Transmedia SF is a network of SF Bay Area media and start-up creatives who come together to develop our own projects, to promote and educate the world about transmedia storytelling, and to make San Francisco a center for transmedia production and education. San Francisco is a natural hub for transmedia since it boasts robust creative, technical, media and education communities. Our vision is to create the creative convergence in SF and bring together media, ad and PR agencies, creative content d …

Meet with other web site system administrators, developers, designers and business people who're interested in making their sites work fast to get better user experience, lower abandonment rates and more money.

The SF TechCrunch Party is created in honor of TechCrunch's 5 year anniversary. We're having a party and we want you to come! For current and recovering TechCrunch addicts!

Get together to share your experiences and advice as a UX designer, pick up tips, and keep current on good UX design.

A San Francisco-based Puppet user group focused on helping Puppet users share experiences, problems and solutions, as well as learn new skills for building large-scale Puppet-based systems. Anyone interested in Puppet should join.

While San Francisco and the South Bay are known for their tech scene, Marin County and areas north have all kinds of cool innovation happening. I want to meet tech entrepreneurs who are doing really awesome stuff and I don't want to travel an hour to do it! Let's meet up and talk about what we're working on, trade ideas and support, and jumpstart the scene up here. Whether you're an engineer, a UI/UX, a business type or just an entrepreneur groupie - come hang out!

This group is for San Francisco Bay-area Web and Mobile Designers, Developers, Information Architects, Usability Experts, User Experience Designers, Web Producers, Programmers, Flash Animators, etc. - anyone involved in the designing, developing, programming and implementation of web sites and mobile applications. At our meetings we'll network with others in the industry; compare the latest tools, trends, theories, languages and templates; trade advice on careers; share knowledge, tips and trick …

This group meets every other Monday at 7PM at Berkeley Espresso, for brainstorming over modeling and rendering epiphanies we all have had or will encounter with this fantastic platform (Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper and Flamingo nXT or other renderer). This is a chance to sort into cadres of similarly skilled users whose aim is to become a great resource for the kinds of ideas it takes to surmount problems in the face of school or work deadlines. While the online help and forums are great, nothing …

It's time to deliver a better web experience - for people. And that means focusing on content; findable, actionable, measurable and shareable content (FAMS®). Call it Content Strategy, Content Marketing, or common sense, it's what the people we want to reach care about. This group is for business owners and web professionals who are interesting in learning the value of web content, how to integrate content strategy into their processes, and how to create, deliver and manage clear, concise, and c …

Parse is the mobile app development platform for iOS, Android, JavaScript, and Windows 8. Parse allows your team to focus more on creating a great user experience and less on server maintenance and complex infrastructure. We offer push notifications, social integration, data storage, and Cloud Code which lets you add rich custom logic to your app’s backend. With Parse, you can add a scalable and powerful backend in minutes and launch your app in record time without ever worrying about server ma …

Anything social sales: from new business models like free trial, freemium, in-app purchases to use of social media for lead generation and sales to social products of the future. Meetup for sales stars, other customer facing personnel and growth hackers to compare notes on what works and what doesn't.

Growth Hacker community.

Deliver better UX faster leveraging Lean Startup and Agile Development principles.

This is a group of entrepreneurs / designers / hackers who live in or around San Anselmo, CA. We meet up on at the Marin Coffee Roasters in downtown SA on Thursday nights to chat and meet other awesome people.

The Drug Users Union is an international organization dedicated to the development of leadership and civic engagement/activism in drug using communities worldwide. The so-called War on Drugs has caused far more harm than it has prevented--not only to drug users, but indeed, to society as a whole. The stigma created by WoD propaganda serves only to demonize drug users, transforming us into one of the most unfairly scapegoated communities in the world. When we internalize this manufactured stigma, …

User Engagement Pros will be a supportive Meetup for Saas/Cloud/UX/Customer Support people who are looking to share and learn the best practices in engaging users, reducing customer support costs, limiting churn, and increasing trial to paid users. We will have top notch speakers, demos, and always have time for networking and schmoozing. Sign up and stay tuned for upcoming events coming soon!

Let's meet to talk about, listen to, and get feedback on our own personal design or development projects! Sometimes, as a designer or a developer, especially if you're freelancing alone, it's helpful to be able to tap someone on the shoulder and say, "hey, look at this! what do you think?" If you have a project that fits the topic of the meetup (we'll do one for design, one for development, and any other topics you'd like to present/see), bring it in to show and tell, and get valuable feedback t …

Group for anyone looking for a starting point and doing some real time interaction with Hadoop. In particular with Hue, a Web application providing access to MapReduce, Hive, HDFS, Oozie, Impala, Pig, Sqoop. Also interested in hearing about use cases, pain-points... about using Hadoop and how getting familiar with and exploring different angles of the platform for a better exploring and analyzing data could be improved. Hue open source project: http://cloudera.github.com/hue/

Welcome To SF Growth Hackers! Growth Hacking: A data-driven approach to marketing, user acquisition and sales funnels. Learn how to leverage user analytics, split testing and modern marketing techniques to improve every step of a sales funnel. As a startup or even a fortune 500 company you can't make informed decision about your product without the right data backing you up. We will discuss how to capture your data, setup experiments and make confident decisions about your business. Come and j …

We all love the breakthrough platform for startups called AngelList [http://angel.co/]. It's time AngelList has a User Group. This cluster will share experience about how to get the most from AngelList. Like the best user groups, we are independent, sponsored by users only. Join us to continuously develop your expertise with AngelList, share stories, have some impassioned conversation and hopefully a lot of fun.

This group is for industry professionals, educators and students who strive to change the way new products and services are developed through human-centered design research and strategy.

Fans and attendees of the Gammify - the 2013 Gammification World Championships. Live finals to be held in San Francisco - October 13, 2013