Are you making apps for mobile devices? Thinking about making them or just interested in mobile technology or design? The aim of this group is to link people involved in or interested in getting involved in making mobile apps and responsive websites. This meetup group helps people get together to share knowledge and ideas in a casual and relaxed environment. Who should join? Designers, developers, graphic designers, publishers, students, etc. You don't need to be actively making apps to join thi …

We thought a general IT event where techies from the Chippenham area can get together to chat and swap war stories and tips would be a good idea. Open to all who are interested, our experience is mostly around R, Java, Python, .NET, SAS etc

Let's create some innovative applications and web toys. No limits, just cool stuff.

The omnipotent big data group that is all things to do with dealing with, managing, handling and delivering big data, in the mild mild South West. Topics include MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Node.js, scaling, engineering data, open-source, linkeddata, and beer. Discussion at http://groups.google.com/group/south-west-big-data.

A monthly networking meeting for like-minded web developers in the Bath and Chippenham area. Each month there will be at least one talk by a member of the group. The main aim is to share ideas, knowledge and experience and to build networks and possible affiliations. Meetings will be held at a delightful country house in Wiltshire with food and drink available.

South West Founders is a monthly meet-up for people based in the South-West who have been, are, or want to be tech start-up founders. We aim to connect local entrepreneurs with co-founders and other like-minded people as well as tech investors to create an informal support network. We welcome entrepreneurs and tech investors with open arms, but discourage freelancers, consultants, lawyers and other service providers unless they have a genuine interest in founding or mentoring start-up businesses …

The aim of this group is to organise informal gatherings, from socials to talk nights, for Rubyists in and around Bath. We welcome anyone with an interest in Ruby, from those who are just curious about the language to developers who have been working with it for years.

Forcewest is a business networking group in Bristol for anyone working with Salesforce.com, or wanting to find out more about the technology platform. This free event, hosted by Desynit, runs every couple of months. Come and have a drink, hear from expert speakers, get your questions answered, and meet others working with or on the platform in Bristol and the South West at this friendly and sociable event, open to all. Visit our website at www.forcewest.com to find out more about the group

Group of people interested in CouchDB and the associated ecosystem (e.g. rich html5 applications, MVC & asynchronous javascript, big data, data visualisation). More information can be found on http://bristol.couchdb.org/

This is a group for people who either have a start up idea and would like to meet people who would like to get involved with it or for people who are curious about start up companies and would like to get involved but don't have a start up idea. Do you have a great idea - but you don't do anything because you are worried someone will steal your idea or you are simply too busy to do anything. Is it likely you will never do anything about it? If so, this is the meet up group for you. Or are yo …

PHP User Group, meets 2nd Wednesday of every month in Bristol, UK. We typically have a one or two speakers each month. Topics cover PHP or related technologies. In the past we've had talks on Doctrine 2, Zend Framework optimisation, redis, BDD with Behat, unit testing database code with DBUnit, experiences with Amazon Web Services, etc. Anyone is welcome to give a talk and a projector is available. Aside from the talks, we discuss PHP and exchange development war stories. Usually over a beer. Jo …

We are a group of agile practitioners and enthusiasts living and working in the South West of England. This group is open to anyone in Bath and the surrounding areas (inc. Bristol, Newport, Cardiff, Swindon, Exeter and beyond) interested in Scrum and Agile practices. Feel free to come along to one of our meetups to speak to like-minded individuals and share some agile war stories over a drink or two!

The local user group for people interested in sql server and related technologies - there's usually pizza!

We are a bunch of friendly Ruby developers, meeting once a month for some beers and talks.

Welcome to North Avon Speakers! North Avon Speakers is a fun, friendly public speaking club based in Yate. We meet every first, third and fifth Thursday of the month. Meetings start at 7:30pm prompt and finish by 9:30pm. North Avon Speakers Club is part of Toastmasters International, a non-profit worldwide network of 12,500 clubs with over 260,000 members spread across 116 countries. To visit the Toastmasters International website: http://www.toastmasters.org/ Why join a public speaking club …

Is there a better way to start the week than having a very good breaky with your peers. This is what we are aiming for at Bristol #freelancebreakfast, meeting monthly in the city center, sharing a cup of coffee, a full English, and talking about our way of work! [Pic from http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelfreund/4579008200/]

Meet other developers who are using Sencha-based products, such as Ext JS and Sencha Touch. Share knowledge and best practice on these technologies.