Join us at Los Angeles's biggest meetup for web application developers (software engineers who build websites). Our purpose is to create a thriving developer community in Los Angeles, promote a free exchange of information and connect with each other at bi-monthly (or so) events. Our events are presentation style. Guests from the community present tips, tricks, new methods, frameworks, tools or anything else interesting to web application development. Our events are hosted by local companies w …

The Burbank Hackers Club is a group of hackers who want to hack away and create cool interesting apps using Node.JS. We have several nodejs ongoing projects to choose from, or bring your own for everyone to work on. The goal though, is to have rapid development by having everyone work on a common project and see what can be hacked up in a single night. Hackers Unite!

Feeling inspired?Create it. Got Spare Parts? Build it. Have an idea? Launch it Find out what is new and exciting in the tech world. See product demos from industry leaders and hear their stories. The tech is out there, so utilize it and find your team to create the next innovation. Join us and connect the different tech communities into an immersive experience. diy          web                         H MAKErs - TECHnology - Mobile APPlication E N If you are interested in gadgets, gamificatio …

Anyone interested in or using THTML 5, Node.js, Javascript, CSS 3 and other related frameworks/technologies in the Los Angeles / Southern California Area

Health 2.0 Los Angeles is a group dedicated to actively promoting and advancing innovation transforming the delivery of healthcare and healthcare technology. The group aims to create a community around Health 2.0 in the Los Angeles area and is a subchapter of the larger Health 2.0 organization. Our goal is to aid in the advancement of healthcare technology by creating a forum for sharing, discussing and showcasing innovative ideas at the intersection of healthcare and technology with an emphasi …

Do you use Google technologies in your work, studies or personal projects? Are you interested in learning more about them? Want to connect with other developers in person? Then the Google Developer Group Los Angeles welcomes you to attend one of our upcoming meetings! We're working on a roster of monthly events, including LA's first-ever Google I/O Extended viewing event, where you can watch live sessions from Google I/O with other developers right here in Southern California. Our regular meetin …

Google fans unite! Meet others in the greater Los Angeles area interested in developing apps on Google App Engine and for the business productivity suite Google Apps. This meetup has a technical and programming focus, but we also encourage those that are currently on or interested in learning more about Google Apps and App Engine to join! Join if you would like to: Network with fellow App Engine developers and Google Apps enthusiasts - Learn more about where Google technology is heading. Learn …

Boxaplex is a co-working space in West Hollywood, California. Tired of working alone, or in a crowded (and noisy) coffee shop? We have desks for rent in a bright and modern office, where you can network with like-minded professionals and get...stuff...done. Started by Boxador (www.boxador.com), an online technology incubator. We would like to meet and work with like-minded entrepreneurs, user experience designers, web developers, software engineers, information architects, idea incubators or ju …

Los Angeles Startup Pitch Night focuses on providing monthly opportunities for you to practice, refine, and perfect your startup pitches.  We also provide targeted networking and learning opportunities in the Los Angeles, California region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new start-ups. Los Angeles Startup Pitch Night's events are run by a leadership team that works to find the meeting venues and plan out and execute all the Meetup events.  Our mission is to be known as the p …

BigScreen LittleScreen, The Creative Side of Web Video, is now in Los Angeles! Started in NYC in 2007, BigScreen LittleScreen is a monthly meetup devoted to celebrating and supporting innovation in the creative side of web video and the exploding online entertainment industry. Each month, we’ll take an in-depth look at the processes and people behind some of the most successful entertainment products created for broadband distribution, followed by networking with industry peers, artists, execut …

A group dedicated to open source web application developers for those who program under PHP, Perl & Python. Presenters will be given the opportunity to share a new idea, technology or product for the open source LAMP community.

Net2LA helps Los Angeles–based nonprofits—and those working toward nonprofit status—actively engage their base and find new supporters through community-empowering technology. We meet every month alternating between educational Support Sessions and partnership-building Happy Hours. Follow us on Twitter @Net2LA Facebook Fan Page Coming Soon.

The mobile applications market is exploding as more phones, pads, & devices emerge.  Keeping up with developer options, new platforms, and best practices can be a challenge.  This group explores the work of developing software applications for mobile devices & how to help developers & entrepreneurs get there faster. Some of the platforms we cover are iPhone, Droid, and iPad, also operating systems like Symbian & Microsoft Mobile.  There are many software IDEs (interactive development environment …

Los Angeles, Orange Country, San Diego meetup focused on Server Side Javascript, and in particular, Node.js. Goals for the group are to spread ideas about Server Side Javascript, Node.js in particular, socialize projects, and discuss the technology and best practices. We'd like to keep the group informal but focused on technology and interesting projects. I think the ideal group would be made up of developers on OSS projects, site/app builders, systems integrators, architects, designers, freelan …

The L.A. High Scalability Group aims to be a Birds-Of-A-Feather style gathering of people working with big data, large scale and giant challenges in technology.

Exploring cloud computing technologies, implementation, use and business. Ideas of Interest * Cross cloud deployments * Security in cloud deployments * Datacenters * Virtualization * Test driven deployment * GPU computing * Decentralized datastores * Scientific computing

There is no doubt that tablets will become pervasive throughout leisure, commerce, and education.  What remains to be seen is who will forge the path.  This group will unify developers, designers, and users of tablet devices.  We'll have industry speakers, panel discussions, and technology showcases.  Join if you have any interest in forging the mobile future.

Meet with other engineers responsible for the reliability, scalability and efficient operation of large scale systems. Sessions will typically involve a free technical presentation and open forum to ask questions. Target Audience: Engineers & Sys Admin's who are interested in topics such as scalability, monitoring, troubleshooting, solving tough web operations issues, Unix/Linux, LAMP and automation. *Our first topic for this meetup is on "Job Scheduling and Monitoring". * Please let me know if …

Whether building a web, VOIP, or gaming backend, Operations is using development tools to make it work. We're interested in the built-in facilities in Linux and the BSDs to programmatically seed and deploy.  We're building traditional UNIX infrastructure with lighttpd/Nginx/Apache, Syslog, NFS, LDAP, MySQL/Postgres and BIND/PowerDNS, but doing it with modern scripting languages (Python, Ruby, Perl...) and revision-control.  Debconf in Debian and Ubuntu. Kickstart in Redhat and CentOS.  pc-sysins …

We are an LA based networking group dedicated to all professionals within the Interactive Space! We will have networking events for all who want to get together and discuss what is going on in the market, or just to meet new people with similar experience! This group is sponsored by the Aquent Los Angeles office and is open to all registered and Non-registered talent.

The International Academy of Web Television (IAWTV) is a nonprofit organization comprised of leaders in the field of web television, web video, and the digital entertainment industries. Founded in 2009, the IAWTV is helping to shape the rapidly evolving web television industry while providing a venue for the acknowledgement of artistic and technological achievement in original entertainment distributed on the open internet. IAWTV members include actors, agents, composers, content developers, dir …

This is the west coast branch of the Web and Social Media Analytics group, the original started in 2008 in Chicago (http://www.meetup.com/chicagowebanalytics) Meet other professionals interested in all aspects of Web and Social Media Analytics. We gather 1-2 times a month to discuss key and upcoming web, search, BI, sentiment analysis, reporting and predictive analytics software (Web Trends, Google Analytics, Net Insight, BrandMeter, Radian6, SM2, ViralHeat, GeeYee, Omniture, etc.) Open to anyo …

A group for anyone interested in jQuery, the classiest JavaScript library out there. All levels welcome from absolute beginners to advanced users. We meet on the 3rd Wednesday of each month - in Culver City for odd months and downtown for even months.

San Fernando Valley is still considered Los Angeles, but being as LA is so big, it would be great to have regular meetups with local entrepreneurs, startups, non profits, small businesses, investors, or anyone who's ever had a great idea and can benefit from the local community by sharing. Anything tech related or ways to improve lives in general are welcome to join.

This is a group for anyone interested in talking about using Chef as part of building and maintaining an automated infrastructure. Get together with like-minded sysadmins, systems engineers, configuration management and devops spirited type folks to share experiences, tips, tricks and to talk about real life strategies for deploying and maintaining your Chef infrastructure.

The Information Systems Security Association (ISSA ®) is a not-for-profit, international organization of information security professionals and practitioners. It provides educational forums, publications and peer interaction opportunities that enhance the knowledge, skill and professional growth of its members. The primary goal of ISSA is to promote management practices that will ensure the availability, integrity and confidentiality of information resources.

A major asset to the tech entrepreneur culture, is the generosity of its members to share advice, referals and help each other succeed. Therefore, a thriving, active Tech community benefits all its members, attracting talent, funding, ideas and infrastructure. NorthEast LA Tech aims to bring together Tech professionals in N While Santa Monica is gathering momentum for entrepreneurs in LA, we aim to