This group is a monthly gathering of Python users and developers in the Melbourne area. We discuss Python and related open source technologies. It is a networking forum for meeting other locals interested in Python and exchanging news and ideas. I decided to start the group because the venerable Melbourne Python User Group has stalled since May, lacking a venue. We're negotiating for a great regular venue for this meetup. If you do any kind of Python development, or have done, join the group! We …

This is a group for developers and system administrators to discuss and learn about MongoDB. An open source document database.  You don't have to have to be using MongoDB in production to join our group.

The Web is enabling new forms of social organisation to emerge that are bottom-up, participatory and peer-to-peer which is leading to deep structural transformation of all levels of government and the public sector. This open government meetup group is for anyone serious about developing new ideas and projects that foster transparency, participation and collaboration in government and public sector services. This could range from citizen innovation to community consultation, stakeholder engageme …

This is an open group for potential and current SilverStripe partners.

The primary purpose of the Melbourne Selenium Meetup Group is to provide an open forum where local Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, network and learn by engaging with like minded test professionals. Presentations and discussions are based on a wide variety of topics including (but not limited to) Selenium, Agile Testing, Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development and Continuous Integration.

Open Heart Meditation is different to other meditation techniques because it is about strengthening the spiritual heart (centre of feelings) to connect with the True Source of Love and Light so we are able to let go of any kind of negative emotions which have caused us stress or problems with our spiritual heart. By doing Open Heart Meditation we can feel the Love and Light radiate from our spiritual heart naturally and freely. As we repeat the Open Heart Meditation regularly the quality of …

The Melbourne Joomla User Group has been running since 2007 and attracts a regular group of Joomla users from all over Melbourne including: beginners - people building their first joomla site hobbyists - people tweaking their own joomla site designers - people who design joomla sites for a living implementers - people who implement more than just basic joomla sites eg ecommerce, forums, interfaces etc guns - people who can answer almost any question you may have about Joomla! Often members a …

The Girl Geek Dinners were founded on the 16th August 2005 as a result of one girl geek who got annoyed and frustrated about being one of the only females attending technical events. She was tired of being assumed to be marketing, tired of constantly having to prove herself and decided that she just wanted a change and to be treated just the same as any other geek out there, gender and age aside. After all to be geeky is to be intelligent, have passion for a subject and to know that subject in …

There is a blossoming of Apache Solr/Lucene usage in Melbourne, but a definite lack of an unofficial, relaxed gathering to allow some fruitful information and experience exchange. This is a meetup for developers who are currently using Apache Lucene/Solr or would like to learn more about it. Join us for pizza, beer, and a discussion about Solr. Please feel free to suggest quick (15 minute) presentations - whether a problem you've solved, a problem you need help solving or a general interesting e …

Melbourne Web Developers is a bi-monthly meetup that brings together Melbourne's awesomely talented web development community to exchange ideas, have a beer and talk about all things interwebs related! We cover web development topics including high scalability, user experience (UX), web frameworks and languages, social media, harnessing cloud tools and SaaS and anything else that makes web applications tick!

Come use and share your tech powers for good!!! Come learn and build your tech powers!!! We will be working to build the online communications systems of NGO's, social enterprises and nonprofit projects with members, volunteers and other skilled professionals. Building capacity and sharing skills... http://gardenproject.net.au In partnership with the Collaboratory Melbourne Meetup Group  in development as part of the Collaboratory Melbourne community-owned social enterprise 

Meetup group for Melbourne based Drupalers. In between meetups, you can engage with the Melbourne Drupal community on Twitter at #drupalmel or IRC at #drupal-au or even on our Drupal Groups page!

If you love programming Ruby and use the Ruby on Rails (RoR) framework, or would like to learn, then this group is for you. If you don't care for Ruby or Rails but love programming and web development in general, are involved in a startup and have an entrepreneurial spirit, then this group may be for you too. :) Oh yeah, and you must live in the world's most livable city to join. If you don't know which city that is, then you probably don't. :)

The Melbourne Perl Mongers have been running regular monthly meetings since December 2001. Some have featured visits by Dr Damian Conway, Brent Chapman, Jesse Vincent, Michael Schwern, Stas Bekman, Ingy döt Net, Andrew Savige, and many other interesting people. Meetings are held every month, on the second Wednesday of that month, at 6:30pm. They are usually held at one of these locations: Strategic Data Level 2, 51-55 Johnston street, Fitzroy Opera Software Australia Level 1, 91-97 William …

Interested in CiviCRM, the awesome open source CRM solution aimed at the not-for-profit, civic and community sector? www.civicrm.org This will be a meetup group with alternating meetings for Developers and tech types as well as meetups for users and planners.

This group has been set up initially to organize the first GeoRabble event in Melbourne, but we invite anyone and everyone to get on board.  Visit the main site at http://www.GeoRabble.org Note: Kick-starting GeoRabble Melbourne was supported by Stewart Hay and the Sydney GeoRabble startup crew: Francisco Urbina, Stephen Lead, Tim Leigh, Brett Madsen, Hugh Saalmans and Maurits van der Vlugt.