The aim of this group is to connect technical and non technical people, so projects can be set up that have the potential to change the world and impact people's lives in a positive way. Many people have great ideas for web sites or software, but can't build them. Many people can build great software for world changing ideas, but need others to help them develop it. Hopefully this group can put people in touch with others that can help to give your non profit ideas some momentum. Please note, th …

Regular meet-ups, coffees, presentations and talks to bring together those working or interested in all things web/mobile.

Exeter-Web organises bimonthly meetups for people who work on or around the web. The group includes designers, developers, marketers, animators, copywriters, photographers and many more professions. The meetups are informal gatherings which begin with three 10 minute talks and then move to the bar where people can network and catchup. The events are great opportunities for learning and meeting allied professionals. The informal environment and smaller audience (around 10-25) size make it a great …

Interested in Web Development, Web Design, associated technologies and live or work near Worcester? We'd love to get together, share ideas and learn from each other. We meet on the third Thursday of every month: tech talks are done at The Hive, social meets at The Old Rectifying House. You can find us on IRC at #wooweb on Freenode. Follow us on Twitter at @WooWebUK

Having events and discussions around; New technologies for businesses, Cloud Computing, Businesses journey to the Cloud, Collaboration within Business and a new way of working. Join to discuss the above areas and more, meet and network with people with similar interests, hear from industry expects and learn more about cloud computing. Share thoughts and vision. All within a great atmosphere and a few drinks and snacks.

A monthly networking meeting for like-minded web developers in the Bath and Chippenham area. Each month there will be at least one talk by a member of the group. The main aim is to share ideas, knowledge and experience and to build networks and possible affiliations. Meetings will be held at a delightful country house in Wiltshire with food and drink available.

An official Adobe User Group with free monthly meetings - 3rd Thursday of each month. Speakers, hot tips, networking, sometimes informal pub meetings loosely based around the range of Adobe software products from Photoshop and Illustrator to Dreamweaver and Edge. Everything web and design related. All welcome.

Learn how to code. Want to know what programming and computer science are all about? Then look no further! We will do a bit of everything: web design, data visualization, front- and backend development, and much more! So...if you are hoping to learn new skills, get creative, or just try something different, then sign up now and get involved!

Let's create some innovative applications and web toys. No limits, just cool stuff.

Bringing together passionate people across Wales who are interested in how social media and technology can help engage arts with audiences.

There are only 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary, and those who don't. This group is for people who are the 1. We are a new, friendly, group for programmers, designers, engineers, digital artists and anyone else with an interested in technology and computers.

A group for web & mobile designers and developers. Whether you're new to the industry or a seasoned veteran. I want to bring together like-minded people to talk about all the exciting and ever-changing aspects of our industry including UX, usability, front-end design, back-end development, tools, apps, etc. The format is initially going to be quite informal, but at a later stage I'll be introducing a BarCamp style concept to the group. It's going to be very exciting and I look forward to meeting …

BathSPARK brings together people of Bath who work in tech. It aims to create opportunity, encourage diversity and spark new ventures. Coder meet Creative. Creative meet entrepeneur. Entrepreneur meet talented graduate. This is social networking (for real) with local digital people enjoying a drink, and talking about what they love.

We bring our members great talks from the best speakers in the UK and where possible from around the world. Predominately we look at the Microsoft development stack, but we do have platform neutral and methodology based talks too. We guarantee one meeting a month, normally on the 3rd Thursday of the month.  Everyone is welcome! Be you a student or grizzled professional, come along for a night of great content, people and pizza :) We offer your first 2 events for free, then after that we'd like y …

This group is a place for developers in the Thames Valley to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions.

The omnipotent big data group that is all things to do with dealing with, managing, handling and delivering big data, in the mild mild South West. Topics include MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Node.js, scaling, engineering data, open-source, linkeddata, and beer. Discussion at http://groups.google.com/group/south-west-big-data.

This is a great opportunity to meet other locals who earn their living from the Internet. A safe environment for people of all disciplines to get together and discuss new and emerging trends in our field! We're a friendly bunch who love to welcome new faces into the group, we'd love you to come along and meet us, if you're new then let us know and we'll introduce you around! We now meet in Copa, a lively bar on George Street in the centre of Oxford. We get together once month and its purely soci …

We are a bunch of friendly Ruby developers, meeting once a month for some beers and talks.

This is a group for people who either have a start up idea and would like to meet people who would like to get involved with it or for people who are curious about start up companies and would like to get involved but don't have a start up idea. Do you have a great idea - but you don't do anything because you are worried someone will steal your idea or you are simply too busy to do anything. Is it likely you will never do anything about it? If so, this is the meet up group for you. Or are yo …

We thought a general IT event where techies from the Chippenham area can get together to chat and swap war stories and tips would be a good idea. Open to all who are interested, our experience is mostly around R, Java, Python, .NET, SAS etc

Group of people interested in CouchDB and the associated ecosystem (e.g. rich html5 applications, MVC & asynchronous javascript, big data, data visualisation). More information can be found on http://bristol.couchdb.org/

Meet other locals who earn their living from the Internet. A place for people of all disciplines to get together and discuss new and emerging trends in our field.

South West Founders is a monthly meet-up for people based in the South-West who have been, are, or want to be tech start-up founders. We aim to connect local entrepreneurs with co-founders and other like-minded people as well as tech investors to create an informal support network. We welcome entrepreneurs and tech investors with open arms, but discourage freelancers, consultants, lawyers and other service providers unless they have a genuine interest in founding or mentoring start-up businesses …

Is there a better way to start the week than having a very good breaky with your peers. This is what we are aiming for at Bristol #freelancebreakfast, meeting monthly in the city center, sharing a cup of coffee, a full English, and talking about our way of work! [Pic from http://www.flickr.com/photos/pixelfreund/4579008200/]

About us A meet-up for UX and UX-curious people, on the first Tuesday of every month. We usually meet in a pub for a chat, networking and general conversation. We usually have a UX-related slide presentation/talk and time for questions etc. We're a group for open discussion of all usability issues, including software to web design to mobile apps. Why not come along, and discuss or give a slide presentation on your own projects or usability interests. Anyone can give a presentation, post and view …

Cheltenham Geek Nights is a place for Software Developers, Designers and general techies to get together, learn and have fun. We'll be having regular speakers on a broad range of themes as well as activities and discussion. We aim to build a strong technological community for people in and around Cheltenham. Hashtag #cheltgeeknights on Twitter.

Satellite Applications Catapult will be a base for space related hackathons at the newly refurbished HQ in Didcot. We will be hosting events lasting 2 days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming: This 48-hour hackathon is to build new web and mobile services revolving around satellite data. Solutions can range from predicting natural disasters, Climate change, anything you can think of to tantalize the judges, using a wealth of satellite data. Cat …

For like minded, local developers who wish to push their skills to the next level. All levels welcome from beginners to experts. Typical technologies include: Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS etc), Shell/Bash, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPUnit, Zend Framework, CakePHP, Doctrine, caching, memcache, html, xhtml, css, javascript (js), jQuery (ajax, animation), xml, W3C, SVN, Git, Hudson CI, Bamboo, Ant, Selenium, Design patterns, Best practices, TDD, Open meetings, nagios... Most groups are in London, so …