The EdTech Meetup is the hub for the amazing keynotes, panel discussions, edtech mixers, member spotlights, and hands-on learning experiences that inspire teachers, entrepreneurs, technologists, education reformers, and ed-tech enthusiasts to connect, collaborate, and innovate. We meet to explore various topics at the intersection of education and technology, to learn about the latest technologies that are supporting teachers, and to hear from teachers about the problems in education that must b …

This is an informal group of female developers in Austin, representing a wide variety of languages, backgrounds, and niches. We meet once a month or so to share information, do some coding, and hang out and talk. Bringing your laptop, your vexing technical problems, and your expertise is highly encouraged! We've had some members volunteer to give short presentations on various technologies, and we've also been lucky enough to have awesome sponsors who've provided beer, wine, and snacks. This is …

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 …

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 have an idea for a product or service involving technology, the Web, Software, Consumer Package Goods, Arts, Fashion, or a smartphone app?  Here’s your chance to get quick feedback from pros in the area – plus, winners will share over $2,000 in prize money! All you have to do is submit an entry, describing your idea. Your application will be scored on the following criteria: innovation, potential impact, feasibility and sustainability.  People submitting the top ideas will be asked to pre …

Imagine if there was a place, where at one table an entrepreneur meets her next $100,000 investor. A designer meets a new client, a web developer with a great internet startup. A Ruby engineer meets a charismatic founder that excites him with her vision, so much so that he can picture leaving his day job for the exhilarating experience of working tirelessly for technology stock options that could be worth millions one day... We're building this community. --- Part of the Tech Happy Hour Allianc …

The purpose of Austin CTO is to establish a tight knit group of tech leaders who are executing on the strategy of their companies, contributing to the growth of their peers and affecting change in the city of Austin through technology. Achieving these goals will be a fruit of increased accountability, commitment and transparency towards each other at a level that might be at odds with the more casual groups out there.

Language-Tech Austin is a hub for discussions, keynotes, mixers, and social interaction between Austin's educators, entrepreneurs, designers, developers, marketers, and language learning enthusiasts. We want to explore topics that intersect world languages and technology to uncover new challenges that together we might solve. Also we can share appropriate findings using #lingotech on Twitter to engage with other language advocates around the world. Join. You are a welcome part of our meetup. Ple …

If you're looking to build your own fully functional, feature-rich website, a Content Management System like Joomla! makes the process much easier and quicker. Joomla! is one of the most popular Open Source (free GPL license) content management systems available. Come to the Austin Joomla! User Group (http://www.joomlaaustin.org) to learn more about this exciting system; compare tools, extensions and templates; trade advice; and share cool websites. ALL ARE WELCOME, whether you are developing yo …

Welcome to Chatuccino Home of Piping Hot Espresso & J2EE — A Technology, Trends & Opportunity Variety Show Our group is about: Identifying and highlighting local technology companies, latest technology and trends, making introductions and meeting new people. Come join us on Thursdays– hang out, have some fun. Thursdays Coffee 7:30 – 8:00 AM Icy Cold Root Beer 4:00 -4:30 PM

Interesting topics presented by members on topics involving Ruby or Rails. We meet in Central Austin as an alternative to having to far North or South, or deal with parking and traffic downtown.

The Moodle Use and Development Group is intended for educators and developers who are interested in using the Moodle Content Management System. Dont know what that is? Moodle is a wonderful CMS that is designed around education. It can be used to easily create elearning websites that allow the creation of students, courses, quizzes... really anything around education. This group is for anyone with an interest in Moodle, whether you are a teacher trying to learn more about how to use moodle in yo …

Tech Hustlers is dedicated to empowering startup founders and co-founders by sharing each others stories of success and failure. We bring the startup community together in a variety of formats (many of which involve beer) to learn from each other. Connect with us today and come build relationships of substance in person and get a private invite to our Facebook group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/techhustlers/

Node.js is an event-driven I/O framework for the V8 JavaScript engine. It makes building scalable and elegant network applications easy. Praised for its brilliant design and simplicity it is quickly being adopted and extended by many developers, companies, and entusiasts around the world. Visit http://www.nodejs.org/ and http://npmjs.org/ to get started today!

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted Austin Meetup group! If you are looking for co-founders or want to join super-early-stage startups, this is the group to be in. Our goal is to organize face-to-face meetings. Everyone is welcome to our group! software engineers, designers, executives looking for a more exciting and challenging opportunity, angel investors and VC looking for the next BIG thing in Austin, come join us! Out meetups are always a great opportunity to meet engineering and creative talent …

This group was created to provide a forum for those in the Austin area to share tips, tricks and knowledge about using Vertica and it's ecosystem for analytics. If you are working with terabytes or petabytes of data, this group is for you!

We all know Austin has a great RoR meetup group, but what if you want to work on your RoR projects? This is for those who are pursuing side projects, but hate to do it alone. Feel free to collaborate, work alone, or just chill out.

We are interested in facilitating and meeting with people to discuss the trans-media/convergence "mashup" marketplace which we define as the global $500 billion+ global marketplace for entertainment-focused products, services & offerings in a number of areas: social everything, gaming & immersive worlds, mobility & communications, digital advertising & interactive, net video/tv, digital film, digital music and animation & cgi. This includes "mashups" involving content/context, applications, serv …

Free people, competing markets and lawful government The Austin Liberty Activists group is an Open Discussion Mailing List and Message Board serving individual citizen activists in the greater Austin Texas area. Many members are active within Austin Liberty Coalition (ALC) organizations. Open topic email exchanges via this group's mailing list are how members share, learn and develop their views on civil liberties. As this group is primarily a communication network with few restrictions organiz …

Free people, competing markets and lawful government The Austin Liberty Activists group is an Open Discussion Mailing List and Message Board serving individual citizen activists in the greater Austin Texas area. Many members are active within Austin Liberty Coalition (ALC) organizations. Open topic email exchanges via this group's mailing list are how members share, learn and develop their views on civil liberties. As this group is primarily a communication network with few restrictions organiz …

Free people, competing markets and lawful government The Austin Liberty Activists group is an Open Discussion Mailing List and Message Board serving individual citizen activists in the greater Austin Texas area. Many members are active within Austin Liberty Coalition (ALC) organizations. Open topic email exchanges via this group's mailing list are how members share, learn and develop their views on civil liberties. As this group is primarily a communication network with few restrictions organiz …

Austin Texas' first Atlassian User Group.  Come meet to learn more about how other Atlassian Software users have been using the various Atlassian software products.

Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8 are now released into the wild! It's still the early days of this radical new era for Microsoft and the perfect time to for Austin developers to jump in get started developing for the new platforms. We're a community of developers and entusiasts joining together to help each other getting apps off the ground and in the store. We have a monthly meetup, weekly events like hackathons, code cafes. Our group is supported by Microsoft, Nokia, Evernote and more. All skill …

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Group of geeks of various flavors, mostly tech, that get together for lunch. Read the Geek Lunch Manifesto.

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Nic Tolstoshev and I decided to start this meetup group because there needs to be a central hub for online community managers to meet. This meetup group will allow community managers to network, share best practices, and innovate through interesting conversations. You should join this group if you are working in the online community management field, have a passion for online community management, or simply want to learn from the experts.