This is a place for unschooling families to plan and host events, and to build connections for children and parents. Every person who joins will be an Assistant Organizer, and will have the ability to plan events, outings, play dates, etc. Most of our events take place in Contra Costa County, and most of our children are currently under ten years of age. Our group holds kindness and empathy as core values, and we all commit to work proactively to teach our children solid conflict resolution skil …

Hello vegans and closeted-vegans, If you identify with any of the following conditions, this meetup is for you: 1. You have vegan super powers that need to be publicly displayed. 2. You have 14 different books about how to survive as a vegan in a non-vegan world. 3. You are in need of a vegan haven where making green smoothies is socially acceptable. 4. You are an emotionally battered vegan, finding yourself crying alone in corners because people don't like you.   If you can't come because you a …

… We'll stick mainly to fun evening and weekend events: play dates for you and your kids, field trips, parents' night out, co-ops for "grown-up time", monthly parent discussions, and anything else that is suggested to make our lives as single parents all the better! The East Bay Single Parents Weekend Adventures group holds activies all over the East Bay, for children of all age groups. For best results in making community connections, there are several requirements for joining this group. First …

Hello, We are local Alameda moms and dads of kids of all ages. We enjoy hanging out with other parents & kids in Alameda who want to get out, be active, live life, share, interact and explore the entire Bay Area while raising our precious children. More than just a group, the AHP (Alameda Hip Parents) group exists to provide social events for both parents and their children, support life-long friendships and establish a sense of community to families with young children in Alameda. Once you subm …

This is an approximately monthly meetup for people who are into drinking beer and Linux system administration / DevOps. We support web-scale production infrastructure for startups or other organizations and are concerned with stuff like network monitoring systems, cloud computing, configuration management, change management, virtualization and nerf warfare with the Engineering team.

This group is for all the writers who are in the "trying to be" stage of reaching the official status of "writers." Writing can be for a book, blog, magazine article, op-ed in newspaper, etc. Let's get together and write, critique each other's works, discuss writing styles, the challenges of being a writer, and the joys.