The Limited WIP Society is intended to be the home of Kanban for the software development community. The growth of people doing Kanban, talking about Kanban, or wanting to find out about Kanban has been pretty rapid. Currently we have lots of people blogging independently, some really good articles that bloggers have linked to separately and the kanbandev Yahoo! Group. The Limited WIP Society meets every month to share ideas, meet other Kanban enthusiasts, promote Kanban and harness innovation w …

This group is a monthly gathering of Python users and developers in the Melbourne area. We discuss Python and related open source technologies. It is a networking forum for meeting other locals interested in Python and exchanging news and ideas. I decided to start the group because the venerable Melbourne Python User Group has stalled since May, lacking a venue. We're negotiating for a great regular venue for this meetup. If you do any kind of Python development, or have done, join the group! We …

Come to the DevOps Melbourne meetup to learn more about and share information on the DevOps movement - culture, practices and tools. This is a group for professionals (and hackers), managers, and engineers - from dev or ops backgrounds. What is DevOps? DevOps is a movement with wide impact in operations and the relationship between operations and software development. improved communication and collaboration between software development and operations joint responsibility for delivery of …

This group is a community of business analysts in Melbourne that operate or want to operate in agile projects.  Analysts and people interested in becoming or working with analysts are welcome. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month at various locations in the CBD. If you are an author or speaker we'd love to hear from you.

There is a blossoming of search technology usage in Melbourne, but a definite lack of an unofficial, relaxed gathering to allow some fruitful information and experience exchange. Our aim is to make the meetup more welcoming to all search developers in Melbourne who are facing similar challenges -- while maintaing the level of technical depth that we've come to enjoy. Search technologies include, but are not limited to: ElasticSearch, Apache Lucene & Solr, AWS CloudSearch, Microsoft FAST, Apache …

Melbourne Web Developers is a bi-monthly meetup that brings together Melbourne's awesomely talented web development community to exchange ideas, have a beer and talk about all things interwebs related! We cover web development topics including high scalability, user experience (UX), web frameworks and languages, social media, harnessing cloud tools and SaaS and anything else that makes web applications tick!

The Enterprise Application Development Group is an informal special interest meet up group designed to bring like minded individuals together to learn about and discuss new application development, network, develop relationships - both professional and personal.

If you love programming Ruby and use the Ruby on Rails (RoR) framework, or would like to learn, then this group is for you. If you don't care for Ruby or Rails but love programming and web development in general, are involved in a startup and have an entrepreneurial spirit, then this group may be for you too. :) Oh yeah, and you must live in the world's most livable city to join. If you don't know which city that is, then you probably don't. :)

The MelbJVM group discusses the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Topics covered are frameworks and languages on the platform. Many of our members are software developers using the Java language and looking to find out what's new, and what they can bring to their own projects, bringing up to date techniques and software technologies to the perennial development platform. Examples of talks in 2012 to illustrate this:- CucumberJVM (Groovy) to illustrate BDD Play framework to demonstrate rapid app devel …

We are a group of people interested in functional programming. This ranges from academic discussions around type systems right through to demonstrations of software we've developed using practical functional languages. At our meetups we usually have two or three talks and some pizzas before heading out to a local pub for some drinks and more conversation. People of all experience levels are welcome. If you've never done FP before and are curious to see what it's about, or looking to figure out w …

UX, Designer & Developer network. Promoting good practices on Microsoft UI platforms. Currently in Melbourne, Sydney & Perth.

Startups are rapidly becoming a boom industry in Australia, but unless you're lucky enough to get into one of the few incubators in Australia (like Startmate, Pushstart or Angelcube) it can be an real challenge even knowing where to start. HeadStart is a monthly meetup designed to give budding entrepreneurs the right information they need to get their business started. With guest speakers every month and access to a growing mentor network, HeadStart is like a hackathon for starting a business. S …

The Melbourne dynamic-agenda-talking-with-smart-people-is-fun-even-with-nothing-to-preach-about-and-you-don't-actually-even-need-to-drink-coffee group. It's likely we'll talk about things like Lean, Kanban, Agile, TPS, Personal Kanban and more! Blog summarising past events: http://melbourneleancoffee.blogspot.com.au/ Group photo from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/omarmk/2095984769/

A group for people dedicated to using their software building skills for the greater good of humanity. We contribution to open source projects and work with agile methodologies. Our current project is with OpenMRS. We meet on Tuesday nights at ThoughtWorks Melbourne, with occasional weekend hack events. Tuesdays generally start with dinner from 6.15pm, "stand up" at 6.45, and hands-on group work until 9pm. Come along to work with BAs, Developers, Testers, etc. To get an idea of what it would be …

Hackduino is an open source electronics project, established by Mark Butt and run in partnership with Nick Jaffe at the Electron Workshop. Hackduino encourages the learning and development of open source electronics, with a focus on Arduino based interactive projects. We operate monthly meet-up groups and run competitions to encourage the growth and development of the Australian electronics community. We drink beer, work on projects and discuss electronics.

Welcome! :) we are about having serious fun, we want people from all walks of society to join this group and have fun sharing ideas, dreams, knowledge, wisdom, experience and passion that can make the difference towards a more eco>sustainable future..! We cannot eliminate trade to save the planet, humans have traded for thousands of years, what we need is an ecologically sustainable model so that we can live in harmony with our environment while trading with our fellow nations. Our aim is to pro …

The way we develop software today takes a major part on how they will be maintained in future. If we can find ways to improve the way we Design and Develop Software, the maintenance cost will be less in future. As Developers, we want to write code and design Software that are testable, maintainable as possible. One way to achieve this is to share knowledge and experience among industry experts, Developers, on how they go about writing testable, and maintainable Software. This is the prime reason …

This is the Melbourne chapter of The Australian Alt.Net Community. We meet on the last Tuesday of every month, 6pm at the Melbourne ThoughtWorks Office, Level 15,303 Collins Street, Melbourne, VIC 3000 The Australian Alt.Net Community is a self-organizing, ad-hoc community of developers bound by a desire to improve ourselves, challenge assumptions, and help each other pursue excellence in the practice of software development, obviously with a strong emphasis on development using the Microsoft.NE …

Salesforce Platform Developer Users Group for Melbourne. If you do develop on, or you're interested in developing on the Force.com platform then please join!

This is a group for anyone interested in DDD, CQRS , Even Sourcing and related topics. All skills levels are welcome. We have no defined agenda yet. Let's get together and discuss how it should be.

Agile Coaching Circles is intended to provide support for the role of the Agile Coach and the competencies (i.e. facilitation, mentoring, teaching, and coaching) to become effective in that role through a community of practicing coaches. Let's get together to share our successes and challenges with each other in order to support newer coaches, enhance our coaching skills and deepen our craft.

This is the Melbourne version of the original NYC Hack & Tell Meetup (strongly influenced by the Berlin H&T from cBase). In short: No pitches, just hacks. If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, now it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with honest feedback, and you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library, whatever. It can b …

New year, new friends, new opportunities. 新年新气象, 结识新朋友, 开创新机会.

This is a group for anyone interested in Mining industry related software and technology • Discussing New Technologies and Products • Product development ( including sales and business development associated with the new products) • Exploring new Geographies for these products • Open to other related/impacted areas of mining such as environmental engineering

Meet other developers using Meteor. Share your knowledge, apps, and get feedback from others. Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

It's an awesome piece of software used by awesome people. So let's start talking to each other, helping out where needed and swapping ideas and solutions to problems.

The Melbourne PHP User Group is a group of enthusiastic local programmers who get together every month and discuss Open Source technologies with a focus on PHP and associated topics. PHP is an extremely popular general-purpose scripting language that is highly suited for web development. We strive to promote PHP and Open Source in the IT industry, both locally and internationally. Our meetings are educational and cater to all skill levels. Anyone is welcome to join us. As a group, we aim to educ …

Are you a women in Tech? Do you run an online business or are trying to get started with an online business? Or maybe your female entrepreneur running her own startup or business? Are you any of the following : a web marketer, app designer, social media person, web developer, web designer, software developer, (or some other tech related occupation I've left out)? Great! Do you get regular manicures and pedicures, but wish you had someone to go with to talk about topics that interest you and are …