Bay Area has immense expertise and interest around Eclipse platform. With Helios launch just around the corner and e4 launch soon after, there is a lot to share and learn. This meetup will regularly meet to share experiences and experiments with Eclipse Platform from Eclipse community members in Bay Area. Any developer, manager, or enthusiast of Eclipse Platform should join this group.

This group is for software engineers who utilize Eclipse to develop applications of any variety.  We will meet and have presenters, social networking, job opportunities and more. Our meetups will be held between San Francisco and Silicon Valley on a monthly basis. Networking is about building mutually beneficial, strategic and productive business relationships.  We are trying to develop a community of hands-on software engineers who utilize the Eclipse environment and  are interested in JAVA, An …

… The developer tooling will be Visual Studio or Eclipse. IDC, a well regarded technology market analysis firm forecasted (in October 2008) that IT spending in cloud services will grow by a factor of almost three and reach $42 billion by 2012. Silicon Valley is the startup capital of the world. Being a successful software engineer means being able to code applications for the cloud. If writing code is what you love, then this is your meetup.