Meet other local users of WordPress, the Internet's most popular blogging platform and fastest growing content management system. Gather and discuss the best ways to work WordPress, develop and design themes and plugins, tips and tricks for WordPress, and more. Group is for beginners and experts alike so come out and share your love for WordPress! We plan on discussing a variety of topics including WordPress usage, designing WordPress Themes and styles, creating WordPress Plugins and Widgets, an …

Meet with other users of the open-source programming language. Previous this meetup focused only on the R language, but now are focused on all open-source data analysis tools; oincluding but not limited to, Python, WEKA, Sage, etc. Learn and share tricks and techniques from and with other users. Beginners welcome.

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 …

This group is a place for developers to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database and many of the key committers are based right here in New York City. 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. We typically meet on the third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and enjoy a p …

Central New Jersey area Drupal users group. All experience levels welcome. We usually meet in the Princeton area. We are also part of groups.drupal.org (groups.drupal.org/new-jersey) "Drupal is a free, open-source software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website." -drupal.org

The Philadelphia WordPress Meetup Group is a group of WordPress enthusiasts in and around the Philadelphia area. We love working with WordPress in a variety of different ways. Join us and learn about WordPress and all it has to offer! Meet other local users of WordPress, the Internet's most popular blogging platform and fastest growing content management system. Gather and discuss the best ways to work WordPress, develop and design themes and plugins, tips and tricks for WordPress, and more.  T …

NewJerseyR NewJerseyR will be a free informal event, held quarterly and intended to serve as a platform for all local (and regional) R users to present and exchange their experiences and ideas around the usage of R. A typical meeting will consist of 3-4 talks of about 20-25 min to give plenty of room for sharing your R experiences, discussions and exchange of ideas. What is R? R is a language and environment for statistical computing and graphics. It is a GNU project which is similar to the S l …

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 …

Code for Philly—a Code for America Brigade—would like to invite you to come join us.  We are PHL-based developers, designers, catalogers, organizers, and other citizens working to build a better Philadelphia by applying web technology to government and communities.  We meet weekly, usually Tuesday evenings, and work on a variety of projects building PHL 2.0.  You can join an existing project, create a new one, or bring in something you're already working on and get CfP to help out.  We welcome a …

The Philly Open Developer and Design group is open to everyone interested in Software and Web Development. If you ever have, or have been interested in designing or developing your own website, desktop software, mobile application, or any other computer related tool, join us twice at the Philly Open meet-ups. These meetups will consist of presentations from local designers and developers, and they will share their expertise on different skills. If you are looking for fun projects to get involved …

IXR is a new makerspace at the Jersey Shore, located at the InfoAge Science and History Learning Center in Wall, NJ (at the former Camp Evans).  We are an open collective of geeks, artists, and techie-creative-types who come together to share tools, resources, knowledge, and ideas. IXR’s mission is to help lower the barriers to invention, creativity, and innovation - by providing access to resources, equipment, and community - that an individual maker may not have otherwise. We embrace the shari …

This group is a place for developers to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. We started this group to grow a more robust community of MongoDB Developers in Philadelphia and provide a place to share knowledge and experience on working with the database in different languages, frameworks and applications. 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 …

GeoNYC brings together enthusiasts, users, and developers interested in the technical and social aspects of maps.  Whether you're that desktop aficionado, rand mcnally addict, mobile application savant, open source evangelist, or spatial student of tomorrow -- if you ever wonder at the power of maps to visualize and transform our worlds -- this meetup is for you. An open, friendly, educational salon of geospatial ideas and projects. Events are held within a social environment focused on a handfu …

This group is for everyone interested in building flying robots (a/k/a UAV, UAS, or Drone). We have a bias towards using open source platforms such as Ardupilot, Paparrazzi, Gluon, etc, but all are welcome.

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.

This group is a place for anyone to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. We started this group to grow a more robust community of MongoDB Developers in the South Jersey area and provide a place to share knowledge and experience on working with the database in different languages, frameworks and applications. 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 …

The Philadelphia Talend Meetup Group is dedicated to learning and exchanging Talend best practices expanding the use of Talend's open source ETL tools.

Northern New Jersey area Drupal users group. All experience levels welcome. We usually meet at the New Jersey Institute of Technology or around that area. We are also part of groups.drupal.org (http://groups.drupal.org/node/234853) "Drupal is a free, open-source software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website" - drupal.org

Meet others in Philly 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.

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 …

Welcome to the NYC Private and Hybrid 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. Private clouds give users immediate access to computing resources hosted within an organization's infrastructure. Users self-provision and scale collections of resources drawn from the private cloud, typically via web service interface, just as w …

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 …

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.

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.

The Design Task Force for Global Change is an interdisciplinary team that addresses the citizen usability of software and mobile applications with organizations such as The Guardian Project, Open Internet Tools Project, Witness.org, Georgia Law Society Project, and many more. Comprised of designers and open source developers, The Task Force meets semi-regularly to discuss the UX/UI/design strengths and weaknesses of current software projects in development; discuss software usability from a desi …

What is CloudStack? Apache CloudStack (Incubating) is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable, hypervisor agnostic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premise (private) cloud offerings. Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foun …

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.