UpFront aims to deliver real world examples of front end technologies that you can apply to your workflow today. By attending events, you'll become a better developer and can network with other likeminded people around Kansas City. UpFront isn't only for front end developers. Managers and back end developers may find the content of the meetings valuable to their own work.

Weekly Monday night gathering of geeks who enjoy topics including, but not limited to, application and web development (code of all kinds), entrepreneurship, gaming, marketing, design, movies, the current state of all things tech, and usually beer and other cocktails. This Meetup is very much unstructured - feel free to come and geek out on just about ANYTHING. Laptops more than welcome.

A group dedicated to sharing, evangelizing and promoting the next big wave in technology, Cloud based services: software (SaaS), Platform (PaaS) as-a-service etc with a focus on the end users of cloud services; specifically people who have dealt or are dealing with the move from on-premise to the cloud and either have faced or are facing issues, Business & Technical like: security,management,integration etc. Also discussions on how the cloud impacts the different business units in an organizatio …

We are a group of independent developers, UI/UX designers, and dev-ops specialists meeting once a month (third Thursdays) to network and discuss topics revolving the intersection of technology and freelancing. The group is open to freelancers of every field, but fair warning, we'll regularly journey down the tech rabbit hole.

This is a group for anyone who invents, innovates, tinkers, creates, hacks, or otherwise makes stuff by hand. This includes engineers, scientists, clubs, tech hackers, robotics clubs, metal workers, crafters, food artisans, etc.

This is a place for anyone that wants to create software and/or hardware and collaborate with others in the process. This would be a great place to learn a new computer language. This would also be a great place for those with more experience to come to share projects, ideas, and get teams together to help make ideas into a reality. Although hardware hacking is more than welcome here, this group is more focused on firmware and software solutions. When we use the term hacker in this space, w …

Thanks for joining Startup Grind Kansas City! Startup Grind is a global event series and community designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

This is the Kansas City Regional Chapter of the National Association of Health Service Executives (NAHSE). We exist to further the great work being done in healthcare and to further the diversity in the industry.

Are you having a problem finding a co-founder? Problem raising seed or Angel funding? Problem getting the word out about your idea? Problem finding a developer? Problem with conversions? That's because you are not solving a REAL PROBLEM! Fix that and the other problems cease to be problems. Ideas are easy. Execution is hard. Executing the right thing is damn near impossible. Entrepreneurs with a startup idea usually rush in to find a co-founder, build a prototype, raise money, hire a PR agency, …

User Group for Python developers, enthusiast and hackers of the Kansas City Metro Area and surroundings. htttp://pythonkc.com http://twitter.com/pythonkc http://groups.google.com/group/pythonkc/ IRC: freenode.net#pythonkc

You don't have to be an expert in iOS development. WIRE was made to take advantage of the skills that your team already possesses. In fact, when compared to Objective-C or even JavaScript, our WIRE syntax is less bloated and was built with the heart of the web developer/designer in mind. WIRE supports native animations and device components such as camera and maps as well. WIRE was created to give designers and web developers the opportunity to create rich interactive mobile apps using the tools …

Our group was founded in 2007 as one of four official Adobe groups in Kansas City. We're designers, developers, digital photographers, freelancers, producers, in-house corporate marketing types, and interested students of all ages — focusing mostly on visually-oriented products in the entire Adobe Creative Suite and Creative Cloud, with a strong emphasis on Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Fireworks, and other tools with a visual emphasis. NO program is off-limits, though...if it's visual, we'l …

America's best days are not behind her, but ahead. This group is for anyone who lives by America's 9 principles and 12 values that are the essence of 9/12 Project.  We believe that by following these principles, as so wisely memorialized by our founding fathers, America can offer the greatest chance of prosperity.  We also embrace the "Mercury One" Challenge.  One heart, one body, saving the country.  One person, one family, one entrepreneur, one town at a time - Mercury One. Our mission is to i …

Connecting for Good is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that is leading the charge to bridge the Digital Divide in Kansas City. We assist low income residents with affordable connectivity, refurbished PCs and digital literacy training. 1. Assisting under-resourced families and individuals to obtain affordable broadband Internet access, especially in their own homes. 2. Helping people in lower income brackets to acquire reasonably priced Internet-connected devices and equipment. 3. Offering dig …

We will be sampling some of the best food in Kansas City!We will be hosting a series of tastings of all types of food, doing one restaurant for 2 weeks at a time. During the tastings you will have an opportunity to try out everything on the menus and then give feedback on the items that are in development! We are upgrading out technology slowly trying to transfer everyone from the listserv to Meetup.

This is a group for local writers seeking to publish their creative works. As a writer and small publisher, I started this group to give writers a means to make their novels, short story collections, and other pieces of literature a published reality. It is not as difficult as people think, given this modern age of technology; with the support of other writers and the know-how, those wanting to become authors can bypass all the rejection that comes with being an aspiring novelist and go straight …

Tech entrepreneurs in and around KC, join us for happy hour! Venture Fridays is a simple but fun concept: The startup culture of Kansas City and surrounding areas is invited to gather at our private office lounge to discuss what we’re all thinking about, working on, needing help with, and might do for each other. Existing or aspiring entrepreneurs of all types and ages are invited. Let’s raise our glasses to building the entrepreneurial culture beyond ourselves. Doors are open on Rainbow Bouleva …

IxDA (Interaction Design Association) Kansas City is a professional group dedicated to: Keeping new and veteran practitioners informed on all things pertaining to user experience (UX) while Helping members and partner organizations build a strong local UX community (with, so far, no dues). We're dedicated to the professional practice of UX and user interface (UI) design and development for all devices, particularly mobile. We review different practices and tools for developing business require …

Meet other local Ruby programmers. Take about tech and have a good time.

This group is dedicated to applying lean start-up thinking and building lean start-up leadership.

This is a group for Kansas City area business owners who are interested in attending networking events, workshops, speaker series, panel discussions and other events designed to provide strategies, inspiration, tools and connections for growing your business to the next level.

The Urban Farming Guys mission is to establish sustainable communities in the most difficult places on earth. The Urban Farming Guys is a band of pioneers, farmers, and fans. We believe that entire communities can be transformed from the inside out… from bust and blight to thriving and sustainable places to raise the next generation. Partnering to empower indigenous groups, we are working to build economic forces from the inside out, creating jobs, building resilient communities with affordable …

Open to all those interested in Apache Cassandra, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Hector, NoSQL, Pig, and high scalability. Let's get together and share what we know.