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I would like to start a meet up for people interested in learning software testing and methodology.

The San José Selenium Meetup aims to provide a cozy environment in which to enjoy food and drink while discussing our Selenium successes and challenges with each other. A wide array of speakers will appear, from your peers to well-recognized Selenium experts. All in downtown San Jose!!! You can attend in person OR remotely via Adobe Connect. Or you can watch a presentation anytime from the next day onwards via the unique Adobe Connect URL which will always be posted as a Comment at the bottom of …

The Tri-Valley/ East Bay Agile Leadership Network (TV/EB-ALN) is a Agile/Lean community based in the eastern San Francisco Bay Area that includes counties of Amador Valley, Livermore Valley, and San Ramon Valley. It includes cities of Pleasanton, Livermore, Dublin, San Ramon, Danville as well as other East Bay locations in Contra Costa county like Walnut Creek and Concord. Our purpose is to evangelize and educate Agile and Lean skills to our members as well as building our community to serve as …

Startup Product, a movement for product excellence through cross-discipline collaboration and holistic product perspective. Startup Product welcomes everyone passionate about product excellence, regardless of title, industry, or stage of growth, to come together to share, learn and talk about what it really takes to produce products that people love and how to build sustainable businesses and revenue streams based on product excellence. Everyone is encouraged to contribute their point of view, w …

Meet other developers using Meteor.  Share your knowledge, apps, and get feedback from others. Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

Client/Server Cloud hosts events for developers building applications in the cloud. Our goal is to have the highest quality speakers on the latest technologies such as Node.JS, NoSQL, Python, Platform as a Service etc. We will organize both formal, structured presentation-centric events along with informal gatherings to just chat.

What is Lean Coffee? Lean Coffee is a structured, agenda-less meeting.Participants gather, build an agenda, and begin talking.Conversations are directed and productive because the agenda for the meeting was democratically generated. Who should attend? Everyone! From beginners to seasoned Leanists. Why attend? You like good coffee don't you?! ;-) And there are always great topics brought to the table; everything from "lean startup in large organizations" to "collective quality ownership" and "cus …

Dear All, The Lean Enterprise and Continuous Improvement meetup is a social learning initiative designed to bring together SMEs, Quality practitioners, Business owners, Technologists, Business Analysts, Managers, Decision Makers, Product Owners, Product Managers; to plan, learn, discuss and share experiences, implementations, best practices, body of knowledge, metrics, methodologies, tools and techniques as applicable; to take an enterprise through a journey of Continuous Improvement with an end …

Alt.Net was founded in 2007 as an alternative community for developers wanting more out of .Net. It was founded for the purposes of reaching outside the mainstream .Net world to find the best practices and tools. This is the San Francisco group, pulling from the Bay Area as well, where we plan dinners, presentations, and conferences. Alt.Net was created on these principles: *You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. *You reach outside the …

Open to Bay Area folks interested in Data Integration, Data Quality, Data Warehousing, Data Migration, EAI, ETL, dataflow architecture, and related topics

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

The Northern California Java User Group (NorCal JUG) is located in Sacramento, CA. We aim to: Promote the use of Java 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 Java in particular Develop close ties and relationships with the industry mentor companies and educational institutions in the United States and worldwide

3D Printing, also known as Additive Manufacturing, is an exciting and potentially game changing technology that will dramatically alter the way products are designed, manufactured, distributed and financed. A standard digital file (.stl) of an object is created, either by using Computer-Aided Design (CAD) software or a 3D scanner, and is sent to a dedicated machine which builds the object layer-upon-layer in a material such as plastic, metal or ceramic. Today the technology is mainly used for ra …

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 …

Our goal is to make R more popular especially among women. Inspired by the awesome PyLadies group, I decided to create R-ladies. Anyone with an interest in R is encouraged to participate. It doesn't matter if you never used R or if you are an R expert. The goal is to promote R, exchange knowledge and create a network among women. Come and join us! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ About R: R is a langua …