Satellite Applications Catapult will be a base for space related hackathons at the newly refurbished HQ in Didcot. We will be hosting events lasting 2 days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming: This 48-hour hackathon is to build new web and mobile services revolving around satellite data. Solutions can range from predicting natural disasters, Climate change, anything you can think of to tantalize the judges, using a wealth of satellite data. Cat …

There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. This group is for people who are the 1. We are a new, friendly, group for programmers, designers, engineers, digital artists and anyone else with an interested in technology and computers.

We at the Social Tech Group meet every month to network, share food and drink and talk about tech and new media. We usually meet in central Reading each month and occassionally organise trips and talks. So whether you are old or young, entrepreneur or occassional user, use technology in your work environment or at home, come along for friendly discussions and a chance to network with like-minded people. Hope to see you soon, Ant & Marc

This group is a place for developers in the Thames Valley to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions.

We are a community of data scientists, technologists and analyts that work with data. This is a new meetup that aims to discuss the tools, methods and technologies used by many startups and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive insight, and exploit business opportunities from data products. We'll have data scientists talking about topics like: big data analytics, distributed data analytics, Pig, Hive, data mining, machine learning, scalable data analytics, predict …

Learn how to code. Want to know what programming and computer science are all about? Then look no further! We will do a bit of everything: web design, data visualization, front- and backend development, and much more! So...if you are hoping to learn new skills, get creative, or just try something different, then sign up now and get involved!

Steward Townsend approved BarCampBankLondon 1 and 2 being hosted at Sun while he was there.  So without him we'd probably never have managed to start the events at all. He's now working for ICAP and is promoting a seed fund/incubator for early stage financial technology startups. FinTech Startups call to arms : Investment fund run through ICAP - wants to invest NOW For more information go to http://checkthis.com/4h6 FinTech Investment Fund Euclid Opportunities offers financial technology s …

Our networking events are for sole traders, home based and small business owners to meet up to openly discuss, debate and collaborate on issues affecting their businesses locally. Attendees are encouraged to share ideas and experiences. We also offer educational events around subjects that directly affect small business. The FSB's mission is to be and remain the largest and most effective organisation promoting and protecting the interests of the self employed and small business owners within th …

An official Adobe User Group with free monthly meetings - 3rd Thursday of each month. Speakers, hot tips, networking, sometimes informal pub meetings loosely based around the range of Adobe software products from Photoshop and Illustrator to Dreamweaver and Edge. Everything web and design related. All welcome.

The Zeitgeist Movement is not a political movement. It does not recognize nations, governments, races, religions, creeds or class. Our understandings conclude that these are false, outdated distinctions which are far from positive factors for true collective human growth and potential. Their basis is in power division and stratification, not unity and equality, which is our goal. While it is important to understand that everything in life is a natural progression, we must also acknowledge the re …

This is a great opportunity to meet other locals who earn their living from the Internet. A safe environment for people of all disciplines to get together and discuss new and emerging trends in our field! We're a friendly bunch who love to welcome new faces into the group, we'd love you to come along and meet us, if you're new then let us know and we'll introduce you around! We now meet in Copa, a lively bar on George Street in the centre of Oxford. We get together once month and its purely soci …

This is a group for anyone interested in learning more about writing code using modern techniques by practising together in a friendly, cooperative atmosphere fuelled by the four main sources of nourishment for developers - curiosity, beer, pizza and caffeine. The group is language agnostic, although meetings are likely to focus on specific technologies. The group is centred on Guildford since it is fairly central to the area, and also has a number of high-tech startups nearby on the Surrey Rese …

Imagine a place where you can learn about new and interesting ways to live more sustainably and safe-guard our future. What if everything you needed to live organically was affordable and available in one place? Businesses can come together and plan a truly sustainable future. Children can learn and play and feel part of a living community, after all the world is their inheritance…

For like minded, local developers who wish to push their skills to the next level. All levels welcome from beginners to experts. Typical technologies include: Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS etc), Shell/Bash, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPUnit, Zend Framework, CakePHP, Doctrine, caching, memcache, html, xhtml, css, javascript (js), jQuery (ajax, animation), xml, W3C, SVN, Git, Hudson CI, Bamboo, Ant, Selenium, Design patterns, Best practices, TDD, Open meetings, nagios... Most groups are in London, so …

This is a group for anyone interested in writing, recording and performing their own music. All skills levels are welcome. I started this group to meet other music enthusiasts and to get a local music scene going.

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The Reading Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Reading to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.