Handelsroute organizes trade missions for technology and new media companies around the globe. During these trips we often host free seminars, network sessions and matchmaking. If you would like to extend your international business network please join so we can easily invite you to our next FREE event.

All about Hippo CMS 7, building websites with Hippo, customer show cases, projects, and related technologies.

Anyone interested in improving/changing/harnessing/revolutionizing education through the use of technology. Please join in whether you are an entrepreneur, techy, teacher or investor or just interested in EdTech.

Heb je ooit wel eens van Ruby gehoord of werk je dagelijks met Rails? Kom dan een keertje naar Groningen! Er is elke vierde dinsdag van de maand een Groningen.rb in het Launch Café. Onder het genot van het een paar ijskoude pilsjes, zul je te weten komen hoe groot de Noordelijke Ruby wereld is en wat er daarbinnen zoal gebeurt. Oh, en vergeet niet voor onze nieuwsbrief in te schrijven!

This Group will bring software people together to share ideas and experience in the domain of Continuous Delivery. Continuous Delivery addresses the entire software delivery pipeline - from CI to testing to deployment to release - and addresses technology, process and organization. Anything within that domain will be in scope for our Group. The Group shares concerns with other Groups - DevOps, Agile,Puppet/Chef, Cloud, Selenium, etc. - and will be complementary to them. But we'll talk about th …

Permanent Beta heeft als ondertitel “Bridging Brains, Tech and Culture”. Wij willen mensen bij elkaar brengen, kennis delen en kennis vloeibaar maken, ontmoetingen faciliteren en steentjes in vijvers gooien om beweging te creëren. Wij willen ondernemers en geeks koppelen, wij willen gesprekken en inspiratie organiseren rond grote en kleine maatschappelijke vraagstukken. Wij willen bruggen slaan tussen oud en nieuw. Permanent Beta opent ogen, verwondert, inspireert en helpt je met kennis en inspi …

We're talking urban infrastructure, smart grid, open hardware, quantified self, open data, environmental monitoring and more.  Anything that puts a networked computer where none has gone before.

Currently there are a multitude of companies offering Content Analytics and Social Internet Mining services for the purposes of Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis. Truly effective Sentiment Analysis is a complex NLP task in monolingual contexts alone. In multilingual contexts the complexity increase many-fold and also presents the challenge of comparison of opinion across languages and cultures. Named Entity Recognition and Classification is also key element to this challenge. As with is ofte …

This group is for developers who want to look into the possibilities of creating web and mobile applications with the tools available to us at the moment. We will have a look at the past and a look into the future to see how we can extend our reach onto the new and unexplored.

RailsGirls aims to introduce more women to the wonderful world of programming in Ruby on Rails.

A english-speaking group for PHP Developers in and around Amsterdam. Our goal is to grow the local community, search for new developers and spread knowledge and resources. Amsterdam is a very active technology center for the Netherlands, many companies and people from various countries have chosen this area to settle down and start their companies. PHP has a big role in this and for that reason we created a User Group focused on this area and in doing activities in english to acommodate all of t …

Holland hackers interested in startups. Are you building something? Is it awesome? Shiny enough to show to other people and possibly found a company on? Please come hangout with us. We need more of those people in our lives. Formed by fans of Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com), the original Hackers and Founders started in Silicon Valley almost 3 years ago. Hackers and Founders meetups have since been meeting in New York, Indianapolis, Wellington, New Zealand, Boston and Mumbai. We are the …

The Quantified Self Amsterdam 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. 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 what you are doing and learn from others. Topics include, but are not limited to: * Self-experimentation * Behavior monitoring * Lifelo …

Clojure is an exciting programming language for the JVM. Whether you are a highly skilled functional programmer or just starting to learn the ropes and wanting to check out the waters, you are more than welcome to join us in: - Teaching each other Clojure - Presenting ongoing work and new technologies/libraries - Hacking on our own Open Source projects (Dojo sessions) - Looking for Clojure startup opportunities - Drinking a couple of beers! Warning: Once you have seen the true power of Lisp …

Tech Innovation Meetup bijeenkomsten, waarbij de deelnemers en nieuwe innovatieve ontwikkelingen centraal staan. Denk daarbij aan ontwikkelingen als Google Glass, 3D printers, 23andme, Ouya, nano technologie, you name it.

The Federation of Agile Testers in the Netherlands (in short FAT-NL) is a Dutch user group offering a platform for anyone interested in Testing in Agile environments. Our goal is to share knowledge, exchange personal experiences and to discuss test tooling, templates, articles, press releases etc. We aim to do so by organizing events in the form of presentations and open spaces.

'AppifyNow' is de ontmoetingsplek voor mensen die Apps gebruiken, bedenken en maken. 'AppifyNow' is een terugkerend event waar je inspirerende sprekers hoort en de nieuwste ontwikkelingen ziet.

MODX is een zeer flexibel content management platform welke het voor designers en developers mogelijk maakt om vrijwel alle websites of applicaties te implementeren. Doordat de designer/developer het beheer paneel inricht, krijgt de klant een custom-built experience. Met deze Meetup Groep proberen we de MODX gebruikers in Nederland te ondersteunen met regelmatige meetups en netwerkmogelijkheden. Wordt nu lid, en kom er achter wat MODX voor jou kan doen!

Het doel van deze meet up is om kennis en ervaring uit te wisselen op het gebied van Software Architectuur. Tijdens deze meet ups wordt steeds een praktijk case gepresenteerd waarin een of meer kwaliteitsaspecten tekort schieten. Gezamenlijk zoeken we naar de beste oplossing.

Everybody needs a place to discuss with his peers, to get inspired and share ideas....This will be the place for web performance, developers and web operators. Are you interested in making the web faster, create a better user experience and make more money online? Or great post-mortem and/or case studies? Join this group!....And get the chance to meet your peers, show them how awesome your work is or just to grab a beer once in a while with inspiring people.

ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers working for (or wanting to work for) web companies in the Netherlands to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Management & Design, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, networking opportunities, and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to companies big and small. We also welcome …

A Virtual Museum (VM) is a new model of communication-system that aims at creating a personalized, immersive interactive way to enhance our understanding of the world around us. The term “Virtual Museum” is a “short-cut” that comprehends various types of digital creations. This network aims to bring three domains together that can improve Virtual Museums. These domains are: Museums-practice, Research & Development and Small and Medium Enterprises (SME's). This meetup is part of the Virtual Museu …

Monster on Rails was originally founded as Ruby on Rails Usergroup Münster. Since there are many corresponding technologies around in Ruby sphere we are dealing many topics like Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Software Architecture, Frontend Performance, Javascript in general, backbone.js, node.js, NoSQL, so on. Usually we meet monthly.

This is a user group for MySQL users. This is the place to meet other MySQL users. It's for DBA's, developers, architects and all other interested users. It's both for experienced users and user who are starting to learn about MySQL and databases in general. It's for users of Oracle MySQL (Community and Enterprise), Percona Server, MariaDB, Drizzle and all other branches and forks. Feel free to suggest locations for the meetups.

Apps for Smart Cities is all about the interaction of citizens with their urban environment. These Urbanites will increasingly communicatie with the city and the city with the people through the enormous growth of smart systems. This group explore the applications (apps) that are necessary, possible, etc.

Do you do stuff on the web? Development, design or marketing? Join this group and let's meet face to face to talk web and have a couple of drinks. As a relatively new group, we're looking for people to help shape the meetups, to suggest interesting topics and speakers and to generally spread awareness of the web community in Leeuwarden.

Deze groep is voor Java dev's die Android een interessant platform vinden. Java en Android hebben veel met elkaar te maken en voor serieuze apps moet je meer weten dan het maken van een user interface. Voor Java ontwikkelaars is een natuurlijke stap om te maken. Wij willen ervaringen delen en met ontwikkelaars die Android doen of willen doen samen mooie dingen maken.

We’re always excited to engage with the broader game development community to help shape the direction of emerging Web standards, particularly HTML5. Connect and collaborate to move our business technology initiatives forward! We’d love to have you join—apply for membership today.