The Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup is a community of WordPress users. Started as the Ferndale WordPress Meetup Group, we have members from around metro Detroit. Our monthly meetings are informal, fun and educational. We welcome new users, bloggers, business owners, designers and developers alike. If you have a blog, create websites, or are just curious about the internet's coolest blogging and CMS platform, this is the group for you. Blog Facebook Group

Learn how to easily design, build, and maintain a web site for your business, community group, corporation, or family using Drupal, a free and powerful web publishing software package. You can use Drupal to build and maintain a small business web site, a blog, a community discussion forum, a wedding site, and many other types of web sites without any HTML or other programming skills. Got Drupal skills? Come and share with the rest of the group! We meet in different locations between Detroit and …

To assist each other through computer difficulties. To keep everyone informed on current software and hardware. To show what is possible in the world of computers.

Detroitnet.org was started by IT professionals for IT professionals. We didn't like any other group out there, so we started our own! At our events, you might meet some recruiters, some out of work developers, some sales guys, some network admins, some web guys and some senior level management... So come on out, bring some business cards (or don't, it's OK), meet some like-minded people in the Metro Detroit area, and who knows, you could meet a life-long friend, a new business partner, or no one …

Detroit Meetup Group for SEO, PPC and Internet Marketing in General. I would love to gather a group of Internet Marketers to discuss new and upcoming techniques and technologies to better assist with Marketing and Promoting your products or services.

We are a community devoted to the learning and sharing of information related to web design, development, tools and techniques with a focus on open source solutions. We have monthly meetings where people in the industry will lead discussions and workshops in numerous topics surrounding open source technology. It is FREE to join and FREE to attend the workshops.

Detroit Node aims to bring together developers interested in this up and coming technology.  We're looking to have open hack sessions and are open to facilitating presentations in the future.  Come be a part of the Technology Revolution in Detroit!

The Detroit UC User Group is targeted at IT Pros and Developers interested in Microsoft Unified Communications. Our goal is to provide the Detroit area with a vast amount of valuable information as it relates to all forms of Microsoft Unified Communications. Our meetings will include both Technical and Business information relating to Lync 2010, and other components of the Microsoft UC product group.

Why should you join? Our user group is all about expanding your .Net knowledge and having fun while doing it! Our purpose is to exchange knowledge, business cards, cocktails and Gamertags. If you want to join a .Net user group where you learn cool stuff and get to play Modern Warfare on a HD screen with killer surround sound, this user group is for you. To learn everything .NET To talk about industry trends To socialize and to have fun! Free food and cocktails! No event is complete without a DJ …

The Detroit Lean Startup Circle is a group of smart and driven high-tech entrepreneurs that have learned how to discover customers and build products they want. Lean Startups (which can include for profit and not for profit organizations, new product/innovation organizations within larger companies and even government agencies) achieve success faster than most because they get out of the building to talk to customers, validate business model assumptions as quickly and cheaply as possible, use ag …

An independent user group for Ping Identity customers and other interested parties. This group is driven by customers; supported by Ping Identity. If you are interested in federation identity, identity and access management, or Internet-scale identity, this might be the group for you.

Elevating the craft of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) through a real, face-to-face community in Detroit. Also, check out API Craft on Google Groups to collaborate with other API craftspeople around the world.

RevUpMI connects entrepreneurs, investors, and job-seekers in Michigan. If you're interested in building, investing in, or working for a startup business in Michigan, please join this group and help us get Michigan started!

NSCoder Night is a weekly event where Cocoa developers come together for some coding and camaraderie in the relaxed atmosphere of a coffee shop or pub with a wireless network. Rumor has it that in the before-time, in the long-long-ago, it was once referred to as beer night.

This group has been established for family, friends and of current employees of Lyons Consulting Group in Ann Arbor. Ideal members would have a passion for ecommerce, curious about what Lyons has been up to and willing to get together on occassion somewhere in our great city of Ann Arbor for a drink or two, some good old fashion camaraderie and good times!

Refresh Detroit is a part of the Refreshing Cities organization. We are a group of web professionals whose goal is to promote web standards, usability, and accessibility, and to spread the knowledge of web design in metro Detroit Michigan.

We are a hackerspace based in the city of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. We are a collective of technology enthusiasts, software engineers, hardware hackers, expatriates from the automotive industry, and librarians with straight-up super powers. We are community-oriented, focused on team projects that bring people together and pointed in the same direction. Please come out and meet us, we're always looking for friendly and interesting people to meet and work with!

Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses …

digitalundivided GROW Detroit is a monthly meet up of digital companies founded/co-founded by black women working together to GROW their tech-based companies from Idea to MVP to Growth and then Exit. Sponsored by digitalundivided, a company that builds forward thinking initiatives that change the digital space.

IT Social 6:01 is a networking group that brings Information Technology, Industry Leaders and Entrepreneurs from the high tech corridors of Silicon Mitten and metro Detroit together for knowledge sharing, networking, professional career advancement opportunities and to connect the overall DOTS. There is no cover charge for IT Social's but we do encourage donations that we apply to charities and at times we have special guests as hosts.

Why are there so few women leading and influencing the UX & design industry?  And what can we do to change that? This group aims to bring together brilliant and creative women in the design and UX fields who want to build and leverage a network of like-minded ladies for mentoring, support, and world domination. Just kidding on that last one. Maybe...