We're bringing together the best & brightest in linguistics-related disciplines and in computer programming to solve some of the world's greatest challenges.

BASPIG is a systems-programming interest group for folks in the Silicon Valley area. If you're into programming that maxes out machine perf, works against the bare metal, self-modifies, hypervises, takes in a language, compiles, blits, message passes, saturates available bandwidth, routes, scales, replicates, reaches consensus, dispatches kernels to cores, interprets, JITs, or self-hosts, this is the group for you. We intend to have regularly scheduled talks on prodigious systems-programming top …

We are inviting some past, present and future students and developers from places like Dev Bootcamp, HackReactor, HackBright, AppAcademy, General Assembly, UCSF and SFSU to teach folks how to get set up properly for programming 101. Get the basics down! Focus will be on Ruby and Javascript. This is a free event. You will need to bring your own laptop, and the coworking space will provide coffee, electricity and internet for us.

Join this small group for a step-by-step approach to learn the R language. Each session is filled with real-life examples and participants are welcome to suggest and present topics. If you have just started with R this is the perfect chance to find out about data analysis with a group of people rather than on your own.

An informal meetup to talk about or develop with the Go Programming Language (golang).

Meet other local programmers interested in Clojure (and other Lisps and Schemes), functional programming, concurrent programming, and other alien technology.

SF Peninsula SD meetup, monthly networking and talks on JVM-based Languages and Agile or Test-Driven Development

Lua's a fascinating, super-fast scripting language perfect for gaming and web applications. This is a very engineering-centric group for those interested in trying out Lua, or for sharing creations. Let the organizer(s) know if you're looking to sponsor, host, or speak at any of our events. We're open to suggestions!

We're here to... funct... you up. Ok... I'm sorry about the previous statement. Functional programming in javascript isn't a joke. It's serious. Like Yahoo Serious... Oh god, what's wrong with me. Functional Javascript is the language of the future. Come see why and learn about how functional programming in javascript can change your life.

Learn more about Erlang, the highly concurrent programming language. Have a chance to meet fellow developers interested in Erlang/OTP, cast messages about interesting tricks and cool hacks, and -- most importantly -- fun with fun()s and a good time had by all.

SF# is a group of developers in the San Francisco Bay Area who have an interest in the F# programming language.  Novices and experts are both welcome.

Learn more about Erlang, the highly concurrent programming language. Have a chance to meet fellow developers interested in Erlang/OTP, cast messages about interesting tricks and cool hacks, and -- most importantly -- fun with fun()s and a good time had by all.

The Silicon Valley DART Meetup aims to: * Promote the use of the DART programming language and related technologies * Educate through high-quality and applicable presentations * Induce interactive discussions and forums * Be a resource hub for whomever is interested in web development in general and DART in particular * Develop close ties and relationships with the industry mentor companies and educational institutions in the United States and worldwide

It takes approximately 1,000 hours of work to become "hirable" as a junior web developer. It is by no means an easy journey, especially as a beginner when you typically stumble alone aimlessly, not knowing what path to take. You're essentially trying to climb a mountain without a map or a guide. This group will be your map and guide to becoming a web developer. Over the next several months we'll help you design your path for learning a Ruby/Rails-based workflow in a project-based environment tha …

Like coding? Want to interact with and learn more from other baller coders? Got an internet connection and a Google Hangouts account? Wow, you rock - it's time for you to get pairing! In this group you'll meet friendly peers to connect, hack, and collaborate with. We meet virtually at least once a week: Why try pair programming if you haven't before? Learn new tricks and skills Teach others and improve your communication ability Get feedback and insight on things you're making Make new friends …

This is a group for anyone interested in learning iOS mobile development. No programming experience required and we plan to hold free workshops to help people get started with learning programming fundamentals, the fundamentals of Objective-C and building real-world iOS applications.

South Bay Competitive Programmers is a social and educational group based in the SF south bay area for people interested in programming competitions. Whether competing for solution time (like Topcoder Algorithm and Google Code Jam and many other competitions), solution performance (like topcoder marathon matches), code brevity (like Perl Golf), or robotics, when outside of a university it's much harder to meet and socialize with people who share this passion. So if you are a competitive programm …

Meet other developers who enjoy the agility and quality in writing automated tests. Come and hear experts demonstrate new tools and techniques. Participate in discussions on how to solve particular challenges. We target developers and expect to span both introductory and advanced subjects, including: Experience exchange, Q&A Web UI testing using Selenium or WatiN Testing embedded software Test Driven Development Behaviour Driven Development When to use stubs and mocks Google Test (C++ testing f …

Since April 2008, we've been getting together monthly to share projects, opportunities, and how-tos related to developing for iOS. Experienced developers, newcomers, and people with ideas are all welcome. We've enjoyed presentations from investors, entrepreneurs, and experts in all sorts of relevant topics from user interface design to programming to marketing and business development. Each meeting usually contains a couple of fast-paced but deep talks and several demos. We don't do a lot of det …

A seminar dedicated to studying and discussing applied category theory, functors, monads, type theory, category logic, functional programming. Some basic knowledge is desired. Google group BACAT is migrating here: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/bacat

Bay Area Storm Users is a group for developers and companies using Twitter's Storm real-time data processing and DRPC framework. We get together to discuss best practices, usage patterns, and to exchange ideas. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of …

This group is for San Francisco Bay-area Web and Mobile Designers/Developers who wants to barter skills. When signing up, let the group know what skills you possess and what skills you are looking to learn. For each meetup, we will pair people up with complementary skills for two hours - one hour to teach, one hour to learn. You should join if you want to learn a new programming language, a new software framework, a new designing tool, etc. The most effective way to to learn is by observing and …

For Corona SDK developers to get together and discuss mobile development and technology, Corona tips and tricks, and the Lua programming language. Experienced Corona developers and newcomers are equally welcome!

"Data Hacker" means any developer, data scientist, data architect, entrepreneur, engineer, or data nerd who is interested in discovering - meeting people interested in - and joining hackathons focused on - new open-source data-centric programming languages and technologies such as Hadoop, Hbase, Hive, Pig, Drill, Mahoot, Lucene, MongoDB, Graph Databases like Neo4J.... pretty much any developer-centric data technology. Data Hackers is a meetup group run by Data 2.0 (data2x.com) that hosts meetups …

Come join our group and meet Spanish language and culture lovers for conversation and fun! All ages and levels of proficiency are welcome!

This is a group for people in the Bay Area who are interested in Natural Language Processing. Since NLP overlaps with other fields, we may also delve into Information Retrieval and Machine Learning. If you are actively involved in NLP, or just want to learn more, please join us. Note: This group has nothing to do with Neuro-Linguistic Programming.

Meetup with others in your area who are also interested in Lithuanian language, culture and travel. All ages and levels of Lithuanian language proficiency are welcome! You don’t need to speak the Lithuanian language to join or attend our meetup. We welcome your ideas, suggestions and participation in conversation, social activities and cultural programs in the San Francisco area. If you are interested in coming to any of our events, please remember to RSVP!

This is a group for anyone interested in sharing thoughts and ideas for improving academics in Lower, Middle or High Schools. Whether you are a parent, teacher or a student we want to hear from you. Our kids are home during summer for 10 weeks or so and this would be great forum to learn what is available and what other parents do to nurture creative growth in next generation. We can have events on regular basis for idea sharing.