The purpose of this group is to bring together people who share a passion for technology and mobile application development. We welcome developers of all ages and skill levels.

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 focus on coding, leveraging existing technology, and having something t …

Everybody likes lunch, and we all love agile development. Let's do one and talk about the other! For starters we'll meet for lunch and casual conversation. If people are interested, we can add in some more structured content. Until the group decides otherwise, we'll meet once per month in Raleigh, Durham, and RTP.  Please join us and suggest restaurants!

A microISV (Independent Software Vendor) is a small software shop, usually with between 1 to 10 people, which is primarily focused on selling a software product (including income associated with web applications). Are you running or part of a microISV in the Triangle? Or maybe interested in starting one or hearing from those who have? If so, the Triangle microISV group is for you. Some of the goals of the Triangle microISV group are: * Connect – meet and connect with other local microISV …

TACFUG, or the Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group, is the home for ColdFusion in the Research Triangle Area of North Carolina. We discuss web development, front end development, database development and general application development topics. Serving Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel Hill, Apex, Holly Springs, Clayton, Garner, Wake Forest, Creedmore, Butner, Morrisville and those brave souls from the Piedmond Triad who come out to the meetings

Can't get a job without experience? Can't get experience without a job? The Tech In exists to solve that catch-22. If you're a college student or a recent college grad studying software development, computer science, information systems, or anything else that makes other people ask you to fix their computer, we can help. That is, if you're in the Triangle area of North Carolina. Hopefully we'll get bigger soon. We try to have fun, help you learn a little, fill your stomachs with something other …

Everything design presented by professional designers. Crop is about sharing methods and techniques. We want to give designers a platform to showcase their skills and learn about the latest and greatest. If you love design, love to collaborate then we want you at the next Crop meetup. The format for the meetup will be an overall design theme and the second segment we will showcase a cool technique, latest software or new technology related to design. We don't want to focus solely on one area of …

Hook into the experience and enthusiasm of local Android developers and users! Android is Google's open source mobile OS, the basis for a number of newer smartphones and other mobile devices. This group is for those interested in the Android platform. Interests may include: * Getting started with Android application development * Talks and tutorials for developers and enthusiasts * Getting together to help each other hack on Android apps * Helping developers and employers find each other * Discu …

This group is a place for ladies and their friends to get together and learn about software craftsmanship through teaching, mentoring, and group projects! Everyone is welcome -- beginners through experts -- we just ask that you believe in encouraging women in computing.

This group is a place for developers to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database and many of the key committers are based right here in New York City. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions. We typically meet on the second or third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and …

Developers interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. We host hands-on lab sessions, technology reviews, topical lectures, and plenty of social beer nights. Curious about graphs, want to pimp your non-RDBMS skills? Join us!

This group is for all Force.com Developers and those who would like to learn to become so. We meet in the "off" months from the regular Raleigh Salesforce User Group. While not separate, we are the more technical arm of the User Group.

Connect with local developers building on the Salesforce Platform. This group is for all Force.com Developers and those who would like to learn to become so or to stretch their existing skills. We meet in the "off" months from the regular Greensboro Salesforce User Group. While not separate, we are the more technical arm of the User Group.

A group for people in the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area working with (or interested in) Node.js.

The focus of this group is to grow our understanding of the following technologies: Groovy, Grails, Griffon, Gradle, GORM, and more.  We will have speakers from different companies including SpringSource (which is also our primary sponsor).  We also plan to collaborate with the Raleigh Spring Meetup group because there is a lot of synergy between them. If you want to learn more about the features of the dynamic Groovy language that is built on the JVM, then you should join this group.  We look f …

This group was originally formed to discuss the formation of a hackerspace in the triangle. Since the group's formation, interest has been sparked in every vertex of the Triangle. Our mission changed from creating one mega-hackerspace to creating separate (but equal) hackerspaces throughout the area. Our hope is that by creating multiple spaces in the area, Triangle hackerspaces will be both accessible and convenient for professionals, students, and hobbyists throughout the area. Hackerspaces ( …

Greg Balestrero, President and CEO of the Project Management Institute (PMI): "There is no question that Agile PM is a leading and emergent practice…critical to understand" (http://bit.ly/HLFcZ). Working with PMI's RTP chapter and PMI's Agile Community of Practice, our purpose is to build a community of Agile project managers in the RTP area through shared learning and networking events.

We're a community of entrepreneurs, hackers, VCs, and founders focused on growing the local triangle tech community. You can regularly expect to see demos, hear from expert panels, and meet like-minded individuals so spread the word, bring your friends, and see you at the Triangle Meetup!

Like the Ruby programming language? We do too! Want to learn more about it? You're in good company. Come join us in our pursuit of humane programming. We also have a mailing list: http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-rb-members.

We will get together for a monthly session of seminars and discussions for Azure and MVC. It is open to all who work with the Windows Azure cloud computing platform or want to deploy their app to Azure. Bring in your laptops for MVC and Azure fun! You will learn MVC and Azure from zero to advanced level in a short amount of time.

FabLocker Hackerspace is an opportunity to get started in the Maker community.  You can meet local makers, learn some new skills and grow from there. The goals are to: -Meet other local makers -Share ideas, skills, and local resources -Gain new skills though mini-workshops -Hear guest speakers who are tackling large projects -Create collaborations between engineers, makers, tinkers, etc -Get opinions or advice on project execution -Have a good time talking tech Our main website is at http://ww …

A meetup for hackers and founders to mingle and network with each other... If you're interested in technology startups, either as a hacker or as a founder, or both, you've found the right meetup. If you regularly read Hackers News ( http://news.ycombinator.com. ), have been to a Startup Weekend, have wanted an Open Coffee Club in the Triangle area, are building - or want to build - a tech startup, if you're a VC, angel investor, or anyone else with an interest in the startup community; then t …

This is a group for anyone interested in learning more about The Go Programming Language. All experience levels are welcome and ideally we will be a `hacker-centric` meetup, working on actual code together to learn more. All that is required is an interest to learn more, and to share what you have learned.

Dedicated to all hackers who hack in "alternate" JVM languages: Groovy, Scala, Clojure, Nice, Beanshell, Rhino, JRuby, Jython, etc. Low formality, causal "hack night" meetings at pubs, coffee shops, etc.

TriTAUG was founded to help bring together those in the Triangle that have an interest in testing and automated processes.  This includes practices such as continuous integration and test driven development.  We are interested in unique ways to automate, simplify, and become more efficient.

The Lean Startup is an entrepreneurial movement that takes the deep know-how of lean manufacturing, the scientific focus of Customer Development, and the pragmatic "get it done" practices of agile development, and puts it all together into a powerful combination. Come join us as we learn more about building lean startups - we'd love to have you! * The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries. *

This is a meetup group for people interested in OpenStack, an open source cloud operating system (www.openstack.org). We welcome OpenStack users, developers, and other interested parties to join us in learning, sharing information, and building a stronger OpenStack community.

A “how to” Group to get new product ideas to market. All disciplines for ideation, prototype, marketing, merchandising, supply chain management, IT software, logistics, fulfillment, market channels, manufacturing, venture capitalists are all encouraged to share and recommend services and ideas. Inventors, innovators and people that have had that idea that they just don't know how to get it to market and be successful.