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.

Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform for the greater NYC Area.

SCOSUG is the Southern Connecticut Open Source User Group. Our members enjoy using aspects of open source software from operating systems to applications and programming. We are based in Southern Connecticut but you don't need to live here to belong! Find our site at http://scosug.org

Our purpose is to create a network of Joomla Users who can offer expertise, experience, and education with those who have interest in Joomla in the Greater CT area. We will have a monthly meeting for networking, key speakers, training, and general idea sharing. The Joomla!(R) name is used under a limited license from Open Source Matters in the United States and other countries. Joomla!UserGroupCT is not affiliated with or endorsed by Open Source Matters or the Joomla! Project

A group of passionate FreeSWITCH enthusiasts exchanging ideas in an open forum. We're here to explore not just FreeSWITCH but other telecommunications initiatives around open source telephony. The group will consist of formal trainings, informal install fests, lots of Q&A time and general time to just share ideas and meet people. This group is founded by Darren Schreiber - the author of FreePBX v3, FreeSWITCH's mod_nibblebill module and various other open-source telecom software. Meetings …

With online video becoming a native part of every online interaction, it is crucial that we use agreed standards, and discuss ways to keep video open and free for all. The Kaltura Open Video Group brings together thinkers, hackers, designers and innovators who wish to learn and collaborate on new projects related to online video, and to ease consumption of media online. The group hosts meetups in various cities around the world and holds online webinars and everyone is welcome to present inter …

Open Source Fashion brings like minded people together to openly share ideas, contacts, and expertise with each other for the benefit of the entire community, and our individual projects. The continuous emergence of new technologies and products are constantly changing how businesses are being conducted.  If you represent a fashion brand, e-commerce portal, boutique, fashion media outlet, or a related technology - Open Source Fashion is for YOU! We organize events in multiple cities that make l …

OpenStack is a collection of open source technology products delivering a scalable, secure, standards-based cloud computing software solution.  It is used by corporations, service providers, VARS, SMBs, researchers, and global data centers looking to deploy large-scale cloud deployments for private or public clouds leveraging the support and resulting technology of a global open source community. Join us in discussions from users perspectives on OpenStack and cloud computing in general.  Once a …

What is crisismapping? Crisismappers are online teams of people who gather and provide data online to people responding to and people caught up in disasters. Crisismapping has been around for a while, but for most people it started with the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where all the government and NGO information needed to respond to the earthquake was lost in the earthquake. We created online maps from satelllite images, put SMS and media reports onto an Ushahidi map, got documents into Sahana, …

Open to all interested in Cassandra in the greater Boston area.

eZ Publish (pronounced "easy publish") is an Open Source Content Management System that provides a platform for multi-channel publishing. eZ Publish is ideal for the development of customized web and mobile applications. The mission of the New York eZ User Community is to lead the community in the New York area, to facilitate collaboration between the local community and eZ Systems, to encourage sharing of relevant ideas, experiences, and "best practices" among members, and to foster innovation …

Welcome to the Greater Hartford Python Group! Learn Python. Or, learn more Python. Join us and become a more effective software architect and developer! Welcome to the Greater Hartford Python Group--where you will meet fellow software and Python enthusiasts and professionals--as we work to build and strengthen the community of software architects and developers; Python and Python-based application developers, architects and designers; and other computing technologists in Connecticut. Python is a …

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

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

MHVLUG has been sharing Linux and Open Source knowledge in the Mid-Hudson Valley for the past 9 years. For more info check out our website, and sign up on our mailings lists.

A group of web developers meets monthly to build web apps and learn how to do it right and fast using open source, web standards and various API (e.g. Facebook, Twitter, Google, Meetup and more). @StartupAPI The list of topics ranges from Security and Identity to Usability and Analytics. If you know a good topic we should discuss, please add it to the wiki, maybe even add some links to good articles / videos about it. We also code web applications right at the meetings - using whatever we want …

Unigroup is the oldest and largest Unix User's Group (Unix/Linux/BSD) serving the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s. Unigroup has been serving the NYC Unix Community for over 30 years! Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor and platform neutral, member funded, volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix User Community. Most Unigroup meetings are open to the public! Unigroup p …

The Reverse Startup is an accelerated product launch camp, driven by the open source community, focused on rapid prototyping and rapid execution around a series of proof-of-concept exercises. Encompassing a wide range of topics, this group is ideal for developers, designers, technologists, marketing professionals and entrepreneurs. The Reverse Startup is a non-profit organization, dedicated to the community and helping people actualize their dreams and professional goals. We endeavor to come tog …

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

We're a group of Boston-area activists trying to make government more open and accessible.  We partner frequently with the Sunlight Foundation, other meetups like Hacks/Hackers and  the Boston Python user group, and local activists and office-holders to help make government more accountable at the national, state, and local level. We have: - monthly project nights, where folks can work on their own projects or our current group project, Open Cities - coffee shop meetups for folks to discuss open …

Code together, on anything. Hack New York is a meetup for computer programmers and enthusiasts to get together and work on software together!  You can work on anything! Any language, framework, public/open-source, personal, etc. You don’t have to have an idea to work on and you’re more than welcome to come hang out or pair with someone. Please note this group is not for illegal activities or computer security research specifically. It's just about programmers getting out and sharing with each ot …

Group people who develop application with Python on Django framework. We love open source, we love web applications

For those who want to design, engineer, and build innovative products using community and online tools. Physical products create and shape our environment. Everything from your razor to your house started as and idea, which was brought to life by a talented engineer or designer. Open Engineering is all about making this process faster with higher quality results. We will explore topics related to design, engineering, and manufacturing. Sometimes we will bring in open hardware projects to present …

MODX Open Source Content Management System (CMS) is a content management platform and PHP application framework. It is the fastest and easiest CMS for developing robust custom SEO friendly websites. We have found it to be the friendliest CMS for the broadest spectrum of stakeholders, including: business managers, content managers, web designers, and programmers. If you are a MODX pro or a neophyte join us for in depth discussions about MODX best practices, tips, and opportunities. We are focused …

The purpose of this group is to unite a strong community of doers eager to conceive of, design, make, test and clearly document open source hardware for the world-wide Maker Community. The group will share idea's, information, expertise and resources while developing open hardware in order to bring personal manufacturing to the masses or just for your own personal use. Whether you're an engineer, designer, tinkerer, inventor, programmer or someone interested in making the DIY world a better plac …

Government is one of the largest producers and consumers of Data. Open Data — data about us, for us, and paid by us, is now being released by forward-looking governments. This meetup is for anyone interested in using this Big Open Data to create all kinds of innovations - both for profit and the public good.

For fifteen years, Mozilla has been defending the open web and leading in its advancement. Now with ambitious new projects such as FirefoxOS and Webmaker, Mozilla is taking things to a whole 'nother level! This meetup group is for people who want to get in on the open web action!

If you believe that there is scope for financial institutions to expand their use of Opensource applications (Or if you don’t but would like to join the debate anyway) then please join us for a monthly meetup. Where possible I will arrange guest speakers. My sense is that there is scope to develop more enterprise level open source applications in finance. Open Gamma has already done this successfully with its risk management application. The Lodestone Foundation, sponsored by Deutsche Bank, has …