MadCloud promotes the understanding and use of cloud computing technology in the Madison and surrounding area. Cloud computing is revolutionizing how businesses operate by replacing on-premises legacy applications with Cloud-based offerings and offering nearly unlimited scaling of data-intensive and high-volume Web applications.  Developers and entrepreneurs are leveraging the always-on, available anywhere nature of the Cloud to build innovative applications and develop new business models. Memb …

Big Data Madison promotes the understanding and adoption of technologies used to acquire, store, and analyze the tsunami of data created by social media interactions, mobile devices, website clickstreams, retail transactions, computer log files, embedded processors, and sensors. Membership is open to everyone.  Non-technical persons are encouraged to join in order to learn how to harness Big Data and related technologies to solve difficult problems, unlock value in their data, and develop a comp …

The Madison PHP Meetup Group is a place where anyone interested in PHP (ideally in the Madison, WI area) can get together to learn and share new things related to PHP. Everyone is welcome, whether you've never written a line of code before or if you're an expert.

Meet other local users of Google, the popular search tool. Delve into discussions that encompass All Things Google!

Mobile Monday is an international organization that works with local, regional, national and global mobile industry visionaries and developers fostering cooperation and cross-company business development through virtual and live networking events to facilitate idea sharing, best practices development, trends identification, and Mobile Industry growth locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. All Mobile Monday Chapters encourage innovation within the mobile sector and help local comp …

Meet other developers to discuss your adventures in the world of Perl Programming. Perl isn't just another programming language. It's about making your life easier. It helps with things like system administration, web development, network glue, data munging, and even network daemons/servers. Not only that, but you can even write end user applications with a GUI that works on every operating system. Also check out our real web site at http://www.madmongers.org/

Want to learn and share your tips on Adobe Master Collection?  Then this the group for you! We meet on the first Saturday of every month at 10am to discuss Adobe Creative suite software:  Photoshop® Illustrator®  |  InDesign®  |  Acrobat® X  |  Pro Flash Professional  |  Dreamweaver®  Fireworks®  |  Contribute  |  Adobe Premiere® Pro  |  After Effects®   |  Adobe Audition®  Adobe OnLocation™   |  Encore®   |  Bridge   |  Device Central    |  Media Encoder and other software titles from Adobe …

Meet local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [ http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Web of Data &  Linked Open Data. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web. The purpose of the group is to provide a process for new members to quickly understand the technologies behind the Semantic Web, a …

Join your fellow web designers for: Presentations on topics of interest Q&A about web design Networking Every month, we look at various aspects of web design and development, including: Photoshop, Illustrator, and Flash tips and techniques CSS HTML Workflow Content Management UI Javascript Flash ...and much more.

A place for Madisonian developers interested in learning more about MongoDB: the open-source, document database from 10gen. Hopefully the group can expand the use of MongoDB at companies within the area, as well as provide a place to share knowledge and experience.

This group is for those interested in philosophical, mathematical, and informal logic.

… However, users who are a university employee need to follow the policies applicable to their position on campus, including, at a minimum, the university's responsible use of information technology and social media. http://www.cio.wisc.edu/policies-responsibleuse.aspx http://universityrelations.wisc.edu/policies/social-media.php This meetup group does not accept sponsorships.  

A group of psychotherapy professionals who are interested in discussing new trends in the field, healthcare reform and the impact on your practice, networking, and fun.  I would also like to have discussions about how to incorporate technology into our work. 

MadLUG is the Madison area Linux Users Group. Our goals are Linux advocacy, education, helping others with Linux, community-building, sharing ideas, and outreach. Our users come from a variety of backgrounds. Some are academics and students; others are system administrators, web designers and other IT professionals; and others simply enjoy computers. We have a diverse set of interests and ideas. There's always lots of great discussion on all things Linux, software, and technology.

The group is best described as a "happy hour with an agenda". While about half of the members have Security in the title, anyone is welcome. Meetings have no agenda, but we welcome presentations. Discussions are open and often focus on beer brewing, Sector67, devops, cross-contry bike rides and many other security and random topics that happen to interest whomever sits at the table.

As a chance for representatives from nonprofits to speak directly to local professionals, this meetup will allow for an exploration of the specific challenges nonprofits face. The ultimate goal will be to expand your organization’s ability to identify and verbalize smaller scale challenges, so as to create specialized and actionable skilled volunteer listings for tackling them. Once created, these listings will be able to be posted on VolunteerYourTime.org as well as presented directly to the ma …