About Us and About You This is one of the best social technical group, positive and progressive meetup group. We are a small and enthusiastic group. We can give you good advice and guidance and support your adventure into owning a website; from planning for one, building one, managing one and connecting with commercial and social market places. Our group does not just focus on one web technology, we experience an array of web technologies.  Join us and you will have wished you started earlier. …

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.

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 …

There's a massive pool of search technology expertise and experience in London (and nearby), but it's currently locked away in mailing lists and cubicles. We want to bring some of that out into the open to share war stories, advice, and business cards over a quiet beer.

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 …

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 …

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 …

We think Drupal is an awesome content management and development framework (see www.drupal.org) The Learning Drupal Meetup is for people who are interested in sharing experience and knowledge about all things Drupal. It's a great opportunity for some informal Drupal learning and for exchanging ideas of better ways to learn Drupal concepts and solutions. The meetup is free, organised by volunteers and open to anyone who is interested in learning more about Drupal in an informal, collaborative w …

The Open Computing Initiative (TOCI) will be an organisation which has been founded with the purpose of colaboratively producing technologies and software which will better serve Humanity and the Planet. Mission Statement The Purpose of The Open Computing Initiative is to Create a Platform which will Assist the Self Driven Evolution of Humanity and Integration with Nature Through Greater Vision and Understanding. Values Open – Owned by All, for the Greater Benefit of All Vision – To Enabl …

For like minded, local developers who wish to push their skills to the next level. All levels welcome from beginners to experts. Typical technologies include: Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS etc), Shell/Bash, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPUnit, Zend Framework, CakePHP, Doctrine, caching, memcache, html, xhtml, css, javascript (js), jQuery (ajax, animation), xml, W3C, SVN, Git, Hudson CI, Bamboo, Ant, Selenium, Design patterns, Best practices, TDD, Open meetings, nagios... Most groups are in London, so …

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.

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.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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!

A group devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the London Metro area. Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data analytical solutions.

Open to all interested in PyData, NumPy, SciPy, etc

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.

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

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

Free beer to meet us at a pub. Turn up, drink and leave, or turn up talk to us about our Open Source Software and see if it's any good. If you like it then please join our Alpha community. SoftwareFM is an Free Open Source project, at Alpha release, that brings a combination of a wiki and a social network for Java developers using the Eclipse IDE, that shows the relevant wiki page for the code you are working on, and shows which of your friends uses that software. This group aim is to create an …

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 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 …

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 …

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 …

It would be great to connect Open Source advocates in and around the Horsham area getting them to meet together to discuss / disect / build on / contribute to / found Open Source software projects. Doesn't matter what languages, skill levels you have. Just a keen interest in the area and the desire to have some fun.