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.

Meetup for developers or users of the Magento platform in Birmingham and the West Midlands. Open for topic and event suggestions.

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 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.

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 …

HydraHack is a meetup for developers in Birmingham, who enjoy meeting likeminded people. 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. Some event …

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 …

The Oxford Drupal Users' Group exists to hold regular informal meetings for anyone interested in Drupal who is in or around Oxford.

A monthly meetup to play with .NET Gadgeteer :)

...a new social/learning group for people in/around the West 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.

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.

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

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.

This is a group for anyone interested in scale-out storage and IT infrastructure in general. Designed to pull together like minded people from all types of organisations to share their experiences, pain and successes in building out their IT infrastructures in times of ever changing technology choices and supporting the rapid increase in the amount of data being produced. Please use this as a forum to discuss issues online, but there will also be the opportunity to meet up regularly. Watch this …

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 place where web developers can meet, chat and share experience with fellow professionals.  We hold regular hack nights to introduce members to new technologies and methodologies. Developers, designers, entrepreneurs and the curious all welcome.

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

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

...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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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A Thoroughly Western Teaching Your life is a mystery. Every child is born with a connection to this mystery but we are pulled out and away from it by the world of relating, achieving, aggression, information and knowledge. We all came into life to try and get something and most people spend their whole life chasing this something outside of themselves through experience. But if you have suffered enough from this endless outer pursuit for happiness and fulfilment then it can be very helpful to m …

The Oneiro Foundation has been created in order to help its members to learn the true nature of reality through the medium of Lucid Dreaming and Out of Body Exploration. Becoming aware within the dream state opens up the channel for direct communication with the source consciousness and allows access to the deeper levels of reality. Our aim is to assist all members in discovering their true multi-dimensional nature and to help them achieve personal and group evolution.