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 …

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 …

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 …

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!

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

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!

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!

"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 …

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.

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!

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!

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!

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

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!

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!

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 …

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 …

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 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.

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.

Code for Summit County is a Code for America Brigade headquartered in Akron, Ohio. We are developers, designers, data geeks, leaders, and idea-makers who volunteer to help government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies. You can find our official website at http://codeforsummitcounty.org

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 …

Lets face it Wellington Ohio can be a fairly boring place. We are the cure. This is a group founded with a solid core of friends looking for a way to organize our events and maybe bring in some new people. We have a wide variety of things we like to do and are open to try new stuff. Generally we are the geeky/nerdy type of people who like the Outdoors (weather permitting this is Ohio) If you like Computers, Technology, Gaming (NOT console's ps3, xbox), Camping, Hiking, BBQ, cookouts, grilling, 4 …