eCommerce works on many of the same principles as business in general. If you have a product or service that others need and can afford, you are basically in business. The rest is marketing and management.Whether you are in the business of selling online or offering to help other businesses sell online, you may consider using Magento as part of that solution. But Why Magento? How does it compare to other eCommerce platforms? What does it cost? Magento is a feature-rich, professional open-source …

Reaching out to all Cloud Computing Enthusiasts ! This is a group for users, enthusiasts and those curious about Cloud Foundry Open PaaS and BOSH Deployment. - Learn to deploy and scale applications in seconds, without locking yourself into a single cloud. - Network with other industry professionals and with the Product Management Team at cloud Foundry. - Learn about Cloud Foundry for the Enterprise - Provide feedback on features you'd like to see Cloud Foundry is an open platform as a service, …

This is the Seattle and Pugest Sound Area meetup about the OpenStack project. We are interested in working together to make the OpenStack project a success. Anyone who is interested in using, deploying, or contributing to OpenStack are welcome.  This includes open source hackers, business people who are interested in cloud computing as an IT solution, and DevOps and SysAdmin people. Seattle has two OpenStack oriented companies: there are offices of both Nebula and of HP Cloud Services here.  HP …

Learn about and the how-to with Linux and other Open Source alternatives. This is a group for people of all skill levels to learn about new alternatives to computing.

The goal of this group is to come together as a community and talk about search based on open source stacks (solr/lucene/elasticsearch) and tie this into applications with emphasis on AI, machinelearning, games and more

Want to learn Linux but don't know where to start? Come join us for a casual atmosphere where we'll help you through the tough stuff. This meetup is perfect for novices looking to start a career or just want to try it at home. If you're more experienced and want to pay-to-forward and help others looking to advance themselves, please join in. This will be open source learning environment- learn, and pass it on to others in need free of charge.

Want to get back to nature and grow your own food? Become more self reliant and resilient with permaculture. farming? Ever dreamed of homesteading, but thought it was too hard to get started or maintain it on your own? Want to make our own community that includes our "outside the norms" family members? Want to slow life down and learn to enjoy the challenge of actually living again? Makers sought as well for this adventure. Like figuring out how to go off the grid? Engineer a large scale rainwat …

Seattle PyLadies is a Python programming group that welcomes ladies (or those who identify themselves as such) from all over the Puget Sound region. PyLadies is an international mentorship group with a focus on helping more women become active participants and leaders in the Python open-source community. Our mission is to promote, educate and advance a diverse Python community through outreach, education, conferences, events and social gatherings. PyLadies also aims to provide a friendly support …

Come join developers, designers, data geeks, leaders, and idea-makers who volunteer to help Seattle, WA government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies. Technology and civic activists fostering the community-authored and LocalWiki powered site, SeattleWiki.net, among other projects. Inspired by, and eager to contribute to, Code for America's http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/.

Welcome! This is a meetup group for those in the Seattle area who like maps, GIS, OpenStreetMap, open data, web mapping, cartography and anything in between. This is an open group and aims to keep the Seattle geo professionals, enthusiasts and users connected to each other for learning, socializing and to help find answers to their geospatial questions.

We're a group of folks who use / are interested in scalable computing technologies, mostly Hadoop, HBase, and "NoSQL" platforms. We've had attendees and speakers from Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Visible Technologies, Drawn to Scale, U.S. National Labs, and many more! Groups are usually 75-150 attendees. We've been meeting since August 2009, and encourage anyone to attend! Usually we have: 1 or 2 ~20 minute "Feature" presentations Up to 4 "lighting talks" Friendly and helpful group discussion …

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.

Internet of Things Meetup (Seattle) This is a group established to for enthusiasts to discuss, collaborate, share ideas, and build open source software and open hardware (including robotics, sensors, wireless BlueTooth/WiFi/4G enabled devices, etc.) for the DIY Internet of Things. Please join us in sharing cool and exciting projects and ideas.

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

A monthly meeting of WordPress users and devs. We welcome every proficiency level. Our purpose is to offer support and share information, best practices, techniques, tools and resources. Our members are bloggers, new users, graphic designers with basic HTML and CSS skills, developers new to WordPress, and experienced WordPress developers. Some of our members organized the first WordCamp Seattle in Sept. 2009.

“This is a group for anyone interested in Big Data. All skills levels are welcome."

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 …

This is a meetup group for those interested in the DevOps movement.

We're a group of Seattle Scala users and enthusiasts.

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 white …

Calling all concerned citizens for internet privacy! Join our group and learn how to properly secure your privacy in the digital age without compromising convenience. Whether you are a technology ace or technology phobic, we want to share our expertise with you and learn from yours. Join us and learn about how your personal information is being used and why maintaining your privacy is important. Private information exchange between private corporations and governing bodies is at an all-time high …

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.

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

A monthly gathering for Seattle area tech junkies. More specifically, those focused on storage, HPC, and general IT. Industry guys, IT guys, nerds, geeks, tech philosoraptors, whatever.... Whether 3 or 30 this should be good times to get together talk shop, learn from peers, or just have some beers and a good time. Only a couple of rules: 1. No management, No selling, No recruiting 2. BYOA (bring your own AMEX) Industry guys or those with P-Cards will typically be covering festivities but this i …

From big, well-organized hackathons like Startup Weekend and AngelHack to small, ad hoc hackathons like a couple of friends in a coffee shop, we want to help increase the number of hackathons going on in Seattle, help support them, and help publicize them.

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

AngularJS meetup group in Seattle, WA.