We're a group of Hadoop & Cloud Computing technologists / enthusiasts / curious people who discuss emerging technologies, Hadoop & related software development (HBase, Cassandra, Hive, PIG, etc). Come learn from each other, meet nice people, have some food/drink.

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

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].

Affiliated with the DC Lotus User Group (DCLUG), we are IT professionals in Washington, DC and the surrounding region working with IBM Lotus Software (Notes/Domino, Quickr, Connections, Sametime, etc.)

Hi! ProductCamp DC is a series of community organized gatherings focused on product related topics. Professionals interested in designing, building, launching and marketing great products gather to learn from one another and share their experiences. ProductCamp DC was conceived to fulfill the mission of advancing our capability to conceive, build, and market great products through an open and collaborative community. Whether you are in a large enterprise, small business, startup, non-profit or g …

Agile software development is a great way to make good software that satisfies real needs and creates real value to those who build and use that software. Everyone on the team is concerned with the quality of the product. However, sometimes it can be an overwhelming task being the team member whose job it is to insure that the quality of the product is sufficient. DCAST was created to develop a community of those interested in agile software testing who are also interested in testing agile produ …

If you develop software for a living, you need at least one "dynamic" language in your toolkit. Languages that make it easy to do meta-programming are invaluable for many types of problems. If you are a Java developer, there are especially compelling reasons for investing in Groovy and the numerous Groovy-based frameworks -- Grails, Griffon, Gradle, Spock, Gaelyk, etc. The purpose of this group is to cultivate a local community for learning and sharing about experiences with the Groovy and Grail …

Ladies' Tech XXchange is a DC Metro area community for tech inclined women to knowledge share, learn new skills and gather feedback on their startup ventures. The XXchange is a venue for women to: •    Network with like-minded tech savvy women in the greater DC metro area. •    Gain practical skills through the community’s hands-on training workshops. •    Preview the area’s latest web ventures by female founders. Join us! (formerly Girls in Tech DC)

What is ALT.NET? 1. You’re the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. 2. You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc. 3. You’re not content with the status quo. Things can always be better expressed, more elegant and simple, more mutable, higher quality, etc. 4. You know tools are great, but they only take you so far. It’s the principles and knowledge that really matter. The best tools are thos …

Welcome to the Washington DC Software Craftsmanship User Group! This group is for software developers in the Washington DC area that care about the quality of their work and want to practice and improve their programming skills, share what they know and learn new things from others. This is a hands-on coding user group with no presentations. Each meeting will be a dojo where we will go through a challenging software craftsmanship exercise that focuses on clean code, test-driven development, des …

I love High Dynamic Range (HDR) photography and everybody seems to think it's too hard or too complicated. I want to demystify it and teach what I know about it. It seems to me that people either love it or hate it. But, I think it has a very useful purpose. HDR images can be very realistic and also very surrealistic. It just depends on your person taste. I can show you how to compose your shots, pick the right subjects, how to setup your camera to photograph in HDR and how to post process your …

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).

Thank You For Joining & Welcome To The Community! Drupal is widely used by many government agencies, hi-profile businesses, not-for-profit firms and community-based organizations to build their websites and applications. Internationally, Drupal powers millions of websites and applications in many countries and is built, used and supported by an active, passionate and growing world-wide community. The Drupal Technology Meetup is a resource for the growing community -- including professionals in …

Welcome to the Washington DC Scrum User Group! This group is for Washington DC area Agile evangelists, thought leaders and enthusiasts that are passionate about all things Agile and Scrum. Meetings are held monthly and are mainly discussions, workshops, or open space type sessions covering various topics about Agile and Scrum. Meetings will usually occur on the 3rd Monday or Tuesday night of the month and will be in a location that is metro accessible in the Washington DC/Arlington/Alexandria …

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.

We're a bunch of hackers, inventors, engineers, techies, developers and makers who love all things IT and security. Everyone is welcome - from advanced hardware hackers to those who would like to learn what can be done with these new technologies in the arts, sciences, healthcare, gaming, academia, and business venture opportunities. Our meetups are totally informal and are a great opportunity to chat about projects, create new ones, solve problems, mingle, network and generally shoot the breeze …

We're a rag-tag group of software developers, mostly focused on web tech, but with a wide range of interests and experience. Our meetings are a mix of free-ranging discussion, short presentations, and project co-working. If you have ideas to share, questions to ask, or code to hack on, come by and say hi.

Welcome to the Washington DC Continuous Integration, Delivery and Deployment User Group. This meetup is dedicated to sharing tools and techniques for delivering software repeatably and reliably to production. If you are interested in learning about automating day to day tasks, writing build scripts, build tools, continuous integration servers, continuous deployment, DevOps, Puppet or Chef, test automation, deployment pipelines, database provisioning, and much much more, then this is the group fo …

Do you have an idea that could be your organization's next big thing, but you are unsure of what to do next? Innovate DC is a community for intrapreneurs; employees looking to create change and get things done within an organization. We believe that innovation can happen inside organizations of any size.  All you need is someone with an idea and a champion to help navigate the waters of change.  We offer a support organization for intrapreneurs and champions that will focus on providing content …

Have a web or mobile application you want to test? Have a prototype or mock-up you want to introduce to the light of day? Let's test with 1) real users 2) in real time 3) face to face and 4) FREE? Premise: People who want users for their applications/designs for testing, will test others applications/designs, in exchange. In addition, our group will have expert speakers on usability, UX and UI. You are welcome to attend to learn, network and help others test their software and designs, even if …

Our objective is to provide Web API enthusiasts, people who are thinking about, interested in, or actively developing Web APIs, a space to get together, share ideas, and discuss techniques and technologies in a vendor neutral environment. Please come and join us, learn from each other, and have a little fun.

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 …

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This is a group for anyone who has attended the "Business of Software" Conference, watched the live stream or even just wanted to go. Let's create the same atmosphere here in DC to talk about the software industry, meet with peers and learn how to make our software companies better. We meet once every 2 months on the 3rd Tuesday of the month.  This is designed to give us roughly 6 meetups per year to fill the gap between BoS conferences.

Develop, design and publish Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps with the help of Microsoft and our Community of Developers and Designers. Listings will include events, contests and news of interest to software developers. This group caters to anyone in the greater DC and Baltimore areas wanting to learn more about app development for the Windows Store or Windows Phone.

A local group forming around the Podio work platform, from Citrix. You're invited if you've never heard of Podio, use and love Podio in your business or team, or are taking Podio past its basics through advanced programming. This group is not sponsored or endorsed by Podio. Just a group of hobbyists that love a great product.

This is the meetup group is where chief technology officers and the people that support them can come together for a heathly chat on topics that cover business, technology, strategy, and execution.