A group, lead by the team at IKANOW, devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the DC/Metro area. Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data solutions.

Xykon hosts hands-on workshops and get-togethers looking at Drupal, CiviCRM, and other open source applications. We want you to join us for some of them or give us your opinion on how these meetups can improve.

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 …

This meetup group is dedicated to organizing Washington DC -based events for the Alfresco Open Source Enterprise Content Management System (http://www.alfresco.com). Users of Alfresco Open Source Enterprise Content Management to exchange information, code, use cases, case studies, demos, ideas and friends. Leverage the transparency (of code and conduct) and community of Open Source.  The group welcomes technical and non-technical users with the goal of creating a network of people who can be a …

Creating a portlet.  Allowing your site to be found in search hits.  Optimizing your Lucene search queries.  Managing your web content.  The opportunities and challenges of implementing an open source portal server in the federal government and commercial spaces. Covering Liferay and its related technologies (Lucene, jBPM, JackRabbit, SOLR, Alfresco, REST, Velocity).

The Washington OSINT Roundtable is a 501(c)(6) Organization established to promote Open Source Intelligence (OSINT) through community building, advocacy, and thought leadership. Membership in the OSINT Roundtable is fully open to any individual or organization with a common interest in expanding the use and development of OSINT capabilities in both the Public and the Private Sectors. The OSINT Roundtable believes the consistent application of proven best practices coupled with the use of existin …

The Infinit.e User Group is a forum for Infinit.e users, prospective users, and partners to gather and discuss best practices for implementing Infinit.e, document discovery and analysis use cases and examples, Open Source software, and network. Membership in the Infinit.e User Group is open to anyone interested in the Infinit.e platform, document discovery and analysis, and Open Source software and like Hadoop, elasticsearch, and MongoDB regardless of technical proficiency.

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.

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

DC Perl Mongers meets monthly to celebrate and share Perl and related (generally open-source) technologies and cultures. Perl is a programming language which excels at text manipulation, and is additionally used for all sorts of software development. Also check out our website/wiki - http://dc.pm.org/ We primarily communicate via our mailing list. To subscribe, send an email to majordomo@lists.pm.org with "subscribe dc" in the body of the message (no subject necessary). You may then send mail to …

An OpenStack DC Group for the Washington, DC metro area. Technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, government, or corporate employees are encouraged to join in this exciting and very promising world of open source cloud computing called OpenStack (http://openstack.org/).  Let's OpenStack & learn together.  We will be known as the OpenStackers. Are you interested in deploying a Private, Community, Public and/or a Hybrid cloud in the Washington, DC metro area or do you just want to learn or teach? …

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 …

This is the group of Apache Accumulo users and developers local to DC / VA / MD. Apache Accumulo is a scalable, open source BigTable implementation written in Java with cell-level security and server-side processing. Join us!

We want to collaborate with developers, designers, businessfolk, and innovators to build a partnership between business and the open source community for the future. Peeps are encouraged to find inspiration, confront new challenges, share their expertise, renew bonds to the community, make significant connections, and find ways to give back to tech movement.

This group is a way for the DCPHP Developers' Group to stay in touch and provide a source of information on what we're up to. Sign up for our mailing list for PHP discussion and more meeting info. Recruiters are welcome to post to that mailing list provided jobs are PHP-related and the subject line begins with [job].

We are DC-area technology entrepreneurs and innovators who want to build viable and vibrant business based on hardware, whether electronic, mechanical, or other. Atoms are the new bits: We believe that the time is ripe for a new wave of entrepreneurship in hardware in the United States and worldwide. Lean startup / pretotype methodologies: Thanks to inexpensive contract manufacturing, domestic and overseas, 3D printing, programmable hardware, and an Internet to propagate ideas, the principles of …

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!

We are Tech in Motion: Washington DC. This is a group for all DC tech lovers and enthusiasts. Whether you are an entry-level programmer, an expert in the field, an open-minded entrepreneur, or just a hobbyist- we’d love to have you. We will be having regular meetups on anything and everything that we think will interest the tech community. This is a group for the people, by the people, so if you have any suggestions on topics or presenters, let us know! Thank you for joining, and stay tuned for …

This Washington DC group is for everyone interested in Web Design, Graphics, Software Development as well as in networking, building online businesses and achieving one's Big Dream. Sometimes only a few web designer show up, therefore, we collaborate with similar groups which will meet at this same event for more new contacts, better networking, fun and mutual support. We appreciate the awesome leadership of Jonathan Perrelli, Adam Zuckerman and others at thefort.vc and foster.ly to facilitate e …

We're a newbie-friendly Clojure user group oriented around talking about, learning about, and hacking on this awesome functional programming language on the JVM. We strive for openness and accessibility to all levels of experience. Our only prerequisites are an interest in building your skills in and furthering your understanding of Clojure, and your willingness to encourage and enable your peers to do the same. We also maintain a GoogleGroups list. You should consider joining this list if you w …

Intel Analytics DC is a group led by the HumanGeo team to foster learning and sharing of Big Data analysis and geospatial techniques to further the state of the art for intelligence applications. This group is founded on a principle of open sharing of interesting ideas related to: highly scalable 'Big Data' architectures data-centric programming tricks and techniques emerging tools and analysis paradigms Join us now to stay up-to-date with interactive talks from some of the most innovative, i …

This group offers an exchange of ideas, examples, support & answers regarding WordPress. Discussion will focus on: Using WordPress for blogging WordPress as a content management system Theme design and creation Plugin development Customization and implementations

An informal group aiming to expand your knowledge of jQuery, help get you started if you're new to it, or just meet other front end developers. Non-jQuery users are always welcome as we talk about javascript in general as well. Check out code from our meetups on github! https://github.com/elgreg/jquery_meetups

Stay up-to-date with the latest Ruby and Ruby on Rails happenings. Network with other Ruby developers.

This is a meetup group for those in the DC area who like maps, GIS, OpenStreetMap, cartography and anything in between. Started out of June 2011's WhereCamp DC, this group aims to keep the DC geo enthusiasts connected to each other for learning and socializing and probably some drinking. You can follow us on twitter at @geo_dc, and join our Google Group where we have discussion and post announcements between meetups.

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 …

Meet with others in your local area interested in building and strengthening the Drupal Community. Discuss new and exciting Drupal-related news - or just socialize with like-minded people! You can also find us in a couple of other places: Group on groups.drupal.org for discussions and job posts: all discussions go over there #drupal-dc on freenode @DrupalDC on Twitter

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.