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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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

If you're interested in the new breed of databases -- Riak, MongoDB, Cassandra and others -- and you want to learn more about them and chat with others about NoSQL and big data, come and join our group. We'll have regular meet-ups in and near to Birmingham, with the best speakers as well as food and drink provided by a sponsor.

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