infrastructure. Get together with like-minded sysadmins, systems engineers, configuration management and devops spirited type folks to share experiences, tips, tricks and to talk about real life strategies for deploying and maintaining your Chef infrastructure.

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 …

Semantic Web in Orange County 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 o …

The Los Angeles Puppet Master User Group is a Meetup to share knowledge and experience using Puppet. Puppet s a tool designed to manage the configuration of Unix-like and Microsoft Windows systems declaratively, developed by Puppet Labs. Anyone interested in Puppet and systems configuration should join. Note : nothing to do with the Southern California Amateur puppeteers and puppets meetup.

Calling all LA Tech Leaders, Devops Leaders, IT Managers / Directors, Infrastructure Managers, Operations Managers and anyone who has leadership and/or decision making responsibilities and would like to network with others in the same boat. Do you straddle the line between DOING operations and RUNNING operations? The goal of this group is to be able to share our challenges, compare notes and become better informed tech leaders. What worked and what didn't. If you are in a leadership position an …

Presented by:  The CONTENT Conference .CONTENT. The merging of Technology between three major industries: Music TV/Film Publishing & how companies can distribute quality content that can be monetized. ______________________ technology • engagement • delivery monetize • distribution • social interactive • creation • compliance _______________ Types of discussion topics: •Monetizing the Intersection of Entertainment and Technology •How Entertainment Can Monetize the Digital World •Leveraging th …

This group was started to create a forum for experienced and aspiring web/mobile software entrepreneurs: product strategists, CTOs, hackers, CEOs, COOs, designers, developers/engineers, Scrum coaches, information architects, project managers. We will meet frequently to dscuss the rapidly changing web/mobile consumer software space: - New technologies - New apps! - Cutting-edge hardware releases - Startup process and incubation - Open systems - Development process efficiency/theory - Idea i …

We are building a small (5-10) group of intelligent/educated people who treat trading and investing in public-market securities as a primary business. Ideal members are those who already spend 20+ hours per week on their trading/investing activities. Whether you trade your own accounts, or are in the process of building a fund or pool to expand your assets under management, this group may be for you. We are open to different trading/investment styles, since we won't spend most of our time discus …

Do you invest in real estate or business opportunities? Are you seeking investors for your real estate or business opportunity? If you answered "Yes" to either of these then this Meetup group is for you! This meeting was created to unite investors in an informal, roundtable setting to discuss the latest economic trends and to exchange thoughts and information about what is happening in today's markets. I bring the latest monthly economic data as it relates to real estate, inflation/deflation, th …

(LTBKIT=Welcome!, Android Developers, Users, & Entrepreneurs of the US.California.SoCal.Orange County area! Since 2009, we are Your oldest & largest professional community group and we are Here to Serve You! MJZ5CB: quick intros (LTBKK3=Find and join like-minded local developers, designers, & users meeting & succeeding in Android! Get your problems solved, put on presentations, help others, find & offer jobs, and team up on projects. Just join and RSVP & come to our meetings, share knowled …

Dear Volunteer Diggers, Calico Early Man Site is the only archeology site in the Western Hemisphere ever deemed important enough to be worked by Dr. Louis S.B. Leakey. Project Director from 1964 until his death in 1972, Dr. Leakey knew that the thousands of artifacts found in this barren desert environment were eerily similar in appearance and manufacture to those he found in Africa. This striking similarity intrigued and mystified him. The implications for the presence of some of the earliest …

I’m a full stack polyglot (multi-language) software engineer who runs my own Startup and have been saddened by the lack of available talent that I've seen here in San Diego, so instead of crying or running up to San Francisco I've decided to do something about it. Beginning in July, I'm going to be giving a different class each week on a particular programming language or framework, I'll let you guys vote with your dollars on which languages or topics get covered. My goal here is to give you 2 t …

Feeling inspired?Create it. Got Spare Parts? Build it. Have an idea? Launch it Find out what is new and exciting in the tech world. See product demos from industry leaders and hear their stories. The tech is out there, so utilize it and find your team to create the next innovation. Join us and connect the different tech communities into an immersive experience. diy          web                         H MAKErs - TECHnology - Mobile APPlication E N If you are interested in gadgets, gamificatio …

Connecting ITSM professionals in Southern California. A chance for those who are connected digitally to get together informally to meet, learn and share ideas. Those who want to talk frameworks or movements like ITIL, CoBIT, ITSM, USMBOK, DevOps, Agile, Lean and others.

The focus of this MySQL group will be: 1. Learn as much as possible about MySQL from experts in the field. From High Availability, Clustering and Replication to Storage Engine technology. 2. Network with others interested in MySQL. 3. Have some good conversation about the world's most popular open source database. All levels of experience welcome!

This group is for system administrators using CFEngine (any version). The purpose of this group is to provide a social forum for CFEngine users, to provide mutual support, and to help in upgrading to version 3 of CFEngine; as well as to help new users get started with using CFEngine.