A place to share tips and tools for independent publishing on screens. How to publish your work on ebooks, or on iPads, or tablets, or phones, or desktop screens. Mostly book and magazine-like content, but anything with words as well as images. Come tell us what is working for you, and what has not worked.

This group is for anyone who cares about the evolution of books in any form, including eBook, HTML5, print, app, or daydream. If it's packaged, paginated content with words, pictures, media, connectedness, or interactivity in any combination, this is the place.

The Bay Area Independent Publishers Association (BAIPA) is a network of people in all aspects of the independent publishing industry. We are a non-profit educational organization linking writers with the services they need to publish and sell their work. Our meetings are an opportunity to gather information, exchange ideas, share successes and challenges, meet supportive professionals, and ask questions about the rapidly changing industry. Openness and enthusiasm have been the hallmark of the gr …

Bring together people who are passionate about Ruby and Rails in an environment that fosters learning from and helping each other while building lasting friendships. "And as you get older, you may find that “Enabling the Dreams of Others” thing is even more fun." From the Last Lecture by Carnegie Mellon Professor Randy Pausch (Oct. 23, 1960 - July 25, 2008) Get 35% off from O’Reilly books and ebooks when you purchase directly from http://www.oreilly.com/store/. Just use discount code DSUG when …

TC Camp is an Unconference focused on Technical Communications issues, skills, challenges, and the various applications used by technical communicators. The purpose of TC Camp is to provide a local bay area conference for technical communicators that is driven by the members of that community–writers, editors, designers, and the people who support them.

Digital distribution and the proliferation of reading devices are bringing great changes to what we think of as books, and their attendant industries. This meetup is about exploring all aspects of this change, from cultural, professional, technical, and experiential points of view. We welcome fans, critics, innovators, and skeptics, as we bring some thought and exploration of where we are headed.

What if your sense that something is wrong with what society tells you that relationships "should be" was your intuitive sense that there has to be something better and more that what the culture currently offers? What if we all got together and considered a new, upgraded format for intimate relationships? Let's do it! If you are interested in human sexual psychology and want real insights into why many relationships don't work and what you could do about it, this is the place for you. If you wa …

Welcome to The San Francisco Cantonese Enthusiasts Meetup Group!  Meet other local Cantonese Enthusiasts at fun Social Events to practice or learn the Cantonese language! :) Useful Resources: A very handy free online Cantonese dictionary is Cantodict at: http://www.cantonese.sheik.co.uk/scripts/wordlist.htm Here is another dictionary called MDBG which not only has sound files for each character in Mandarin and Cantonese but also show how to write each character: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/ch …

Have you just written a book? Or, maybe you are working on your book right now. If you want to get it published you will have many hurdles to navigate, including making a decision about self publishing, editing, formatting, ISBN numbers, building a "sales platform" and more. This group will help, with informative events on all aspects of the publication process. If you want to be an author there has never been a better time as long as you are willing to put in the work. Come join others and lets …

“In the Future Everything Will Be A Cafe" ! 1. Universities will become Cafes (virtual classes and the high price of an education) 2. Book Stores have become Cafes(Ebooks are coming of age-you can keep your library in your pocket) 3. Cafes will Displace Most Retail Shops (you can shop from the comfort of a Cafe, while avoiding crowds, parking, bad service, etc on Amazon.Com). 4. Offices Become Cafes Again (with the exception of Yahoo employees, notice all of the empty cubicles in most offices?) …