If you want to share stories and opinions on a variety of topics, come to the weekly community event, Lifetree Café, at 3373 Middlefield Road, Palo Alto. It's a comfortable place to talk and hang out in a casual, coffeehouse-like atmosphere, where there's something new and interesting every Sunday night, 7-8 pm. During each session, a brief video -- usually a personal story or eyewitness account of a historical event -- is used to launch our own conversation and storytelling at the intersection …

If you are interested in having some plain old fun, getting out and meeting new people, interested in a relationship or just getting out and socializing, then this is a the group for you. Let's get out and have some fun!

Hi Everyone! This one's for the Bizy Mama's & Dada's out there who would love to enjoy each! If you're like me, you have awesome kids who LOVE to have fun! :) I'm a "Mama Love" of 3 kids ages, 8, 5 and 3! My husband and I haven't been on a date.. since.. well... I can't remember! And I'm sure a lot of parents are going through the same thing :). What if we could all SAVE MONEY by flip flopping with childcare??:) Thus, if you'd like to go out on a date night, I could watch your kids and visa vers …

I started this group to create a connection for young moms in the San Francisco Bay Area. If you have young child(ren) and you want more ties in your life to people who relate to your story then this is for you. My aim for this group is for young moms and their children to be able to come together and just hang out, have play dates & some mom's nights out. I want to bring together all of us young mamas who share the common cause of raising our kids the best way we can while still being young spu …

I ASC, let’s take five. Why? Because I am single. What do you do? Meet other singles, get coffee, food, hang out and get raffle prizes. What raffle prizes? Esther’s German Bakery will sponsor something like coffee, dessert... for raffle prizes. We can also contribute our own things, like concert tickets that we are not able to make, for example, or just anything we don’t use at home and are about to toss (books, cds, etc.), or something you want to share with others, or just a beer... Where are …

The Bay Area Shiba Inu Meetup is a play-date and information sharing meetup. Utilizing our events as well as message board, we hope to enrich the lives of our pups and share Shiba knowledge. We also hope our members feel free to make meetup suggestions for items ranging from play-date venues to meetup activities as well as have a wonderful time participating in our events.

Finally a group of diversify and enthusiastic people. This group has events all around the bay to discover and enjoy treasure the bay has to offer. Social networking, sporting events, wine tasting, adventure, friends, night life, hiking, biking, festivals, karaoke, potlucks and many more. There is no membership fee. Open to singles only and over 21.

We hold evening events for singles in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our group offers a unique way to meet quality singles during managed, structured evenings. Through Connection Circles and other exercises, our events maximize the number of short introductory conversations you have with a wide variety of well-educated, well-mannered, classy singles. We create a supportive, friendly, facilitated environment placing you in many short conversations and making it easy to offer contact information for …

Meet fellow Champagne and wine enthusiasts with a passion for learning about and sharing a love of wonderful wine and champagne. No snobbery here; everyone welcome from first-time bouquet-sniffers to seasoned vinophiles.

Organizing a Lesbian Meet-up Group for my home town sounded like a wonderful opportunity. I'm hoping this group will develop into a engaging way to meet and network with "like-minded ladies" Any women and her friends that identifies as or with the lesbian community and wants to make new friends or create new relationships should join. I would like this group to become a safe, fun, space for women from the Bay Area.

Hive is a scalable data warehouse infrastructure built on top of Hadoop. It provides tools to enable easy data ETL, a mechanism to put structures on the data, and the capability to querying and analysis of large data sets stored in Hadoop files. Hive defines a simple SQL-like query language, called HiveQL, that enables users familiar with SQL to query the data. At the same time, this language also allows programmers who are familiar with the MapReduce fromwork to be able to plug in their custom …

A meet-up for Jewish 20 and 30 somethings of the Bay Area spanning from the Peninsula to San Jose. Stay up to date for exciting events, new opportunities to meet new friends, and have a great time! Connecting dozens of Young Adult groups from across the Bay Area, there is always an event to check out. Have a question? Feel free to message one of our organizers on our group. *please note: the # of event attendees do not always reflect the number of "actual" attendees. We suggest using this Meetup …

Welcome! to the Palo Alto Ballroom Dancing Meetup Group. Our Meetup Group is for everyone- singles or couples & who want to try ballroom dancing with like-minded individuals without stress. If you have never or little experience in ballroom dancing, this is the right place for you to step up for your first dance. Make new friends, socialize, take lessons and dance every Saturday night away, whether you have 2 left feet or are a dance champ ! We are building a community of everyday people looking …

We are a great group of people who are in their 20s, 30s, 40s and early 50s. We are friends eager to make new friends; fun friends who prefer activities, dining out and getting together for hiking and dancing. I absolutely love the variety of the activities the great Bay Area has to offer. I love to meet with new people & make friends while engaging in different activities. I'd like to help people get out, exercise and make friends. I am an advocate of healthy & conscience living while in favor …

Single Boomers are an underserved group. Most clubs and events cater to a younger crowd. Single Boomers need more places to dance, mingle and maybe make that special connection in classy locations. We wanted to start a group to help Single Boomers (or 45 plus) to make the most of events and activities that will be created and presented just for them. These will include dances, parties, movies, dining, wine tasting events, entertainment of all kinds, happy hours, seminars, karaoke, outings, retre …

This is a group for anyone interested in meeting other lesbian. bisexual and queer women in the mid-peninsula and San Jose area. I started this group because I am new to the area and looking for a community of amazing, fun and like-minded women! Looking forward to meeting everyone!!!

We believe in doing business networking on the basis of sound committed partnership. When we obtain a business networking lead or business referral, we treat it with honor and we return the priviledge with honor - Where the old fashioned business traits of integrity, loyalty, honoring promises, differences and similarities are upheld. This is a business group that upholds doing education and doing business smart and supporting others to be successful. NO CHARGE TO JOIN Some events will have …

Practice The Work of Byron Katie (visit for more info) at Unity Palo Alto, 1st & 3rd Monday of each month. Facilitated by Jane Reeder. Call (408) 905-9120 if you need more info or are confused about meeting dates. Donations gladly accepted. No experience needed. Drop-ins welcome.

We represent angel investors and investment funds in the valley whom are providing seed funding for App. developers to grow their businesses. We will be planning a monthly meet where we invite all developers to pitch their ideas. We welcome any kind of idea as long as long as they are related to mobile apps or apps for IP T.V. Join our group, share your ideas, and a best date to meet se we can organize our next event this August.

This group is for East Indian and American couples. Sometimes it's difficult for the inter-racial couples to find couples with same interest and cultural challenges. The aim of this group to meet up and have fun with people who understand the challenge of being in a east indian and american marriage. I would like to keep this group small and interesting. Please join if you can make it to the gatherings and contribute. If a member does not come to the gatherings for 3 months, they will be discont …

This is a group to help our kids learn, maintain and love the Spanish language. I started this group because I would like to meet other Spanish-speaking families so that my four-year old daughter can use the language with someone else other than mommy! I think this will be a chance for our kids (and ourselves) to make some new friends. We'll do anything from play dates at our homes to picnics at the park or any other events that will help our kids use their Spanish while doing what kids love mos …

This group is for all the moms in Palo Alto who have 2-3 year old. My aim to is to create a support system for mommies. We will get acquainted by organizing play dates. Once we are familiar with each other, we can leave our kids with each other for babysitting if there is a need. Sometimes we can organize mommy time, where we can leave our kids with hubbies or babysitter and go out for dinner or drinks. Since most of us don't live close to our families, this will be our fall back.

Ever heard of speed dating? Well, we're doing the same thing, but for business networking. For FREE! We gather a bunch of professionals in one cafe or bar. Set up tables for 2 they can sit at. Ask one of the people at each table to rotate when the time's up. And rotate every 3 minutes until everyone got a chance to talk to everyone else. Attending our events gives you the chance to meet several dozen potential partners or business contacts in one evening, practice your elevator pitch, hear how …

I'm starting this group to discuss current news. I'm reading challenged to understand news and current affairs. I tried to understand news on TV and cable channels, but most news is presented as views, not as facts. The choices media make, as to what will be in headlines and how they decide to present facts, are interesting. Then came news aggregators like google news. They do a better job of presenting everything that is published, but they are still struggling to get the facts out of new eve …

BUSINESS NETWORKING & SALSA DANCING SOCIAL! Click to Watch Salsa Networking Commercial JOIN US THE FIRST FRIDAY OF EVERY MONTH for a fun-filled night of business networking and salsa dancing! Meet new friends and build new business relationships in a FUN, stress-free setting! Bring extra business cards, brochures, samples, and a great attitude attached to a friendly face! Casual dress. Meet and Greet Social: 6:00pm – 6:30pm Business Networking: 6:30pm - 7:30pm Salsa Lesson: 7:30pm - 8:30pm G …

Welcome Dog, Pup and Mutt Pals, If you’re a Peninsula Dweller, a Coastal Local, a City Habitant, a Suburban Neighbor or a little of everything with a Love of Dogs, you’ve found your group! The Peninsula Dog Owners group is all about cool “dog and their people” gigs. From hikes, to social parties, to a session at the park, even some community work for good measure – we’re diligently filling our doggy social calendar for everyone’s benefit. We invite you to send us your suggestions on things you’d …

Calling All Asians! Calling All Asians! Our group accepts members from all over the Bay Area including San Francisco, Peninsula, East Bay, South Bay and beyond! Whether you are new to the US, or more comfortable speaking your own language such as Chinese ( Mandarin, Cantonese) , Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, Tagalog, Hawaiian, Malaysian, Thai... come out anyway and make a new friend. Check out our Monthly Newsletter ! See if we are right for you! There there are three main focuses of this grou …

We think polyamory is great and want to spread the word, so we foster poly awareness and community -- mainly by just hanging out and having fun! If you are polyamorous or just curious, check us out.  Drop by one of our friendly events and say hi! Please note that we are a social group and one dedicated to polyamory. While those who practice swinging and other forms of consensual non-monogamy are welcome in our group and at our events, aggressive 'cruising' is forbidden. Soliciting members for se …