Formed in 2003, the Central Texas World Future Society is a nonprofit educational and networking organization. Our members come from all walks of life, professions, ages and experiences. We are drawn together by a common desire to learn how emerging issues, disruptive technologies, ongoing trends and current events interact to shape our collective future. The Central Texas World Future Society meets the third Tuesday of every month. Our dinner meetings begin at 6:00 p.m. Attendance fee is $20 fo …

This is an informal group of female developers in Austin, representing a wide variety of languages, backgrounds, and niches. We meet once a month or so to share information, do some coding, and hang out and talk. Bringing your laptop, your vexing technical problems, and your expertise is highly encouraged! We've had some members volunteer to give short presentations on various technologies, and we've also been lucky enough to have awesome sponsors who've provided beer, wine, and snacks. This is …

We are a group of Small and Medium Sized Business Owners that want to learn more about how to use the Internet to promote our Business'. We are dedicated to learning, sharing and connecting with each other to help us all become more savvy Online.

Building web-based applications requires knowledge beyond software development from architecture to operations. Austin Web Architecture wants to focus on web-related technical topics that can span different language-specific and technology-specific meetup groups.

A group hosted by the Online News Association for local professionals interested in the changing landscape of digital media and new technology. Gather with writers, editors, photographers, producers, technologists, developers, designers and more with an interest in the production of news for digital presentation. For more information on ONA, check out http://www.journalists.org NOTE: We must have your first and last name in order for you to attend ONAC meetups. Please make sure these are in your …

Get together with other Austinites who work in search marketing, search engine optimization, search engine marketing, social media optimization, social media marketing, pay-per-click advertising, and all other forms of internet marketing. Come learn something new and share what you know with others! This group is for those who are passionate about the art and science of online marketing. No business pitches or highly structured meetings - just good, thought-provoking conversation and good compan …

Interesting topics presented by members on topics involving Ruby or Rails. We meet in Central Austin as an alternative to having to far North or South, or deal with parking and traffic downtown.

This group exists to motivate its members to learn more about software development and management. At meetings, each person discusses something he or she has recently read (such as a book chapter, Wikipedia article, news article, or a piece of software itself) or created (like a simple Twitter clone) in turn in a small group. It doesn't have to be profound. Our members have discussed lean startups, OOP, being RESTful, literate programming, Scrum, and other topics.  Join us if you're interested i …

If you are looking for co-founders or want to join super-early-stage startups, this is the group to be in. Our goal is to organize face-to-face meetings.

Austin has many groups dedicated to helping startups, but they are all oriented towards business development and CEOs. I thought it would be useful to create a group centered around the challenges that technical co-founders face: Being a jack-of-all trades Managing expectations Establishing a minimum viable product Testing / Design When to bring on help etc. Membership is open to technical co-founders, CTOs, etc. of small startup companies -- typically 2-5 people.

A monthly lunch-time forum for local web developers, designers, and other web professionals to talk shop, network, and geek out!

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 …

Ultra Light Startups Ultra Light Startups brings together the world's most innovative technology entrepreneurs, in monthly events and accompanying online communities. Events feature pitching, networking and interactive, moderated panel discussions with leading industry experts. Topics cover: Design, Technology, Marketing and Finance And be sure to checkout our website and join our social media groups: Website - http://ultralightstartups.com/ Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ …

The purpose of Austin CTO is to establish a tight knit group of tech leaders who are executing on the strategy of their companies, contributing to the growth of their peers and affecting change in the city of Austin through technology. Achieving these goals will be a fruit of increased accountability, commitment and transparency towards each other at a level that might be at odds with the more casual groups out there.

No other industry in the world changes nearly as fast as the web does, keeping up is really hard and you gotta stay sharp, this is why I created these meetings. I am a web/graphic designer, when I hear someone say “I have skills in Photoshop, Illustrator, Flash, After Effects, Final Cut Pro, Adobe Lightroom, Maya 3D, Photography, HTML, CSS, Javascript, jQuery, Mootools, PHP, Ruby on Rails, MySQL, Action Script, After Effects etc ”. The first thing that comes to my mind is.... These people …