Free people, competing markets and lawful government The Austin Liberty Activists group is an Open Discussion Mailing List and Message Board serving individual citizen activists in the greater Austin Texas area. Many members are active within Austin Liberty Coalition (ALC) organizations. Open topic email exchanges via this group's mailing list are how members share, learn and develop their views on civil liberties. As this group is primarily a communication network with few restrictions organiz …

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 …

The Houston Perl Meetup group helps people interested in the Perl programming language meet. This group is associated with the Houston.pm group associated with the Perl Mongers. Anyone who is interested in the Perl programming language is welcome. No experience with the language is required. The group can answer questions or help mentor new programmers through problems.

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 …

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.

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …

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 of R enthusiasts living in the Greater Houston area. R is an open source statistical platform used in a wide range of academic, hobbyist, and professional applications. This group exists to promote R's use in the Houston area, as well as to provide a forum to exchange tips, tricks, ideas, and code. People of all experience levels with R, from novice to expert are welcome. We have members who are just starting out with R as well as several that have contributed packages and c …

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.

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

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!

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!

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.

A networking group for all Open Source Users to connect, learn, share ideas about all things open source. Our group aim to share some great things happening around open source communities. Also, check out our community site OpenSourceUsers.com for news, events, training for open source.

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 …

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 …

Welcome to the Eucalyptus 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. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

OWASP Houston Chapter is a group for people that are interested in learning about application security. At our quarterly meetings we will provide quality presentations, food, beverages, and a chance to network. OWASP membership is not required to attend. We will also be hosting a monthly happy hour for security professionals. The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is an open-source application security project. The OWASP community includes corporations, educational organizations, and …

"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."

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 …

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 …

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 …

First 20 min is A meet+greet. We spend an hour on learning syntax, where it's used, examples of it being used effectively. Beginners are welcome.  Many patient people come to these and can help you get your machine setup to program effectively. 2nd hour on is getting down to the practice of programming using community projects as a base. Don't worry if you don't have a machine. We are meeting in a computer lab that currently accommodates 26. Save your work online so you can access it when you ge …

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.

Let's build something! Looking for technical enthusiasts who want to come together and build cool robotics with a purpose while having fun. There is nothing more satisfying than building something and watching it work. Some examples are a robot lawn mower (I would love to cancel my yard service), an electric go-cart, or even an all electric vehicle--the possibilities are endless. Let's pool our brainpower, resources, experience, and skills and bring our ideas to life!