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 …

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.

Queen City PHP is a group of professionals and hobbyists alike interested in developing web applications with PHP. Our meetups generally occur on the second Monday of every month at 7PM. Our mission is to encourage continuous learning and facilitate networking between Charlotte area developers. Please check out the message boards for any job openings in the area. http://meetup.qcphp.org/messages/boards/forum/1380853 website: http://qcphp.org twitter: @qcphp freenode irc: #qcphp

This is a group for anyone interested in the new virtual currency called bitcoin. I started this group because I have recently become aware of and involved with bitcoin.  I was searching for a local bitcoin meetup to join and discovered that there wasn't one.  So I decided to create one.  I believe that providing a forum for people to get together and share what they have learned about this new technology will benefit us all. I am extremely excited to meet and maybe even help create new bitcoin …

OWASP Charlotte North Carolina Chapter. Free to join, open to all. We meet to discuss & demonstrate web and browser-based vulnerabilities, tools & solutions. More information about OWASP can be found at https://www.owasp.org/index.php/Charlotte. Join our mailing list https://lists.owasp.org/mailman/listinfo/owasp-Charlotte. Find us in IRC #owasp-clt on freenode http://webchat.freenode.net/?channels=owasp-clt Find us on Google+ Hangout https://plus.google.com/hangouts/_/extras/owasp-clt

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.

[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 …

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

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. …

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 complements y …

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.

What is a TM1 Warrior? A TM1 warrior is anyone who uses IBM Cognos TM1 software and wants to share their experiences, successes and even dilemmas of using this tool. Sound like this could be you? Then join our TM1 Warrior Group.

The Official Charlotte SEO & Search Engine Marketing Meetup Group for Charlotte business owners and online marketing executives. Our group offers insight into search engine marketing services from valid w3 compliant websites, search engine optimization, pay per click advertising, and tons more. Our group is open to anyone interested in learning about marketing online and growing their search engine traffic. Companies throughout Charlotte are encouraged to attend. However, due to the size of our …

Python Users Group that promotes the Python programming language in the Upstate of South Carolina. Emphasis is on providing computer science education (via Python) to really good problem solvers living in rural areas as part of http://hub-ology.org

eCommerce Charlotte is quickly becoming a hub for discussion, learning and networking for those of us involved in the many eCommerce industries.  All are welcome. Our mission as organizers of eCommerce Charlotte is to create a place for good conversations to happen.  Each meeting features an industry expert presenting on a specific topic to help drive not only learning, but innovation and conversation around some facet of the eCom ecosystem.  Attendees often network for a few minutes prior to t …

This group is dedicated to sharing of information and ideas related to Drupal, the world's best Open Source Content Management System.

We are a community of freelance professionals located in Charlotte, NC spanning all types of fields.

We are a discussion group of internet marketers who get together monthly to discuss issues such as PPC advertising, search engine optimization strategies, social media, outsourcing, and general business growth strategies.

Come Join Us! The WordPress Developers Group of Charlotte was created to help bring together local WordPress developers (and designers.) Meetups will be on a regular basis, include open topics for discussion, networking and allow us to learn from each other. While all developers (from beginners to WordPress Ninjas) are invited to join, there are a number of groups already established that cover the basics (like how to post, how to choose a theme, ect.) In general, the topics of discussion will b …

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

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.

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.

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.

Internet Marketing Basics is a group designed to help individuals learn ways to utilize and market their business on the internet through multiple avenues and to be able to leverage the power of technology through social media channels. If you are a small or medium sized business owner, or someone thinking of starting one, and need to learn the basics of internet marketing, this group is for you. There are thousands of people out there struggling to keep up with the ever changing technological c …

RefreshAugusta was started in June 2008. Refresh is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in their areas. Promoting design,technology, usability, and standards.

This is a group for mobile developers to get together and talk about the latest technologies and techniques. Whether you are an experienced developer looking for like minded people near you, or a new developer trying to pick from the growing number of mobile technologies, this group is for you. This group is open to any and all mobile platforms from iOS and Android to HTML 5 and Windows Phone.

The Augusta Developers Guild is a non-profit community of software developers whose mission is to increase awareness of software development products, technologies, and techniques in the Augusta, Georgia area. We hope to accomplish our mission by providing great learning and networking opportunities for all levels of software developers from aspiring programmers to professional developers.

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.