Most classes are held at the award-winning Harrell Remodeling Design Center and all are taught by industry experts. Our class topics are designed to share our experience and knowledge of the remodeling and design process. We will provide you with the educational tools you need to get started on your successful remodel or custom home project. Get the answers you need about budgets, design, and space planning guidelines, cainets and countertop choices, color palettes, lighting new trends and ide …

This group is for brainstorming over modeling and rendering problems we all have had or will encounter with this fantastic platform (Rhinoceros 3D, Grasshopper and Flamingo nXT or other renderer). This is a chance to sort into cadres of similarly skilled users whose aim is to become a great resource for the kinds of ideas it takes to surmount problems in the face of school or work deadlines. While the online help and forums are great, nothing is as helpful as real people who we can actually show …

This is a group for any and everyone who has a goal of breaking into the advertising industry. I'm talking about all aspects from copywriting and art design to web development and digital creativity- any and everything that is going on in advertising today. The purpose of the group is to network with other individuals who are also on the way towards a career in the ad world, swap horror stories, talk about the ads that are grabbing peoples' attention, and even collaborating on each other's portf …

Cloud Computing and Virtualization are transforming the technology industry. The SVForum Cloud Computing and Virtualization SIG meets monthly to discuss the impact these new technology platforms is having on infrastructure, operations, and applications from a user and vendor perspective. For more information visit: http://www.svforum.org/cloudservicessig. The cost to attend is $20.00 (note if you are an SVForum member with proof of membership - it is free to attend).

… Computer Vision Techniques for High-end Visual Effects by Chris Bregler and Kiran Bhat, Industrial Light & Magic (ILM), the VFX branch of LucasFilm Mobile Visual Computing by Kari Pulli and Radek Grzeszczuk, Nokia Research Center Unity Technologies - Taking the pain out of game development by David Helgason, Unity Technologies Sirikata: Open Source Virtual Worlds by Daniel Horn, Henrik Bennetsen. Stanford Graphics Lab, Stanford Humanities Lab Ray Tracing with the NVIDIA OptiX …

There are DOZENS of game development events and groups with very specific topics in the Bay Area. Attempting to go to all of them is insane. Let's use this group to discuss what we've learned at other venues. This will be our crowdsourcing for indies project! This group is a place for independent developers who live near Mountain View, Palo Alto, and Los Altos to discuss design trends, platforms, tools, testing and sales techniques, the media, the IRS, lawyers, cloning, pirates, advertising, pub …

Business Networking for the Construction Industry will be held in Cupertino every month. The date varies. The event will always be held at the office of LocalBizNetwork - 21040 West Homestead Road, #205 Cupertino CA 95014. A variety of professionals attend these mixers. If you want to network with General Contractors, Painters, Roofers, Flooring Companies, Interior Designers, Staging Companies, Real Estate Professionals, Commercial Real Estate Experts, Furniture Stores, Drapery Stores etc. - th …

… We welcome all visionaries, doers and innovators from a variety of future-living initiatives and industries (architecture, home automation, QS/preventive healthcare, design, etc) - please join the group to meet and work with the local community. Let us know how you'd like to help and get access to the project back-end for real-time updates and start contributing.

The Silicon Valley DART Meetup aims to: * Promote the use of the DART programming language and related technologies * Educate through high-quality and applicable presentations * Induce interactive discussions and forums * Be a resource hub for whomever is interested in web development in general and DART in particular * Develop close ties and relationships with the industry mentor companies and educational institutions in the United States and worldwide

The WebGuild holds monthly events for web professionals in Silicon Valley. If you fall into one of these groups this is the perfect forum for you. 1. User Experience - web designers, localization specialist, qa, web analytics 2. Web Applications & SaaS - developers, architects or technologists and other on the web operations side. 3. Internet Marketing - Search Engine Marketing or Search Engine Optimization, web analytics and social media Our events provide you with a forum to learn abo …

We are doing this Test Shoot once a month to give a platform for the talented up and coming Fashion Designers of the Bay Area. It will be pure ALTA MODA (High Fasion) supported by the brightest Make-Up Artist, Hair Stylist and Wardrobe Stylist. I would like to invite every creative talent in the Fashion Industry and the Photographers to join and shoot with us if you are trying to update your portfolio with some high fashion images. Our first TEST SHOOT  will be on March 4, 2012 Sunday. First cli …

Rainmakers is series of miniconferences focusing on entrepreneurial education. Each event is centered around a technological theme on which relevant startup founders and professionals from the industry are invited to share their experiences.

Let's build tomorrow's Smart Cities  and Networked Society together    A place for Mobile Web Apps developers, end-users, entrepreneurs, local industries and communities stakeholders involved in evaluating, developing and providing web and mobile web applications as well as anyone wishing to learn about the business opportunities and mobile lifestyle experiences the newly created Mozilla marketplace and other mobile web development environments (Participants in the W3C Mobile Web Platform Core C …

Come and learn the best way to go from ‘ordinary to beautiful’ with our High Style Hair and Beauty meetup. We see a need to help everyone achieve their personal best in their appearance from hair styles, colors, makeup, nails and wardrobe to achieve the ‘look’ you want. Everyone who wants to look their best, everyday, in every way, join us for fun, laughter and beauty. We spend small fortunes on hair styling, make up, eyelash extensions, hair extensions, Fashion Designers and procedures. We have …

We started this Meetup to bring together the best devs, designers and entrepreneurs in the local social games space. Come meet some friends, hear a couple of great industry speakers, and talk about what's cool in social games.

Have you ever wanted to shoot models or concepts with a team? Are you looking for shoots that go beyond the pretty face and location? Have you ever had a creative moment, but just didn't have the means to get it done? Are you a model or stylist looking for an opportunity to collaborate and/or build your portfolio? If so, then this photography group is for you. Dragonfly photography is a concept driven photography group that aims to assist creative photographers, models, stylists and designers to …