Refresh is a community of designers/developers working to refresh the creative, technical, & professional culture of new media endeavors in their areas through design, technology, usability & standards. Refresh is an international initiative, now over 60 cities strong. Visit refreshingcities.org for more.

This group is meant for all people who are somehow related to e-commerce. All are invited to join, e-commerce site owners (new and old), e-commerce developers, e-commerce platforms, EVERYONE. The objective of this group is to help e-commerce owners get in touch with service providers, professionals, etc, as well as different fellow e-commerce owners so we can help each other out with the daily problems of e-commerce activity. Regularly we will be organizing meetups, keynotes from e-commerce comp …

The focus of this group is to grow our understanding of the following technologies: Groovy, Grails, Griffon, Gradle, GORM, and more.  We will have speakers from different companies including SpringSource (which is also our primary sponsor).  We also plan to collaborate with the Raleigh Spring Meetup group because there is a lot of synergy between them. If you want to learn more about the features of the dynamic Groovy language that is built on the JVM, then you should join this group.  We look f …

Joomla!Days are a unique opportunity for Joomla CMS web designers, developers and integrators to connect, learn, share, and innovate. February 23, 2013 is the start of the first Joomla!Day in the Southeast United States, connecting Joomla! users who otherwise wouldn't be able to attend a local Joomla! event. Students planning to enter the web development field are encouraged to attend with a special student rate. Curious what the web industry for one of the major open source CMS platforms is rea …

-Do you PPC, SEO, SEM, Tweet, Digg, and Autorespond? -Are you on all the guru's lists? Do you know Jay Abraham, Dan Kennedy, John Reese, Rich Schefren, Joel Comm and the others? -Do you have a swipe file? a Clickbank account? If you know exactly what I'm talking about then this group is for you! Let's all get together and help mastermind each other's businesses and share the latest cutting edge online marketing tactics and strategies. At each meeting, we'll also do our regular Q&A session w …

Meet local people interested in all aspects of Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Semantic Web, Big Data, Analytics, and related topics.  For practitioners, academics, students, enthusiasts, hackers or anyone with an interest in cutting edge technology.

This group is created as a networking and resource tool for open source web developers in the local area.

If you get excited by anything related to start-ups and entrepreneurship, this group is for you. We're a community of entrepreneurs, hackers, designers VCs and lawyers focused on growing the local triangle tech entrepreneurial ecosystem. We intend to help each other validate ideas , find mentors, co-founders, and in general help your entrepreneurial spirit take off. You can regularly expect to see demos, brain storming sessions, open discussions, expert panels, and guest speakers. So spread the …

The TriUPA UX Book Club is managed by the Triangle User Experience Professionals' Association. You don't need to be a member to join, all you need is enthusiasm for creating easy-to-use interfaces. To learn more, go to www.triuxpa.org.

Can't get a job without experience? Can't get experience without a job? The Tech In exists to solve that catch-22. If you're a college student or a recent college grad studying software development, computer science, information systems, or anything else that makes other people ask you to fix their computer, we can help. That is, if you're in the Triangle area of North Carolina. Hopefully we'll get bigger soon. We try to have fun, help you learn a little, fill your stomachs with something other …

Looking for a front end development meetup in the triangle area? Relax, you've found it. Discussions at Function Pink center around the latest techniques and best practices for professional HTML, CSS and JavaScript development.

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of The Triangle Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of The Triangle serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who complem …

Like the Ruby programming language? We do too! Want to learn more about it? You're in good company. Come join us in our pursuit of humane programming. We also have a mailing list: http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-rb-members.

This group is a place for developers to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database and many of the key committers are based right here in New York City. 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. We typically meet on the second or third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and …

A place for people interested in self-tracking to gather, share knowledge and experiences, and discover resources.

This is a great chance to meet other Drupal developers and to hear about some of the cool Drupal projects people are working on in the area. No matter what level of Drupaler you are - pro or newbie - come on out to meet others in the community.

Discuss and share practices, knowledge, pains and improvements over anything related to Software Quality Assurance and Testing. Agile, Risk-based, Automation, System, Integration, Exploratory, Regression, functional, security and in fact any kind of testing which assures the system. The group has information about certification, on-going training courses, both in person and on-line to further professional development. People from all across the US and world are welcome to join and share your tho …

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 focus on coding, leveraging existing technology, and having something t …

Developers interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. We host hands-on lab sessions, technology reviews, topical lectures, and plenty of social beer nights. Curious about graphs, want to pimp your non-RDBMS skills? Join us!

Membership is comprised of Women either in the Information Security field or wanting to enter the field. The purpose of this group is to advance women in Information Security by promoting networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing, and opportunities. Regular workshops will be offered to bridge the gap of theory and/or minimal hands-on labs from a course you took or self-studying. You will get to learn and practice in an environment of like-minded women. Workshops will be led by SME's in …

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 and 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 …

Learn about the basics and advancements to WordPress, one of the most popular open-source content management systems, for web publishers, bloggers, and journalists.

A meetup for hackers and founders to mingle and network with each other... If you're interested in technology startups, either as a hacker or as a founder, or both, you've found the right meetup. If you regularly read Hackers News ( http://news.ycombinator.com. ), have been to a Startup Weekend, have wanted an Open Coffee Club in the Triangle area, are building - or want to build - a tech startup, if you're a VC, angel investor, or anyone else with an interest in the startup community; then t …

Formed in 2008 our mission is to provide an outlet for developers, IT, and business users who are interested in learning, sharing, and growing their knowledge in Microsoft SharePoint. Our goal is to bring together local, regional, and national speakers to share their knowledge of SharePoint and foster the SharePoint community in the greater Raleigh Durham area. We cover the entire spectrum of SharePoint topics. We meet on the 1st Tuesday of each month. Attendance is always free and informal. All …

Everybody likes lunch, and we all love agile development. Let's do one and talk about the other! For starters we'll meet for lunch and casual conversation. If people are interested, we can add in some more structured content. Until the group decides otherwise, we'll meet once per month in Raleigh, Durham, and RTP.  Please join us and suggest restaurants!

The group is open to anyone in the RTP/Durham/Chapel Hill Tech community who works on business development or partnerships. This could be actual BD folks, founders, CEOs, VCs, whatever. The purpose is to get together, network, exchange ideas and help each other overcome roadblocks or issues. All are welcome, so please feel free to include anyone who would benefit. The first meetup will kick-off in September 2012

Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform for the Raleigh, Durham, RTP, Chapel Hill areas

Join an incredible group of entrepreneurs, designers, developers, businesspeople, and individuals from all creative disciplines who are applying their skills and experiences to advance common good by ideating, designing, and building solutions that matter.