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 20-60 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 …

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

A meetup group that's all about Python. We welcome anyone and everyone that's interested in Python.  Both those who use it in their daily lives and those who want to and would like to find out more about it.

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

Learn about and the how-to with Linux and other Open Source alternatives. This is a group for women of all skill levels to learn about new alternatives in computing. A softer introduction to geeking, linuxchix is a different sort of community. no one is excluded, you are warned, there may be knitting and pedicure discussions with no apologies.

Let's get together and chat about HTML5, the advancement in object oriented JavaScript, CSS and middle-tier programing (Java/JSP, Ruby on Rails, PHP, ASP.NET), Software as a service (APIs), open source technology, data-driven architecture, OO/MVC Design, etc., etc.. There are several opportunites where I work, and side projects I'd like to explore and contribute to.  Let's get together as peeps in the industry and chat about making great new interactive UX/UI projects come to life.

This is a meetup group for Opscode Chef users.  

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 …

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!

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.

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.

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.

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 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. We are now organizing the next WordCamp Seattle to be held in Spring 2012. Watch for details.

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 …