openBar() Toronto is meant to be a casual monthly gathering of developers, designers and business professionals in the Toronto tech community who have an active interest in Open Source Software and Open Platforms.

The Toronto PostgreSQL users group is the place to meet other PostgreSQL users in Southern Ontario. PostgreSQL is the world's most advanced Open Source Database.

This group is a place for developers, system administrators and the curious to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. We typically meet on the second Wednesday of each month.

Welcome to the Toronto Jaspersoft User Group. We meet once a month to share knowledge around the Jaspersoft suite. Each meeting begins with a presentation by Luke Shannon, generally pertaining to a component of the Jaspersoft report and analysis suite. Following this, there will be an open discussion where users will get to share their work or get assistance with their problems from the group. The focus of the presentations will be community products, although professional components will be rev …

Toronto Code Retreat is a Meetup group focused on learning and sharing software craftsmanship and testing practices with your peers. Meetups will be held in the style of a Code Retreat, which involves pair programming live with other group members using different programming languages.  Sessions will focus on attempts to solve Conway's Game of Life. Locations will alternate between Toronto and Mississauga. We intend to hold the sessions the 2nd Thursday of each month. We'll open the meetup and h …

The Toronto Slashdot crew is a diverse bunch of techies from different disciplines, with interests which converge over Free / Open Source Software, digital rights, privacy, technology news on a broader scale and so much more.

Alfresco is the largest Private Open Source company in the world. Come and see what Alfresco ECM can do for you.

OpenStreetMap is "The Wiki Map of Everything." Join the fun in creating and using the best map around. Do you like computers, GPS, maps, Free Software? You'll love OpenStreetMap. Make a map of your trip. Use a map created just for cyclists (or geocachers).

How do we want to run this meetup? A regular round-table discussion / chat / meetup for Canadian eCommerce merchants & professionals to talk shop. We're going to have bi-weekly meetups to start and see where it goes from there.  Prior to each meetup we'll send out notices for some topic options and then we can tackle one topic per meetup session. Example Topics: Open Source vs. Closed SaaS Platforms eCommerce SEO Series (Link Building, Content, Video etc...) Conversions Optimization Series Email …

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 …

"There are among the matters yet to be imagined. Matters of which as yet no inkling. The test is company." - Beckett Technology has changed how books are being written, discovered, read, sold, shared, and talked about. Words are finding new modalities and innovators across disciplines have begun to experiment with how technology might improve their creation, curation, and consumption. Code Meet Print TO is the community at the heart of this shift in Toronto. We explore the intersection of text …

This group exists to bring together Symfony users and enthusiasts in Toronto and surrounding areas. We intend to meet once a month to discuss Symfony and share our knowledge. New members are always welcome. If you are interested in co-organizing or speaking at events, please let me know.

Hackfests are a chance for Javascript developers in Toronto to get together. The idea is to patch and release open source libraries, and help each other through tricky bugs. And spend time coding JavaScript. Big Bang Technology will provide dinner, wireless, monitors, and comfortable chairs. We write code so bring a laptop and plan to have fun. 6:30 PM - 7:00 PM - Discuss Ideas & Form Teams 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM - Working 9:30 PM - 10:00 PM - Demo!

  We are the Toronto Ruby Brigade, a group of Toronto-based Ruby enthusiasts. Our goal is to create an environment where rubyists can learn together, regardless of skill level. We provide three avenues for continuous improvement and growth. First and foremost, we will provide an avenue for developers to present their ideas and experiences through presentations and lightning talks. Second, we can only become better ruby developers through practice. That is why we will have hack nights and work …

Are you a Java programmer? Are you learning? Already experienced? Let's get together and share, learn and teach Java, software engineering and design near Whitby. Together we can look at this powerful platform. We can have group projects and build something fun and useful. We can help each other with our own projects and courses of study. Are you interested in J2SE, J2ME, J2EE, Swing/GUI or Java web applications? Do you use e.g. SEO, Oracle RDBMS, Drupal, HTML, Javascript, XML or other technolog …