We *heart* ExpressionEngine and want to get together with other people who love EE too. If you are in or around the Charlotte, NC area, please join us.

Come meet other Charlotte area bloggers to talk about blogging! Let's get together to talk about content, design, technology, blogging platforms, SEO, social media and anything else in our bloggy brains! We can share knowledge and trade tips and tricks to create better blogs, increase traffic and make our blogs rock. Oh - let's also have a couple drinks.

Charlotte's Python user group. Meet other Python users, developers, and enthusiasts of all skill levels interested in discovering and sharing why the Python programming language is such a joy to work with.

Bi-weekly free lunch, networking, and general tech discussion at SDW HQ. Have an idea for a topic, email josh@skookum.com

This Dev Meet Up is a social gathering for developers to discuss geospatial technologies, complementary third-party tools, and development platforms (e.g., Silverlight, Java, Flex, JavaScript) that are supported by Esri. Presentations run the gamut of our community: from Web development to mobile location development for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 to automating tasks with Python. Developers of all levels of expertise are welcome, from seasoned GIS professionals to those new to geospatial …

A technology-agnostic networking and learning group for BI professionals in the Charlotte, NC area. The goal of this group is to deepen and broaden the BI skillset of our members. Join us if you are interested in: - Learning about other BI platforms than what you work with on a day-to-day basis - Comparing and contrasting BI suites in a friendly, non-competitive atmosphere - Picking up tips and tricks

Charlotte Hackers & Founders is for programmers, designers and entrepreneurs in the area who are interested in startups and making things. We're moving away from Meetup. Sign up for free curated news, events, and stories: http://clthackers.com This meetup is closing on June 1. Sign up for the mailing list instead.

Charlotte Perl Mongers (CharPM) is the official Charlotte Perl Users' Group! Come join us for food, drink, and discourse with other Perl hackers & developers.

Designing, developing and supporting applications for "the cloud" presents different challenges than on dedicated or VPS environments. The mission of CLT Cloud is to facilitate conversation amongst developers, system administrators and technologists involved in applications that run in cloud environments like Amazon AWS and Heroku. Anyone interesting in cloud computing should join, regardless of experience level or technologies of interest. This group is language and technology agnostic.

Dedicated to best practices, semantic markup, progressive enhancement & graceful degradation. Over the course of time and quite often we discuss HTML5, CSS, cross-browser support & testing, mobile, optimization techniques and much more. From time-to-time we'll discuss Javascript related topics but in most cases we'll let the excellent Charlotte JS Meetup Group handle the glory that is Javascsript.

[grok] — verb to intimately and completely share the same reality or line of thinking with another physical or conceptual entity the intermingling of intelligence that necessarily affects both the observer and the observed [ORIGIN: 1961, COINED BY AUTHOR ROBERT A. HEINLEIN IN HIS NOVEL STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND] Thanks to Joshua Blankenship for the definition. The Origin of the Grok The first Grok began in the tasty beer and pixel filled mind of Matthew Smith of @squaredeye & Cowork Greenvil …

This is the website of the Charlotte ALT.NET group. We are a group of Charlotte developers interested in .NET and sharing knowledge about the best in software technology and practices. This includes but is not limited to things such as Test Driven Development, Distributed Source Control, Agile Methodologies, NHibernate, and Model View Controller web frameworks.

All Great Cities have a Lifelong Learning or Community Education program and Carolina Learning Connection is Charlotte's. Our Mission: Create access to affordable and convenient lifelong learning classes or workshops that offer personal and professional enrichment where adults can grow, learn and connect with like-minded people. Please visit our website: Carolina Learning Connection for more information about us.

Group of Javascript Enthusiasts focusing on development with and learning around the ExtJS and Sencha touch libraries. We want to learn, develop skills, exchange ideas and work through issues surround these and related technologies.

This group is created as a networking and resource tool for .Net Developers in the local area. All developers in the Charlotte area encouraged to join. Please no recruiting companies.

This meetup group is a joint venture between the American Marketing Association, Charlotte Chapter and Studiobanks a full-service digital marketing agency. The objective of this free meetup group is to encourage an open dialogue between professional digital marketing practitioners and business leaders looking to enhance their digital presence. Who should join? Anyone with a keen interest in learning about digital marketing, both professionals in the field and business leaders looking to learn. …

This is free training for the next 6 to 8 weeks, Tuesday evenings at 6pm at Packard Place (222 Church Street, Charlotte). Who should sign up: any veteran with a desire to learn about Hadoop technology and app development (both very desirable skills) or just brush up on IT skills in general. No prior computer training required, just have a desire to learn! More about the Charlotte Code Ops Challenge: Take some old hardware, a group of Charlottes active developer community and build a set of new d …

This group will serve as a networking and resource tool for Sharepoint Developers in the local area. All developers in the Charlotte area encouraged to join.

Scala is one of the most exciting recent language developments on the JVM and CLI. This group is for people to explore, learn, and develop Scala applications, technology, and related disciplines.

The Official Charlotte Java User Group. For developers, by developers.

Learn about Clojure and meet other local programmers interested in Clojure.

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Charlotte 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 Charlotte 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 compliments y …

This meetup provides an online space for Microsoft app builders to come together and build apps with the help of Microsoft and our Community of App Developers.

This group is for UX professionals looking to share insights on books or articles that are inspiring, informative, explorative, trending, or innovative in the field of UX. I really want this group to be a casual get together where we can just talk about what we've read and how it relates to our lives and current way of thinking.