Love to build amazing things quick? Then you've found the right place. Bay Area Hackathons are hosted at Bay Area companies and a are a great way to meet new people, build amazing things, and win killer prizes.

About Hacking 4 Health The launch of Community Health Data Initiative by HHS and Institute of Medicine is exciting news for programmers interested in the development of health applications. Under this initiative, HHS and other government agencies are releasing vast amounts of health data developers can use to create applications that will help individuals and communities. HealthTap, in collaboration with Health 2.0, is thrilled to announce a Hackathon where developers can learn more about this …

The premier monthly hackathon event that combines serious and not-so-serious productivity with a fun and exciting party atmosphere. SuperHappyDevHouse is a non-exclusive event intended for creative and curious people interested in technology. We're about knowledge sharing, technology exploration, and ad-hoc collaboration. Come to have fun, build things, learn things, and meet new people. It's called hacker culture, and we're here to encourage it. https://shdh.pbworks.com/

Events organized or facilitated by Dave Nielsen in the SF Bay Area

This is a group for all Big Data professionals to include programmers, architects, platform specialists like Hadoop, MongoDB, GreenPlum, Cloudera, Hortonworks etc. We welcome Engineers, IT Professionals, Architects, Data Scientists, Analytics Experts, Sales and Marketing Professionals, Entereneurs. We will be holding lectures, tutorials, panel discussions, demos, hackathons and networking for all professionals. We will feayure local, regional and international conferences with world famo …

This is the place for Android Developer group organizers to improve collaboration between Android Developer Groups.  What we are looking for (Draft): 1 Virtual collaborative events between different groups: Live broad cast,  Virtual events, hangout, 2 Collaboration for real event Global Android Hackathon Global Android Developer Day 3 Help each other in finding speakers, getting organizers Other ways to connect: http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4172861 You must be an Andro …

This group provides a social gathering point and a chance to share projects for people who are working on (or are interested in working on) 3D computer vision. The availability of a low cost 3D camera, the Kinect, is causing a surge in software development for 3D vision, and we aim to bring the community together. If you're interested in getting started hacking your own Kinect, see the Being Prepared section from our hackathon for advice.  http://www.meetup.com/3DVision/events/16861225/ If yo …

BeMyApp hosts interactive weekend-long events for the app-loving community in San Francisco, Dallas, New York and Europe. The WeekEnds are designed to accelerate collaboration, share knowledge, inspire and connect mobile app makers and idea shakers. BeMyApp WeekEnd is open to developers, designers, tech journalists and bloggers as well as non-techies, idea generators, artists, and everyone who wants to have some hands-on experience with mobile apps. Work in teams and hack apps during a whole wee …

… Also check out the HBase Hackathon (http://www.meetup.com/hackathon/).

We're a group of developers who enjoy happy hour and code. We'll be hosting various happy hour mixers, hackathons, and dev parties in SF and Mountain View. Do you occasionally code under the influence? Then join us!

API Hack Day brings developers together for an all-day coding fest focused on building apps with APIs. Developers of all experience levels can share ideas, collaborate on projects, start new ventures and find out about great tools and new APIs to play with. API Hack Day events are sponsored by a core group of companies that are built on and around APIs, including Mashery, Twilio, Apigee, SimpleGeo, and SendGrid. Most of the companies are located in the San Francisco Bay Area, but we hold API Hac …

  Rails-focused monthly hackathon in downtown Oakland. Convenient to Bart. Less talk more code. 

Hack, plot and hang out with the Stripe team and other Stripe users.