The Austin OSM (OpenStreetMap) and OSGeo (Open Source Geospatial) Group is for anyone interested in open data and open source software for geography. You can be a newbie to a guru, all are welcome.

If you're looking to build your own fully functional, feature-rich website, a Content Management System like Joomla! makes the process much easier and quicker. Joomla! is one of the most popular Open Source (free GPL license) content management systems available. Come to the Austin Joomla! User Group (http://www.joomlaaustin.org) to learn more about this exciting system; compare tools, extensions and templates; trade advice; and share cool websites. ALL ARE WELCOME, whether you are developing yo …

Users and developers of the open source cloud, OpenStack.org. The group objective is to create a community for collaboration in the Austin Texas area. Please use the #OSATX twitter tag!

"Redis is an open source, advanced key-value store. It is often referred to as a data structure server. Redis is becoming quite popular, and we love it! Let's meet and talk Redis (and other related technologies), have a good time, and grow the Redis community here in Austin."

Heard of jQuery?  CSS? plain javascript?  Let's do it!  For the next meetup, we'll cover how to use javascript/jQuery, sprinkled with a dusting of CSS.  To top it off, let's dive into MySql.  We'll pretend we're dba's and create tables and stuff. Please have your hosting account with php, cuz it's gonna be wild. You've seen those examples on the web, but they don't make sense? I'll clue you in, but you have to stay awake and have your php hosting account ready. Please practice on some php progra …

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!

Come join other like-minded web application developers who share an interest in Sencha technologies.  If you already use Ext JS, Sencha Touch or other Sencha tools, or are just interested in the frameworks and want to know more about them, this is the perfect group for you. We also discuss general topics like JavaScript, app architecture and development, mobile development and other related tools and technology.  Even if you aren't directly familiar with Sencha yet, web technologists are sure to …

We are a gathering place for GIS users or want-to-be users to ask help on using GIS, finding free GIS data, resolving technical glitches and other related items. No software preference, so ESRI or Open Source programs like Quantum or gvSIG and all welcome.

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 …

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 …

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

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 …

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

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.

This group serves as the Austin chapter of postgres user groups, a community supported gathering of postgres users new and experienced alike. We strive to create a collaborative environment for the growth of our interaction with Postgres and the Postgres community as a whole. We organize events locally as well as abroad during global Postgres conferences, discuss topics that are interesting and exciting, give informative/educational presentations, and participate in global community type events …

The reality is - Drupal moves so fast and is so broad in its applications that we're all n00b's in one way or another! This group is designed to support those folks coming to the Drupal CMS who prefer meetups focused around learning the ins and outs of this amazing CMS! Drupal is great - but there is a learning curve! Lots of folks end up "stuck" in one way or another - we've all been there. We'll spend our time in discussion and learning - that's what we're about. Each meetup will revolve aro …

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 …

ATX Magento Group is a group dedicated to open source ecommerce application Magento. We will go over ecommerce development and design strategies, SEO Marketing, and related topics.

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.

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

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.

SilverStripers in Austin get united and start networking. Talk open source CMS and Framework. Join if you are using the SilverStripe CMS or think about using it. The stats tell me there are more of you out there then you think. Join now and tell me if you are even interested in running the meetup.

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 …