Calling all SugarCRM users, developers and enthusiasts! SugarCRM is the world's fastest growing customer relationship management software. Let's get together, learn from one another and contribute to this open source software.

A Linux Users Group to meet and talk about Open Source and Linux. We discuss a variety of subjects from very technical to high level all concentrated in providing IT solutions using Open Source and Linux. Besides the meetings, we use http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug to communicate between the group members outside the meetings. Feel free to join.

Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform

Meet nearby database professionals Users for conversation and fun!  We discuss any database related topics. We focus on different DBMSs compare and contrast. We deep dive into databae topics. We present case studies that may interest you, and you may copy and paste in your work place. Come to a local DB solutions  Meetup to talk about the world's most popular open source databases, get great tips and share new ideas. All levels of experience welcome! This group is good for you if you are: (a) A …

Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform for the greater Charlottesville, VA area.

Local communities across the world organize Joomla!Day events to meet, share and learn with others from the Joomla! Community. the Northern Virginia Joomla! Users Group's events are open to anyone, regardless of their current level of knowledge, experience, or expertise. In October, 2010, we held a very successful JoomlaDayDC. We hope to do so again, but unfortunately were all too busy doing Joomla! projects to put one on in October 2011. Come out, learn, and share!

The Google Technology and Developer Group (GDG-DC) is a developer group designed to discuss, discover and distribute Google technologies. This will cover Washington DC Capital Suburban area including Northern Virginia and Maryland. GDG-DC meets on as often as we could find good topic, location, sponsor and interested techies! Please visit our website and join our groups to participate and register in Meetup to attend. Oh.. don't forget to follow us on  Twitter Check out http://developer.google.c …

Visit us at http://www.novapython.org/ The Northern Virginia Python Users Group gets together on the third Thursday of the month at the VMWare location just off the Dulles Toll Road. We talk about beginning topics as well as more advanced applications of the language.

Javascript has good parts, bad parts, and parts you're most likely to only discover from the JS genius next door. Join the Central Virginia Javascript Enthusiasts if you want to tap the rich brain trust of web, node, and mobile developers using "the worlds most popular language" in Charlottesville, VA and surrounding areas. We meet every 4th Wednesday of the month in Charlottesville (exact location TBD) to share presos, code, tools, techniques and tall tales of Javascript (and Coffeescript) wond …

Rubyists of Loudoun County, VA. We meet the last Friday of every month for lunch. We also meet the second Monday of every month for a hack night. Please join us.

Welcome to Riak DC. A meetup group in the Washington DC metro area for people to talk Riak, application development, NoSQL, Big Data, and all things distributed.

BTI360's Software Craftsmanship Series is an internal company event that focuses on taking your software engineering skills to the next level. This is done through discussing and diving deep into what constitutes clean code, what coding principles are often disregarded, and how to affect better coding practices on your team.

RVA Data Hackers is a community of programmers who meet regularly to develop skills and learn about the tools and techniques of Big Data. We discuss how to find, organize, understand and serve data sets large and small. We'll cover anything related to 'big data' -- machine learning, artificial intelligence and architectures to scale Big Data for the Internet. If you're a programmer interested in machine learning algorithms and managing big data, this group is for you. Topics vary from basic conc …

The Federal Big Data Meetup group is a community dedicated to promoting the technologies, practices and innovations needed for Federal Government agencies to get maximum value from massive amounts of data. With over 2.5 trillion bytes of data accumulating around the world every day, the Federal Government is at the epicenter of the Big Data revolution. Through an exchange of BIG ideas, education and fresh thinking from Government employees, contractors and technologists, Federal Big Data aims to …

Let's get together to talk about how to use JavaScript to build applications.

This group is for people who are interested in Bitcoin, the open source, peer-to-peer payment network and currency that's taking the world by storm. Come to: Learn what makes Bitcoin different from banks, government currencies and precious metals Learn and teach how to use Bitcoin to increase your financial privacy and security Discuss politics and economics as they relate to Bitcoin Barter, trade, and network for a more resilient local economy Buy and sell bitcoins Buy and sell goods and servi …

OpenHack Winchester, VA: code together, code anything. Our goal is simple: bring together programmers of any experience level together to code. We meet on the third Thursday each month at Bright Cowork in the Bright Center on the Old Town Mall in Winchester, VA. Food is provided by a sponsor. You BYOB, your computer, and your hacker buddies.

This group explores Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). If you are interested in designing, developing, or using DSLs, come hang out!

It is time to bring an active MySQL meetup group back to the DC area. New and seasoned users are welcome for discussion, networking and the opportunity to learn from the DC area's MySQL experts. Please follow us on @NOVA_MySQL

The group is for AWS users group to provide a forum for users to share experiences, best practices, and lessons learned from using AWS. There will be a special focus on using AWS to support the Federal Government.

This group is a place for developers to learn more about MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented, nosql database.

Silence on Sunday meets every Sunday morning from 10:00 am – 12:00 pm. It is an event sponsored by the Center for Living Truth in Charlottesville VA. This is an all-inclusive gathering of shared meditation. Many spiritual traditions, from Quaker Friends and Native Americans to Muslims and Sufis, find a group experience to be a very powerful activity. Consciousness is high when together, as we create the opportunity for deepening our experience of Oneness and opening up to higher dimensions of Aw …

The ultimate freedom is to have a completely clear and free mind. The human mind is always changing and is always trying to add more desirable experiences. There is no end to this addition. The way to find peace and clarity is to know the real world, the True world, by subtracting the past that has been recorded and stored within the body and mind as pictures. There is nothing more valuable than one's mind. It shapes the entire world that one knows. Through subtracting in Maum Meditation the Uni …

We are a fun group for all levels of ukulele experience.  Our regular monthly club schedule has something for everyone: 2nd Sunday Beginner Chords and Strums 2:15pm followed by Beginner Group Lesson 3-5pm 4th Sunday Beginner Chords and Strums 2:15pm followed by Ukulele Jam 3-5pm and Ukulele Open Mic 6-8pm Navigation (click the link next to the text): A) About ( click here) B) Membership Rules ( click here) C) Local Ukulele Workshops/Concerts/Events ( click here) ============================== …

“O Holy Vibration, Boom on the shores of my consciousness.  Break the limiting boundary of my consciousness in the body.  Reverberate through my body, mind, soul, my surroundings, the cities, the earth, the planets, the universe, and every particle of creation.  Unite my consciousness with cosmic consciousness." Parahamansa Yogananda Welcome to your Higher Vibration World! Every year, a plethora of new methods and techniques to cleanse, purge, detoxify and infuse ourselves with vitality and a n …

The Virginia Paranormal Research Group is here to investigate the paranormal. We use scientific methods and state of the art equipment to determine the source of energy that is causing the phenomenon. We come from different backgrounds and beliefs. Most of our on site investigations are local to Fredericksburg, Virginia as well as the surrounding counties. Our investigations are free of charge. During the investigations there are strict guidelines that must be followed for your safety as well as …

Are you looking to prepare your family in the event of an emergency or disaster? Are you new to the details of keeping your family safe (also known as prepping) or an experienced family safe person? Introducing the Piedmont Virginia Family Safe Meetup (earlier known as Piedmont Virginia Preppers). We'll meet to discuss ways to encourage keeping your family safe for the unknown.  Whether it is a natural or  man-made event, we'll strive to develop our collective knowledge and skills to be prepared …

Staunton is a small town with big city appetite, and the restaurants to prove it! We know unprocessed foods from local farms are better than those made from chemistry sets. I started this meetup group to complement and build on Staunton's gastric intellect. I plan to host at least two meetups per month in which I talk for about 30 minutes about what's in my brain. Then I'll eagerly listen to what's in yours! Some of my interests are: -Benefits of whole/real/unprocessed foods -The basics: Wha …