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 …

TISQA is the Triangle Information Systems Quality Association. This organization has existed in the Research Triangle Area since 1993 and is dedicated to development of quality software. In that pursuit, TISQA hosts meetings, seminars, promotes software quality education, and gives awards all in the name of software quality. TISQA is also a member chapter of the QAI (Quality Assurance Institute).

Are you a fan of the Manifesto for Agile Software Development and in the RTP area? Meet other local people interested in Agile methods of software development at our monthly meetup.

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 …

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

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 …

TRINUG holds weekly meetups... really - every week! Click here to see our 2013 Meeting Schedule... Our Main Meeting is the 2nd Wednesday of every month. It's a get together for .NET developers of all levels. We usually have a high powered awesome speaker discussing one of the latest technologies, best practices, and anything else of interest to our craft. Food is provided by our meeting sponsor. On other (1st, 3rd, 4th, and sometimes 5th) Wednesdays we hold special interest groups (SIGs) at v …

TrianglePHP is a community organized group of PHP developers in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina (commonly referred to as the Triangle).  We have monthly meetings on the third Thursday of every month with presentations about PHP and the surrounding technologies like database design (MySQL, NoSQL, etc), web design, javascript, CSS, and more. All levels of experience are welcome, so join the group, introduce yourself, come to one of our meetups, and plug in to the fantastic PHP com …

The ONLY Triangle, NC area user group for Microsoft Office technologies. Whether you're an employee looking to increase your knowledge and skills with one of Microsoft Office's applications or related technologies, a power user seeking to automate a business process, or a seasoned developer looking for like-minded fellow developers, we are your local community resource.

Join an incredible group of entrepreneurs, designers, developers, businesspeople, and individuals from all creative disciplines who are applying their skills and experiences to advance common good by ideating, designing, and building solutions that matter.

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 j …

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.

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 is a group for talented individuals who want to apply their skills and experiences to advance common good and serve God’s Kingdom. We will organize meet-ups and weekend long hackathons to gather some of the best minds from Research Triangle and beyond to use prayer, our skills, and technology to tackle challenges confronting our society, communities, churches, and spiritual lives. We will work together to build applications to combat human trafficking, impact discipleship, help build a cult …

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.

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. *

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.

All Technical Professionals are welcome! The Research Triangle Alumnae Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers has recently been re-chartered and is part of a national student-based organization, dedicated to the development of intensive programs for increasing Black and other ethnic minority participation in the field of engineering and engineering technology. Founded in 1975 at Purdue University, NSBE now includes more than 394 College, Pre-College, and Technical Professional/Alumni …

Meet other local fans of WordPress, the Internet's classiest and fastest dynamic content management system. Gather and discuss the best ways to work with your software. Meet WordPress developer and plugin author Michael Torbert. Whether you're a WordPress novice or pro, we have something for everyone! Topics: Search Engine Optimization Security Apache Directives Theme Development/Design Plugin Development General WordPress Techniques WordPress MU BuddyPress Tips and Tricks Widgets

Triangle API is a language agnostic user group focusing on everything API's