About Us and About You This is one of the best social technical group, positive and progressive meetup group. We are a small and enthusiastic group. We can give you good advice and guidance and support your adventure into owning a website; from planning for one, building one, managing one and connecting with commercial and social market places. Our group does not just focus on one web technology, we experience an array of web technologies.  Join us and you will have wished you started earlier. …

Meet others interested in developing apps on Google App Engine. This meetup has a strong programming focus, so talks showing working code and workarounds are actively encouraged. Each meetup will have a reasonable amount of time for informal lightning talks to show members' work.

The Open Computing Initiative (TOCI) will be an organisation which has been founded with the purpose of colaboratively producing technologies and software which will better serve Humanity and the Planet. Mission Statement The Purpose of The Open Computing Initiative is to Create a Platform which will Assist the Self Driven Evolution of Humanity and Integration with Nature Through Greater Vision and Understanding. Values Open – Owned by All, for the Greater Benefit of All Vision – To Enabl …

Welcome to Big Data London - Europe's biggest Big Data community. Big Data London brings together people working on Big Data projects. If you're using Hadoop, Apache Cassandra or any other NoSQL related technology, if you're involved with web apps, enterprise apps, data analytics, financial apps or storage at massive scale, or simply want to learn more about the space, then you'll find something interesting here. So come and join us.

This group is for anyone interested in cloud technology, especially Openstack. If you are interested or involved in providing scalable computing resources, be they virtualised, cloud, 'on demand' or grid then you'll find something here.

A meetup group to coordinate a face-to-face AWS user community. Proposed topics will be more about the technical aspects of AWS feature use and implementation, and will feature real-world use cases including what hasn't worked as well as what has. Join if you're a cloud evangelist in your organisation, and you design implement or service AWS based solutions. All abilities are welcome, but be prepared to get in-depth!

The London Windows Azure User Group. Meeting monthly for evenings and weekly for mornings to discuss and consult on Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing platform.

The London Macintosh User Group is a voluntary organisation in the London area of users and enthusiasts of Apple products like Macintosh computers, iPhones and iPads. We hold monthly meetings in central London on the second Monday of the month and periodically other events.

Welcome ... This group was create to help us understand how we can use Access Bars to change our life. What is Access Bars? There are bars of energy that run through and around your head that connect to different aspects of your life such as healing, body, control, awareness, creativity, power, aging, sex, money and many more. These energy points store the electromagnetic component of all the thoughts, ideas, attitudes, decisions and beliefs that you have ever had about anything. When you have …

Data Science London, the #datascience community We are a non-profit professional organisation dedicated to the free, open, dissemination of data science. We are a community of data scientists that meets regularly to discuss the tools, methods and technologies used by many startups and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive insight, and exploit business opportunities from data products. Follow us on twitter @ds_ldn Read our blog www.datasciencelondon.com We'll have …

The purpose of this group is to bring together people who have a passion for technology in education. Are you interested in programming, computer science, IT, or just integrating great technology into the classroom? Come and join us for monthly activities to learn from each other and develop new ideas! Feel free to suggest ideas for great events happening in London or around the UK.

Thanks for joining! We plan to get together in London to discuss projects, challenges, opportunities and new technologies related to tackling web-site and app scalability. Developers, newcomers, entrepreneurs and people with ideas are all welcome. You can expect to meet and enjoy presentations from investors, developers, entrepreneurs and experts in all sorts of relevant topics. We look forward to meeting you. Colin

Platform as a Service (PaaS) is the future of developer-centric cloud deployment. Our user group brings together people who are involved in building and using PaaS clouds to share their experiences, war stories and to work together shape an open future for PaaS.

This group is for members to learn and share how to use Google's products for business. We will explore how you can effectively use Google+ to be more visible online, how it's going to affect search results and how you can make use of the many features for your business. We will also look at using Google's cloud computing products (Google Apps for Business) and how this helps you in your business without the cost and headache of traditional IT. You should join this group if you are a business th …

This group is for anyone who is interested in Software Defined Networking, whether your are technical, non-technical business folk, or an entrepreneur… It’s to discuss and debate all things SDN, including; hardware, switching, the OpenFlow protocol, controllers, application concepts, industry hype and reality, use cases, business adoption, and many other things…

This is a beginners group for learning computer programming. You will be taught how to create desktop and web applications in Visual Basic . net Visual Basic . Net is the best language to start learning computer programming. If you RSVP for a meetup, you MUST ring me to confirm your attendance. I teach Visual Basic even if only one person is coming, so you should let me know so that I don't make a wasted journey. My number is 07975 866 810. The meetup provides a structured and thorough groundi …

Welcome to the meetup around anything a Apache Hive. Hive is a powerful tool to explore and process big data quickly and easily. It can be an important building block in a data pipeline and data analysis. We are interested in anything related to Hive including Hadoop, cloud computing, testing, development processes, best practices, use cases, data analysis, data processing, data cleaning, NoSQL, SQL, HiveQL, denormalization, map-reduce, big data, and more. Join and contact us if you want to pres …

The LNETM fosters innovation in the London enterprise technology ecosystem through promoting early stage technology companies, supporting entrepreneurs, educating companies on how to work with enterprises, and creating an environment where entrepreneurs, investors, and businesses can all network and learn from one another. Check out our latest news at www.lnetm.com where you can also request to present.

The Bill Hicks Ride gives anybody and everybody the opportunity to partake in whatever venture takes our fancy and flies with it. We plan seasonal events, for those living, visiting, breathing London, on both sides of the river, with the occasional getaway outside the city limits !! We are a unique & eclectic crowd touching on activities and topics encompassing the macro and the microcosm. We find that enjoying life is not just a priority, but mandatory, so follow the bubbles and join in the fun …

A group for the application of cutting-edge HPC & GPU supercomputing technology to cutting-edge business problems. With an emphasis on the useful application of supercomputing by practitioners, for practitioners. Note: We have a sister groups that meet in New York, Boston, Chicago, Silicon Valley, Paris, Seattle, Washington DC, Tokyo, Australia, India, and elsewhere.

We're a London study group on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). SICP is a classic programming text (even if you don't program in lisp) and the breadth and depth of the ideas in the book will certainly improve your craft. But don't take my word for it. Peter Norvig gave a review of it: ".... The book doesn't directly tell you how to design and write an object-oriented program using the subset of object-oriented principles that show up in the syntax of Java or C++. Rather, …

Are you interested in Twitter's open source distributed realtime computation framework "Storm" & based in London? Then this meetup is for you. We get together to share use cases, experiences and tips on how to use this framework. "Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation." Project GitHub Group photo courtesy of Paul Bica

We're a community of UK based cloud accounting software enthusiasts (although if you're from outside the UK you're more than welcome to join and come along!). If you don't know what Xero/Freeagent/SageOne is, they're cloud based accounting platforms which can plug into lots of add-ons (or apps) that make running a small business more efficient. People who love cloud tend to be keen to chat and share experiences so we're setting up some informal events where you can come along, meet fellow enthus …

Members helping members learn programming! Our chosen language is Python. There are many resources on the web to help get started with Python, Udacity's CS101 course (https://bitly.com/udacs101) is a great place to start. Hopefully someone can take the initiative to start a meetup where we can get together, and help each other through the CS101 course.

Technical meet ups to explore new and best uses for Infrastructure and Multi-Cloud for fun and profit. We're going to focus on practical use and development for public cloud, multiple cloud provider environments, private cloud technologies and surrounding technologies. Sample projects have been building a cloud in the cupboard under the stairs, experimenting with mongoDB, Node.js, Chef. We also have beer, snacks and tee shirts.

A group of like minded Cloud professionals focusing on Cloudstack; regular physical meetings throughout Europe .

This is group for anyone in the London area interested in infrastructure automation with open source tools. We get together to give demos, share ideas and hack on automation frameworks (e.g. puppet, chef and salt) as well as other related software.

This group will focus on the use of Amazon CloudSearch for the development and deployment of search applications. Amazon CloudSearch is a fully-managed search service in the AWS cloud that allows customers to easily integrate fast and highly scalable search functionality into their applications. Meetup presentations and discussions will cover topics such as: User case studies and lessons learned Getting started with CloudSearch Ranking and relevance tuning Working with other AWS services This gr …