JBUG London is a group of people who share a common interest in JBoss software. JBUG is organised and supported by the community, we meet on a regular basis to discuss new technologies, development methodologies, interesting use cases, and other technical topics in friendly and casual atmosphere (usually with some beer and pizza).Our goal is to provide education and help, to promote open source, to network and share real world experiences with other members of the community. If you would like to …

Herts. & Essex Techies is a group for folks interested in I.T. and Software Development. The group is not focussed on any one specific technology and we encourage members with a diverse background: from Java, .NET, Android, iPhone, Ruby, etc. with interests in Cloud Computing (Google, Microsoft, Amazon, etc.). The group aims to provide a regular opportunity for members to discuss and learn about the latest developments in the I.T. industry, share experiences, learn about other technologies and …

With so many great search companies in Cambridge we're sure a Meetup will lead to some interesting discussions and networking. We're hoping to run regular events where you can come and hear about exciting developments in enterprise search and related fields, talk about what you're doing and meet others in the field. If you're working with, developing or planning to use any search technology, be it open source, commercial closed source, appliance-based or simply theoretical join this Meetup! Int …

What is Techmeetups? TechMeetups has been setup to create a global network of Tech communities from San Francisco to Sydney. We believe that Tech communities are isolated and great things can be achieved if we connect within our cities and outside our borders. Our goal is to create a global Tech cluster of over 50 inter-connected Tech communities by 2013. Our global community started out with the launch of the London Silicon Roundabout Tech community in December 2010. Following it's success in …

Aims to deliver openness and evidence of interoperability to the enterprise through demonstration, discussion and engagement.

This group is aimed at everyone involved with Alfresco in and around London, whatever the level of expertise. We plan to arrange meetups in all aspects of Alfresco - 'how to' sessions, new feature presentations, social meetups - and anything else that you think you'd like to see! This group is open to developers and users of Alfresco.

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 omnipotent big data group that is all things to do with dealing with, managing, handling and delivering big data, in the mild mild South West. Topics include MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Node.js, scaling, engineering data, open-source, linkeddata, and beer. Discussion at http://groups.google.com/group/south-west-big-data.

During Lucene Eurocon 2011 in Barcelona, a number of us from different search companies met and discussed data conditioning and pipelining (ways to obtain, transform and process data before it is indexed by a search engine). We've started this group to bring these people together on-line and we hope to have physical meetups occasionally as well, at other search-related events. We're not technology or license specific - if you're building or using pipelines or similar processes come and join us, …

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.

This group is a place for developers in the Thames Valley to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions.

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 …

The aim of this group is to organise informal gatherings, from socials to talk nights, for Rubyists in and around Bath. We welcome anyone with an interest in Ruby, from those who are just curious about the language to developers who have been working with it for years.

Agile Peterborough aims to build a thriving community of technology advocates to enable local business growth, support local schools, share knowledge and learn from each other. Through talks, events, workshops and volunteering we hope to learn and share knowledge, to promote best practice and breed new talent. Peterborough has a wealth of both technology and engineering companies. Agile Peterborough is open to all technology and engineering enthusiasts to meet, discuss and share knowledge.

It's time Cambridge woke up to the power of NodeJS & JavaScript! We are a friendly group who meet monthly to discuss NodeJS and the wider JavaScript ecosystem.  Each month we have one or two talks by guest speakers or our own members. All skill levels very welcome!

This is a group for anyone interested in NoSQL and related technologies. All skills levels are welcome. I've started this group because I see NoSQL as the future. Looking forward to exploring that future with everyone else.

We are a community of data scientists, technologists and analyts that work with data. This is a new meetup that aims to discuss the tools, methods and technologies used by many startups and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive insight, and exploit business opportunities from data products. We'll have data scientists talking about topics like: big data analytics, distributed data analytics, Pig, Hive, data mining, machine learning, scalable data analytics, predict …

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.

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 Reading Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Reading to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.

Backbone.js is the leading MV* framework for Javascript. While it is fairly simple to learn the basics of Backbone.js, mastering it is a completely different story. We will try to bring together the best Backbone.js developers in London, to share their knowledge and help newcomers.

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.

This group will focus on the use of Amazon CloudSearch for the development and deployment of search applications. Amazon CloudSearch is a fully-managed search service in the AWS cloud that allows customers to easily integrate fast and highly scalable search functionality into their applications. Meetup presentations and discussions will cover topics such as: User case studies and lessons learned Getting started with CloudSearch Ranking and relevance tuning Working with other AWS services This gr …