I've collected rocks, crystals, fossils and minerals for going on 10 years now and have amassed a collection that covers just about every inch of my house!  This is a meetup for rockhounds, rock, mineral and fossil collectors and rock & gem artisans to get together to talk about rock & mineral collecting sites, collecting hikes and field trips, rock & mineral buying, exchanges, and other similar topics.  If you have a love of nature and all of the different, amazing natural elements you can fin …

… Your ideas can be as wild as you like, but they must never conflict with the cannon of measurement-based theory collectively called "science". CLINE actively leans away from engineering and toward science. There is something about the immediacy of writing code and designing hardware that grabs hold of our brain, holds us down in the trees, and won't let us float up to where we might see the forest. As a result, there is less and less science in Computer Science. Lots of practice, very little th …

  This one hour yoga class, appropriate for all levels,  is being offered on a  "donation" only basis.  Not only does it offer a one hour class of yoga postures, breathing and relaxation, but all money collected goes to support the formation of a non-profit, Recovery Cafe San Jose.   Recovery Cafe San Jose is being modeled after Recovery Cafe in Seattle ( www.recoverycafe.org), a program offering support and hope to homeless, mentally ill and addicted individuals.   Nancy is a certified yoga in …

This group is focused on developers and architects who have a deep desire to collectively solve challenges related to CQ5. This group was created specifically for Bay area (SF and San Jose) professionals. This group’s only intention is to provide a forum where technical practitioners can exchange ideas and seek support.

The purpose of this group is to study the course Reflections on the Life of the Spirit, which is the first book in the Ruhi Institute. Reflections on the Life of the Spirit uses a collection of quotations and concepts central to the Baha’i Faith to investigate our role in achieving the betterment of the world, to examine the impact of spirituality on our daily lives, to explore our relationship with prayer, and to consider the mysteries of life and death. If we meet weekly for about 2 hours per …

As a Santa Clara County homeowner, have you ever felt that the Santa Clara County Tax Assessors office is not interested in basic tenants such as fairlness and customer service? I think that most of us will agree that paying taxes is a civic duty to provide needed services. But too much power and too little accountability to their CUSTOMERS (You and me) have made SCC Tax Assessors Office unwilling to resolve even simple disputes without going through THEIR SYSTEM using THEIR RULES. You will have …

Interested in human rights and social justice? Unsure as to the direction of our political, social and economic institutions? And are you looking for fellow humans to meet and encourage learning and help inspire change? In this book club, we will encourage each other to learn more, discuss ideas, challenge each other and teach each other. Together we will explore nonfiction, memoir and fiction books that we collectively choose. We may also follow up our book club meeting with a tea or a beer dow …

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 …

This group is for novice Survival and Sustainability enthusiasts. We are urban and suburban dwellers excited about learning the benefits of homesteading through the skilled trades. Eventually, we want to collaborate on meaningful community projects and share enough knowledge to start businesses. Here are some possibilities out there for innovative Homesteaders who want to survive, sustain, and prosper: -Permaculture -Landscaping -Horticulture/Gardening -Aquaculture -Hydroponics and Aeroponics -V …

Plant the seeds of green gourmet growing and cooking. Explore, preserve, and share slow food cultural diversity and heirloom (especially tomato) heritage. Trade advice, tips, and seeds of local, organic veggies, specifically tomatoes and green practices in general. Share our collective wisdom for cheap and easy sustainable living!

Healing Evolvement presents: Turtle Yoga Outdoor Meetup Group ECOyoga: For Those Who Value the Slow & Steady Pace Towards Success and World Peace This group is specifically for nature loving people who want to be outdoors and focus the energy of earth to help heal all sentient beings. If you just want a great workout or to lose weight that is all good too! The medium that we will be using is primarily Hatha Yoga, pranayama, movement of the winds, focus on the inner channels, and other simple …

  We are the largest generation of single's ever in history. Together, re-creating the human community and reshaping its course. We are individuals with the power to create community, connectedness and love beyond what any other generation has discovered."  Imagine what we can do together as a collective, rather than thinking we are alone, stuck in our perspective of what should be and may never be. Beyond “the white picket fence” and “the knight in shining armor” the possibilities are endless …

This is a meetup group for users and contributors to Apache Flume (incubating). Apache Flume is a distributed, reliable, and available service for efficiently collecting, aggregating, and moving large amounts of log data. Its main goal is to deliver data from applications to Apache Hadoop's HDFS. It has a simple and flexible architecture based on streaming data flows. It is robust and fault tolerant with tunable reliability mechanisms and many failover and recovery mechanisms. The system is cent …

Are you a professional 2D or 3D artist in the bay area games industry looking to do some networking? Are you a student or aspiring game artist looking to get your foot in the door? Are you sick of hanging out in your gloomy studio grinding away on art assets in relative solitude? If you answered yes to one or more of these questions, come hang out with us! We have beer and like-minded people! The first half of the meetup will be some kind of presentation about working in the games industry (if y …

"Writers from India" is a place where Writers and Enthusiasts of the written word from the Indian Sub Continent can come together and share their work. The main idea behind this group is to foster the writing of expatriate Indians living in San Francisco Bay Area. You can be a storyteller, a Poet, blogger, a Travel writer or just an enthusiast, the genre does not really matter, if you can write you should be here. India is a nation of different languages and limiting this group to one language a …

I started this group to bring together folks that love to create. The group is a place to learn about mosaics, create mosaics, and have a community to work alongside. This meetup is held in my indoor-outdoor studio space under a grove of palm trees. I have lots of supplies left over from projects and collected, but never used. Just come as you are and start to create a lasting piece of art! It is really fun to see a pile of broken pieces come together into a unique piece of art!