This is a group for anyone interested in mapping using open source mapping technologies. Mapbox, Leaflet and OpenStreets Map. I would like to have a meetup hackathon where we add predefined map pins on map. Second hackathon would we would right-click user function to add pin to map and add some notes to map. I think this would be fun. No google maps allowed. I like using open source projects. www.mapbox.com < Tile Server - Provides the tiles for the map, the map colors www.leafletjs.com < UI J …

PyLadies is a social/professional group for female Python programmers at every experience level. Developers and aspiring developers only, please.  (Beginners are always welcome!) Join us on IRC: #pyladies Don't forget to follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pyladiesatx Ask us questions in our local Google Group: https://groups.google.com/group/pyladies-austin Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PyladiesAustin And if you'd like to get some more information about our parent organiza …

Austin is more than just software and semiconductors. It's time to bring attention to the middle of the stack. The purpose of this group is to bring together folks interested in building businesses around physical products - to grow the Austin hardware community, raise awareness of hardware startups and resources, and learn from each other and those who have done it before. Meetup photo courtesy of Flickr user alorenzi

Node.js is an event-driven I/O framework for the V8 JavaScript engine. It makes building scalable and elegant network applications easy. Praised for its brilliant design and simplicity it is quickly being adopted and extended by many developers, companies, and entusiasts around the world. Visit http://www.nodejs.org/ and http://npmjs.org/ to get started today!

Working with Hudson , Cucumber , Chef, or Puppet? How about Cucumber Nagios , mcollective , cobbler , Chef , Flapjack , Visage , Collectd ? Join us for upcoming events. No recruiters will be allowed in this group.

This is a group for those interested in learning more about MongoDB--the high performance, schema free, document oriented database. We'll be doing a deep dive into MongoDB each month. If you're interested in sharing your experience, or have specific topics you'd like covered, let us know!

Ember ATX is a group for people of all skill levels to come together, learn, and help one another build ambitious web applications.

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted Austin Meetup group! If you are looking for co-founders or want to join super-early-stage startups, this is the group to be in. Our goal is to organize face-to-face meetings. Everyone is welcome to our group! software engineers, designers, executives looking for a more exciting and challenging opportunity, angel investors and VC looking for the next BIG thing in Austin, come join us! Out meetups are always a great opportunity to meet engineering and creative talent …

We are Women Who Code: in any framework any level of experience any size of company or just code for fun! We meet weekly for technical study groups and monthly for larger format events including tech talks, career trainings and hack nights. Current and aspiring coders are welcome. Bring your laptop and a friend! #wwcode http://fb.com/womenwhocode

This is an informal group of female developers in Austin, representing a wide variety of languages, backgrounds, and niches. We meet once a month or so to share information, do some coding, and hang out and talk. Bringing your laptop, your vexing technical problems, and your expertise is highly encouraged! We've had some members volunteer to give short presentations on various technologies, and we've also been lucky enough to have awesome sponsors who've provided beer, wine, and snacks. This is …

Servergy is proud to announce the PowerLinux Users Group (Austin Chapter). The group is intended to be fun, inspiring and help enable developers by providing a variety of on-site PowerLinux servers, embedded hardware, engineers, PowerLinux guest speakers, contest, and resources for PowerLinux software development and education. The event will be held once a month, and the event will be part conference and part hackathon. The PowerLinux Users Group, and it's sponsors, are excited to promote and …

Meet with other web site system administrators, developers, designers and business people who're interested in making their sites fast for a better user experience, lower abandonment rates and to make more money.

A user group to meet and discuss the Go programming language (golang). Meetups are typically held on third Thursdays at 7. Follow us on Twitter @atxgolang and join our chat room #atxgolang on Freenode. From golang.org: The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type sys …

Group of geeks of various flavors, mostly tech, that get together for lunch. Read the Geek Lunch Manifesto.

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

We all know Austin has a great RoR meetup group, but what if you want to work on your RoR projects? This is for those who are pursuing side projects, but hate to do it alone. Feel free to collaborate, work alone, or just chill out.

Interesting topics presented by members on topics involving Ruby or Rails. We meet in Central Austin as an alternative to having to far North or South, or deal with parking and traffic downtown.

This is a group for anyone interested in Platform as a Service, Cloud Computing, Python, Ruby, PHP, EC2, Heroku, etc. All skills levels are welcome. I started this group to meet other open source enthusiasts using cloud computing for their software development needs. Looking forward to exploring this technology with everybody.

Austin is home to some of the top Cassandra developers in the country. Join us for presentations, workshops, hackathons and happy hours.

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's column family-based data model. Let's get together and share what we know.

The Oneness Blessing The Oneness Blessing is a form of divine energy that facilitates growth and awakening. Some people experience the energy as calming, soothing and deepening, others as white golden light, others as a tingling sensation the head. Some people feel nothing initially, but see positive effects in the days after. This blessed energy meets you where you are and takes you where you need to go on you own personal spiritual path. Here are some of transformative changes that people ha …

We are open-minded people who love discovering more about ourselves as Soul, and our relationship to God. This is an opportunity to share your experiences and stories with friendly open-hearted people. Here are some uplifting ideas for future Meetups. Have You had a Spiritual Experience? Dreams - How to Interpret Them Past Lives, Karma & Reincarnation - Remembering Soul Travel - How it Compares to Astral Projection and OBE HU - A Love Song to God Spiritual Freedom - Achievable in This Lifetim …

Central Texas offers a great diversity in wild edible plants and food sources that are right in front of us! Foraging wild foods and plants is a lost art that many want to re-connect with.  Medicinal and edible plants grow in abundance in many areas of Texas, regardless of the climate -- its just knowing where to look and what to forage for. Foraging food is an ancient skill - one could say the oldest. Yet not many people today know how to do it. A small number of people have kept this vital ski …