Bring together common interests and create stimulating dialogue. Awareness through passion of technology Anyone interested in technology and how it weaves it way into everyday life creating better quality and more purposeful embracement of new technologies. This Meetup is focusing on the following areas: Personal Clouds pClouds and the Services behind having a pCloud by Project VRM (Harvard Berkman Center & Doc Searls) Customer Commons (extension of the Internet Identity Workshop) The Personal …

Make Meaningful Connections It’s uncomfortable being the outsider. We’ve all been there: walking into a room where everybody else seems to know each other and nobody gives you a second glance. Or worse, they give you a second glance and still decide not to say hi. Ouch! The technology and startup scenes can be even more intimidating, especially to women. Many events are attended by mostly male technologists who either all know each other or aren’t really the social type. How do you break the ice …

...talk about, or learn about, the technology behind Webcasting and Video Streaming, how to use it in your Business or Website, and how to do the production and post of Live and Recorded events on the wWw and/or DvD. We will also periodically have LIVE on a budget projects - where our members get hands on experience with both the production (backstage and show) as well as the live streaming up to the Internet and, in some cases, occasionally the post production - such as editing etc. Please JOIN …

This NYC MySQL Group is the world’s largest database group organized on Meetup! HD-Video of our previous events is regularly published on the IT Management & Leadership eMagazine (www.LeadIT.us) and on the Database Month (http://www.DBMonth.com) website We are here to help new and seasoned users alike; join us regularly for discussion, networking and the chance to meet with the most world-renown experts in MySQL, Drizzle, MariaDB, Percona as well as NewSQL and NoSQL. The NYC MySQL Group Meetup …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

The Goodnik meetup is a group of social entrepreneurs and nonprofit innovators who meet regularly to explore the use of new technology and other resources in the promotion of social causes. Our events include workshops, seminars, and conferences on topics such as the use of social media, web development tools, graphic design, fundraising tools, and emerging technology that helps solve real-world problems. And of course, sometimes we get together just for fun or to connect with other like-minded …

After helping form the San Fransisco and Seattle "Settler's of Catan" leagues, where executives from VC backed technology startups would gather, network, and play "Settler's of Catan," I decided that since I'm a New Yorker now, I would do the same here. The purpose of the group is for executives from New York technology startups to get together, network, play Settler's, and see who will be the "Lord of all Catan." We did this very successfully in both San Fransisco and Seattle.  We were covered …

The NJ Tech Mixer is all about bringing members of the Technology Community together to have a good time and make new friends. All of you Startups, Developers, Bloggers, Investors, Technologists, and Entrepreneurs who want to meet other people in the scene should come on down. Our goal is to build an innovative gathering of people to get to know each other while having a fun time. Twitter: @NJTechMixer Check Other Stuff Out: NJ Tech Breakfast - This meetup is for everyone interested in Techn …

Getting you up to speed on the latest HTML5 technologies.

Welcome software and web developers, designers, architects. Whether you use Java, Python, C++, Go, JavaScript or HTML, we will cover the many technologies that Google offers such as App Engine, Google Glass, Chrome, Android, and many, many others. The best way to contact and to follow us however is via our Google Plus page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/102033742326416578905

Meet other local Wi-Fi users, engineers, and enthusiasts to talk about the latest developments in wireless technology, wireless projects and problems in New York City, and other wireless technology topics.

Hackers + Designers + Entrepreneurs = Code Crew! Passionate about learning how to code, creating beautiful designs or building the prototype for your business idea and tired of doing it alone? Then this is the group for you! This is the perfect group for people serious about learning how to code through self-study using resources on the web like Code School, Codecademy, Treehouse, P2PU, Coursera, edX, Udacity, programming books, screencasts or whatever else is out there on the internet. We also …

We explore how social media has enabled new ways for organizations to connect both internally and externally. Our meetings will focus on practical applications of Social Media tools and platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google plus, Flickr, blog and more. We will talk about Viral Marketing and Social Media in all kinds of business applications - Media Business, Technology, Finance, eCommerce, Customer Care; Social Media for independent musicians, event organizers and HR and internal com …

Online media and digital technologies are drastically changing the fashion industry and the way consumers interact with fashion brands. The first online community of fashion innovators, Fashion 2.0 has been on the frontier of innovation since 2008. Fashion 2.0 meetups, presented by Style Coalition, bring together the people leading the fashion revolution online - entrepreneurs, bloggers, publishers, developers, industry insiders, PR & Marketing reps and other influencers. The group accepts only …

This is a social networking group for NYC area Java developers, managers, recruiters, basically anyone with an interest in Java technologies. We feature technical presentations. Feel free to bring a presentation, a demo, flyers, make an announcement or ask questions. We usually adjourn to a nearby bar afterwards The NYC Java Study Groups JUG is the sponsor of the NYC Java Meetup and it's traditional monthly general meetings (for over 15 years) and the NYC Java Monthly Meetup are now one in the s …

Do you have a cell phone but only use it for calls? Do you know you can make calls using your iPad with just a wifi connection? Do you have a Kindle, an iPad, a laptop and/or cell phone gathering dust? Are you intimidated by technology? With the ever changing development of technology, the choices and information available can be very daunting and overwhelming. This group is geared towards those with a voracious curiosity about technology (and all it has to offer), but just don't know where to s …

This meetup is for anyone interested in (working on) wearable computing technologies. From google glass to the memoto camera, we're big believers that wearable is the next evolution of mobile, and we'd love to bring together people working on products, devices and software in this space.

The goal of NJ Tech Gals is to provide an eco-system of support for gals making big waves in the NJ tech-o-sphere. We met at NJ Tech Meetup (NJ's largest technology community) and realized there is a real need for gals in tech to network and share our experiences. Soooo.... we set our first meetup to do just that! Join us to connect with other like-minded technology enthusiasts who are interested in entrepreneurship and building awesome companies. We are entrepreneurs, developers, designers, ma …

(1) more customers (2) better, reciprocal partners (3) technology licensing opportunities Our Silicon City (NY) is fast challenging Silicon Valley, but to cement the foundation, companies need to be solvent. That starts with strong revenue growth and recurring revenue streams. BRiSC caters more toward the senior management than the Director of Sales. Setup more akin to a Chamber of Commerce than a traditional meetup, our events are Pavilions, Panels, Roundtables, and Vertical-Focused Selective N …

We're a community of content strategists and other professionals working in digital technology. We meet to network, provide mutual support, share knowledge, improve our skills, and contribute to the growth of our discipline. If you have a professional interest in web or digital content from any perspective — or are simply curious about what content strategists do all day — please join us.

This is a group for the founders and leaders of fashion technology startups. The group is here to connect established and up-and-coming leaders. This is not a group for fashion bloggers or plain e-commerce companies, but for #fashiontech startups that leverage disruptive new business models and emerging technologies to sell the beautiful fashion that we all love.

Having completed over 1.3 Million hours of development and currently completing over 3 man years of work each week (and rapidly growing), we're looking to share some of our experience and insight that all that project work has earned us. We value transparency are looking to share some of the valuable lessons we've learned and how you can incorporate some of our process and approach to improve the ROI from any development project. We are looking to meet with businesses and have an open dialogue a …

This group is for anyone in Manhattan excited about the use of iPads in all areas of business. We started this group to share stories on how the iPad has become an important and innovative tool to solve business problems. We will get together to share stories on unique use cases and explore business problems the iPad effectively solves. If you would like to expand your network with other like-minded people who are passionate about the intersection of technology and business, feel free to join us …

OpenStack is a collection of open source technology products delivering a scalable, secure, standards-based cloud computing software solution.  It is used by corporations, service providers, VARS, SMBs, researchers, and global data centers looking to deploy large-scale cloud deployments for private or public clouds leveraging the support and resulting technology of a global open source community. Join us in discussions from users perspectives on OpenStack and cloud computing in general.  Once a …

This group brings together existing educators and learners, industry leaders and practitioners, tech entrepreneurs and investors to explore how collaborative approaches to professional learning can help to address the growing technology skills shortage in industry and how to learn and thrive as a community. We have teacher discussions, entrepreneur presentations and investor feedback in a monthly meetup series. It's a great place to talk about collaboration, apps, community, funding, education, …

A network of web developers, software engineers, database administrators - any and all technologists who'd like to use their skills for good. We share opportunities to volunteer, learn about social mission businesses, and network with other developers who want to make a difference. We're supported by CodeMontage, where developers can enroll in challenges to improve their skills while helping social good projects. Outside of meetups, you can connect with us through our individual office hours. N …

We are a Community of Contributors™ learning Ruby on Rails programming, related technologies and entrepreneurial skills in a collaborative, cooperative manner.  We only assume that one knows how to press an On Button. Our members pledge to help Ruby Nuby, in some way in the future, with our socio-economic mission of teaching the sames skills to disadvantaged and at-risk youths. We believe in passing the gift of what others have generously taught and shared with us to those who may not have the s …

In the words of an ancient proverb: "Change is a dragon. You can ignore it, which is futile. You can fight it, in which case you will lose. Or you can ride it." [Anon.] In this group we seek similarly-minded individuals and organizations to partner with in developing & delivering the next generation of successful business solutions to market by bringing the very best innovative technology and services solutions to the marketplace they merit.