Interested in Distributed Databases, Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, Neo4j? Predictive or Realtime analytics? Data/text mining? Join us! Everyone loves use cases. If you would like to present one to the group, send me a note at lynn@lynnbender.com. Lightning talks are welcome too.

This meet up group is focused on Qt.

This is the Seattle-wide discussion forum for technology (esp. IT, web, mobile, game, cloud, social, telecom ...). The forum is a platform for professionals to collaborate, share ideas, foster creative brainstorming. It is also a platform for companies to increase their branding and network. You could also join discussion and get event update at our Email group: http://groups.google.com/group/seattle-tech-forum

All BI developers, whether Microsoft BID, open-source, MicroStrategy, or other solutions are welcome as are systems engineers, solution architects, and analysts. Some of us may be studying for certification and this is a great place to hear (or present) talks on data warehousing, database queries or to get advice on things you may want to understand better.  If you are a novice, don't worry, there are a few members who are in the same boat and undergoing a transition at work or learning SQL for …

A monthly workshop for coders to learn from each other and ask questions as needed. Coders bring his own project, book, or tutorial. A hacknight for coders to work on open source projects together, learn and solve some real world problems.

If you're a rails dev, you already know, there aren't a whole lot of resources out there for us, not like there are for php, that's for sure. I thought it would be helpful for all of us railers to interact, learn, share, network, and hang out. As far as I know, our RoR group is the biggest and one of the most active in Seattle. We have laid back hang-out style meetups weekly, and every 4-6 weeks or so we try to hold an educational/networking meetup where we can all get together, network, and lea …

Be apart of one of the most exciting and growing phenomenon called social enterprise investment or Crowdfunding. Crowfunding is a movement for grassroots funding for start-ups, individuals, and great ideas. Learn what crowdfunding is, aka Kickstarter, the big Daddy of them all. If you’re someone interested in investing in “new ideas” or the next “widget” or if you are that person with the “next idea” or “widget” than crowdfunding or open source labor, may be the ticket to dream making. So, what …

This group is for users (content managers and business owners), developers and designers who work with and love the DNN content management platform, for those who want to learn more about it and for those who might be looking for a better alternative to Joomla or Drupal. Meetings will be casual and offer opportunities to meet professional and non-professional DNN'ers, network and maybe even get a few pointers on how to get the most out of DNN.

Join us for an evening of discussion and beers about Puppet and DevOps. If you are using or want to learn about Puppet, configuration management, DevOps practices, etc, please stop by.

Meet others in your local area who want to build websites with Joomla. We are just starting up so please join the group and get on the forum so we can discuss how to proceed to build our local community! We plan on having: -Social Meetings -Presentations -Work Parties -Other?   Want more? Check out or website - http://bellevuejoomers.org Or join our email list at: http://groups.google.com/group/bellevuejoomers

This group is for developers who use or want to learn about PhoneGap, and Titanium and other open-source framework for using HTML, CSS and JavaScript to create cross-platform native mobile apps for Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, Palm and Symbian.

Monthly MeetUp group for practitioners of Machine Learning, Statistics, AI, and other aspects of "Data Science". Do you want to learn more about using R and nltk? Or Apache Mahout and Giraph? Do you write your own custom NLP code, and want to compare notes with others of your clan? We're going to try and alternate locations between Seattle Proper and the Eastside, to get a little bit of balance. Let's see if we can balance our time between formal presentations / talks, and breakout …

Seattle area OpenStack Developer meet-up. We are a group of free software developers who are interested in working together to make the OpenStack project a success. Similiar groups exist in the Bay Area, London, and New York.

Seattle MongoDB User Group This group is a place for developers to learn more about MongoDB, an open source, document-oriented, nosql database. If you are facing challenges with MySQL, Postgres, Oracle or other and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions.

OpenStreetMap is an map of the world made by people like you. It's a map that you build, that's given away for free like wikipedia. Check out osm.org for more. We meet all the time to talk maps, make maps and have fun!

Meet other local JavaScripters to share knowledge, learn about the latest in JavaScript and