This group is for a much needed opportunity for young(20-30s) entrepreneurs, innovators, free thinkers, visionaries, and the like to find each other, connect, and get together to support each others visions, network, help each other, socialize, and just hang out. Maybe your passion is the environment, medicine, technology, social media, the arts, business, or maybe its spirituality and human potential. Whatever it is we can do so much more by supporting each other and helping each other out. If …

The Pittsburgh Business Intelligence Group is the only regional group focused on providing opportunities for individuals in the Business Intelligence / Data Warehousing industry to meet, network, and learn about strategies, best practices, and tools. This group is technology agnostic. It is open to professionals having experience with any relevant technologies (Business Objects, Microsoft, Cognos, Birst, QlikView, SAS, SPSS, MicroStrategy, Teradata, etc.) Topics of discussion include BI tools, …

Welcome old lispers and new schemers! Come to our next event to meet other programmers interested in the latest secret alien technology -- Clojure. We are building a community of people who want to learn from and teach others about Clojure. Talking with printed notes is encouraged, powerpoints are forbidden. Find us on Twitter @PghClojure and on Freenode IRC #PghClojure.

A regular venue for technology entrepreneurs and enthusiasts to - give a cool technology demo - give an elevator pitch - listen to a keynote - see a tutorial - meet like-minded people - share ideas - discuss the hottest trends Join us at our next event!

This is the Pittsburgh Meetup Group of the Quantified Self. Like other Quantified Self groups, we discuss topics related to tracking information about oneself to gain more self-knowledge. Come share what you are doing, and learn from others. Topics include, but are not limited to: Self-tracking / self-monitoring Life-logging Visualizations of personal information Self-experimentation Location tracking Sustainability Diabetes tracking Aging Your host is Ian Li (ianli at ianli dot com). …

Welcome to Pittsburgh Area Singles Meet Up Group! The Modern Matchmaker is a boutique matchmaking service for singles of all ages. Our successful, contemporary process blends traditional matchmaking values with modern technology. We customize introductions for selective clients that lead to a committed relationship or marriage. We help them to find their perfect match, their best friend and lover, and enhance the quality of their life. Contrary to on line dating services, we offer a personalized …

This is a Meetup group for all people interested in invention, innovation, intellectual property development, new product design, and crowdsourcing of ideas.  The goal of the Pittsburgh Invents is to bring creative people together for insight and brainstorming to help generate new marketable ideas, products, and innovations that solve real world problems.  Share, network, and gather resources to put you on the path to success. The Vision To connect  like-minded local innovators and help provide …

GNU/Linux computer software and operating systems support end user freedom because they are Free/Libre (a.k.a. Free Software - a matter of liberty and not price). As our society grows more dependent on computers, the software we run is of critical importance to securing the future of a free society. Free software is about having control over the technology we use in our homes, schools and businesses, where computers work for our individual and communal benefit, not for proprietary software comp …

SteelCloud is a user group / meetup for Pittsburgh-area cloud application developers. We get together to discuss technologies, architecture, patterns and techniques of interest to developers working on large-scale, distributed applications. We try to meet monthly - either to hear engaging speakers present topical information, or to open the floor to roundtable discussion of what’s on our collective mind.

Tap into Power and Energy Lying Deep Within You 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. Better Yourself Emotionally, Physically and Mentally All over world, human beings believe they can find solutions to their …

Welcome to the Pittsburgh Node.js community Meetup! This is a meetup to discuss Node.js, web development and javascript on both client and server.  If you'd like to learn how to Node or grow your professional network we'd love to have you!

Meetup with other local professionals who are interested in the Online News Association (ONA). Gather with writers, editors, technologists, photographers, producers, developers and more all with an interest in the production of digital news. For more information or to become a member, check out http://www.journalists.org.

Local monthly meetup for Pittsburgh bitcoin users to mingle, trade and share ideas. Our hope is to help the local bitcoin community grow. Anyone with interest in bitcoin is welcome!

Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses …

Facebook is a part of your life and the life of just about everyone you know. The Facebook Developer and Marketers Meetup has been created for those who want to utilize the power of Facebook to expand their, or a client's, business. THIS MEETUP WILL COVER APPS TO ADS. So whether you are interested in creating a Facebook fan page, an application, or an ad, through this group you'll discover trends, tips, tools, and techniques that you can use to construct, connect, interest and influence via the …

The Pittsburgh .NET User Group is a community-driven group for area .NET developers to learn about features of the .NET framework and also to learn about ways that others are using the .NET language, either for business or personal projects. We're also a group that promotes software craftsmanship and well architected solutions. All skill levels are welcome. We meet the second Tuesday of each month at the Microsoft Office at 40 Isabella St (directly across from PNC Park). On rare occasions, we ma …

Pittsburgh.rb is a Ruby language user group for beginners and experts to discuss all things about the language that makes us happy.

We're here to bring together anyone who programs in the Go programming language, based in or near Pittsburgh, in western Pennsylvania, and welcoming visitors from further afield. Professional programmers, system administrators, home tinkerers; students, entrepreneurs, retirees.  If you can program, and are doing so at least partly in Go, or just considering Go as an option, you're all welcome.  We'll adapt. We're currently just getting started, organising our first meeting, so a character has no …

This group covers non-relational data storage technologies, which may either be a complement to or used instead of RDBMSs. Topics covered include Document Stores, Key-Value Stores, Graph Databases, Object Databases, and RDF Databases. Products covered include CouchDB, BigTable, memcached, Objectivity/DB, Hbase, Cassandra, redis, and InfiniteGraph. The general approach to our meetings are to go round-robin on the specific products and technologies in a hands-on manner, rather than talk about the …

This is an IBM sponsored Big Data meetup group.  Geared towards developers, data scientists and all Big Data enthusiasts, our meetups provide an opportunity to work hands on with the solutions and tools in our Big Data platform. Our Meetups typically include a 45-60 min (max) presentation that serves as an introduction and overview for a specific Big Data technology.  It is followed by ~3 hours to collaborate with fellow developers and apply your Big Data skills.  We provide a cloud environment …

For lovers of Adobe software and web technologies.

Exchange tips, hints, best practices on how to use Amazon Web Services. Meet other AWS users.

Health 2.0 Pittsburgh is a meetup group focused on innovations in the delivery of healthcare and health related technology. This group is dedicated to creating a community around Health in Pittsburgh as part of the international Health 2.0 movement. It's a venue for sharing, discussing, showcasing and developing ideas for how to improve patient care. If you are interested in the intersection of health care and information technology, this is a group for you. Technology enthusiasts, developers, s …

Want to continue building things in Ruby on Rails? Catch up with attendees and interested coaches to continue your learning and coding practice!

Pittsburgh Geek Out Days (PGODs) are semi-regular meetings of technologists to discuss software engineering, how to be rockstar programmers, trends in software, and anything else that people find interesting. We do this by following an Open Spaces (or unconference) format. We typically meet every other month on Saturday mornings. We don't have topics or speakers, though we will often have a word or two as "inspiration" (e.g. design). When we arrive, we will introduce the format, then anyone who …

This is group for people who interested in supporting the success of southwestern Pennslvania's technology community.

The last JavaScript Meetup fell through when the organizers took jobs outside of the Pittsburgh Community and moved. This left the rest of us without a means to control the group and continue with the discussions. I'd like to revitalize the group and community. This group should discuss frameworks, libraries, tools, the language itself, coding practices and any and all things related to JavaScript.

Stay up-to-date with all of the events, classes, and opportunities at Pittsburgh's newest co-working space. The Hardwares Store brings startups, freelance media producers, and nonprofits into the same space so that they can collaborate and grow. The Hardware Store's facilities contain complete media production facilities, including 20' of greenscreen, a podcasting suite, and state-of-the art audio studio.