PyLadies is an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings. PyLadies also aims to provide a friendly support network for women and a bridge to the larger Python world. Anyone with an interest in Python is encouraged to participate!

Welcome to LA Joomla everybody!  We're a dedicated group of Joomla oriented web masters and web 2.0 users.  Our meetings are open to all ability levels and we look forward to having you join us.    You'll learn everything you need to know to get up and running with Joomla and customize it to fit your particular needs.  Lets help make 2013 the best year for Joomla in LA yet!

This group was started to create a forum for experienced and aspiring web/mobile software entrepreneurs: product strategists, CTOs, hackers, CEOs, COOs, designers, developers/engineers, Scrum coaches, information architects, project managers. We will meet frequently to dscuss the rapidly changing web/mobile consumer software space: - New technologies - New apps! - Cutting-edge hardware releases - Startup process and incubation - Open systems - Development process efficiency/theory - Idea i …

"We are meant to be happy. That has always been something we strive for in this life. In fact, if we look at the motivations behind our thoughts and action conscious and unconscious they are all to get us closer to the feeling, or at least the idea, of happiness. Some of us have long asked why we cannot hold on to happiness. For all of the scholarship and human insights across the centuries, nobody has found a complete and enduring answer. Perhaps because it has been too close to see… The ans …

This group has been created to bring together users of Alfresco Content Management. Technical and non-technical users are invited to become a member to exchange information, code, use cases, case studies, demos, ideas and to make new friends.

Geographical Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS) is an open source software/programming GIS project that can be used for raster, vector, and geospatial data analysis, as well as, modeling, image processing, and visualization. This group is aimed to bring together practitioners (from industry and academia alike) in order to exchange knowledge and experience in solving spatial data analysis/statistical problems by using GRASS. Emphasis will also be given to problems involving GRASS and oth …

This group will focus on the use of Amazon CloudSearch for the development and deployment of search applications. Amamzon CloudSearch is a fully-managed search service in the cloud that runs in the AWS cloud. Presentations and discussions will cover topics such as: Set up and getting started with CloudSearch Configuring search fields Relevance tuning APIs and integration Security Working with other AWS services User cases and lessons learned This group is for anyone interested in search technolo …

Calling all LA Tech Leaders, Devops Leaders, IT Managers / Directors, Infrastructure Managers, Operations Managers and anyone who has leadership and/or decision making responsibilities and would like to network with others in the same boat. Do you straddle the line between DOING operations and RUNNING operations? The goal of this group is to be able to share our challenges, compare notes and become better informed tech leaders. What worked and what didn't. If you are in a leadership position an …

The Topanga WordPress Meetup Group meets on the third Thursday of every month from 6-8pm in the main meeting room of the Topanga Public Library. We will announce the topics for each session with time for open discussion, QA and time to socialize. This is a free event and open to all. We are Los Angeles based wordpress developers, designers, coders, marketing experts and bloggers united in our passion for the best CMS (content management solution) on the planet. We look forward to sharing ideas, …

A group for anyone interested in jQuery, the classiest JavaScript library out there. All levels welcome from absolute beginners to advanced users. We meet on the 3rd Wednesday of each month - in Culver City for odd months and downtown for even months.

We are Tech in Motion: LA. This group is designed for anyone and everyone interested in technology. If you are a tech lover, an expert in the field or simply want to know more about the industry this is the place for you. Tech in Motion: LA is designed for you, so let’s make this group amazing and help bring the sprawling Los Angeles Tech community closer and do something great! Have something cool you want to hear discussed? Tell us about it! *We already have 2 staffing firms dedicated to offe …

We are a group of people who love and use the Django web framework. Whether you consider yourself a professional developer, a hobbyist, or are simply curious to see if Django is for you, please join us for our monthly meeting!

If you love testable JavaScript, this group is for you! If you want to getting into testing your code, jump in!

Join us for the first networking event to meet and greet other SFV SharePoint professionals.

Organizing and listing developer events across the Los Angeles Metropolitan area.

Presented by:  The CONTENT Conference .CONTENT. The merging of Technology between three major industries: Music TV/Film Publishing & how companies can distribute quality content that can be monetized. ______________________ technology • engagement • delivery monetize • distribution • social interactive • creation • compliance _______________ Types of discussion topics: •Monetizing the Intersection of Entertainment and Technology •How Entertainment Can Monetize the Digital World •Leveraging th …

Attention! Our official web site will be http://www.laphp.org/ We are currently building the official web site for our group, but until it is done the URL above will redirect to this meetup page. Los Angeles PHP Developers Group (LAPHP)  is a vibrant community of like-minded web developers who are working with or interested in PHP and related technologies.  We are meeting regularly at least once a month for high level talks on the technology topics and to mingle and network together with fellow …

Los Angeles Accessibility and Inclusive Design Group We are accessibility and inclusive design practitioners of differing abilities who want to help practitioners who are either unaware of or hesitant to engage in accessible and inclusive design. Many of us work in large organizations with just one or two other colleagues in similar roles, as independent consultants, or in small businesses alone. This is a great way to meet other web accessibility and inclusive design practitioners. If you would …

Los Angeles CoffeeScript CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Underneath that awkward Java-esque patina, JavaScript has always had a gorgeous heart. CoffeeScript is an attempt to expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way. Who We Are We're a group of professionals so in love with CoffeeScript we've developed our own tutorials. We're starting this meetup to show others why we enjoy developing in CoffeeScript and to interact with others who are also using Coff …

This group is dedicated to increase gender diversity in the Ruby community by helping women learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails via an ongoing series of weekly meetups in the Westside of the Los Angeles area, primarily meeting in Santa Monica. We are geared to help, primarily, women learn Ruby On Rails. Our aim is to build a rock-solid community of women programmers, specializing on Rails that support each other with a community spirit. You may have absolutely no coding experience to advanced skills, a …

This is a group for anyone interested in talking about using Chef as part of building and maintaining an automated infrastructure. Get together with like-minded sysadmins, systems engineers, configuration management and devops spirited type folks to share experiences, tips, tricks and to talk about real life strategies for deploying and maintaining your Chef infrastructure.

We're a group of Linux enthusiasts, from hard core hackers to people who just use Linux on the weekends. We don't judge, we're here to help, and we love meeting new people!

Anyone interested in or using THTML 5, Node.js, Javascript, CSS 3 and other related frameworks/technologies in the Los Angeles / Southern California Area

We are a group of people in the San Fernando Valley / Los Angeles area who love and use a variety of programming languages: Python, JavaScript, PHP, Ruby, Perl, Java, Clojure, Objective-C, C++, C#, C and many more. This group is for Software Developers only!

Ruby Power Lunch is a collection of some of the best ruby developers in the world. We meet about once a month for lunch to share ideas, challenges and solutions with our peers. In addition to monthly face-to-face meeting opportunities, we use the group discussion and mailing list to keep on the (b)leading edge of ruby tech.

This group is a collaboration between eHarmony, Edmunds, and Riot Games to discuss and promote the role of DevOps in the operations of large scale online operations. Developers, Operations engineers, and people who straddle the fence will find value in learning how others solve our common problems.

This group meets on a weekly basis to participate in a guided visualization meditation technique. This technique is ancient Tibetan in origin and is easily accessible beginners and for those having trouble quieting their minds. The guided visualization helps to keep the mind focused while visualizing high frequency energetic structures in the body that jump start the body into a meditative state. The technique opens one up to their own magic by teaching a wide variety of tools. These tools have …