I saw a lot of mom-and-pop shops have popped up to discuss and teach spirituality. I also saw people in pain and their struggle in search of spiritualism. I've seen that pain closely in my life. Since I've worked on it for a long time, it became my moral responsibility to step in as an expert. I want to share my experience and knowledge with you. It's going to be a good deal for you. Before we start proceeding, we would also like to discuss some basic facts. Some of questions we'll ask would inc …

This is a meetup group where solo inventors can discuss their experience with obtaining patents

Join us to discuss books and ideas regarding achieving financial independence through a conscious relationship with money. Sample books are Your Money or Your Life, Live More Work Less, and Early Retirement Extreme. Spend less and live more!

This is a Robotics and Artificial Intelligence study group. To kick off - We are going to go through online lectures in the "Intro to Robotics" course taught by Oussama Khatib at Stanford and try to solve assignments. (Prerequisite - Matrix Algebra). It is a graduate level course. We are hoping to go through two lectures per week with assignment discussion on weekend mornings. Hopefully later work on real world projects etc.

We are a group of 20/30 Something's that will meet once a month to talk about a new book, fiction or non-fiction...anything goes! We will meet for dinner and drinks and talk about the book and anything else that interests us. In between meetings we will meet up for movies, drinks, walks or whatever we want. If you're new to town or just want to meet some new friends...join us!

This group aims to bring together software professionals who work with Renewable Energy projects. The group's name is: Software for Renewable Energy or SWRE. SWRE should be pronounced like the French word: soiree. As such, we are all very valuable party-goers in this industry and the more we talk and work together, the greater impact we'll all have. Potential topics for meetups include: * presentations/demos of RE related projects we're all working on * discussions of what tools and technologies …

Founders helping Founders About Let's get together to discuss startup issues from incubating ideas, founding companies and scaling them. This group focuses on issues that technology startup entrepreneurs run into when building the startup. We will meet at HackerDojo or Microsoft Bizspark labs in Mountain View, Silicon Valley. Events include brown bag lunch sessions, pitching events and other startup related events. Brown Bag Lunch sessions These are group discussion sessions with a small numb …

We'll discuss different kinds of algorithms. First, we'll try to understand basic algorithms. We'll also discuss simple puzzles and brain teasers. If you are not from mathematical background, you'll find it simple and if you are from computer science, you'll find it interesting. You can also post any algorithms you want to discuss in particular. Learning Practical Applications: We'll try to understand algorithms practical applications. The challenge is not to write complex algorithms but to …

The Silicon Valley Semantic Technology Group (previously known as Palo Alto Semantic Web (PAWS) Group) is a forum in which Bay Area people interested in the Semantic Web can meet each other and learn more about this fascinating area of research and its applications. Our discussion will include all Semantic Web technologies with a focus on current projects and potential project and startup opportunities. Discussions may be technical, although those interested in business applications/functionalit …

Valley-Peninsula Real Estate Investing Group meets once a month for an education and networking meeting. Our monthly meetings are FREE. We meet in silicon valley: Mountain View. Whether you are an investor, broker, mortgage lender, contractor or landlord, you are welcome to join our group if creating cash flow and wealth using Real Estate is your goal. Meet fellow Real Estate Buyers and Investors near you! Come to a local Real Estate Buying & Investing Meetup to discuss properties on the market, …

BayLISA is the premiere system adminstration user group in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in the very early 90s after the fourth Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference, BayLISA has supported and educated systems, network, storage, virtualization, and other technology professionals in the Bay Area for over 20 years. We use Meetup to coordinate meeting attendance, announcements, and reminders. We have our official organizational presence on the web, inc …

We're all about the Application and SaaS business models and monetization mechanisms ranging from Freemium to Premium, IAP (in app purchases), Bundling, Customer Conversion Analytics - whatever it takes to actually get users (consumer and business) to pay for Apps! We typically have two or three speakers, each of whom shares a deep knowledge of and experience with the software monetization and business models.  All of our speakers will discuss Freemium, since it's the monetization model du jour, …

Our group is focused on having discussions around scaling real-time, high transaction and low latency NoSQL database systems. You will hear use cases, customer successes and thought leadership discussions on emerging applications and use cases - and the supporting platforms and technologies that enable them. Collaborate with peers working to solve truly complex, technical issues while betting their business on an infrastructure with 100% uptime. Find Us: http://www.aerospike.com Follow Us: http …

Data Science! It's all the talk these days! Our team, 0xdata, wants you to join the discussion about our new fast analytics engine, H2O. H20 is ran on top of HDFS. H20 makes it possible to learn bigdata at scale. H20 guarantees one thing: move code, not data. move fast. Join our group! Join the discussion!

Come and check out the Humanist Community in Silicon Valley! Our website is http://www.humanists.org. Our main event each week is a Sunday Forum which features a different speaker each Sunday discussing some topic of interest. A wide variety of topics are covered from week to week. To see our upcoming scheduled Forums and our past Forums, go to the http://www.humanists.org website and click on the "Sunday Forums" link. You can also check out our upcoming and recent past Forums by looking at this …

Silicon Valley Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics The group will start as a mashup or compendium of other events and groups in the area that relate to the above broad topic area. The meetups will spotlight groups and series which you can subscribe to individually. Suggestions for getting together before or after events to discuss the topic of the day are encouraged. Meetups might also include discussion of books or on-line lectures. SVSTEM is centered around Silicon Valley in the S …

We are an educational group. We provide a platform for everyone in the group to learn from one another. We can share our ideas, dreams, and help one another build our wealth and achieve our dream lifestyles. We meet at least once a month to discuss different topics. Our purpose is to pass on wealth building information and add value to every group member's life. If you have great ideas and want to share with others, please e-mail to mywealth411@gmail.com. Discussed topics currently include, but …

This is a group for discussing Big Data Applications, Analytics, Algorithms and Architectures . This group is intended towards big data evangalists, technologists, architects, Hadoop administrators, data mining experts, data scientists, cloud experts, NoSQL , developers, consultants, and experts. The meetup will have product demonstrations, use case discussions, presentations of architectures and implementations. The locations would be in South Bay Area ( Silicon Valley)

This club is intended for those in the Mountain View, Sunnyvale and Cupertino areas who love literary criticism for fiction and creative nonfiction. Each month we'll choose a book to read for the next month. The group will not focus on a single type of literary criticism, but rather on the range of appropriate types. In addition there will be a time during the meeting to express what you took away from reading the book. Depending on the venue for the meeting, we will have different restrictions …

The Bhagavad Gita is widely revered as one of the greatest jewels of spiritual wisdom in the history of humankind. In this study circle we deepen our understanding of it through mutual discussion. We enjoy meeting like-minded people and becoming inspired by their grasp of the message of the Bhagavad Gita. This forum provides a unique opportunity to learn from others about applying the teachings in our day-to-day life and share our own experience of it. We begin with a brief meditation and end wi …

Accounting & Tax Strategies discussions for Small Business Owners and other self-employed U.S. Government Study Concludes: Small Businesses Overpay the IRS by an Average of $11,638 How to pay less tax and take all the deductions we are entitled to and How to not take any deductions we are not entitled to and avoid paying thousands of dollars in tax penalties? We can’t count on our accountant to follow us everywhere keep books for us just like we don’t expecting our dentist to brush our teeth …

This group is for Firefox add-on developers and enthusiasts to discuss issues they face and interact more closely with Mozilla contributors and staff in the area. Whether you want to get advice from experienced add-on developers, talk with Mozilla about your platform or website, or just learn more about add-ons, this is the place to do it. Everyone is welcome to discuss add-ons for any browser platform.

Hi Everyone! As you know Professor Daphne Koller (Stanford University) has been kind enough to share & teach very interesting topic - Probabilistic Graphical Model (webpage https://www.coursera.org/pgm). Being actively interested in this area, I am forming this group for the engineering students/graduates/working professionals to discuss about the topics being taught, discuss assignments, form hangout groups(google+) and ask questions.

WE'VE MOVED!  See below. ------------------------- Hi Everyone, Thanks for checking out our single parents helping single parents group. Things have been slow to get going in this group on the Meetup site.  The consensus is that Meetup is not the right vehicle for a group of this nature.  Meetup is designed for specific events at specific times and is not a very good communication tool.  It does have a discussion board, but it is clunky and no one uses it. So we're moving. From now on the GO …

I am inspired and awestruck by listening to the first recordings of Dr. Clarissa Pinkola Estes' "Dangerous Old Woman", an on-line series I purchased and downloaded from Sounds True. I would love to share these profound recordings in community with other 'wild women'. This collection is six recordings of an hour each. We can gather, listen, share some cheese, chocolate and wine. From there I have a vision of deciding together where our exploration of reading and story listening takes us, explorin …

Looking for a group focused on chatting about, learning about, and reading the Bible and exploring Christian thought?  We will be participating in events, discussions, and other learning activities such as Bible studies, movie discussions, etc. Most of the events will take place at Immanuel Lutheran Church in Los Altos. Visitors and drop-ins are expected, so feel free to drop in anytime!

This group is for Women who are Too Young To Be Old! We are of a 'certain age', energetic mid-lifers, mostly 40- 50+, married, single, divorced, or in transition, seeking stimulating conversation, friendships, a strong sense of camaraderie, & good old fashioned girlfriend connection! Lets embrace all that it means for us 40-50ish women by coming together at least twice a month, for a pot luck gathering, stimulating discussions, get-to-know-each other chats. Our intention is to have many activiti …

Getting rusty on the language you have learned? Hoping to practice Japanese speaking skills for your work? The Japanese Conversation Corner will be a spot for you to meet and practice Japanese with peers who love and speak Japanese like you! - Within every meeting, one theme will be displayed and discussed without restrictions! - Know Japanese Culture through discussion, Q & A - Speak/Practice Japanese with Native Japanese speakers and those who also learn Japanese!