BayLISA is the premiere system adminstration user group in Silicon Valley and the San Francisco Bay Area. Founded in the very early 90s after the fourth Large Installation System Administration (LISA) conference, BayLISA has supported and educated systems, network, storage, virtualization, and other technology professionals in the Bay Area for over 20 years. We use Meetup to coordinate meeting attendance, announcements, and reminders. We have our official organizational presence on the web, inc …

The SF Bay Area User Group (SF-AUG) serves the San Francisco Bay Area with the following objectives: * Share and learn Atlassian product knowledge, best practices, and case studies with fellow current and prospective users. * Address the needs of both Atlassian product system administrators as well as novice and experienced product users. * Network and socialize with fellow Atlassian product users. * Meet 4 times a year on Wednesday or Thursday evenings in locations throughout San Francisco, th …

Thanks for stopping by! This group is designed for anything and everything, Salesforce.com. If you are currently using Salesforce and looking to sharpen your skills, or if you are looking to possibly implement a CRM system and want to learn more about Salesforce. Please stop in. We will be hosting several events focusing a few key areas, separately: General Salesforce knowledge and best practices Salesforce Experts & Administrators sharing Best Practices Increasing user adoption within S …

Are you missing out on the most important relationship in your life? It’s not the relationship with your significant other, your parents, or your children… it’s the relationship with yourself! Do you ever criticize, judge, or ignore yourself? When you treat yourself with disrespect, all other aspects of your life suffer: Your relationships with others, your career, and your personal life. Join us for practical and engaging workshops and discussions, where you will be able to heal the wounded rel …

Network security has made some major advances in the past couple decades, so much so, that is has become incredibly difficult to attack a well secured network perimeter as a means of accessing the data and systems contained therein. So it’s no wonder that malicious users have begun pursuing other avenues and skirting the perimeter defenses all together. From the attacker’s standpoint, breaching a network is all about economics and ROI. It just doesn’t make sense to mount an attack that will c …

This is an approximately monthly meetup for people who are into drinking beer and interested in discussing the current trends in Technical Ops & DevOps. We support web-scale production infrastructure for startups or other organizations and are concerned with stuff like network monitoring systems, cloud computing, configuration management, change management, virtualization and nerf warfare with the Engineering team.

#LSPE Meet-up has been an invaluable platform for engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems! LSPE-W is a much awaited extension of #LSPE providing a collaborative network and learning platform for women in technology. Our Vision: Build a vision for women in technology, and spotlighting thought leaders within the industry Provide problem solving for issues and challenges in Highly Scalable Environments Create a platform that would allow …

If you use Salesforce every day and want to get more out of it, this meetup is for you. Whether you are a Salesforce newbie, a seasoned administrator, a consultant, a sales manager, or a developer, this meetup gets everyone together to discuss how to be more successful with Salesforce.com. Topics will include: User adoption strategies, integrations with legacy systems vs newer APIs, alternatives to Visualforce and Apex, hacking visualforce and apex, expanding Salesforce.com functionality (easy/m …

This group is setup for IT Start-up Entrepreneurs, Network Engineers, CIO's, IT Project Managers, Business Systems Analysts,  System Administrators, Business Owners, CEO's and CFO's of the Silicon Valley. It is this groups goal to help all parties involved truly understand not only the technology requirements for scalable and rapid deployment, but the cost and logistics behind the "beast" we all know as IT design.

An informal get together for Cfengine users.

BAFUG ( Bay Area FreeBSD Users Group ) is a users group for Open Source Unix like operating systems, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our primary emphasis is on FreeBSD but enthuist of other Open Source Unix such as FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, NanoBSD, DragonBSD, etc. are welcome. Since BSD is the preferred base operating system for companies like Apple (Apple OS), Juniper, NetFlix and their products, BSD truly is one of the most robust and popular operating systems in the world. Companies, de …

We talk about all things DevOps. We take geek and make it sheek (sic). Our sessions are so cool, we had to call ourselves Cool Geeks. Ah, yeah... we are Silicon Valley geeks so fun is perfectly mixed with knowledge.

Sometimes you need to get together, drink beer, and talk shop.

This is a group for anyone interested in the Tomcat Container. All skills levels are welcome. I manage a Tomcat based product and started this group to meet other Tomcat enthusiasts. Looking forward to exploring Tomcat with everybody

Hello and Welcome to CodeChix-BayArea!! Please join us here and on any of our social media (FB, G+, LinkedIn, Twitter) if you are a: Female developer (please join us also on http://groupspaces.com/codechix) Female or Male Project/Program/Product Manager Supportive and open-minded MALE developer Young person (>8 years old) aspiring to learn coding NO RECRUITERS OR RECRUITING ALLOWED. NO SOLICITATIONS For Personal or Business needs. And now a little bit about us (also check out our Skill-Levels …

This is a user group for Salt in the Bay Area. From SaltStack.org: Salt is an open source tool to manage your infrastructure. Easy enough to get running in minutes and fast enough to manage tens of thousands of servers (and still get a response back in seconds). Execute arbitrary shell commands or choose from dozens of pre-built modules of common (or complex) commands. Target individual servers or groups of servers based on name, defined roles, or a variety of system information such as hardware …

Monthly resource for Drupal users, developers, administrators, and designers in and around near Oakland, CA.  EBDUG meets on the last Wednesday of every month (except for November and December) to discuss all things Drupal.  Particular attention is placed on helping each other scale the Drupal Cliff -- the feeling you get that you almost, but not quite, understand enough about Drupal to get the things done that you want to.  We're here to help you succeed.