The Bay Area Agile Leadership Network (BayALN) was founded in 2006 to support a community of practice in the greater San Francisco Bay Area. We provide a forum for sharing practical experiences and advice. We also explore and develop Agile techniques, understanding and practices at the project, department, organization and enterprise levels.

As we all agree, a Picture Says a Thousand Words! Good data visualization help you to tell good stories, both in the field of business and academia. Good data visualilzation provide you quick insight of large data and better communicate to business people! Our goal in the group is to share the successful experience about data visualization, including both technical software and creative ideas!

… These events are open to developers as well as non-techies like designers, web/Flash developers, mobile project managers, VCs, research labs, journalists, etc. The iPhone Network Lounge is hosted and run by Marine Leroux, founder and CEO of Bamboudesign (www.bamboudesign.com), a high-end mobile application design and development company based in San Francisco. Bamboudesign stays on top of the iPhone and iPad world... We figure you do too! That's why we started the iPhone Network Lounge: to share …

Identity, social networking and personalized [our] data and how it is used is one of the core issues of our time. We are taking the ideals associated with the Identity Commons, the Identity Gang, Internet Identity Workshop, and bringing them local. Speakers, events, and workshops with the leading minds in Silicon Valley. We want to keep the conversation and community growing. Topic areas will include: Personalized clouds Identity theft Identity management Social networks Privacy in a world wher …

… Have you ever been absorbed reading a book or engrossed in an intricate project and not heard someone speak to you or not noticed how much time passed? These are hypnotic-like trances. The main differences between these sorts of trance and self-hypnosis are specific motivation and suggestions toward a goal. Hypnosis channels the trance to achieve some desired result, like relaxation or relief of pain. You are not asleep and are always in control. Your unconscious mind is doing the work. Come to …

… June 23-24, 2012 9am-5pm December 8-9, 2012 9am-5pm   SEMINAR THREE: LEADERSHIP – Overcoming projections on other leaders, clear blocks that inhibit working well with others, re-program negative imprinting with positive re-enactments, get in touch with your own specialties, overcome blocks to having money, and resources, and learn management skills. August 4-5, 2012 9am-5pm March 2-3, 2013 9am-5pm   SEMINAR FOUR: EASE – Find the power of ease amidst any situation, and grace no matter what happen …

… We will only allow hiring managers into the events based on criteria that they are seeking Eclipse developers for an Eclipse based project.  If you are a hiring manager and wish to be considered for the ability to come to our event please contact Danny Parrillo through this meetup group. We limit the group to software programmers in order to keep out sole-interest prospects who are only interested in their own sales or marketing interests.  They are often unable to contribute to the technology d …

  The San Francisco Symfony Meetup is a forum for open discussion, networking and learning about the best PHP framework out there. The people there generally have an above-average grasp of symfony so it's a great place to get your questions answered.   Join the club on Sensio Labs Connect! Symfony website: http://www.symfony.com/ | http://www.symfony-project.org/ Brought to you by: Sensio Labs & ServerGrove   Potential Topics: How to get started with Symfony  What's new for Symfony?  How to b …

… Each month, there will be time for a brief check-in about your art life and projects, plus any art-related announcements (i.e., upcoming shows, etc.). There will also be opportunities for each group member to do a workshop for the second half of each meeting on a different topic of interest, such as time management for artists, multimedia collage, Web design, networking, journaling, the art of blogging, creative visualization, meditation, still life photography, etc. Other programs that can be p …