The Wellington Drupal user group meet-up, taking place on the first Tuesday of the month and potentially alternating between formal presentations and informal gatherings. Catalyst hosts the meet-ups at Level 4, 150 Willis St. Sparks Interactive are sponsoring beer & pizza and the meetup.com fees for now - but further sponsors are welcome!

Connect with developers. Share tips and tricks. Discuss geospatial technologies, complementary third-party tools, and development platforms (e.g., .NET, Java, Flex, JavaScript) that are supported by Esri. Developers of all levels of expertise are welcome, from seasoned GIS professionals to those new to geospatial development. These Dev Meet ups will be held Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch.  Also other locations if people are interested.

Regular tech talks focused on Microsoft Technologies and skills relevant to developers working with Microsoft .NET

A free barcamp style workshop for discussion of Java related technologies, tools, frameworks, languages etc. A barcamp is: an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event. (from barcamp.org) The topics are determined by the participants at the start of the workshop kick-off on Friday night.  As an indication of the types of topics, in M …

Regular meetings and tech talks on various web technology topics and tooling: - HTML5/CSS/JS, jQuery, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, Dreamweaver, Edge, PhoneGap - Adobe Flash Platform, Apache Flex, AIR, BlazeDS - PDF Forms, Acrobat, LC ES - ColdFusion, Java, AMF Remoting, Node.js, Clojure and whatever else comes to mind.

NetSquared Wellington network is for people in and around Te Whanganui A Tara interested in using web or mobile technology for social good. Whether you are a community group, a programmer, an individual with a great idea, a philanthropist or a social changemaker, NetSquared is here to help you make connections and create a community around innovating for good. We run a NetTuesday networking event each month. The sessions are great opportunities to learn what others are trying, see successful pro …

This group exists to bring people together to share what they've passionately been working on and discuss ideas. It intends to complement the several great programming-related groups in Wellington that cover particular languages & frameworks, big data, mobile development, Agile processes, etc. The idea of this group is to provide an informal channel for inspiration, to help generate the spark of motivation that allows us all to create with fresh energy and explore what is possible. It's for talk …

This group discuss applications and technologies around Oracle's business intelligence offerings (OBIEE, ODI, OWB, Hyperion, Endeca, OLAP, and more). Through a variety of events (and often over a drink), the group aims to foster the sharing of best practise methods covering BI/DW architecture, Oracle BI metadata modelling, and product features. We will look at a variety of practitioner topics such as: Dashboard layout and design OBIEE lifecycle management Data visualisation (trellis charts, Go …

The startup world's most interesting and influential stories will never come out in a press release. The lessons that matter are shared between peers over beers. The founder's exchange is where we want this to happen. And yes, girls have a certain angle on start ups and we're keen to celebrate that too. So if you're a tech start up founder, or you think you'd like to go for it and start up your own tech business, come and join us for free and frank but always honest conversation and inspiration. …

PHP developers meet likeminded people face to face to geek out about stuff and have pizza and beer. ... sometimes we may even be serious and discuss highly technical things.