Friends, The peninsula has become the center of Tech industry and startups. Let's socialize once you get a moment from your statups. Dining, happy hours, hiking, bowling, museums, what else do you want? There is also a parallel group on facebook. You can also join it and invite your friends. We may request an optional contribution of $2-$5 for our events to cover up the meetup and stationary cost. Fair enough?

Friendship and Support for Women Over 50  Circle of Friends, CIRF, is a social group of women who enjoy getting together and participating in various activities. There is no pressure to attend or participate in a particular acitivity. We contact each other thru emailing and phoning each other.  If you have an activity you'd like to do, you can post it on meetup or contact members via email list.  It is up to each member to decide what she would like to do and to offer it to others.  We use meetu …

This group is for dedicated hikers who are Intermediate/ Advanced, who want to hike in small groups and normally hike 10 - 20 miles. Some hikes may be shorter to fit conditions of the venue. Membership requirements are you MUST be friendly, a regular hiker and be able to hike longer distances without slowing down the hike.  Hikes may be local or long distance to be determined by the leaders imaginations. PLEASE NOTE: Guests are not allowed on any hikes unless approved by the hike leader in advan …

We are a social group of people who want to make more friends and do fun activities. We focus on making friends friends face to face, fun singles, activities partners, checking out the night life, a happy hour, new resturants, comedy clubs, festivals, or maybe a beach bonfire. Let just get together and have some fun, and some laughs. We want to attract people young at heart, active, easy going, adventurous, and friendly. So, if you want to make more friends, or do fun activities, come join us!!!

… Please take a minute to answer the Apres Ski Club Meetup group profile questions so that we can better deliver value that is relevant to you and to allow you to connect easily with your fellow Apres Ski Club Friends on Meetup. APRES SKI CLUB BENEFITS for paid Apres Ski Club Members - visit http://www.apres.org select Membership to pay via Paypal or check Fun: *  Social activities *  Sports activities year round in addition to skiing / snowboarding in the winter *  Community act …

… However, maybe you're new to the area or your friends have moved on and you find yourself tired of lacking any true guy friends to count on. You're in damn need of an entourage, man! I just moved in the area with my gf so my immediate inner circle of friends/hooligans are out on the East Coast. I'm looking for some people in similar situations to shoot the sh-- with. In time, I'm hoping that for you, this membership evolves into a few drinking buddies and a lot of new friends. Most importantly, …

This group is for women ages 25-35 who love to go out dancing, but whose friends are stick-in-the-muds who go to bed at 9:00! Single, married, boyfriend, girlfriend, doesn't matter. If you want to go out with some girlfriends and have fun dancing the night away, this is your group. Members have to be pre-approved to ensure that they meet the membership requirements (gender, age, etc). Please, NO business solicitations! This is a social group and I will work hard to keep it so! With that said, le …

This is a new group for single ladies in the 30-something age range who are looking to meet people and make new friends. We are either new to the Bay Area or have just seen most of our friends move on to wedded bliss and are finding ourselves feeling a little, well, bored and in seek of a fun group of other single ladies to do things with. Many of us have moved past the bar scene and although we love to socialize, get dressed up, meet guys and spend a night out on the town, the thought of spendi …

There are THOUSANDS of Jewish adults (ages 30-49) in this area but I can't seem to find them. I am hoping that "if I build it, they will come". This group will be for the cool kids and the nerds, folks looking for a soul mate or a soccer friend, the nebbishes and the newbies, the affiliated and unaffiliated, the practising and non-practising, Hebrew speakers and Swahili speakers (but you may need to bring a translator) and anyone else who identifies themself as "Jewish". I promise we won't check …

Meet other Santa Cruz Area Scrabble Friends/Friendlies to kibbitz and play games. We welcome all players who want to have fun and socialize in a relaxed environment. Bring your boards and PDAs. http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/santa_cruz_scrabble/

We are a roaming art gallery, concert hall and group of friends! Santa Cruz Pop-up Art Party sets up temporary art gallery and community space then generally only stays up for 2-10 hours. We encourage artists and art lovers alike to come and participate in our temporary community event experience. You can find us at events throughout Santa Cruz County, and on the web. Membership to the art party is free, if you have a love of art, a deep seeded desire for community, or just want to be part of a …

I've started this group in an effort to meet more friends. I've lived in Santa Cruz for over two years as a '30 something' and found that it's hard to meet fun and interesting ladies when you're not in college anymore. This is my effort to find fun things to do with other ladies like going out to game night, day outings, resturant visiting, movie watching whatever! Just as long as your fun loving and want to make new girlfriends!

Come join us for live interactive trivia contests. Not to be confused with NTN or Buzztime trivia which is played on the TV. Find out where you can go with all of your friends to play live trivia where a "Quizmaster" asks questions from a variety of categories such as History, Song Lyrics, Movies, Geography, TV, Sports, Food, etc.. Questions are grouped in sets and are given point values for your team to wager on your answers. Each team can use each point value only once in each set of questions …

This group is a forum for teachers to get together for the purpose of making friends, meeting other teachers, sharing curriculum/lesson plans, grading student work, venting in an empathetic environment, and most importantly, having fun!

Are you French Bulldog mommy or daddy or just love frenchies? We are a new (2011) French Bulldog Playgroup. We have added a beautiful little frenchie "Sophie" to our lives and would like to find her some frenchie friends and connect with other owners that love their french bulldogs. If you love frenchies and have a french bulldog that would like to make new friends we would love to meet you. We have a met a few frenchie owners that are interested in this kind of group and figured that there may …

Homoto is a queer and queer-friendly motorcycle club based in the San Francisco Bay Area. We have chapters in San Francisco and San Jose. Our rides are sport-focused with an emphasis on safety and camraderie. All two wheeled machines are welcome however.    For more info: ride (at) homoto.us.  Please mention interest in the San Jose Chapter Or visit the club online at http://sanjose.homoto.us/