The North West Tester Gathering is a community of people who are passionate about software testing, test process and agile software development. It is a an informal forum for sharing knowledge and experiences with other like minded individuals from many organisations. Whether you are a budding beginner or battle scared practitioner, all are welcome. We aim to provide a meeting place and hold regular events for anyone involved in testing (mostly) software products. Come and meet fellow testers, s …

MWUG, the Manchester WordPress User Group is run by the WordPress co-founder, Mike Little with support from entrepreneur Saz Bailey. We are a friendly, supportive bunch from in and around Manchester, UK, who use the open source web publishing software WordPress to blog, design and develop websites. We love sharing technical and marketing expertise to help others achieve what they intend through WordPress. We meet once per month, on the third Wednesday, at Manchester Digital Laboratory aka MadLab …

The West Midlands Drupal User Group exists to hold monthly meetups for anyone interested in Drupal who is in or around the West Midlands. Meetings are currently held in Coventry, Bromsgrove and Lichfield, rotating between the different venues.

Monthly meetup for developers in Birmingham, who enjoy getting together and making things. Want to meetup with like minded web geeks and developers? HydraHack is a chance to meetup with other developers: share ideas, techniques and code. If you've not come along before you'll find a bunch of friendly, passionate and chatty developers who love what they do and have lots of interesting stuff to share. You don't have to bring a project, just come along, grab a drink and join us for a chat.

Group aims to bring together users of the Joomla Content Management System in the North of England, probably the North West and more specifically in the Lancaster and Morecambe area. Aimed at all user levels the group will focus on sharing knowledge, solving problems and generally promoting the Joomla CMS throughout the region.

BRUM is a group for R users at all levels and from all backgrounds based in and around Birmingham (UK) and the West Midlands, to meet and discuss R-related topics and to promote the use of R. R is a free/open source project and is the leading software for data analysis, statistics and data visualisation. Anyone with a background or interest in R is welcome! Sponsorship for this event is kindly provided by The Data Mine Ltd.

Welcome to everyone who has been attracted to this uplifting, group!!! We invite you to watch our trailer for the group on YouTube, it gives an overview of the way in which each of us work: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR7GsCnkM6k This group is open to all who are interested in self improvement, assisting others, intuition and taking thought and feeling to the next level. Whether you're a complete beginner to all of this or you are a more advanced practitioner, there will be something for ever …

Now is the time to really celebrate who you are and all you can be. This group is for anyone who is ready to strengthen their foundation of self-awareness, build on existing talents and abilities and create a life that is filled with radiant wellbeing, happiness and inner harmony. Your WOW is many things...it is as unique are you are...most of all, it is your source of inspiration, information, expression and authenticity that makes you feel whole and complete. It is your Weaver of Wisdom, your …

A Leeds based meet-Up for those interested in Riak, distributed systems, NoSql, and app development.

Manchester Arduino has moved to Facebook. Please keep up-to-date by joining the Facebook page and following us on Twitter. A meet up based in Manchester for all those interested in the Arduino prototyping platform. From creatives, designers, programmers, engineers, artists, makers, hackers and inventors, to students and do-it-yourselfers. And that’s just for starters. @Arduino_Mcr is an opportunity to regularly meet the rapidly growing Manchester Arduino community to share ideas, advice, stori …

Pedalable Edibles is a grassroots social change movement designed to bring the less well off in society together to work towards a more sustainable and abundant future. The project is the brainchild of Pablo Gekarez (Paul) but the general idea is open to everyone dwelling on Planet Earth to start up in their own local communities. Localising food production is the answer, money and politics are irrelevant. The corrupt monetary and political systems are continuing to widen the gap between the 'h …

MANCHESTER R R is an open source data analysis and statistical programming language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. R is a free implementation of the “S” language that is currently available on most platforms. It can be obtained from the R project website and is maintained and developed by a community of users. Manchester R is an opportunity for people to learn and to share information about R. The sessions consists of 3-4 short presentations followed by a networking sess …

...a social/learning group for people in/around the East Midlands who are interested in everything Ruby and/or Rails! People of all abilities welcome, no fees, rules or requirements, just get in touch and join the next meeting! More the merrier. We're keen to pool together and connect the existing Ruby users of the area, and provide help/advice to inquisitive programmers from other languages/frameworks/backgrounds.

This is a group for all who are interested in Javascript and Web Development Technologies

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The Manchester Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Manchester to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.

We're a community lead user group in the heard of Manchester, helping, aiding and teaching the leading NoSQL Database, MongoDB!

R is an open source data analysis, data visualization and statistical programming language. Use of R is rising exponentially in the business and academic arenas and it is used by companies such as Google, Pfizer, Merck, Bank of America and Shell. SheffieldR is an opportunity for anyone with an interest in R to meet up, listen to a couple of interesting presentations on R implementations and then network over a drink. The events are free and anyone, at whatever level of R skill, is welcome to att …

A monthly hangout for people taking control of their home energy usage and generation. We use open-source hardware and software to enable better understand our homes and how they work, making best use of the energy we generate and reducing the energy we waste.

A group dedicated to developing software, hardware and ideas around the Tizen Operating system

Regular meetups discussing programming languages, frameworks, architecture and development. The aim is learn widely and deeply about very different approaches to software development problems. The initial focus will be on contemporary and next-gen open source languages / tech.