We are the Melbourne Girl Geek Dinners! We are a chapter of Girl Geek Dinners which was founded in 2005 in London. Girl Geek Dinners is non-profit and we organise dinners, workshops and field trips. We have over 400 members interested in technology, the internet, craft, code, design, communication, social media, marketing and more! Most of our events are free as we try to find sponsors to help us pay for food and drinks. Inspire9 have been hosting us and allowing us to use their space for ages n …

This group is a monthly gathering of Python users and developers in the Melbourne area. We discuss Python and related open source technologies. It is a networking forum for meeting other locals interested in Python and exchanging news and ideas. I decided to start the group because the venerable Melbourne Python User Group has stalled since May, lacking a venue. We're negotiating for a great regular venue for this meetup. If you do any kind of Python development, or have done, join the group! We …

Android Australia User Group is a community devoted to promoting local Android developers in Australia. It's aim is to help bridge the information gap between Australia and other technology hubs such as the United States. Android is an accessible, open source operating system which is now a serious contender in the mobile landscape. Help us push Android forward by getting involved in our regular meetups, hack nights and experience sharing sessions. Please be aware that our group is more develo …

Silicon Beach is an informal group for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, the interwebs or technology. The active mailinglist is at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia.

The Melbourne Joomla User Group has been running since 2007 and attracts a regular group of Joomla users from all over Melbourne including: beginners - people building their first joomla site hobbyists - people tweaking their own joomla site designers - people who design joomla sites for a living implementers - people who implement more than just basic joomla sites eg ecommerce, forums, interfaces etc guns - people who can answer almost any question you may have about Joomla! Often members ar …

Google Developer Groups provide local meet-ups for those with an interest in the use and development of Google services and technologies. GDGs help developers and enthusiasts to better work with the Internet, Google tools and services. We organize educational events and competitions from lightning talks to hackathons which aims to foster a sense of community here in Melbourne, Australia. You can be part of this movement by subscribing to our MeetUp page for events and discussion or volunteer to …

As a computational physicist, I am usually surrounded by male colleagues.  Sometimes I am literally the only woman in the room/auditorium.  Out of the office (and lab) I know lots of women, but they don't necessarily relate to my "nerdy alter ego", and they never get my (nerdy) jokes.  Sound familiar? I know there are other female scientists out there, but we never seem to be in the same place at the same time.  Therefore, this social group for female physicists, chemists, engineers and mathemat …

Starting or contributing to a world-class technology start-up in the world's most livable city, Melbourne, Australia. What exactly is a start-up, I hear you ask? Well, according to Paul Graham of the famed Y-Combinator, "essentially a startup is a new business designed for scale". According to Dr Graham, "Most new businesses are service businesses and except in rare cases those don't scale." and quite often, if not always, startups involve (disruptive) technology. If that doesn't make it any cle …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try to bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter and …

Funding or about to fund a world-class technology start-up in the world's most livable city, Melbourne, Australia.

What is Isha Kriya ? Today, for most people, the word “Yoga” usually conjures up images of twisting the body into impossible postures. The physical aspect of Yoga is only one facet of this multi-dimensional science. Yoga is a technology to bring the body and mind to the peak of their capabilities – allowing one to live life to the fullest. It is the vision of Sadhguru – a realized yogi and Master – to offer ‘one drop of spirituality’ to every individual. Through Isha Kriya, the possibilities of …

Hi and welcome to the InternetPreneur meet-up! This meet-up is for people of all ages starting an internet business. There are plenty of start-up groups out there but this group is mainly for those starting an online business who has built or still building their website. Running a business is fun and rewarding but loaded with challenges. We need some outlet to socialise, have a chat and exhange ideas with other online business start-ups. The purpose of this group is to meet with like minded peo …

The Venus Project is a powerful and innovative look out our civilizations when we have a collective goal of creating prosperity and harmony on the Earth. A social re-design...a world beyond Politics and Money. This group is here to create awareness, discussion and implementation of The Venus Project concepts and in Melbourne. "The Venus Project offers a comprehensive plan for social reclamation in which human beings, technology and nature will be able to coexist in a long term, sustainable sta …

An informal get-together for people who work in the web industry around Melbourne to catch-up, have a yarn, share ideas and talk about new techniques and technologies. Put together by the gang at @thirststudios

Melbourne Media Makers is an informal group that meets upstairs at POP Restaurant in Hardware Lane (bar is called Five Boroughs) to chat about all things multimedia and the social web. No presentations or PowerPoint. Very relaxed :) If you are interested in meeting people who are working with audio, video or words on the web, this is a great meeting to attend. We welcome bloggers, podcasters, videobloggers, filmmakers, artists, photographers, writers, PR and social media people. Everyone is welc …

This is the Melbourne chapter of The Australian Alt.Net Community. We meet on the last Tuesday of every month, 6pm at the Melbourne ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15,303 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 The Australian Alt.Net Community is a self-organizing, ad-hoc community of developers bound by a desire to improve ourselves, challenge assumptions, and help each other pursue excellence in the practice of software development, obviously with a strong emphasis on development using the Microsoft.NE …

Salesforce Platform Developer Users Group for Melbourne. If you do develop on, or you're interested in developing on the Force.com platform then please join!

DNTrade is the premier community for Aussie domain and website owners. We talk about the latest news in the Australian domain industry, advice on buying, selling, developing and marketing your domains and websites. All skill levels are welcome. This is our home on Meetup.com to organise physical meetings.

iMug - the Melbourne Internet Macintosh User Group - provides Apple Macintosh, iPod, iPad and iPhone enthusiasts with an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences with other business, educational, professional, hobby and home users. We have an open, supportive membership who are anxious to help other learn more and make better use of Apple technology. iMug features: monthly meetings in Melbourne an active email mailing list members from novices to experienced, including industry experts an …

This is a group for anyone developing reports, dashboards, applications (and more) with the SAP BusinessObjects toolset. From old-school 5.x universes to BI mobile and beyond, this group has been created by developers, for developers. No marketing hype, no sales pitch, just a collection of BusinessObjects geeks looking to meetup in Sydney/Melbourne, share some technical skills and knowledge (while enjoying some pizza and a beverage or two)

CCHS (aka Melbourne HackerSpace) is an enthusiastic group of hardware hobbyists and/or software programmers, located in Melbourne, Australia. We enjoy getting together to build new and challenging technology projects and curious gadgets for fun! We meet several times every week and welcome visitors and newcomers who wish to make things and learn about technology, e.g 3D printers or robots. You don’t need to be an expert to participate. We are gradually accumulating equipment and tools, as well a …

This is a group for anyone interested in Mining industry related software and technology • Discussing New Technologies and Products • Product development ( including sales and business development associated with the new products) • Exploring new Geographies for these products • Open to other related/impacted areas of mining such as environmental engineering

We want to help people from all different backgrounds to learn coding together and share experiences. As part of Open Tech School, this is a supportive environment for learners to hear talks on topics which can help them, but also to encourage them to share their learnings. Programming language agnostic! http://www.opentechschool.org/

Port 80 Melbourne. We are web people getting together. We catch up informally once and month and we have the occasional presenter or two. All members of the web developer, social media, hosting, SEO and general online communities are welcome to attend. Port 80 Melbourne meets the first Wednesday of each month from 6pm.

We're excited to announce HootUp Melbourne, an informal get together of social media users and professionals of all skill levels. We talk a lot about HootSuite, but we'd welcome anyone with an interest of the social web and technologies to come along. We're aiming for 2 presentations each month, with the first focusing on HootSuite and the second focusing on a platform or general topic. We meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month and the venue is sponsored by The Lost Dogs' Home. Pizza and drinks …

Quora is an online web forum full of super interesting people having intelligent discussions about a huge range of topics. This is a group for those people and their friends to get to know each other and make new friends in real life. Popular topics are Social Media, Technology, Science, Startups, Entrepreneurship, Food, Travel, Politics, Books, Movies, Music, History, Business and Marketing. Please join us! Refer to http://www.quora.com and http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/RealLife

We are passionate about web that's available for everyone and accessible with any device.