DetroitRuby is a group of brave rubyists that meet on the second Thursday of every month in downtown Detroit at the recently renovated Compuware building just beside Campus Martius. Folks in attendance have a wide variety of knowledge from ruby to erlang to java.  Topics of discussion tend to have a some web technology or strategy around them.  We embrace open source and welcome people of any skill level to learn and maybe even teach us a thing or two.

This group brings together R users in the Lansing area. R is an open source statistical platform used in academia and industry to analyze and explore data. The group will provide a means to exchange ideas and discuss R. Whether you are new to R (and programming) or an expert, we are the group for you.

Do you code in .NET? Do you live in Windsor / Essex County or the surrounding areas? Let's get together to form a community! The goal of this group is to talk about all things .NET from Web to Desktop to Mobile. There will be an emphasis on open source software and cross platform development using .NET based technologies or technologies that work well with .NET!

Meet nearby MySQL Users for conversation and fun! Come to a local MySQL Meetup to talk about the world's most popular open source database, get great tips and share new ideas. All levels of experience welcome!

The Great Lakes Community Leadership Summit 2013 will be based on the CLS in Portland each year. The GL-CLS will bring together community leaders, organizers and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growing and empowering a strong community. The event pulls together the leading minds in community management, relations and online collaboration to discuss, debate and continue to refine the art of building an effective and capable community. At the heart of Community L …

Detroit Node aims to bring together developers interested in this up and coming technology.  We're looking to have open hack sessions and are open to facilitating presentations in the future.  Come be a part of the Technology Revolution in Detroit!

This is a group for getting great programmers and developers together, sharing ideas openly and expanding your knowledge of Python development. Bring your own Python questions and problems, and work with a group to find a solution.

Welcome to the Detroit Java User Group! The Detroit Java User Group brings together members of the Metro Detroit software development community to share ideas, discuss industry advances and explore the use of Java, JVM based technologies, development methodologies and practices. Our members are a community of like minded individuals seeking first hand, practical exposure to code, best practices, tools and cutting-edge solutions. We meet regularly in the Metro Detroit area to network, attend qu …

Are you ready to make something awesome? Have you used or are you familiar with .NET Micro Framework, .NET Gadgeteer or Arduino? Do you know of any cool new maker technology? Join other Metro Detroit hackers for monthly workshops! We are looking for students, engineers, hobbyist and anyone who is enthusiastic!

The group meets regularly for an hour presentation, followed by a discussion. Software engineers, information architects, business analysts, technical managers who are interested in the information retrieval field are welcome to participate and present.

We are a hackerspace based in the city of Windsor, Ontario, Canada. We are a collective of technology enthusiasts, software engineers, hardware hackers, expatriates from the automotive industry, and librarians with straight-up super powers. We are community-oriented, focused on team projects that bring people together and pointed in the same direction. Please come out and meet us, we're always looking for friendly and interesting people to meet and work with!

To network GNU/Linux users. Ubuntu? Fedora? openSUSE? You name it, we'll probably be discussing it. If you're a Linux user, server admin (or anything else that involves) Linux you are welcome!

The Makers Alliance is Cleveland's Hackerspace. We exist to bring hands-on technology and art to members and the general public, through workshops, talks, and shop space. We are a collective of hobbyists, hackers, engineers, and students that desire to educate, innovate, and make some new friends while we are at it. Please join the Makers Alliance Discuss mailing list and introduce yourself!

We are excited to launch a version of Coffee House Coders in Detroit called DetCoffeeCode. This group is geared towards new and expert coders as well as entrepreneurs who are running a start-up. The group meets the last Thursday of every month Downtown at Starbucks. Attendees have knowledge in various coding languages. So if you are a new coder, freelancing or a start-up come Downtown and join us! Please follow us on twitter for the latest updates @DetCoffeeCode .

This is a group for anyone interested in contributing to a walking robot. Tech, DIY, hobbyist robotists, engineers, and investors may be interested in this. There is work for all types of people from mechanical construction, CAD design, Arduino type control, Rasberry PI brains, etc. A preliminary design has been layed out and will be provided for open source development. Specific tasks can be assigned or jump in and add your own improvements. We will meet locally in the Rochester Michigan area, …

Code Craft is a space for software developers of all flavors to come together and practice their craft. We practice casually at Coding Dojos and occasionally present more formally what we have learned at MeetUps. We tend to enjoy things like Acceptance & Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, User-Driven Design and all things Agile & Lean.

The Cleveland Big Data and Hadoop User Group is for those interested in using and discussing all technologies in the Hadoop family (HBase, HDFS, MapReduce, etc.), as well as other technologies in the big data space

Meet with fellow Joomla! users and web designers in the Metro Detroit area. Discuss how Joomla! can meet your web needs. Learn from other local users. Organized seminar format Question and answer time General Topics Include but not Limited to... Hosting Installation Templates Components Maintenance SEO E-commerce Social Media

If you're new to coding or a seasoned developer, Coffee House Coders is for you. We meet every other Wednesday on UM's campus to work on side projects, talk about technology, and meet other coders. Within the group, we have expert coders in a variety of different languages. Some members have volunteered to be mentors, so if you are looking for help getting started coding, working on a course assignment, or freelancing, feel free to get in touch and we'll find someone to help.

For Drupal users, admins, developers, and the curious -- in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Come meet other users of the Drupal Content Management Framework to learn and share!

Meet fellow web designers near you! Come to a Web Design Meetup to compare tools, languages, and templates; trade advice on careers, rates, and freelancing; and share cool websites. Make valuable contacts as you mingle with new friends!

Learn how to easily design, build, and maintain a web site for your business, community group, corporation, or family using Drupal, a free and powerful web publishing software package. You can use Drupal to build and maintain a small business web site, a blog, a community discussion forum, a wedding site, and many other types of web sites without any HTML or other programming skills. Got Drupal skills? Come and share with the rest of the group! We meet in different locations between Detroit and …

This is a group for anyone interested in Raspberry Pi. Raspberry Pi is a credit-card sized computer that plugs into your TV and a keyboard, which only cost $35. It’s a capable little PC which can be used for many of the things that your desktop PC does, like spreadsheets, word-processing and games. It also plays high-definition video. We will explore Raspberry Pi and discuss projects that people are working on. Please bring your Raspberry Pi if you have one or you can use one of ours.

Grow the craft of software development by practicing it and helping others to practice it. Local meetups and events to grow the professional software development community and bring vitality and innovation to Genesee County. Sometimes in coordination with events such as Global Day of Code Retreat. "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss

I'm a big fan of MongoDB and we use it quite extensively at my company (Cloud CMS). We'd like to promote the use of MongoDB - the premier document-oriented NoSQL database - among the Cleveland business and tech community!

Cleveland has a big IT community but I couldn't find a ExtJS/ Sencha Touch users group in this area. Hence I decided to start/ support and present to cater to this large community. The purpose of this group is to collaborate on development experiences, tips, tricks around ExtJS/ Sencha Touch/ Javascript in General. If you have interest in development using Javascript, ExtJS or Sencha Touch and are in Cleveland/ Mentor area, then you should definitely check-out this group!