Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache Open Source Search Engine/Platform

The Google Technology and Developer Group (GDG-DC) is a developer group designed to discuss, discover and distribute Google technologies. This will cover Washington DC Capital Suburban area including Northern Virginia and Maryland. GDG-DC meets on as often as we could find good topic, location, sponsor and interested techies! Please visit our website and join our groups to participate and register in Meetup to attend. Oh.. don't forget to follow us on  Twitter Check out http://developer.google.c …

Local communities across the world organize Joomla!Day events to meet, share and learn with others from the Joomla! Community. the Northern Virginia Joomla! Users Group's events are open to anyone, regardless of their current level of knowledge, experience, or expertise. In October, 2010, we held a very successful JoomlaDayDC. We hope to do so again, but unfortunately were all too busy doing Joomla! projects to put one on in October 2011. Come out, learn, and share!

The SharePoint Special Interest Group (SSIG) is focused on delivering the content the users want. While the SharePoint platform is extensive, we plan to deliver speakers able to address a wide variety of topics, including development, information architecture, user experience, governance and infrastructure. All these components come together to create the best SharePoint experience. Our meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of every month from 7 PM - 9 PM at the Knowlogy Offices on 1934 Old Gal …

This meetup group is dedicated to organizing Washington DC -based events for the Alfresco Open Source Enterprise Content Management System (http://www.alfresco.com). Users of Alfresco Open Source Enterprise Content Management to exchange information, code, use cases, case studies, demos, ideas and friends. Leverage the transparency (of code and conduct) and community of Open Source.  The group welcomes technical and non-technical users with the goal of creating a network of people who can be a …

Meet local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Data Web. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web.

WordPress and Facebook Meetup Group of Northern Virginia was created to facilitate the use of WordPress as a Content Management System (CMS), Social Media & Website Design Platform. Let’s discuss YOUR interests with regard to WordPress & Facebook and how it can help you, your business or organization. Topics would include but not be limited to: Using WP for your Business, Search Engine Marketing with WP, Social Media and WP , Facebook and WP, Website Design with WP. Mission "We will share our …

dHealth is an organization and a venue that enables digital and mobile health enthusiasts from government, academia, industry and not for profit organizations to meet, learn from each other and hopefully develop some meaningful relationships. We regularly hold meetings in and around DC. The events are held in the evenings to accommodate as many people as possible

You in talent acquisition/recruitment/technology/studying/job search? Then this group is for you! Meet other local recruiters, HR professionals, ERE.net members and hiring managers. Discuss topics including recruiting tactics, eRecruitment, social media, web 2.0/recruitment 2.0, talent management, best & next practices, and building business relationships. Corporate talent acquisition practitioners are especially encouraged to join to share your front line experience. Other Topics of discussion: …

Come and learn about cutting edge Node.js technologies, meet other great developers, and discover new tools and tricks to make your next project in Node a success.

This is a group of professionals living or working in Reston. Our group meets at Kalypso's on the First Tuesday every month. We are a community focused on developing business opportunities and building relationships. Join our group and attend our $10 dollar events if you are interested in building your business, developing quality relationships and helping others be successful.

Northern Virginia ColdFusion Users Group meets (at a minimum) once per month. Our aim is to provide opportunities for ColdFusion and Actionscript developers to meet and network with one another as well as opportunities to engage in presentations and learning to help sharpen your ColdFusion development skills. We are an active group and we always welcome new members. If you live or work (or can otherwise get to) Fairfax, VA then we'd love to have you come out. Speakers interested in attending our …

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and,  in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just …

The Federal Big Data Meetup group is a community dedicated to promoting the technologies, practices and innovations needed for Federal Government agencies to get maximum value from massive amounts of data. With over 2.5 trillion bytes of data accumulating around the world every day, the Federal Government is at the epicenter of the Big Data revolution. Through an exchange of BIG ideas, education and fresh thinking from Government employees, contractors and technologists, Federal Big Data aims to …

This group will share the best practices and ideas for implementing the Amazon Web Services Cloud products for Customers in the National Capital Area. Our customers have unique requirements including professional associations, lobbying groups, government, technology startups, and large corporate headquarters. Cloud technology consultants and IT department leaders would benefit from joining this group.

This is to be the inaugural meeting of NoVA Networkers, a discussion group for computer network engineers and administrators of all skill levels. (Please note that this group is NOT for interpersonal networking.) The goal of the group is to facilitate the free exchange of ideas and experiences among like-minded professionals. The group was founded by Jeremy Stretch of packetlife.net, and is not sponsored by any commercial entity. (This means that all vendors and technologies are fair game!)

We're a rag-tag group of software developers, mostly focused on web tech, but with a wide range of interests and experience. Our meetings are a mix of free-ranging discussion, short presentations, and project co-working. If you have ideas to share, questions to ask, or code to hack on, come by and say hi.

We're in Washington, D.C., we love Wikipedia and Wikimedia, and our vision is to empower individuals around the world through free access to the sum of human knowledge! We get together for various reasons, like taking some amazing pictures for Wikimedia Commons, expanding articles on Wikipedia so that people can learn from them, or discussing various issues related to Internet, culture, art, museums, libraries, history, or whatever we'd like to discuss. And we're done, we make sure the whole wor …

EXERCISE + STARTUP NETWORKING = RunningStart.org ! We are start-up entrepreneurs, CXOs, innovators, and tech gurus who combine their running with conversation about their latest entrepreneurial endeavors. So join us, and get inspired for your next start-up while you burn a few calories.

This group is for anyone interested in Ethical Computer Hacking.

We are a locally focused website and mobile app that combines user generated reviews with expert business surveys. We host monthly events and feature guests speakers to help Small Business Owners market and promote their businesses.

Do you have a killer mobile app idea? Join us at the App Social. A social networking event where you will get 5 mins to pitch your idea to developers and marketers.  You will have the opportunity to partner with developers and marketers to launch your app for little or no start up costs. In exchange, the marketers and developers you choose to partner with will share in the app revenue. Mobile app enthusiasts gather together to network, share ideas and kick start a deserving app idea.

This is a group for anyone interested in web design and development living in Reston and Herndon area.  If you are a web designer, web developer, full-time or part-time freelancer, or someone very interested in learning how to make great websites and web applications, then this is the right group for you. Regardless of level of expertise and experience in web development, we all can learn from each other by sharing new tips, news on latest technologies, best practices, new tools, and much more! …

This is a place to discuss and learn trending topics related to the development of highly customizable, user-centric web sites. This will serve as a platform for users to share and discover new frameworks and technologies that we can incorporate into our own development efforts. Such topics will include, not are not limited to JavaScript, jQuery, Ruby on Rails, Java, PHP, Python, HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Web Design, and anything else being used to make really cool web sites.

The OWASP Northern VA Local Chapter meetings are FREE and OPEN to anyone interested in learning more about application security. We encourage individuals to provide knowledge transfer via hands-on training and presentations of specific OWASP projects and research topics and sharing SDLC knowledge. The chapter is committed to providing an engaging experience for a variety of audience types ranging from local students and those beginning in app-sec, to those experienced and accomplished profession …

The Northern Virginia IBM Rational Users Group - for all the users of Rational Tools and Technology.

We are a community of software industry professionals in the Washington DC area meeting regularly to discuss the business of software. This group is the place for software developers, vendors, entrepreneurs, investors, executives, directors, and engineers to learn and share the most recent business and technical innovations, trends, experiences, challenges, and opportunities in the software industry.

What's the big deal with big data? McKinsey consulting predicts a shortage of 140,000 data scientists in the US, and a shortage of 1.5 Million of...the rest of us. The business users who make decisions based on the data. The folks who interact with the data scientists. Once per month, we'll feature a speaker or workshop focusing on Big Data case studies (like how Big Data is helping the NYPD solve crime, Unilever sell more soap, and The World Bank alleviate poverty in Burundi), consider the impl …