The mobile applications market is exploding as more phones, pads, & devices emerge.  Keeping up with developer options, new platforms, and best practices can be a challenge.  This group explores the work of developing software applications for mobile devices & how to help developers & entrepreneurs get there faster. Some of the platforms we cover are iPhone, Droid, and iPad, also operating systems like Symbian & Microsoft Mobile.  There are many software IDEs (interactive development environment …

Mobile Santa Barbara is a group for anyone interested in learning and discussing the growing mobile market, trends, and opportunities within the space. We promote the discussion of local business mobile initiatives, ongoing challenges in technology and marketing, cutting edge mobile marketing campaigns, industry trends, and the latest in the mobile ecosystem. We explore the many opportunities available for improving local business and share ideas on monetizing mobile. We discuss mobile marketing …

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This group is a newly formed hub for the emerging field of evolutionary spirituality, in particular a new spiritual teaching called Evolutionary Enlightenment, recently synthesized into a book of the same name written by spiritual teacher Andrew Cohen. Our most basic goal is to host regular gatherings and events that convey the essential ideas of this new spiritual perspective. Towards this, the core of our meetup will focus on discussions using excerpts or chapters from the book as starting poi …

The South Bay Mobile User Group is dedicated to educating, promoting and supporting the mobile technology community in the Los Angeles and the surrounding counties. We gather once a month for presentations, discussion and networking. Some of the platforms we cover are iPhone, Droid, iPad and Windows Mobile. Our mission is to: Expose developers to different technologies in the arena of mobile software design Provide presentations of time saving development techniques Inform mobile developers an …

The best way to know what vnext is all about is to view this video (new blog, needs content): http://bit.ly/vnext-interview or on YouTube here:  http://bit.ly/CrescentSolutionsVnextInterview. Although we've had numerous high-profile speakers, including ex-MSFT CTO's, CEO's and some of the best developers in their fields such as Laurent Bugnion of MVVM Light, Brian Lagunas and Craig Shoemaker of Infragistics, and many, many more, we were lucky enough to have Mr. Charles Petzold (Bill Gates named …

This group is focused on learning any and all information about the latest social media technology that is emerging into our world. From basics such as Twitter, Facebook and Linkedin to new platforms such as Pinterest and Google+, there is plenty to learn.

Permaculture is a holistic design science and open source technology for building sustainable communities. Preparedness is a state of mind and lifestyle that improves quality of life now, while increasing individual/family/community self-reliance when disruption to normalcy occurs. By combining permaculture and preparedness we're able to grow beyond the finite duration of self-reliance and mature to an infinite state of community sufficiency.

The terms Renaissance man is used to describe a man (or woman, as "Renaissance woman") who is well educated or who excels in a wide variety of subjects or fields. The idea developed in Renaissance Italy from the notion expressed by one of its most accomplished representatives, Leon Battista Alberti (1404–72): that “a man can do all things if he will.” It embodied the basic tenets of Renaissance Humanism which considered man empowered, limitless in his capacities for development, and led to the n …

Are you a professional in the event industry? Are you involved in organizing and producing events? This is a group for everyone working in the event industry.  At our Meetups you will have an opportunity to address the whole group, share tips and meet with people who experience the same challenges you do.  Some events will include member presentations and roundtables.  Others will have guest speakers covering topics including: Logistics Technology attendee experience Sponsors and revenue st …

Technori Meetup LA is a group of impassioned starters, developers, designers, tech companies, investors and general startup enthusiasts who have a deep love for Los Angeles and who want to see our emerging startup community flourish. By way of editorial content and an assortment of events throughout the year, Technori is dedicated to fostering relationships and building a startup community, not just a startup economy. One of the group’s primary events is Technori Pitch. Held monthly, the event h …

Second Screen TV, Second Screen is a term that refers to an additional electronic device (e.g. tablet, smartphone) that allows a television audience to interact with the content they are consuming, such as TV shows, movies, music, or video games, extra data is displayed on a portable device synchronized with the content being viewed on television. Beyond the above, using a tablet to select info about a specific object you see on TV like you do with web pages and getting that info on your table i …

These are not your typical software engineering events. Our events cover topics related to software engineering along with business but aim to change the perspective of those who attend. Our focus is on emerging technologies such as Big Data, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Nanotechnology, 3D printing, Machine Learning, MapReduce, Semantic Web technologies, alongside more traditional topics like Ruby on Rails, HTML5, PHP, node.js, and Python. We reach out to the entire Los Angeles metropolita …

A group for people that want to meet other local YouTube creators, share ideas and insights, exchange skills, collaborate and seek feedback.

9:30-10:30am  Kundalini Yoga This dynamic and vital practice will calm and focus your mind, reset your nervous system, strengthen your body, align your chakras, and restore your connection to your own creativity and spirit. 1045-11:45 Gentle Seated Yoga If you suffer from fatigue, joint pain, poor health, depression, fibromyalgia or other health challenge this is the class for you! This sequence of meditation, visualization, breath, and seated postures bathes the joints with synovial fluid t …

Welcome to the Santa Barbara Cloud Meetup!! We are here to celebrate Santa Barbara as a vital hub for emerging cloud computing technology. If you are interested in meeting the smartest folks in town to learn about cloud infrastructure, AWS, cloud platform, cloud application, etc, please come hang out with us. You'd be surprised by how much you didn't know about cloud computing. ;) See you soon!!

Full Stack: North County is an event where web designers and developers can come together to learn from and teach each other about emerging technologies. While speakers at Full Stack focuss primarily on Ruby, JavaScript, HTML, and CSS, we encourage all local web professionals to join us for vivid discussions around technology across the stack in any language.

This is group for individuals wishing to develop, build and program drones. I have degrees in Physics and Engineering and I have taught programming (including Artificial Intelligence) for 18 years. I am starting this group to work with other entrepreneurs and drone enthusiasts to develop drones to support business activity. I'm looking forward to having fun solving problems together.

We love RC and FPV. We are dedicated to learning and experimenting with drone and autonomous vehicles on land, in the air or in the water. Come out and show us what your rigs and experiments and we'll all learn and build together.

This is a group for anyone interested in all types of multirotor flying machines. Interested in sharing ideas, innovation, areal photography, and just flying and building for fun.