Android Australia User Group is a community devoted to promoting local Android developers in Australia. It's aim is to help bridge the information gap between Australia and other technology hubs such as the United States. Android is an accessible, open source operating system which is now a serious contender in the mobile landscape. Help us push Android forward by getting involved in our regular meetups, hack nights and experience sharing sessions. Please be aware that our group is more develo …

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 …

Linux Users of Victoria is one of Australia's largest GNU/Linux, free software and open source user groups. We conduct two regular events in Melbourne each month. On the first Tuesday of the month LUV runs technical lectures at Trinity College in Parkville, close to Melbourne's CBD and at VPAC's Training Room on the third Saturday of the month, LUV run a hands on workshop, addressing the issues of the users who turn up. The workshops have a "beginners" level talk, whereas the technical lectures …

Meet other developers using Meteor. Share your knowledge, apps, and get feedback from others. Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

We will be meeting monthly to: hear talks on R-related topics sharing knowledge and experience provide R beginners with an opportunity to meet more experienced users discover the power of R as a serious, general and industrial strength data mining, analysis, visualisation and reporting tool, for use in commerce, government and other fields see case studies of real-life R applications in industry disocover related commodity, open source and free tools meet experts in specific R packages, techniq …

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 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.

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

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 our …

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 our …

The Melbourne PHP User Group is a group of enthusiastic local programmers who get together every month and discuss Open Source technologies with a focus on PHP and associated topics. PHP is an extremely popular general-purpose scripting language that is highly suited for web development. We strive to promote PHP and Open Source in the IT industry, both locally and internationally. Our meetings are educational and cater to all skill levels. Anyone is welcome to join us. As a group, we aim to educ …

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 ar …

Hackduino is an open source electronics project, established by Mark Butt and run in partnership with Nick Jaffe at the Electron Workshop. Hackduino encourages the learning and development of open source electronics, with a focus on Arduino based interactive projects. We operate monthly meet-up groups and run competitions to encourage the growth and development of the Australian electronics community. We drink beer, work on projects and discuss electronics.

Developers interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. We host hands-on lab sessions, technology reviews, topical lectures, and plenty of social beer nights. Curious about graphs, want to pimp your non-RDBMS skills? Join us!

We are the Melbourne Girl Geek Dinners! We are a chapter of Girl Geek Dinners which was founded in 2005 in London. Girl Geek Dinners is non-profit and we organise dinners, workshops and field trips. We have over 400 members interested in technology, the internet, craft, code, design, communication, social media, marketing and more! Most of our events are free as we try to find sponsors to help us pay for food and drinks. Inspire9 have been hosting us and allowing us to use their space for ages n …

I started this group because there appears to be no other Melbourne groups focusing on analyzing Big Data*. This group is for people looking to share experience and or learn new methods for analyzing the data. It is also for people who have Big Data that they need help with. I have extensive Big Data experience from my time at eBay and will gladly help others in any way that I can. * Big Data is a term for datasets which can no longer fit in a database. Typically this happens at around the 1 ter …

This is the Melbourne chapter of The Australian Alt.Net Community. We meet on the last Tuesday of every month, 6pm at the Melbourne ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15,303 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 The Australian Alt.Net Community is a self-organizing, ad-hoc community of developers bound by a desire to improve ourselves, challenge assumptions, and help each other pursue excellence in the practice of software development, obviously with a strong emphasis on development using the Microsoft.NE …

A group for people dedicated to using their software building skills for the greater good of humanity. We contribution to open source projects and work with agile methodologies. Our current project is with OpenMRS. We meet on Tuesday nights at ThoughtWorks Melbourne, with occasional weekend hack events. Tuesdays generally start with dinner from 6.15pm, "stand up" at 6.45, and hands-on group work until 9pm. Come along to work with BAs, Developers, Testers, etc. To get an idea of what it would be …

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!

This is a group for anyone using or interested in Django, a Python web development framework.  We are interested in bringing together people from Melbourne's Django and Python communities and providing a place for people to learn from one another and showcase things they have built or have found useful.  It will take a few Meetups for us to catch our stride and find a format that works best, so we encourage you to come and help us shape these nights into something awesome! Our venue and drinks a …

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.

Technology Leadership Club (TLC-Melbourne), where a group of technology leaders in Melbourne meet regularly. It is intended to be a networking opportunity, a chance to discuss technology leadership. The unique leadership and technology challenges business leaders face as they look to align their own practices and insights with those of the business. We focus on addressing the unique leadership and technology challenges that we face today. We demystify technology, share best practice and provide …

Do you love PostgreSQL? We do too! Come hang out with like-minded elephantidae lovers at the Melbourne PostgreSQL Users Group. You don't need to be an expert - perhaps you want to share your experiences as a DBA or SysAdmin; maybe you're a developer with exquisite tastes (when it comes to databases obviously!); or maybe you just want to learn about whats possible with PostgreSQL. All are welcome.

This is a forum where people engaged in performance testing could get together and discuss approaches, methodologies and new technologies.

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!

There is a blossoming of search technology usage in Melbourne, but a definite lack of an unofficial, relaxed gathering to allow some fruitful information and experience exchange. Our aim is to make the meetup more welcoming to all search developers in Melbourne who are facing similar challenges -- while maintaing the level of technical depth that we've come to enjoy. Search technologies include, but are not limited to: ElasticSearch, Apache Lucene & Solr, AWS CloudSearch, Microsoft FAST, Apache …