What is Techmeetups? TechMeetups has been setup to create a global network of Tech communities from San Francisco to Sydney. We believe that Tech communities are isolated and great things can be achieved if we connect within our cities and outside our borders. Our goal is to create a global Tech cluster of over 50 inter-connected Tech communities by 2013. Our global community started out with the launch of the London Silicon Roundabout Tech community in December 2010. Following it's success in …

Dallas Makerspace is an organized group of local artists, engineers, DIYers, makers, and thinkers who work together to collect tools and resources for our membership, who could not otherwise afford, store, or use them individually. We lease an industrial building and use it as a shared workspace to collaborate on a variety of individual and community projects that promote science and technology. If you are a "maker", then Dallas Makerspace is the best place in Dallas to find like minded people w …

Health Informatics Technophiles is a group for anyone interested in Health informatics or Health Information Technology. This group is not just about Health informatics or Health Technology professionals, anyone is welcome. I started this group because Health Informatics is a growing filed in technology and more people are interested to meet, share, learn and gain knowledge. The purpose is to establish a network for the field of Health Informatics and health technology and help each other. Any o …

DFW Apache LAMP Meetup is a group for geeks interested in the diverse technologies used in the World of LAMP (Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP). This group was formerly the "The Dallas MySQL Meetup Group". The group's focus has been expanded to explore not only MySQL and the LAMP stack, but also compatible, complimentary and sometimes competing technologies...based upon industry trends.

The Dallas Visual Basic User Group meets to discuss Visual Basic.Net and related technologies such as Game Design, Computer Graphics Demos, Kinect and Wii-Mote Programming. We will be teaching classes on how to start programming and how to integrate different software and hardware into your application.

This group is for the tech savvy entrepreneurs & micropreneurs of DFW. If your a local ISV or a  team building SaaS applications on IaaS providers like (amazon/rackspace/azure) - you are going to meet like minded people. Individuals in this group are technology agnostic, span multiple disciplines, value differences, and are continually improving. This isn't a social drink gathering. This time is meant to be constructive in helping you move your company to the next level. Consider this your hack …

Sales and marketing group for those looking to network with others about best practices, utilizing referrals, embracing technology, etc.

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.

This group is designed for IP managers, small business owners, investors, and inventors who want to network and learn more about protecting the technology, ideas, inventions and trade secrets of their companies. This group will have presentations and discussions relating to all areas of the intellectual property ("IP") protection process.  Some of the topics discussed are: Patents Trademarks IP Ownership Problems Best Practices for IP Owners and Inventors Mistakes Made by Small Companies …

Ever had an idea, that you want to design, build, and sell? Ever have an idea, that solves a problem, but you didn't know how to begin? Ever want to invent, but you need help to design, build, and sell? Do you have a product, but can't seem to find the right market? Let's Meet Up!

This group focuses on everything Internet and technology that are great and awesome for any one, for business or for home, we want to bring them up to our members in this groups.  Some of our monthly subjects are: What's new on the web What is cool going on in the technology world What new apps or cool apps for your Android phone or tablet What new system, games, fun things to have and great things to do, online! Yes, everything, anything related to technology and Internet, we will bring them u …

You don't have to be a CISSP! Meet with local IT security professionals who have interest in IT security. Meet, discuss happenings in the industry, socialize, and network.

Our meetings touch on a number of web and mobile development technologies. While the primary focus of the groups is on building applications with the ColdFusion programming language, we also present on HTML5, JavaScript (jQuery, Ext.js, etc.) and other emerging programming languages, concepts and libraries. Each meeting usually consists of current technology news, an intro topic (approx. 30 min.) and an in-depth presentation (1 hr on average).

Come join us for discussions, presentations, and networking for use-cases, design, technologies, etc centered around all things NoSQL and BigData! It also services as a HUG (Hadoop Users Group) for DFW. BigData? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_data NoSQL? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nosql Example types of things we like to talk about: hadoop stack: HBase, HDFS, Hive, Pig, MapReduce, Zookeeper, Mahout, etc Cassandra Amazon's AWS offerings: SimpleDB, S3, EC2, MapReduce, etc Large scale analy …

Meeting Content and Format We meet on the 2nd Thursday of every month. The doors open at 7:00 PM and At 7:30 PM we have a presentation for 30 minutes to one hour. Presentations are a mix of advanced and introductory topics to serve our varied membership. Group Information YouTube Chanel where you can watch past events: http://www.youtube.com/user/DallasAndroidDevelop Organizer email : dallasandroidgroup{at}gmail{dot}com Google+ site : https://plus.google.com/u/0/109181178502187870806 Our mailing …

Join us as we learn together about how to use the cloud to make our apps faster, stronger, more scalable and more powerful. All cloud technologies are welcome and meeting topics will vary each month.

We’re a friendly, energetic, like-minded group of business owners with the same goal: Weave a meaningful network of solid contacts and help each other expand our companies. Netweavers-Coppell’s attendees range from individuals working in technology, industrial and service industries – and everything in between. The diversity of companies and individuals who spend an hour and a half together on Thursdays is what makes our group as dynamic and active as it is. Virtually any industry or type of bus …

ThoughtWorks' consultants will be working on a bunch of open source projects after work. Come and work with them on their projects, or bring your own. ThoughtWorks was the first sizable consultancy to switch to Agile (mostly XP) methodologies in 2000, and even for open source they prefer test driven development (TDD) and related practices. The emphasis will be on actual commits. Leading the evening for ThoughtWorks is Paul Hammant who is ThoughtWorks chief open source zealot. He's also co-co …

The purpose of our group is: * To educate and be educated in Information Security * To promote better security * To be a voice in our respective industries for stronger IT Security practices * To share job or opportunity leads * To become a support structure for each other

This meetup group is for those interested in learning how to use one of the latest Single Page App Frameworks released from Google, AngularJS. Each month we'll explore the various components that make up AngularJS' framework and provide hand-ons examples of how to incorporate the framework into your web applications.

This meetup group is for people passionate about APIs.  Join us if you are fixated on developing new innovative APIs for your company, creating mashups in your sleep, or doing some weekend work creating the next great phone app.   Whether, you are providing or consuming APIs, let's discuss what's working/what's not, listen to the industry experts and discuss everything APIs.

Connecting mobile applications developers and enthusiasts in Dallas/Ft Worth area. All skills levels are welcome, whether you are a senior developer or just getting started, please join us to learn more or contribute to the mobile applications development profession.

The Computer Measurement Group is a not-for-profit, worldwide organization of IT professionals committed to sharing information and best practices focused on ensuring the efficiency and scalability of IT service delivery to the enterprise through measurement, quantitative analysis and forecasting. Topics include Capacity Planning, Tuning and Optimization, Modelling, Application Sizing, Reporting, Monitoring, Demand/ Workload Management, Capacity Database Management, Service Level Management, Fin …

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. It has achieved wide adoption in modern web development projects, and it enjoys a thriving community that continues to innovate with each new release. The Dallas Django User's Group is a place for Dallas and Fort Worth Django developers to gather for fun, education, and fellowship. We welcome users of all experience levels, from those who are just curious about Django to those who use it ev …

Member are interested in promoting a new method of owning land as a group for mutual sustainable thriving life. A typical member rejects the bunker and bullets approach in favor of a village concept that produces good food and can expand to welcome new neighbors if events make that needed.  This meet up group is just for informational and social purposes.  It exists to promote the concept of establishing villages in a partnership format where property and civil rights are respected, while also p …

This group creates a place where entrepreneurs can get together to talk about new ideas and explore advanced concepts that don't happen during typical conversation. This group was designed to explore and share new ideas to better help us DFW entrepreneurs fill that void that is often left spending too much time watching sports, hanging out at the bar, watching the kids, or playing video games. If you are an entrepreneur or just someone that loves to explore new ideas than this is meetup for yo …

DFW is not only the 2nd fastest growing city in the U.S but is also home to several Fortune 200 Companies! Cloud Computing is the latest buzz term in the IT Industry. There is a lot of confusion over even the definition of Cloud computing and many Organizations are looking to do more with less. So, it’s about time we have a local Cloud computing User Group Community. Meet others in the DFW area to share our respective experiences with the “Cloud”. Who should attend?: Business Users, IT leaders, …

This meetup is designed as a NO pressure way to learn more about the hottest 5 STAR trends in home based business industry. The entire industry is changing with the economy, baby boomers approaching retirement, the internet and technology. These changes have required a lot of people to "think outside the box" that normally would not in the past. Network Marketing is helping millions of Americans financial independence and helping to take back the American Dream! The problem is there are hundreds …