Shaker | LaunchHouse creates better, smarter, and more successful entrepreneurs in Northeast Ohio by nurturing innovation and creativity. This meetup group exists to increase the sense of urgency in town while successfully connecting key players, educators, techies, service providers, investors, and cool people. Events will focus on entrepreneurship, business development, sustainability, and fun networking. Come join us as we build a collaborative startup COMMUNITY in Cleveland and the greater M …

The Makers Alliance is Cleveland's Hackerspace. We exist to bring hands-on technology and art to members and the general public, through workshops, talks, and shop space. We are a collective of hobbyists, hackers, engineers, and students that desire to educate, innovate, and make some new friends while we are at it. Please join the Makers Alliance Discuss mailing list and introduce yourself!

The Cleveland WPF User Group is devoted to Windows Presentation Foundation, Silverlight, and other Microsoft technologies. The meetings are held every 3rd Tuesday, free of charge, and open to the public. In addition, prizes such as software, books, and T-shirts are awarded at every meeting. Afterwards, many members meet at a local restaurant to network and socialize. Please join us at the next meeting and see it all first hand.

A technology agnostic group of passionate software developers learning new things by being exposed to a wide array of software related topics.

The focus of this meetup group to accelerate the pace of getting to know really cool tech people in town. Join now and get the insider invites to our get togethers. Some are impromptu and some are planned. Either way you'll never know if you don't sign up. Our events will generally focus on tech community networking, entrepreneurship, environmental sustainability, and professional development.

The .Net Study Group is intended to help software developers increase their understanding of specific Microsoft technologies, eventually leading to Microsoft certification. Meetings will be held online in the evenings, revolving around a specific topic.  The study material will span several weeks. Participants attending are expected to have reviewed the material prior to the meeting, and should be ready to discuss any questions. The moderator will facilitate answering questions and discuss a bri …

We Care About Our Community! If you have a group that meets once a week, once a month, or even once a year let the Microsoft Store at Beachwood Place Mall be the location where you host your event! Our Theater is open to all kinds of groups; ranging from book clubs, tech groups, small business groups, gaming teams and tournaments, PC gaming, and many more. We also provide private group training sessions, workshops, guest speakers to concerts and organization meetings. We are proud members of th …

This is a group for anyone interested in Linux and Open Source Software. All skill levels are welcome. Make new friends and sharpen your tech skills in a very friendly and welcoming environment!

Code for Summit County is a Code for America Brigade headquartered in Akron, Ohio. We are developers, designers, data geeks, leaders, and idea-makers who volunteer to help government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies. You can find our official website at http://codeforsummitcounty.org

This group is dedicated to sharing conversion rate optimization techniques, tools and knowledge. If you are interested in generating more leads, sales and revenue from your visitors, this group is for you!

This is a group for software testers in the Cleveland area. Information about meetings will come in the near future. Until then, we will use this page to share ideas about testing and technology and to discuss future meeting topics. We welcome all testers.

The Cleveland Adobe User Group is a non-profit professional organization serving the needs of the Northeast Ohio's Internet community. Originally founded in 2004 as the Cleveland Macromedia User Group, the group changed names to the Cleveland Adobe User Group in 2006 when Adobe purchased Macromedia. Our mission is to explore, enjoy, and promote the use of Adobe products and services within the Northeast Ohio's Internet community through education, networking and peer support. The Cleveland Adob …

Mobile Monday Cleveland was created to provide a forum to bring together Mobile visionaries from the local community to help educate and inform other companies who might be looking to embrace mobile technologies as part of their core infrastructure.

Whether you want to find out the best way to paint your bedroom, fix your lawnmower, or design your home-built aircraft, this group is for anyone wants to do it themselves. It doesn't matter if you have zero skills or a lifelong handyperson, this group is for EVERYONE that has interest in this topic.I had the idea this group after watching some you tube videos about making your own wind turbine for household energy. The video states this can be done with some basic products from your loc …

I'm a big fan of MongoDB and we use it quite extensively at my company (Cloud CMS). We'd like to promote the use of MongoDB - the premier document-oriented NoSQL database - among the Cleveland business and tech community!

Meet other developers using Meteor. Share your knowledge, apps, and get feedback from others. Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

Are you a woman in tech? Or perhaps you've mentored and helped women in tech navigate the industry? Whatever your role may be, this group is to help address issues common to women in tech and provide constructive criticism, feedback, share stories, and do what we can to promote the tech industry to get more women involved. Whether we want online forums or to share our stories in person, we can do both here with the help of Meetup!

The Cleveland Big Data and Hadoop User Group is for those interested in using and discussing all technologies in the Hadoop family (HBase, HDFS, MapReduce, etc.), as well as other technologies in the big data space

The role of Enterprise Architect (EA) and that of Solution Architect (SA) has emerged as a vital position in the architectural landscape, aligning IT and business. These roles require knowledge and skills that are both broad and deep. That said, the Enterprise Architect/Solution Architect Meetup will focus on the challenges facing EAs/SAs and how they can improve the effectiveness or efficiency of a business. The goals of Enterprise Architecture: Effectiveness, Efficiency, Agility, and Durabilit …

The Cleveland Quantified Self Meetup is inspired by the Bay Area Quantified Self Meetup and the Quantified Self blog. It is a regular show and tell for people who are tracking data about their body and conducting their own personal investigations and research into their bodies, minds, and selves. Anything is game -- from personal genetics to ways to digitize and track information, from how to self-diagnose to how to self-experiment with data and statistics. More specific topics include: * self-e …

Sahaja Meditation Meetup is meant for everyone who desires to find his or her true self, which is full of peace, joy of life and love for others. It is not just a book or a set of exercises but a living science that will open up to you gradually as your meditation becomes deeper and your experience stronger and more fulfilling. All over world, human beings believe they can find solutions to their problems in new products, medicines and technology. Most aren’t aware that deep within themselves re …

The Cleveland chapter of CocoaHeads meets once a month for presentations and discussions of programming for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The global reach of the Internet has democratized entrepreneurship. Never before has it been so possible for anyone from anywhere, with a great idea and a burning drive to succeed, to make it big in a relatively short period of time. Taking a startup from idea to IPO has taken on mythical proportions. Many dream the dream, with hopes of launching the "next big thing". We are a community of entrepreneurs, technologists, academics, financi …

"A civic hacker is an open source software developer who uses his or her skills to make their community and country a better place. ... A civic hacker will just do something, not asking for permission, ignoring government bureaucracy, in order to build tools and technologies with a civic-minded bent." -- Luigi Montanez Help transform Cleveland and Cuyahoga County using your design or development skills. Let's get together to clean up unstructured data, catalog public datasets, build apps, create …

Are you looking for other gamers to play with and to win some free stuff? It's time that there was a group in Beachwood for everyone to get together and play everything Xbox and also some great PC games! Whether Halo is your game, League of Legends, Call of Duty, or maybe Madden, our Meetup Group is here to bring people together to play their favorite games. If you have any questions about League Play or if you have a Gamer Group who would like to use our Theater Room as a Meetup Place please co …

For Drupal users, admins, developers, and the curious -- in Cleveland and Northeast Ohio. Come meet other users of the Drupal Content Management Framework to learn and share!

The NEO WordPress Meetup is a gathering of folks from all over north east Ohio who share an interest in WordPress, Website Hosting and Design, as well as the latest trending topics of online, social media. We meet monthly in Akron, Ohio and have attendees from Norwalk to Columbus joining us. Beginners and experts alike are welcome. Generally speaking, our meetings start at 7pm and include a 20 minute presentation then we hang out and talk for an hour... or two... or three... Even months are …

This is a group for anyone wanting to learn how to achieve and maintain abundant health through the latest discoveries in quantum physics using the zero point field energy. We have been using this extraordinary technology for about 3 years and feel an obligation to share with others. We meet every Monday at 6:00pm at Thano's Restaurant, 71 5th St SE in Barberton to share the tools and testimonies. There is a short presentation, a demonstration and sharing. There is no cost but you are welcome to …