The meetup.com information page for the Official CiviCRM London meetups. CiviCRM is an open source donor and constituent management solution for non profits and member organisations. Meetups are a great way to: network with the CiviCRM community find out about how people are making the most out of CiviCRM discover if CiviCRM is suitable for your organisation learn about what is coming up in future releases Meetups generally start at 6.00pm and finish about 8.30pm, but do come along earlier as …

Meet others in your local area interested in PostgreSQL: The World's Most Advanced Open Source Database. Discuss this open source database and share the tips and tricks you've learned using it.

Share tools, tips, and war stories about using ElasticSearch, the open-source search engine and document store built on Apache Lucene.

Welcome to the Spring of Code group! The project is based on the ethics of open data, free software, open source and creative commons. So join up, and shout out what's missing from the online tools already out there and how we can make them work better. What happens in a meeting? People meet people, projects get put on socially useful tracks, focus. What happens between meetings? People buddy up on projects, hack, design, get creative and update on site their progress. Where do I ask for help o …

The London Java Community (LJC) is a group of Java Enthusiasts who are interested in benefiting from shared knowledge in the industry. Through our forum and regular meetings you can keep in touch with the latest industry developments, learn new Java (& other JVM) technologies, meet other developers, discuss technical/non technical issues and network further throughout the Java Community. FAQ What is the LJC? What goes on in the LJC? Who can join? Is there a fee to Join, is there a fee for the e …

Meet PHP users, developers and recruiters near you! Come to PHP London to exchange ideas and talk about code, architecture, innovation, and open source in general. Anyone interested in PHP is welcome!

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.

The CWDNUG is a monthly meetup for .NET developers, with a focus on what's relevant (and what's about to be relevant) to developers in the wharf, on the first Wednesday of every month. Expect to see topics such as: WPF & Silverlight. F# & other alternative languages. High volume systems & complex event processing. Agile tools, methodologies and experiences. Open source systems that you can use (or that need your help!). Upcoming releases from Microsoft (WP7, VS2010, TPL). This meetup's …

The 40 Fires Foundation is a forum to develop energy-efficient cars using an open source approach. If you are an engineer, a designer or simply an enthusiast interested in helping to make cleaner cars available to all, we want to hear from you! This Meetup group is part of this effort and we aim to meet regularly initially in London. Our starting point is the design schematics licensed to us by Riversimple. Riversimple has built a hydrogen fuel cell powered network electric car which was unvei …

Are you interested in Twitter's open source distributed realtime computation framework "Storm" & based in London? Then this meetup is for you. We get together to share use cases, experiences and tips on how to use this framework. "Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation." Project GitHub Group photo courtesy of Paul Bica

LondonR meeting 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. LondonR 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 sessi …

Meet up over a pint and meet other makers, technologists, educators and people-in-sheds engaged in using or simply interested in the new wave of affordable and accessible technology lead by the Raspberry Pi. We are a community formed to inspire the use of open source hardware and software in projects for fun, education and creation through technology. We will meet for a pint on the last Wednesday of each month (maybe more if there is demand) - looking forward to meeting other like-minded souls a …

The Pentaho London Usergroup ( PLUG ) has been reformed, now with support directly from Pentaho. We meet to find out the latest goings on with the Pentaho stack, and also to discuss and learn about related technologies. Learning what other users are doing with the product also becomes a great source of inspiration for all. The Pentaho community in London is also growing rapidly (partly fuelled by the rise in Big Data) so come down and make some new contacts. Our events are deliberately kept tech …

What Topics? Java & JEE, Design & DDD, OpenSource.NET, Ajax & RIA, Cloud&Grid, SOA What kind of events? We organise free evening events, which we call In-the-Brain Sessions, through these sessions we hope to give you the opportunity to have a peek in the brain of Technology creators and industry thinkers, shakers and movers! We host various User Group meetings, enabling the community to meet up in our fully equiped premises and share skills and ideas, for example, the London JAVAWUG and .NET Use …

Product Designers and Wholesale Buyers :: The product design and development industry is scattered and difficult to navigate. There are plenty of design expo's to attend, but (as yet) designers have no clear path for launching a product. Similarly, wholesale buyers cant easily source innovative new product designs. This meetup is the opportunity for product designers, buyers, manufacturers, hackers, techies and industry specialists to meet face-to-face, with a clear agenda: Understanding how to …

If you interested in FirefoxOS ,HTML5, JS, mobile and the open web? Get together with other developers, open web advocates and people passionate about mobile to talk about how we can keep the web free, share best practise and more. It doesn't matter if you are an experienced coder or just want to learn more, everyone is welcome :) We'll be running meetups, hangouts, tutorials and maybe even hackday in the future, so come join us!

The Erlang User Group is a group of Erlang Enthusiasts who are interested in sharing their knowledge and meeting people who share similar interests. The group is open to Erlang Architects, Programmers, Project Managers, Software and Platform Innovators, and existing Erlang users as well as Erlang newbies and anyone interested in Erlang. We arrange and promote regular events involving Erlang including free seminars and workshops, followed by the customary Erlounge.

wp-hooked is a forum/meetup for WordPress theme and/or plugin developers in London to get together and share issues, ideas and tips about WordPress. Our aim to create a developer led meet-up that helps encourage ideas and facilitate problem solving. The format will be a developer surgery, where people can bring ideas and problems for the group to talk about and/or work through. Members of the group can choose what we talk about and other members of the group can vote for so there is a democrat …

What is TechJobFair? TechJobsFair is everyone's favorite recruitment focussed Meetup in London. The events are free for jobseekers, well-liked and give employers a chance of convincing pitches to woo the best talent out there. Supported By: http://mindvisionconsultancy.co.uk/ - For the motivation to get up on Monday! Who goes to TechJobFair? TechJobsFair is open to all regardless of technical knowledge or professional background, but at a typical meeting you can expect to meet some or all of the …

Data Science London, the #datascience community We are a non-profit professional organisation dedicated to the free, open, dissemination of data science. We are a community of data scientists that meets regularly 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. Follow us on twitter @ds_ldn Read our blog www.datasciencelondon.com We'll have …

Here at 7digital we're getting all excited about DevOps. We like to think we've always had the open and collaborative culture that is intrinsic to the DevOps approach, and lately we've been spending quite a lot of time experimenting with various ways of working, team organisation, and technical tools. The DevOps community is a lively place, and we thought it'd be great to host a regular event where we could hear a short presentation and then have a good chat about whatever comes up over some dri …

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is the future of developer-centric cloud deployment. Our user group brings together people who are involved in building and using PaaS clouds to share their experiences, war stories and to work together shape an open future for PaaS.

The London Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related areas of interest, such as Agile testing, Test-Driven Development, Continuous Integration, Continuous Deployment, building maintainable automated test scripts and much more.

The Graduate Developer Community (GDC) is a community for undergraduates & recent graduates interested in Software Development. It is run by a leadership team comprising members of top technical consultancies, investment banks and the director of RecWorks Ltd, to help bridge the gap between the Academic, Open Source and Commercial worlds of the Software Development community. FAQ What is the GDC? Why was it founded? What goes on in the GDC? Who can join? Is there a fee to Join, is there a fee …

This group is aimed at anyone who has deployed or is interested in Information Management, especially Alfresco and its surrounding infrastructure. We are based in London and have regular pub meetups.

Enterprise search meetups are an opportunity to get together with other people doing search. Grab a drink, be challenged by one or two search-related talks, and join in the discussion. Topics can cover everything from ranking algorithms, to working with Solr and the Google Search Appliance, to designing the user interface. It's also a great way to network and stay on top of the latest developments in search. Disclaimer: This meetup is NOT about SEO. Topics covered at this meetup include: Enter …

Future Manufacturing is for anyone interested in applying new technologies to making physical products. By bringing together people with artisanal, digital manufacturing and creative design skills, the group exists to support collaboration between designers, makers, coders and traditional crafts(wo)men. Crowd funding, cheap technology, and open source/networked collaboration have revolutionised digital creativity and created a whole ecosystem of start-ups and digital cottage industries. Now 3D- …

Welcome to Big Data London - Europe's biggest Big Data community. Big Data London brings together people working on Big Data projects. If you're using Hadoop, Apache Cassandra or any other NoSQL related technology, if you're involved with web apps, enterprise apps, data analytics, financial apps or storage at massive scale, or simply want to learn more about the space, then you'll find something interesting here. So come and join us.