This group is to get people in the community together for lunch once a month! We want to meet interesting people who are working in tech startups and LOVE fried chicken!

There are many of us out there who are looking to do fun activities and make new friends. You could be just moving into the Bay Area or your lifestyle has just become too routine and you are looking to spice it up. Sometimes we also want to engage in various activities that we don't find company for and just need a bunch of people with similar interests. So here is Kitty Party for all you ladies out there who are seeking more friends and want to engage in various activities during your spare tim …

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 …

The purpose of San Francisco Walking Dykes group is:  to build community for lesbians in San Francisco and the Greater Bay Area while promoting health and wellness. Walking together provides a relaxed way to meet one another and also have fun while doing something healthy! Lesbians of all ages and walking ability are invited, though most members of the group are over 40.  The group meets "rain or shine" so the size of the group varies from week to week depending upon the weather, though generall …

Alameda / East Bay Successful Thinkers meets for lunch at Pasta Pelican Waterfront Restaurant in Alameda, every Thursday at 11:30 am. After networking your way through the crowd, enjoy a delicious meal while learning the latest in business strategies and applications. Surround yourself with motivated business men and women dedicated to helping move your business forward. This unique networking concept is open to all professions and requires no membership fees or dues. Join us for lunch, become e …

Hello Ladies, There are so many of us out here in the San Francisco and Bay Area; we all have different interests, different backgrounds and skills, as well as different preferences in what we eat. Since I love eating and figure many others do too, I thought it would be fun to use the lunch hours to bring us all together. Whether you want to try new restaurants, meet some new, exciting, and different people, or simply just build your connections... I invite you to join us for some of our lunc …

We sponsor 2-6 hikes/events per month, ranging from beginner level to very advanced.  While our primary focus is on hiking, camping, and backpacking, we also do other outdoor adventures - mud runs, zip lines, kayaking, white water rafting, skydiving, paragliding, rock climbing (indoor and outdoor), 4-season mountaineering, skiing/boarding, snowshoeing, cross country skiing, snow/ice climbing, scuba - if it's an outdoor sport we're all over it!  The goal is to make new friends while enjoying the …

Welcome to Woman, StartUp! You are: a woman, startup entrepreneur & want-trepreneur or potential co-founder material a coder, hacker, geek chick, you name it...you are a technically hot woman. independent, unique, good at what you do, a visionary, or a game changer. You face challenges in the technology world.... Let us guess...you go to lots of networking events, workshops, speaker panels, hand out a lot of business cards...oh yeah!, you have nice evenings shared with other entrepreneurs. …

This will be a group of enthusiastic referral partners who work together as a team to not only help generate new businesses through referral but also help create a closely-knitted business community where we look to: • Improve ongoing business and market strategies by getting to know each others' fields and expanding out • Grow the professional’s business via solid interpersonal relationship • And be the business support for the business partners The goal through this group is to create a team …

You should really go over there and learn more about us. Hackers / Founders is the largest community of early tech founders in Silicon Valley ( that includes SF ). We have an incubator.  Learn more here We run classes under Hackers / Founders University. We do political advocacy for founder immigration reform, healthcare for founders, free internet. We host networking events and meetups in Silicon Valley, San Francisco, Berkeley and San Jose. Get together for lunch with other Hackers / Founders …

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 …

A Women with Purpose and Action group, is for women with different industries who want network, entrepreneurial business women who wants to showcase their products and services with others, a professional women to encounter other professionals in similar or different industries and to mentor women of all ages at all stages of their careers whenever possible. We meet on the last Tuesday of the month, at Pizza Party. 3581 Homestead Rd., Santa Clara, Ca 95051 - we'd love to have you join us! On Tu …

The San Mateo Professional Alliance is a business strategy and networking leads club. The club provides each small business member with business networking opportunities to promote his or her business or profession in a friendly business referral networking atmosphere.  Our goal is very simple, to expand each member's business by promoting and marketing each other! To do this network marketing we meet every Wednesday for lunch to learn about each other's businesses and to exchange business leads …

About us Join us for coworking with creatives and artists in the East Bay at cafes, live/work spaces, studios, and other suitable spaces. Occasionally we'll have lunch out. This is a private group for the organizers and their friends, who normally work independently from home or studio, and want an occasional break from working solo to meet others, and work with them side-by-side. For safety, one can join by invitation only from a member or friend of member. While working solo has its benefits, …

Do you suffer from ELSE (Extremely Low Self Esteem)? <Hey I just created that; do you like it?> Many people do. But I am learning that you don't have to suffer with that for the rest of your life. I'm a pilot as well as a public speaker. But yes, I have ELSE. Hard to believe? Believe it. I'd like to create a community for those who have some of the same issues in life. There are so many great places to eat here in San Francisco. Let's get together for a delicious lunch or dinner ... so we can le …

Cluttering is a speech and communication disorder. The primary focus of this group is to start a social group for people who clutter (PWC) and for their friends\family, who can just hang out in a safe, fun, comfortable environment once a month for an hour or so. It will be a friendly, casual and informal get together to meet and network with other PWC. Activities and discussions can include anything and everything, or nothing at all. By the nature of this group, support would naturally occ …

Welcome to the Meetup group for TEDxConstitutionDrive! You are Invited – May 4 – The Theme is TIME.Auto-Vino, Menlo Park, CA “Time is the coin of your life.  It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent.  Be careful lest you let other people spend it for you.” Carl Sandburg A limited-capacity event in a phenomenal classic car warehouse and fully working winery, with live speakers on the theme of TIME ranging from a pickling expert to a venture capitalist invento …

The Bay Area Nature Journal Club is a diverse community of artists and naturalists, of all levels, who meet together to connect to nature through art. Through free monthly field trips, hands on technique workshops, and community events we explore the Bay Area, developing our artistic and naturalist skills and deepening our love of nature. The club and its activities are a program of the National Wildlife Federation of California. We welcome the diverse communities of the region. The program is i …

A meetup group for people who want network and showcase their products and services with others. We meet on Tuesdays, at Pizza Party. 3581 Homestead Rd., Santa Clara, Ca 95051 408-248-5680 - we'd love to have you join us! Bring your appetite for a delicious pizza, salad & soft drinks for only $10 per person. If you'd like to do and expo and have vendors at our location, email me, Lidia Blair at lblair@sbcglobal.net. Vendor tables are $10 and your lunch is FREE! If you would like to be a guest sp …

This group is for anyone interested in hiking, biking, outdoor adventure, and good wine. All skills levels are welcome and there will be activities geared for various fitness/skill/endurance levels.  Being an orgainser for several other groups I've decided to start my own, so we can combine more activities and have more fun.  I currently lead either a hike or bike ride most Saturdays, nigh o evening hikes w/ a potluck & bonfire, along with the occasional music event, summer beach party, barbecue …

Successful Thinkers Network is a group of like minded and committed individuals who believe people will buy or use product / service from people they like, know, and trust.  Building relationship is key to the membership in helping others move their business forward.  Members share ideas and information to benefit the community and their business. The Successful Thinkers Network's mission is to help develop relationships that will enable members to find solutions to business challenges.   Attend …

For people looking to meet other local cyclists for rides all around the greater San Francisco Bay Area, explore new trails, share training tips, etc. Please be advised that cycling is a dangerous sport and you are solely responsible for your own safety. Spandex is not armor, helmets are mandatory and other protective gear is strongly recommended. Our rating system: Beginner - 5-15 mile rides led by experienced cyclists who are able to offer instruction. Each ride begins with an equipment check …

San Francisco Young International Women THE OFFICIAL meetup group Did you also follow your husband or boyfriend to Silicon Valley? Or maybe you moved here alone and work/study in San Francisco or the Bay Area? This is a meet up for young (25-40) international women who moved to the US for their husband's or their own work, studies/research and are looking for likeminded friends. You are interested in meeting others in a similar situation and would like to become part of a nice and friendly netwo …

Women Owned Networking National 100 (WONN), founded in June 2011 by members of an NFL family, is a business organization and social club "with heart" established for the purpose of bringing together 100 accomplished women executives and business owners. Now, other NFL wives have gotten involved to ensure the success of women executives across the country through WONN (Women Owned Networking National), and WONMillion! We are bringing together 100 Smart, Successful, Business Savvy Women with HEART …

For Lovers of Cycling! We are cyclists of all levels and abilities, united by a love of the freedom, mobility and accomplishment we get from bicycle riding. All are welcome to join this group and attend the wide range of rides and events we plan and organize to suit all cyclists. This is an very active group with an unusually high participation rate. We do not have many members, but those we have regularly attend our rides. This is the kind of member we seek. If you think you might not regularly …

Meeting other fabulous and fun girlfriends to hang out with! New in town, make new friends. Happy San Francisco girlfriends, women's social. Girls just wanna have fun. Join our circle of genuine 20s and 30s females, and let's have a good time! We are fun loving girlfriends. We have big hearts filled with passion and love! We are ladies who enjoy cocktails, girls night out, dancing, music, happy hour, and having fun in life! We are professional women with substance Who are willing to make a diffe …

There are lots of dining groups on Meetup; I belong to some. And they're great. But I don't see anything devoted to the goofy, offbeat restaurants and snack shops and events that can make eating a purposefully amusing experience. Tabletops before tablecloths, go cups before goblets, fun before fancy, cute before culinary. I don't want to be a decadent foodie all the time! This isn't intended to be devoted to bargain, cheap-eats places, though most of the things I'm interested in for this group …

We play Magic: The Gathering in downtown SF during the lunch hour at the ninth floor of 116 New Montgomery. We keep it casual and fun. Dust off those decks and let's play! New-comers to MTG are invited to come and learn to play from patient teachers. Tuesdays we play regular games from Noon to 1 at 116 New Montgomery. Thursdays we play EDH starting at Noon with no particular ending time. Attendees should check the meetup page before heading to the meetup, as the meetups will frequently change lo …