DetroitRuby is a group of brave rubyists that meet on the second Thursday of every month in downtown Detroit at the recently renovated Compuware building just beside Campus Martius. Folks in attendance have a wide variety of knowledge from ruby to erlang to java.  Topics of discussion tend to have a some web technology or strategy around them.  We embrace open source and welcome people of any skill level to learn and maybe even teach us a thing or two.

The Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup is a community of WordPress users. Started as the Ferndale WordPress Meetup Group, we have members from around metro Detroit. Our monthly meetings are informal, fun and educational. We welcome new users, bloggers, business owners, designers and developers alike. If you have a blog, create websites, or are just curious about the internet's coolest blogging and CMS platform, this is the group for you. Blog Facebook Group

Exchanging ideas, concepts, code discussions, code architecture, best practices, and challenges PHP developers face on a regular basis. We have members from newest beginners to seasoned veterans and everywhere in between.

Learn how to easily design, build, and maintain a web site for your business, community group, corporation, or family using Drupal, a free and powerful web publishing software package. You can use Drupal to build and maintain a small business web site, a blog, a community discussion forum, a wedding site, and many other types of web sites without any HTML or other programming skills. Got Drupal skills? Come and share with the rest of the group! We meet in different locations between Detroit and …

Mobile Monday Detroit is a chapter of Mobile Monday Michigan which executes on Mobile Monday International objectives by delivering a balanced approach of business and technical content. We will look to the Michigan business community for this content, as well as beyond our State in order to make certain the Michigan community is made aware of developments taking place outside our area that can aid their business. Mobile Monday is an international organization that works with local, regional, n …

Detroitnet.org was started by IT professionals for IT professionals. We didn't like any other group out there, so we started our own! At our events, you might meet some recruiters, some out of work developers, some sales guys, some network admins, some web guys and some senior level management... So come on out, bring some business cards (or don't, it's OK), meet some like-minded people in the Metro Detroit area, and who knows, you could meet a life-long friend, a new business partner, or no one …

The purpose of our group is to create a face-to-face community of connected-car doers and thinkers. We do our best to speak candidly about the automobile as a mobile computing platform, find out what other people think, debate big ideas and get on a first-name basis with one another. If you're interested in any aspect of the connected car, please join us. We'll give you a warm welcome..

A forum to explore all aspects of managing and analyzing big data: Hadoop and related technologies, NoSql, MPP databases, data mining, machine learning, etc. A balanced approach to both the technical and business implications is taken.

We are a community devoted to the learning and sharing of information related to web design, development, tools and techniques with a focus on open source solutions. We have monthly meetings where people in the industry will lead discussions and workshops in numerous topics surrounding open source technology. It is FREE to join and FREE to attend the workshops.

The Detroit Lean Startup Circle is a group of smart and driven high-tech entrepreneurs that have learned how to discover customers and build products they want. Lean Startups (which can include for profit and not for profit organizations, new product/innovation organizations within larger companies and even government agencies) achieve success faster than most because they get out of the building to talk to customers, validate business model assumptions as quickly and cheaply as possible, use ag …

To create a robust community of stakeholders within Michigan to focus and develop opportunities which will strengthen the educational environment, encourage impactful dialogue, foster global knowledge, and forge new partnerships of collaboration and support between educators and developers around the use of gaming within education. Topics of interest will be led by the group to explore the many aspects of learning through gaming. This group is open to developers, educators, designers, entreprene …

Elevating the craft of Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) through a real, face-to-face community in Detroit. Also, check out API Craft on Google Groups to collaborate with other API craftspeople around the world.

Our Mission Statement says it all. We are here … “To champion & aggressively lead the charge to further the development, education and recognition of digital media as part of the marketing mix; and to create a communal source for those involved and interested in areas of digital media and marketing in the Metro Detroit area.” We encourage everyone in the advertising/marketing business to join our organization – professionals in radio, print, television, and digital can all benefit from the types …

* Getting together great programmers and architects. * Helping communities and businesses with the technology they need * Python and Pinax programmers and systems and application architects (Who like to have fun)

RevUpMI connects entrepreneurs, investors, and job-seekers in Michigan. If you're interested in building, investing in, or working for a startup business in Michigan, please join this group and help us get Michigan started!

Refresh Detroit is a part of the Refreshing Cities organization. We are a group of web professionals whose goal is to promote web standards, usability, and accessibility, and to spread the knowledge of web design in metro Detroit Michigan.

The Detroit Chapter of the Google Developers Group (GDG) is a group interested in all things coming out of Mountainview, CA. Our members are users, developers, and enthusiasts located in the metro Detroit area of Michigan. The Detroit GDG meets on the last Thursday of the month at the Quicken Loans Headquarters in downtown Detroit, Michigan. The typical meeting format is to meet and eat from 6:30pm till 7:00pm. From 7:00pm onwards we typically have a guest presenter who presents on any topic rel …

Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses …

Do you code in .NET? Do you live in Windsor / Essex County or the surrounding areas? Let's get together to form a community! The goal of this group is to talk about all things .NET from Web to Desktop to Mobile. There will be an emphasis on open source software and cross platform development using .NET based technologies or technologies that work well with .NET!

This is a group for getting great programmers and developers together, sharing ideas openly and expanding your knowledge of Python development. Bring your own Python questions and problems, and work with a group to find a solution.

digitalundivided GROW Detroit is a monthly meet up of digital companies founded/co-founded by black women working together to GROW their tech-based companies from Idea to MVP to Growth and then Exit. Sponsored by digitalundivided, a company that builds forward thinking initiatives that change the digital space.

Welcome to the Detroit Java User Group! The Detroit Java User Group brings together members of the Metro Detroit software development community to share ideas, discuss industry advances and explore the use of Java, JVM based technologies, development methodologies and practices. Our members are a community of like minded individuals seeking first hand, practical exposure to code, best practices, tools and cutting-edge solutions. We meet regularly in the Metro Detroit area to network, attend qu …

We are excited to launch a version of Coffee House Coders in Detroit called DetCoffeeCode. This group is geared towards new and expert coders as well as entrepreneurs who are running a start-up. The group meets the last Thursday of every month Downtown at Starbucks. Attendees have knowledge in various coding languages. So if you are a new coder, freelancing or a start-up come Downtown and join us! Please follow us on twitter for the latest updates @DetCoffeeCode .

IT Social 6:01 is a networking group that brings Information Technology, Industry Leaders and Entrepreneurs from the high tech corridors of Silicon Mitten and metro Detroit together for knowledge sharing, networking, professional career advancement opportunities and to connect the overall DOTS. There is no cover charge for IT Social's but we do encourage donations that we apply to charities and at times we have special guests as hosts.

Calling all Raspberry Pi owners/developers and those who aspire to use this powerful tool in various ways. This gives you a chance to work with others in the Ann Arbor community on innovative projects.

Detroit Rails builds full stack web developers one stack trace at a time. There will be an intensive 10-week course taking people from competent hacker to employable developer. These meetups will be delivered in bite-sized offerings, easier on the wallet and the schedule. We are building a community of web developers in Detroit to teach, learn, work and code.

This group is for everyone interested in the MobiDevDay Detroit Software Development Conference.

Why are there so few women leading and influencing the UX & design industry?  And what can we do to change that? This group aims to bring together brilliant and creative women in the design and UX fields who want to build and leverage a network of like-minded ladies for mentoring, support, and world domination. Just kidding on that last one. Maybe...