Open Data Bay Area calls itself “a group of thinkers, planners and doers meeting once a month to hear talks, get updated, spread news and meet other open data enthusiasts”.

Next meeting is on open web data, Speakers will be: Kurt Bollacker, a computer scientist currently pursuing research on long term digital archiving as the Digital Research Director at the Long Now Foundation, and Scott Robertson, founder of tri.vio. The meeting will be held November 27th, 2012 in San Francisco, 6-8pm. Location given only to members (login possible on website):

Though the talks will be especially interesting to engineers and data scientists, non-technical people will also enjoy them. Everyone is encourage to attend regardless of degree of technical skills.