Designing, developing and supporting applications for "the cloud" presents different challenges than on dedicated or VPS environments. The mission of CLT Cloud is to facilitate conversation amongst developers, system administrators and technologists involved in applications that run in cloud environments like Amazon AWS and Heroku. Anyone interesting in cloud computing should join, regardless of experience level or technologies of interest. This group is language and technology agnostic.

Group of Javascript Enthusiasts focusing on development with and learning around the ExtJS and Sencha touch libraries. We want to learn, develop skills, exchange ideas and work through issues surround these and related technologies.

Free to attend. We hold bi-monthly tech related discussions on how it can help your business. The first hour is dedicated to a speaker and a single topic, practical 'how to' use of technology. The second hour is for break out groups to discuss how they can use the concept in their business. We want to give you actionable steps..things you can do right away.

This group is created as a networking and resource tool for .Net Developers in the local area. All developers in the Charlotte area encouraged to join. Please no recruiting companies.

"Turning space science-fiction into space science-fact." http://charlottespaceexploration.org/ Our purpose: Our goal is to educate civilians, doctors, soldiers, teachers, students, lawyers, business entrepreneurs, engineers, physicists, electricians, parents, children, and all walks of life on the reality of the upcoming private space exploration age. We are simply providing a forum of discussion (in person) for all who are interested in the cosmos and its future and current business opportuni …

Python Users Group that promotes the Python programming language in the Upstate of South Carolina. Emphasis is on providing computer science education (via Python) to really good problem solvers living in rural areas as part of http://hub-ology.org

[grok] — verb to intimately and completely share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed [ORIGIN: 1961, COINED BY AUTHOR ROBERT A. HEINLEIN IN HIS NOVEL STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND] Thanks to Joshua Blankenship for the definition. The Origin of the Grok The first Grok began in the tasty beer and pixel filled mind of Matthew Smith of @squaredeye & Cowork Greenvil …

This is the website of the Charlotte ALT.NET group. We are a group of Charlotte developers interested in .NET and sharing knowledge about the best in software technology and practices. This includes but is not limited to things such as Test Driven Development, Distributed Source Control, Agile Methodologies, NHibernate, and Model View Controller web frameworks.

Queen City PHP is a group of professionals and hobbyists alike interested in developing web applications with PHP. Our meetups generally occur on the second Monday of every month at 7PM. Our mission is to encourage continuous learning and facilitate networking between Charlotte area developers. Please check out the message boards for any job openings in the area. http://meetup.qcphp.org/messages/boards/forum/1380853 website: http://qcphp.org twitter: @qcphp freenode irc: #qcphp

This meetup group is a joint venture between the American Marketing Association, Charlotte Chapter and Studiobanks a full-service digital marketing agency. The objective of this free meetup group is to encourage an open dialogue between professional digital marketing practitioners and business leaders looking to enhance their digital presence. Who should join? Anyone with a keen interest in learning about digital marketing, both professionals in the field and business leaders looking to learn. …

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Charlotte Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Charlotte serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who complements y …

Bi-weekly free lunch, networking, and general tech discussion at SDW HQ. Have an idea for a topic, email josh@skookum.com

Come meet other Charlotte area bloggers to talk about blogging! Let's get together to talk about content, design, technology, blogging platforms, SEO, social media and anything else in our bloggy brains! We can share knowledge and trade tips and tricks to create better blogs, increase traffic and make our blogs rock. Oh - let's also have a couple drinks.

Hackerspace Charlotte is a non-profit organization where people with common interests, usually in computers, technology, or digital/electronic art can meet, socialize and collaborate. Hackerspace Charlotte can be viewed as a kind of open community lab incorporating elements of a machine shop, workshop, classroom, and studio where all kinds of hackers can come together to share resources and knowledge to build and make cool things. Hackerspace Charlotte has members from a wide range of background …

This meetup provides an online space for Microsoft app builders to come together and build apps with the help of Microsoft and our Community of App Developers.

A group for people interested in self-tracking to gather, share knowledge and experiences, and discover resources based on the Quantified Self movement originally developed by Kevin Kelly (co-founder of Wired magazine) and Gary Wolf (Wired Contributing Editor). Those interested in the movement believe that through the use of gadgets, smartphones, and various applications we can fully quantify our lives and make behavior changes, if necessary, to increase the quality of our lives. Topics will inc …

This group will serve as a networking and resource tool for Sharepoint Developers in the local area. All developers in the Charlotte area encouraged to join.

Learn about Clojure and meet other local programmers interested in Clojure.

This is a group for anyone interested in creating and building a start-up from conception to completion. Part or Full time partners are welcome. Bring your talent, passion, and experience to the table and lets build a team that works well together to create something great. Looking for a small group of skilled people in tech (hackers, devs, programmers etc..), sales, marketing, and social networking. Meetings will include idea submissions, validation process and a real pursuit of a start up for …

What is a TM1 Warrior? A TM1 warrior is anyone who uses IBM Cognos TM1 software and wants to share their experiences, successes and even dilemmas of using this tool. Sound like this could be you? Then join our TM1 Warrior Group.

Dedicated to best practices, semantic markup, progressive enhancement & graceful degradation. Over the course of time and quite often we discuss HTML5, CSS, cross-browser support & testing, mobile, optimization techniques and much more. From time-to-time we'll discuss Javascript related topics but in most cases we'll let the excellent Charlotte JS Meetup Group handle the glory that is Javascsript.

This meetup site shares meeting activities and documents for the IEEE Charlotte, NC section. Group membership is extended to all IEEE members who work, attend school, or reside in the Charlotte MSA. IEEE membership requirements may be found at: http://www.ieee.org/membership_services/membership/qualifications.html Guest attendance of potential members is encouraged, though specific requirements vary by meeting (some social events are member only; some events are 21+; some are public).

Internet Marketing Basics is a group designed to help individuals learn ways to utilize and market their business on the internet through multiple avenues and to be able to leverage the power of technology through social media channels. If you are a small or medium sized business owner, or someone thinking of starting one, and need to learn the basics of internet marketing, this group is for you. There are thousands of people out there struggling to keep up with the ever changing technological c …

Center for HackathonCLT, Charlotte Tech Communities Hackathon.

We're a group of learning and development professionals in the Charlotte, NC area who are specifically interested in the use of technology to promote learning and performance.  Our members range from novice to expert and everywhere in between.  If you're interested in learning technology consider joining.

This is a group for the Sustainability Technologies program at Central Piedmont Community College. The CPCC Students for Sustainability is a service learning student organization within the Sustainability Technologies program at Central Piedmont Community College. Purpose 1. The purpose of Students for Sustainability is to encourage students to act as a catalyst for innovative student-initiated projects that promote sustainability issues affecting people around the globe. The club helps suppo …

Packard Place is the hub of like-minded entrepreneurs sharing skills and business opportunities in Charlotte. Packard Place aims to fill a void in Charlotte’s entrepreneurial ecosystem as the hub location for high-growth entrepreneurship in the region. It will serve as a community center for entrepreneurial activity in the heart of the city allowing access to technology, education and hands-on assistance to help business partners and start-ups design, build, market and deliver innovation and sol …

Want to meet new people to enjoy social, travel, recreation, cultural arts, and fun in creative and unique opportunities?  We have wonderful, kind, fun-loving group of empty nesters and retirees involved and sharing life's journey together!  JOIN US anytime!