Live healthy, hack happy is not an oxymoron. It's a way to make sure that when your start up finally does take off you're healthy enough to enjoy it. Healthy Hacker meets regularly to discuss awesome technology and effective ways to stay healthy as you're busy building it.

Food Startups is a community of food lovers, entrepreneurs, designers, hackers, bloggers, writers, and thought leaders who are passionate about food and technology. We started Food Startups because of the growing demand for improving how we produce, distribute, discover, consume, and share food through the use of technology. We bring together industry experts, entrepreneurs, investors, journalists and thought leaders, fostering collaborative dialogues to better understand these issues and devise …

Connecting entrepreneurs, investors, technologists, hackers, autodidacts and educators who are willing to challenge the status quo of Higher and K12 educational structures. A community of people creating solutions.

Hackers meet Democracy. Join us and find out more about how hackers can change the way our democracies work. It belongs to us to redefine our democracies using what we've learnt in technology.

This group is for like-minded hackers and founders to... Bounce new ideas. Find help to solve technical problems. Share and learn about the very latest in web and mobile development. Meet your future technical co-founder     Please join us if you're a founder or hacker and... You work at a startup, You want to work at a startup, You have started a company, and/or You want to start a company.  

This group is all about backbone.js and coffee script.(http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/)

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.

San Francisco Perl Mongers (SFPUG*) is the first San Francisco Bay Area Perl Users' Group! We had our first meeting on June 9, 1998. Were you there? Come join us for food, drink, and discourse with the Bay Area's Premier Perl Hacker Community. And join our mailing list at http://sf.pm.org for Perl discussions.

We've been super enthralled with what the NYC Hack and Tell group has done, and we think it's high time to bring the same format to SF. If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library (did you just write a library to access th …

SF Creative Coders is a meetup every few weeks to bring our local community of hackers, designers & creative technologists together to share experiences and build new friendships here in the Bay Area. The goal is to get outside and meet fellow coders while enjoying the amazing beauty that is San Francisco. Our conversations tend to center around the intersection of human / computer interaction, emerging technologies, and interface design. If you are interested in the above, passionate about UI/U …

API Hack Day brings developers together for an all-day coding fest focused on building apps with APIs. Developers of all experience levels can share ideas, collaborate on projects, start new ventures and find out about great tools and new APIs to play with. API Hack Day events are sponsored by a core group of companies that are built on and around APIs, including Mashery, Twilio, Apigee, SimpleGeo, and SendGrid. Most of the companies are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, but we hold API Hac …

The Next Level Up: Bobby Fishkin and David Hodgson have been chatting, and have discovered that there are only 24 hours in the day. We have therefore come to a fresh hypothesis as how to meet two objectives. The first objective is that an abundance of humanizing dialogue with diverse fascinating social entrepreneurs, visionaries, futurists, revolutionaries, empathetic humanizers, socially responsible business incubators, social intrapreneurs, culture hackers, social innovation diffusion speciali …

StartUpBnB is an entrepreneur led accelerator. We turn entrepreneurs into VCs by putting startups in charge of deal screening, review, due diligence and funding decisions. Rather then rely on VCs to decide what startups should get funded we think entrepreneurs are better at understanding business ideas, what works, what's hot. Entrepreneurs rate and review each other, decide what startups advance to next round and funding. About events: Our events serve as the Start Up Beers & Burgers is a crowd …

Join other fellow Python hackers in San Francisco for drinks.

There is life to banking and asset management outside of London and New York! Yes, here in San Francisco are we few and proud quants, traders, spreadsheet hackers and banking software developers looking to meet for an infrequent coffee or casual lecture.

This meetup is all about the 'Press, from beginning blogger through to hardcore hacker. 10% of the internet runs on WordPress; that's insane and awesome. The hype is real, so come and learn everything there is to know about WordPress! photo "Guitar Hero" courtesy of green kozi