Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 35 cities and 15 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Our monthly fireside chat interviews, startup mixers and annual conferences provide ample opportunities to connect with amazing startups and the people behind them, tap into a …

Social Media Campfire Social Media Campfire is for and by Social Media Professionals who come together to discuss Social Media. This is a higher level discussion for people who work in or with Social Media. Social Media Campfire is: "Content over Tools", we have a focus on Social Media Strategies, results and how we can achieve them. The meeting is an open discussion group. Everybody has a chance to share their wisdom related to the theme of the meeting. The meetings are -not- geared towards …

Our mission: To restore confidence to the middle class investor by leveraging technology and innovation!  Our Goal is to help you Protect, Control, and Grow your own money.  Bring your ideas and strategies to discuss how best to improve your trading and be introduced to the first and only fully automated Stock Trading Technology now available to the general public.

This group's primary intention is to meet regularly on various aspects of cloud computing.

OC WordPress Web Designers is a group for Artists and Graphic Web Designers looking to network and learn more on using WordPress to showcase their portfolio.

Meet PHP Developers near you! Come to a PHP Meetup to exchange ideas and talk about code, architecture, innovation, and open source in general. Anyone interested in PHP is welcome! ********** Interested in Drupal? Visit our Drupal special interest group: OC DRUPAL http://www.meetup.com/ocdrupal/ ********** Facebook Group : http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=17041225343 Thanks to Branding Personality (http://www.brandingpersonality.com/) for hosting our meetups ! Branding Personality an inter …

High Trust is a leader in the BNI Community, provides an excellent source of qualified, outstanding professionals to whom we refer our clients and friends, while maximizing our business potential, thus demonstrating the power of Givers Gain. BNI is a business and professional referral organization that allows one representative from each professional specialty to join. The sole purpose of the group is to give its members more business. It is based on the concept that what goes around comes aroun …

Backyard Skeptics Long Beach is associated with its parent meetup.com group, Barkyard Skeptics (Central Orange Country). We are a community of individuals interested in exploring and discovering truths in the natural world based on science and critical thinking. As skeptics we question authority and make real-world decisions based upon the conciseness of each scientific field. Our members are humanists, agnostics, atheists and evidencialists. The discovery and awe of the natural world has much m …

It's time for a Revolution in Education! Our educational system is broken, and reforms are just bandaids that don't fix the underlying problem. Join us if: You are a parent who wants more for your kids You are an educator frustrated with the current system and know it could be better You are a student who feels trapped in a system of education that does not take you into account You want to make a change If you want to be a part of the revolution and discuss ways we can make a real change in t …

We are a small group of individuals who enjoy tinkering with ideas, concepts and designs. We build small automated contraptions from anything and everything available. Our arsenal includes a laser cutter, 3D printers, and a garage full of tools.

Why is this group in existence? Well, those of us who have websites need to understand their capabilities and capacities more and we need to learn from the experts what the possibilities are and what the future holds. Join this group if you are an business person with a Joomla Website, if you are a Joomla expert, or if you just want to meet people who need your services! Visit our official joomla website at: http://www.ocjoomlausergroup.org

A few of us from SendGrid want to mix it up with anyone about agile / lean. Whether you so agile now (and even if you don't like coffee), consider meeting up to discuss agile methodologies wrt software dev (testing, project mgmt, product ownership, coaching) or life-hacking. There's simply not enough OC meet-ups on agile/lean, right??!! Might be mostly mornings, unless people like later times. Talk about stuff we tried and results, stuff we wanna try and expectations, or just coffee.

This is a group for artisans and PHP developers interested in exploring the most exciting and powerful PHP framework - Laravel PHP Framework. I am creator of Bootsnipp.com - a website made for developers using Twitter Bootstrap, Bootsnipp was created with Laravel in just 4 days. I am also a Udemy instructor teaching basics of Laravel development. Come learn Laravel with me!

The first in Orange County, CA to discuss and support like-minded people with similar experiences of extraterrestrials and the unknown. This group welcomes anyone with interest of the UFO, Alien, inner and outer space of all kinds. As this will be a safe space of embracing and exchanging ideas and while offering support. -Jaime

You will discover, learn, practice, use and master all the tools, technologies, strategies, skills which will enable you to move from a feeling of helplessness and having no control over your own lives, to seeing there actually is a way to learn how to take control of your own thoughts rather than being a robot; discovering tools to move from feeling lost and alone to being focused and confident; move from that place where negativity rules your life to where all your energy, thoughts, attention …

PechaKucha is a fun evening of presentations, learning, and laughter. It allows young designers to meet, show their work, and exchange ideas. 12 speakers give short presentations of 400 seconds (20 slides of 20 seconds) about anything: an idea, a new product, technology or design, research, their work or hobby etc. After the meeting you can discuss with the speakers and you go home with 12 fresh ideas. In the presentations the speakers will be creative to show their ideas in the limited time. Jo …

This group meets every 1st & 3rd Friday at a fun and unique North Orange County restaurant.  The casual format and interesting venues create an atmosphere prime for one on one conversations with fellow professionals in the North Orange County area. Attending networking events is a great way to build face-to-face relationships in an increasingly isolated, technology-driven marketplace.

Computer Security Warriors is a group that is dedicated to educating our community in computer safety.  The advent of the Internet and our new found ability to tap the entire world for practically any information has also brought with it profound invisible risk.  The potential of exposing our most personal information is only a few keyboard and mouse clicks away. The enemy is truly at the gate, or actually lurking behind every firewall/router connected to the Internet waiting for an opportunity …

Orange County Science Readers is a book club for people who enjoy learning about the physical and social world through published science. The book club does not assume that readers have any prior experience with a given scientific subject; the only assumption is that readers genuinely find the topic interesting and that readers enjoy exploring their curiosities with others. While some (many) topics may warrant critical discussion, the primary purpose of this group is to have fun and to encourage …

We are dedicated to helping our members and the purpose of our group is to help with fOREX Education and Trading. If you live far away and cannot attend our meetings, you can still get substantial  benefits, information, help and support via e-mail, snail-mail or personal contacts.  This is one of the unique features of our group.  So, feel free to join and enjoy substantially the same benefits. PRIVACY:  ALL information about members is strictly confidential.  We do not disclose it to any one.  …