An informal get-together for people who work in the web industry around Melbourne to catch-up, have a yarn, share ideas and talk about new techniques and technologies. Put together by the gang at @thirststudios

Silicon Beach is an informal group for anyone interested in entrepreneurship, the interwebs or technology. The active mailinglist is at http://groups.google.com/group/silicon-beach-australia.

Melbourne Media Makers is an informal group that meets upstairs at POP Restaurant in Hardware Lane (bar is called Five Boroughs) to chat about all things multimedia and the social web. No presentations or PowerPoint. Very relaxed :) If you are interested in meeting people who are working with audio, video or words on the web, this is a great meeting to attend. We welcome bloggers, podcasters, videobloggers, filmmakers, artists, photographers, writers, PR and social media people. Everyone is welc …

This group is made for individuals that want to learn about online business strategies. During these meetings you will develop the following skills: Learn how to start and expand an online business from scratch. Learn how to build an effective web presence, promote and sell online. Simple-to-understand training events for both new and experienced web business owners alike. Learn about writing for marketing, NLP strategies and how to configure a website to maximise profits. Thinking about makin …

Work in digital and care about the world? NetSquared Melbourne is your tribe of peeps. Each month we meet at York Butter and cover a range of topics that bring the worlds of technology and social good together. Check out our previous meet-ups to see what to expect. Netsquared Melbourne is coordinated by Richenda Vermeulen, a former -not-for-profit- social media manager who now heads up digital agency, ntegrity. If you have any questions please contact her at @richendag

We're excited to announce HootUp Melbourne, an informal get together of social media users and professionals of all skill levels. We talk a lot about HootSuite, but we'd welcome anyone with an interest of the social web and technologies to come along. We're aiming for 2 presentations each month, with the first focusing on HootSuite and the second focusing on a platform or general topic. We meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month and the venue is sponsored by The Lost Dogs' Home. Pizza and drinks …

If you love programming Ruby and use the Ruby on Rails (RoR) framework, or would like to learn, then this group is for you. If you don't care for Ruby or Rails but love programming and web development in general, are involved in a startup and have an entrepreneurial spirit, then this group may be for you too. :) Oh yeah, and you must live in the world's most livable city to join. If you don't know which city that is, then you probably don't. :)

This group is a monthly gathering of Python users and developers in the Melbourne area. We discuss Python and related open source technologies. It is a networking forum for meeting other locals interested in Python and exchanging news and ideas. I decided to start the group because the venerable Melbourne Python User Group has stalled since May, lacking a venue. We're negotiating for a great regular venue for this meetup. If you do any kind of Python development, or have done, join the group! We …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try to bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter and …

This group is for web practitioners and other professionals who are interested in web accessibility and inclusive design practices. After the success of meetings in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane, Melbourne now has its own Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup. It makes no difference if you work in a large organisation, a small business, are an independent consultant or an accessibility advocate. This group is about regularly connecting Melbourne’s accessibility community, allowing us to share …

As .NET developers we've invested a lot of energy honing our craft with C#/VB/etc, the .NET framework and Visual Studio. Microsoft also spend a lot of time and resources enhancing and simplifying the framework (such as MVC, Web API, razor). The launch of Windows Azure has made putting an ASP.NET application into production easier than ever. So why is that you don't hear a lot about startups who are using ASP.NET? The aim of this group is to surface the lone rangers, isolated teams and start up …

DNTrade is the premier community for Aussie domain and website owners. We talk about the latest news in the Australian domain industry, advice on buying, selling, developing and marketing your domains and websites. All skill levels are welcome. This is our home on Meetup.com to organise physical meetings.

Meetup group for Melbourne based Drupalers. In between meetups, you can engage with the Melbourne Drupal community on Twitter at #drupalmel or IRC at #drupal-au or even on our Drupal Groups page!

If you are interested in issues relating the Internet in Australia and worldwide, then this might be of interest to you. This Meetup group is an experiment to encourage Members of ISOC-AU and those who are interested in getting together for a chat about issues relating to the Internet in Australia. - Privacy - IPv6 - Security (Hacking, Law, Identity Theft) - Access (Disability) - Internet Governance - Human Rights (for Internet Users) - Social Media - Domain Names We are planning bi-monthly meet …

Hi and welcome to the InternetPreneur meet-up! This meet-up is for people of all ages starting an internet business. There are plenty of start-up groups out there but this group is mainly for those starting an online business who has built or still building their website. Running a business is fun and rewarding but loaded with challenges. We need some outlet to socialise, have a chat and exhange ideas with other online business start-ups. The purpose of this group is to meet with like minded peo …

The Melbourne Joomla User Group has been running since 2007 and attracts a regular group of Joomla users from all over Melbourne including: beginners - people building their first joomla site hobbyists - people tweaking their own joomla site designers - people who design joomla sites for a living implementers - people who implement more than just basic joomla sites eg ecommerce, forums, interfaces etc guns - people who can answer almost any question you may have about Joomla! Often members ar …

This is a group for anyone developing reports, dashboards, applications (and more) with the SAP BusinessObjects toolset. From old-school 5.x universes to BI mobile and beyond, this group has been created by developers, for developers. No marketing hype, no sales pitch, just a collection of BusinessObjects geeks looking to meetup in Sydney/Melbourne, share some technical skills and knowledge (while enjoying some pizza and a beverage or two)

Welcome, this group is for anyone who has an interest in Cloud Computing. You may be a developer an entrepreneur a business or a customer. You're all welcome.  We'll meet up on a regular basis to discuss all things around the great opportunity that is cloud. Cheers, Colin

Melbourne Jelly is a fortnightly co-working event where folks from all disciplines get together at a pre-determined location and get their work on! Read more here: http://workatjelly.com/We live on http://twitter.com/melbournejelly too!

This SilverStripe meetup group is organised by the team of SilverStripe Australia. Connect with SilverStripe developers, designers and users in Melbourne and hear about what is happening in Australia and SilverStripe.

This is an open group for potential and current SilverStripe partners.

This is the Melbourne chapter of The Australian Alt.Net Community. We meet on the last Tuesday of every month, 6pm at the Melbourne ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15,303 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 The Australian Alt.Net Community is a self-organizing, ad-hoc community of developers bound by a desire to improve ourselves, challenge assumptions, and help each other pursue excellence in the practice of software development, obviously with a strong emphasis on development using the Microsoft.NE …

Interested in CiviCRM, the awesome open source CRM solution aimed at the not-for-profit, civic and community sector? www.civicrm.org This will be a meetup group with alternating meetings for Developers and tech types as well as meetups for users and planners.

Salesforce Platform Developer Users Group for Melbourne. If you do develop on, or you're interested in developing on the Force.com platform then please join!

A group of professionals working with Identity Management systems located in Melbourne. This will be a bi monthly meetup which will consist of different presentations and open discussions on all aspects of IdM.

If you're bored of running your business, idea or creative studio out of your garage or bedroom, then it's time for you to move into a bigger garage - one thats filled with people who share an array of interesting ideas, friendly personalities and unique skillsets. GENIAUS is hosting a co-working session at RMIT for entrepreneurs, students, tech-heads, professionals and creatives. There will heaps of things to learn and lots of interesting people to meet – all of whom share a similarly powerful …

This is a group for developers and system administrators to discuss and learn about MongoDB. An open source document database. You don't have to have to be using MongoDB in production to join our group.