Meet fellow Government communications and IT employees and consultants! Come to a digitalGov Meetup to compare tools, advice and share cool tips and experiences with bringing the Government of Canada to the leading edge of eCommunications. Make valuable contacts as you mingle with new friends! Check our group on Facebook too! http://www.digitalottawa.ca

http://www.efactor.com Connecting Over 800K Entrepreneurs and Investors online and off! Meet a new network of local entrepreneurs to share tips and problem solving techniques, get advice on profitability and career and discuss mentoring and business models. Swap business cards and watch your personal business directory grow! E.Factor" stands for "The Entrepreneur Factor" and represents a vibrant online community and virtual marketplace designed for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs. Entreprene …

Ottawa Ruby is a group of programming enthusiasts that get together once in a while to hack, present, and talk about the Ruby programming language. Join us on our website and mailing lists at http://www.ottawaruby.ca/

Innovation Studio 527 is a monthly meeting of people interested in solving complex problems. We meet from 5pm to 7pm. The current meeting location is in the Byward Market - we always try to find something that is affordable and wheelchair accessible. We have a few rules: 1) Be yourself 2) Be open to new ideas 3) Be brave in allowing ideas to collide 4) Be willing to be uncomfortable 5) be willing to take the next step Other than that - everything is on the table. Hope you can join us. Peter Leve …

The Ottawa Quantified Self meetup is modeled on the Bay Area Quantified Self Show & Tell meetings started in 2008 by Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly in the Bay Area. Your host for the Ottawa meetup will be Artur Denysenko (Twitter @adenysenko). Write me with your recommendations, tips, and observations. This is a regular show and tell for people who take advantage of various personal self-tracking tools and methods to gain more knowledge about themselves, others and the world around them. Come share w …

A group dedicated to Web Development, Web Design, User Experience, and User Interface Design. Meetings are held on a wide range of topics with interesting people throughout the industry to gain insight and knowledge for what's happening on the web now and what's coming in the future. Topics include (but not limited to): Content Management Systems Web Technology (HTML, CSS, Javascrip, PHP) Online Strategies (SEO, Online Marking, Online Ads) Design Best Practices Usability Analysis and Testing Pr …

"A religion old or new, that stressed the magnificence of the universe as revealed by modern science, might be able to draw forth reserves of reverence and awe hardly tapped by the conventional faiths. Sooner or later, such a religion will emerge." ...Carl Sagan The SolSeed Movement is an alternative to traditional religions, started by a small group in Portland, Oregon. We embrace the scientific method and eschew magical thinking of all flavors. No UFOs. No homeopathy. No conspiracies. No psi p …

… Our courses focus on coding, leveraging existing technology, and having something to show for it (aka building sweet websites). Stay tuned to this meetup for upcoming scheduled classes.   

Are you involved in a startup or want to be? Startup Grind was started to help entrepreneurs meet new people face-to-face, and continue to build a lasting relationship with them online after the event. It's a daily blog (Http://startupgrind.com) and monthly event held in Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, New York City, Ottawa, Seattle, San Francisco featuring a range of speakers from founders, to journalists, to investors. More importantly it has the coolest startup community ever. Come to our event …

It's not easy being a female, what with the myriad of issues society places on us, we place on ourselves and nature does a good job as well. No one understands more what you are going through and will go through than your sister's before you. So let us guide you, mentor you, or just be your sounding board. Whatever you need, know that we are here for you. Achieve a healthy lifestyle, succesful education, successful career, healthy realtionships, healthy family life and healthy social life. Join …

The Ottawa Entrepreneur.ca Group is a dynamic and professional business group. Our Mandate is "Let's work together to ensure a better future for Ottawa". This group consists of SME, small business owners, entrepreneurs & professionals. If you are an entrepreneur, business owner, manufacturer, service provider, investor, wholesaler, distributor, retailer, join us and share your success stories or demo your products, we help with your sales and marketing. If you are a business consultant, a p …

What do we do? The Ottawa Android developers group aims to bring the community together to share their knowledge of the platform to help everyone become more proficient with it. We aim to provide demonstrations of various features within the Android API as well as personal projects that fellow developers are working on. Where do these meetings happen? We meet up at The Code Factory on the third Wednesday of every month. Do I need to be an Android pro? Definitely not! Anyone is wel …

… In this virtual classroom setting you will be able to listen and see the presenter discuss the material as well as view what is on his screen through application sharing and whiteboard technology. You will also be able to interact by asking questions and viewing questions posted by other members.

Meet other Ottawaians who are passionate about Search Engine Marketing (SEM), Search Engine Optimization (SEO), Pay Per Click (PPC) , Web Analytics, Social Media and other topics relating to Internet marketing. Gather and share advice and information on better ways to work with online traffic generation to monetize business for your clients or your company. We want to bring together the wealth of knowledge in the Ottawa community around topics that are happening within the industry. We encourage …

Hey hey hey, I am an IT administrator at a local software company. Every day I am asked to do more, know more, do bigger and more complex projects. I don't know it all, I need to learn interactively, and I want a group of like minded people to bounce ideas off of. This group is about sharing IT best practices and having intelligent conversations with people who 'get IT'. You will fit in if you are interested in sharing ALL of what you know with others. This group aims to create a network of bett …

OSEF brings high-level software executives together to share best practices, exchange ideas, and explore new technologies. By bringing successful software executives together to share knowledge, the forum will raise the effectiveness of member companies, and position Ottawa software companies as leaders the rest of the industry looks to for innovation and best practices.