Come to meet people from the local software development industry. We'll share tips and stories and find out who's doing what in Vancouver and the Lower Mainland. Make those network contacts that are so essential in our careers. Regular meetings open with a short technical presentation to kick off our discussions. Then, following Q&A and possibly a door prize draw, we have our round-the-room introductions and open networking. For the introductions we invite all participants to introduce themselve …

OVERVIEWDo you work in the IT (Information Technology) field in British Columbia? Or are you an IT professional who is planning to move to British Columbia? Network with other people who are working in the same field as you.Some, but not all, areas you might be working in include:- Enterprise Systems- IT Infrastructure- Databases- Project Management- Security- Applications and Development- Mobile Technologies- Sales and Marketing- Human ResourcesBENEFITS OF JOINING THIS GROUP- sometimes it's …

A group for people to learn about and explore the possibilities of this new disruptive technology.

The Vancouver PhoneGap Meetup group (formally known as the PhoneGap Hack Night) is proud to be hosting meetups in the Vancouver area. We will be doing presentations on various PhoneGap related topics that the group shows interest in. Meet other local fans of PhoneGap, the best tool for quickly building mobile applications for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Windows Phone, Palm, iPad, and Symbian. If you’re an entrepreneur looking to build a mobile application, or a web developer who wants to build …

Science is all around us. Many find a love for it at an early age, but few continue to learn after leaving educational institutions. For those who continue to seek to know, there is DIYbio. DIYbio is is a community in which burgeoning biological engineers can come together to learn and share ideas, bringing back that enthusiasm for science we experienced as kids. DIYbio promotes the responsible and safe practice of scientific techniques. We meet in the Vancouver area to discuss topics such as …

This group is for anyone interested in unique representations of data, you may be a programmer, artist or data nerd (or all of the above!)

Vancouver Scala is an opportunity to discover Scala, learn about new techniques and frameworks, and meet other Scala developers in the Lower Mainland. We welcome developers from all backgrounds and from new to expert who want to learn more about this great language.

We meet every month or so and discuss Python.

Meet with others in the Vancouver region interested in building and strengthening the Drupal Community. We meet on the 4th Thursday of the month at the Jibe offices in Vancouver, BC. Come out for monthly Drupal training sessions, discuss new and exciting Drupal-related news, or just socialize with like-minded people from the area! The focus of our group is various Drupal related topics from theming, configuration, module development to how to run a successful Drupal business. Our official Twitt …

The next meetup will be in late January 2012. Stay tuned for an announcement after the holidays! Django is a Python web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. With comprehensive documentation and a strong and helpful community behind it, Django enables the development of high-performing web applications in less time, using less code. Learn more about Django at http://www.djangoproject.com/ The purpose of this meetup group is to share experiences in developing, d …

Meet other programmers in Vancouver who are already using Erlang or are interested in learning it.

The purpose of the group is to reestablish signal processing and DSP as the ENGINEERING discipline in the Lower Mainland. Depending on membership, group will provide education, networking events, technical references, contacts with industry, hands-on experience on open source projects. Note that this group is very technical, and not related to the artistic aspects of content making: music, video, computer gaming and so on. This group is for engineers and for engineers alike.

Seasoned Smalltalk developer or just curious, join us for some Smalltalk fun. Non smalltalkers are welcome!

R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis and graphical visualization (it generates beautiful charts very easily!). It is the de facto standard for statistical computing in academia and is becoming increasingly popular with commercial users in areas such as business intelligence, predictive analytics, data mining, machine learning, computational biology and quantitative finance. While R has an estimated 1 million users globally, the local Vancouver user b …

A meet-up to discuss the Pyramid web application framework and other tools hosted under the Pylons Project, as well as frequently related projects like SQLAlchemy and the Repoze family.

I'd like to invite other fellow Blender Heads who are interested in using Blender to develop game content.