"A civic hacker is an open source software developer who uses his or her skills to make their community and country a better place. ... A civic hacker will just do something, not asking for permission, ignoring government bureaucracy, in order to build tools and technologies with a civic-minded bent." -- Luigi Montanez Help transform Cleveland and Cuyahoga County using your design or development skills. Let's get together to clean up unstructured data, catalog public datasets, build apps, create …

This is a group for anyone interested in Linux and Open Source Software. All skill levels are welcome. Make new friends and sharpen your tech skills in a very friendly and welcoming environment!

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!

Calling all programmers! Programming languages don't get enough In this group attendees can expect to join a forum where any and all features of a language are open for discussion, with the end goal of improving the groups knowledge as a whole. At last count, there are hundreds of programming languages on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages This group aims to cover most of them (eventually), thereby providing a way for sharing knowledge of their existence. Some …

Come and meet people that share your passion for Joomla! We are a group of users, designers, developers, and administrators that deal with Joomla! on a regular basis, and we encourage any Joomla! user (from novice to expert) to join and share their insights. We intend to cover other topics (such as MySQL, PHP, jQuery, Testing, Performance Tuning, etc.) as well, but mainly from the perspective of the Joomla! framework. So, come and join, and we'll see you soon. Joomla! User Group North East Ohio …

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

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!

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!

Welcome to SYN/HAK, the Akron Hackerspace. We are an infrastructure provider for people who want to make things. Hackerspace, n: A community-operated place where people can meet and work on their projects. Developing something cool? Want to get your geek on with other techies in the Akron area? Do you know the difference between a microcontroller and a table? Maybe you want to combine the two somehow. Then SYN/HAK might be a good place for you to check out. Visit Us: SYNHAK 21 West North S …

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!

This group is for anyone interested in Information Security news, events, and training in the Cleveland Area.

Calling those passionate about software craftsmanship to share, pair and sharpen your saw.

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.

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!

Come join other local amateur philosophers the first Wednesday of each month from 7-9pm as we explore the answers to life’s most profound questions at The Thinkers’ Club. Modeled on the Socrates Café concept, the Thinkers’ Club is a reading and discussion group intended to provide a fun, non-judgmental forum to discuss and debate philosophical topics with other critical thinkers. The group will read primary and secondary sources in the history of philosophy as well as in fiction, history, poli …