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 focus on coding, leveraging existing technology, and having something t …

Are your friends and family tired of hearing you go on and on about .NET, Firewalls, Scrum and Oracle? If so, then this is the group for you. Come bore us with your technology chatter....we love it!

PET is a group of people enthusiastic about technologies for the enterprise and B2B market. We will bring corporations and the tech startup community together to cultivate ventures serving the enterprise. Whether you are an entrepreneur, corporate executive, software developer, designer, or investor, you are invited to join us and participate in a series of panels, pitches and networking events specifically focused on enterprise tech.   We are affiliated with the Enterprise Tech Innovation meetu …

The Philadelphia Self Quantifiers group brings together technologists, healthcare professionals and anyone interested in self-improvement through data gathering and analysis.  We'll meet to discuss technologies and techniques that aid in understanding of the physical, mental and psychological. As the group grows, we hope to have regular "show and tell" meetups in which members will share their quantified-self tools. NOTE: This group is intended to replace the Quantified Self Philadelphia that se …

Meetup with other likeminded individuals for discussion and demonstration of home theater hardware, software, and setup. Topics of discussion could span the entire audio/video technology spectrum, including: HDTV hardware and programming, projection, Blu-ray and DVD, console gaming, CD players, speakers, receivers, HTPC (home theater PC's), Media Center software, movies, music, theater/media room design and furniture, control/automation, etc. Our goal is to learn more about existing and future p …

The Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group is a group of WordPress enthusiasts in and around the Philadelphia area. We love working with WordPress in a variety of different ways. Join us and learn about WordPress and all it has to offer! Meet other local users of WordPress, the Internet's most popular blogging platform and fastest growing content management system. Gather and discuss the best ways to work WordPress, develop and design themes and plugins, tips and tricks for WordPress, and more.  T …

We are Tech in Motion: Philadelphia This is an inclusive group for all Philadelphia tech lovers and enthusiasts. We will be having regular meetups on anything and everything that we think will interest the tech community. Whether you are an entry-level programmer, an expert in the field, an open-minded entrepreneur, or just a hobbyist- we’d love to have you. This is a group by the people and for the people, so if you have any suggestions for topics or presenters, let us know!   Thank you for …

For people who work, or want to work, with Alfresco, as well as those who are curious in what this awesome Open Source Document Management/Enterprise Content Management system can do for you and your business.

This group is a place for anyone to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. We started this group to grow a more robust community of MongoDB Developers in the South Jersey area and provide a place to share knowledge and experience on working with the database in different languages, frameworks and applications. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at …

Hey all, Paul and I are engineers working in the Philly area and we were interested in trying to get people together to talk about how different platforms, infrastructure, and networks interact and inter-relate to each other. The general idea is to get out of the "I am a {network jockey, storage jockey, developer...}" and explore how these systems inter-relate and discuss the good the bad and the ugly about those relationships.

PhillyDB is oriented toward a broad audience of database professionals, remaining all-inclusive in terms of systems and disciplines.  We will discuss enterprise systems (Oracle, SQLServer, DB2), open source systems (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite),  and big data management tools (Hadoop; MPP, real-time SQL, NoSQL databases).  We will talk about using these systems as architects, developers and DBAs alike.  This generality of focus is pursued because most database professionals use, or at least know, …

We are a group of IT Professionals who are interested in meeting others with similar interests and learning from their ideas and experience.

The most up-to-date GGD PHL information can be found at www.ggdphl.com Girl Geek Dinners Philadelphia's (GGD PHL) primary goal is to bring women from various technical fields together for socializing, networking, and learning. It also sees itself as providing a place to encourage women who may be considering technical interests. GGD PHL welcomes its sisters from creative and new media disciplines as well and aims to be a supportive community for the women of the Greater Philadelphia area who con …

We're a group of Android users, developers, enthusiasts, and newbies willing to share, teach, and learn about all Android-related topics!

Meetup with other local professionals who are interested in the Online News Association (ONA). Gather with writers, editors, photographers, producers, technologists and all with an interest in the production of news for digital presentation. For more information or to become a member, check out http://www.journalists.org    

Web Start Women is a group of girl geeks who are learning to program for the web so we can make awesome stuff online. If you have big ideas for new projects... If you want the satisfaction, control, and flexibility of building those projects yourself... If you're looking for a friendly community where you can share ideas and get inspired... And if you want to do it all in an open, supportive, intimidation-free environment with other women... then, welcome to WSW :-)   http://webstartwomen.com