This group is for web practitioners and other professionals who are practicing or intending to practice in the area of web accessibility and inclusive design practices. The aim of this group is to provide an open and welcoming face to face forum for accessibility or inclusive design professionals in the digital space. It doesn't matter if you work for a large organisation, are an independent consultant or just an accessibility avocate. This group is about sharing the knowledge, collaborating and …

Humanism in a nutshell Humanism is a non-religious worldview that focuses on living well and on our higher concerns and aspirations. All people everywhere aspire to personal freedom, fairness and justice, democracy and equality before the Law and in treatment by governments. Humanism regards fulfillment of these aspirations as basic to our wellbeing, our ability to live with dignity and to achieve fulfillment in our lives. We believe that people have an innate desire to be treated with respect, …

UX Perth was born from the merger of the Perth UxBookclub (since 2009) and the Perth Usability Professionals Association Chapter (in formation since 2007). The combining of the resources allows for a stronger User Experience Design community. The mission of this meetup is to promote and educate people on the use of User Experience best practices and techniques. This is a focused specialised group, if you are interested in User Experience Design or its off shoots of Service Design or Design Think …

Welcome to the Perth Business Book Club, which is for business owners, marketers and entrepreneurs to meet and discuss their favourite business books. We'll pick a book to discuss each month, and everybody who attends is welcome to share their ideas, insights, questions and comments from their reading of the book. This group is mainly for business owners, rather than employees, so we will focus on business-building books - topics such as marketing, entrepreneurship, customer service, technology, …

Morning Startup - Perth - where people talk about startups over coffee. If you're involved in a startup, or thinking about starting one, chances are you can learn from others that are doing and thinking the same. Morning Startup is a fortnightly morning catchup where founders, potential entrepreneurs and others in the startup community (VCs and Angels welcome) can get together and have a casual chat over coffee. Watch videos of previous Morning Startups here (http://www.morningstartup.com/pages …

The Perth Cloud Computing Meetup Group is an informal professional group focused on developing relationships, exchanging ideas, and fostering cloud computing innovation. We provide an open, comfortable environment for fellow cloud computers and newcomers alike to meet and discuss related news, best practices, tips and anything else that might arise in this exciting and rapidly evolving technology niche. We welcome people from all backgrounds, not just IT, to come learn and network in the communi …

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

Semi-regular meetups for the Drupal community in Perth and Western Australia at large. Anyone who interested in Drupal is welcome to join up and come along.

This group is for programmers who use functional and related programming languages (like Haskell, Erlang, OCaml, F#, lisp, etc.), functional programming techniques (map-reduce, persistent data-structures, monad, etc.) and related technologies. We'll meet, discuss and learn about functional programming with others from Perth and Western Australia.

I started this group because there appears to be no other Perth groups focusing on analyzing Big Data*. This group is for people looking to share experience and or learn new methods for analyzing the data. It is also for people who have Big Data that they need help with. I have extensive Big Data experience from my time at eBay and will gladly help others in any way that I can. * Big Data is a term for datasets which can no longer fit in a database. Typically this happens at around the 1 terabyt …

Meet geeks. Talk to people whose eyes do not glaze over. Listen to expert talks then ask difficult questions. Do that social thing that you do so well. Port80 is part of the Australian Web Industry Association (AWIA). We are the white hats in the web industry; join us to help educate the market and for your own professional development.

This group is all about the technologies and solutions from Microsoft Dynamics CRM. It is to encourage and strength the community development within Dynamics. This group is created for IT professionals and CRM end user. You can find inspiring solution within the group and out of the box thinking. If you are an IT professional, you will be ask to present your solutions in the meeting. This group is also a place for end users to ask any questions or seek any advice from this group.

A networking group based in Technology Park.  We are looking to recruit members and then run networking sessions.  Ideally the group will have a technology basis covering both, design, commercialization and implementation.

Are you a Django user in the Perth area? Let's get together to discuss Django web development!

This book club is for readers of non-fiction about a wide range of current ideas. It is open to men and women of all ages.  If you are passionate about ideas and books, this is for you. Most book clubs are for literature, which is natural.  There don't appear to be many bookclubs, however, that cater for non fiction about current 'big ideas'. Listen to or watch ABC or SBS though and you soon get the impression there is a strong interest in 'big ideas'.  This group is an attempt to create a local …

A group for JavaScript developers - an opportunity to explore the growing JS ecosystem, exchange battle stories and generally shoot the breeze... Let us know if you have a topic / passion you'd like to discuss!

3D Printing? DIY CNC? Hobby Electronics? Rapid Prototyping, Art/Design, Web/Hardware integration, Automation.... If you make it, then we want to get together and chat about it! Check out our website for more info: http://westcoastmakers.com/

This is a group for anyone currently doing the Harvard Medical School Edx course on Biostats and Epidemiology. It would be good to meet weekly to discuss the course, the papers and the assignments.

This is the WA Chapter of The System Administrators Guild of Australia (SAGE-AU), a not-for-profit organisation formed to advance the profession of System Administration by raising awareness of the need for System Administrators, and educating System Administrators in technical as well as professional issues via online communication forums, regional monthly meetings, regional symposiums and an annual national technical conference http://conference.sage-au.org.au/. SAGE-AU members work in all var …

Do science fiction books, short-stories and films provoke your thinking about life, the universe and everyday life? Space opera is so 1960s; Aliens and galaxies far-far-away is so 1970s. What are today's influential sci-fi writers and producers provoking us to think about? This group is about sharing ideas about the present and possible near future worlds, and how these are changed and challenged by science and technology. For example by: bio-tech, pharma, information networks, post-scarcity eco …

Foresight, Innovation, Sustainability Hothouse (FISH) are a series of monthly gatherings bringing together great speakers and participants from diverse professions and backgrounds; to discuss the latest trends in the convergence of business, education, design, architecture, art, science and technology from the perspective of foresight, innovation and sustainability; to encourage collaboration between different professions to interpret, explore and express different ways of looking at issues, alt …