This groups is organized by Thoughtworks Dallas. We'll have periodic talks bringing experts from Thoughtworks and the industry who have a great impact in Continuous Delivery and Agile Software Development. Anybody involved or who wants to be involved in Continuous Delivery and  Agile Software Development, including but not limited to Developers, QA experts, Business Analysts, Project Management, Executives, UX Designers, etc, are welcome to attend.

This is a group of passionate Agile Enthusiasts in the DFW area who are looking to share inspiring and pragmatic techniques to promote effective use of Agile Software Development. We will meet monthly, typically over lunch to hear an inspiring speaker and exchange best practices to make the journey of Agile Software Development fulfilling and rewarding for our organizations.

DFW Agile Community of Practice (CoP) focuses on delivering knowledge and providing a networking forum for agile practitioners. This includes anyone interested in, working in, or impacted by developments in the collection of good practices, principles and techniques in agile project management. The objectives of this meet-up group are: 1. To support the growth and development of Agile project management practitioners. 2. To build awareness of Agile project management discipline and its critical …

Sorry gang, we (ThoughtWorks) don't have anyone who can host this event for the foreseeable future.  All our staff are too far from the Addison office to make it back in time to host the event - it's a price we pay for being busy in our consulting work :-( We'll look to re-launch this when we can find a colleague who's able to make it to Addison in good time  on Wednesdays. - Paul / Kevin / Andrew. ThoughtWorks' consultants will be working on a bunch of open source projects after work. Come an …

Welcome to DFW Scrum! Scrum is a software development method/framework that focuses on delivering the highest business value to the customer as early as possible through short iterative development cycles that allow rapid and repeated inspection of the project. Scrum can of course be used on just about any project (if it involves people and it has to get done, you can use Scrum). Our goal is to help you do better today than you were doing yesterday. The best way to do that is through the collect …

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.

The Dallas Visual Basic User Group meets to discuss Visual Basic.Net and related technologies such as Game Design, Computer Graphics Demos, Kinect and Wii-Mote Programming. We will be teaching classes on how to start programming and how to integrate different software and hardware into your application.

What is Techmeetups? TechMeetups has been setup to create a global network of Tech communities from San Francisco to Sydney. We believe that Tech communities are isolated and great things can be achieved if we connect within our cities and outside our borders. Our goal is to create a global Tech cluster of over 50 inter-connected Tech communities by 2013. Our global community started out with the launch of the London Silicon Roundabout Tech community in December 2010. Following it's success in …

Are you in, on, around, close to, or have heard of Dallas, Texas? Do you want to learn how to be a web developer or build web sites on your own that aren't just changing text inside a template? If the answer to either of those questions is yes, then you need to stop by and say hello. A few of us are professional web developers that want to help other people learn how to build kick ass web sites and other web-related skills that are required knowledge in today's web industry. We'll start from the …

The purpose of the group is to support developers, designers, and Titanium Platform users in general, with product knowledge, skills, and networking opportunities. It's also an excellent group for anyone interested in using web development skills (HTML, CSS, JS) to build cross-platform mobile apps for iOS, Android, BlackBerry, and the Mobile Web.

The Qt (pronounced "Q-T" or "cute") Meetup group covers everything Qt: introductions, roadmap information, deep architectural discussion, best practices, gotchas and hands-on technical support. We will cover the logistics of Qt app deployment to desktop, embedded, tablets and mobile devices including tooling requirements/behavior/usage. All are welcome.

Our meetings touch on a number of web and mobile development technologies. While the primary focus of the groups is on building applications with the ColdFusion programming language, we also present on HTML5, JavaScript (jQuery, Ext.js, etc.) and other emerging programming languages, concepts and libraries. Each meeting usually consists of current technology news, an intro topic (approx. 30 min.) and an in-depth presentation (1 hr on average).

This meetup group is for people passionate about APIs.  Join us if you are fixated on developing new innovative APIs for your company, creating mashups in your sleep, or doing some weekend work creating the next great phone app.   Whether, you are providing or consuming APIs, let's discuss what's working/what's not, listen to the industry experts and discuss everything APIs.

The Dallas .NET Users Group is dedicated to providing a forum for area technologists to discuss and present enterprise solutions utilizing .NET technologies as well as creating a community to promote the success and communication of its members. The Dallas .NET User Group meets @ 6:00PM on the second Thursday of every month at Microsoft in Irving. Address: 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM Microsoft Campus in Las Colinas 7000 State Highway 161 Building LC1 Irving, TX 75039 The group hosts frequent guest …

This group is for the tech savvy entrepreneurs & micropreneurs of DFW. If your a local ISV or a  team building SaaS applications on IaaS providers like (amazon/rackspace/azure) - you are going to meet like minded people. Individuals in this group are technology agnostic, span multiple disciplines, value differences, and are continually improving. This isn't a social drink gathering. This time is meant to be constructive in helping you move your company to the next level. Consider this your hack …

The Dallas Agile Leadership Network is a support group for executives, managers, and other leaders who want to increase the agility of their organizations. Unlike other groups, the Dallas Agile Leadership Network places emphasis on culture and business alignment over practices and tools. Unlike earlier incarnations, the 2012 ALN will commit to grow the community by meeting at least monthly and incorporate the feedback from its members.

Python is a powerful, very approachable programming language. Come to our group and participate in discussions and educational presentations about it. We welcome those new to Python as well as those who have using it for years. We have two social meetings and two hands-on technical meetings each month. We cover many problem domains from serving web pages and database programming, to programs for systems administration and game programming.

Dallas Fort Worth C++ User Group The DFW C++ User Group is a designed to bring together DFW's C++ community. Novice and experts are all welcome! Currently we meet every 2nd Thursday 7 pm to 9 pm at Improving Enterprises' office.  Free pizza and drinks will be provided (Thank you Improving Enterprises for sponsoring our location, food and drinks). For more information please contact David Cravey at dcravey@gmail.com

Join us as we learn together about how to use the cloud to make our apps faster, stronger, more scalable and more powerful. All cloud technologies are welcome and meeting topics will vary each month.

We spend our days coaching teams, fighting the good fight, and preaching the Agile Manifesto but who do we turn to for support and understanding? Other coaches of course. This group is dedicated to bringing together those who identify as an Agile coach for support, conversation, and (ideally) a few beers.

This group is for women currently employed in the fields of science, technology, engineering or mathematics. We warmly welcome our amazing female teachers of these fields as well. If you would like to meet women with similar interests as yourself outside of work, come join us for fun activities such as whirlyball, paint your own pottery, theater shows, dance lessons, broomball and much more. We’ll even try out a couple’s night.

A place for Clojure users of all skill levels to meet for learning and fellowship. Our goal is to increase Clojure literacy, use and awareness in the Dallas / Fort Worth area, and all across Texas.

This group was created to provide a forum for those in the Dallas area that face BIG DATA issues in their daily profession. Certainly making sense of it all requires a group effort.  Please join us as we pull this knowledge base together for Dallas to help one another with experiences and thoughts in dealing with BIG DATA analytics.  If you are working with terabytes or petabytes of data, this group is for you!

The purpose of our group is: * To educate and be educated in Information Security * To promote better security * To be a voice in our respective industries for stronger IT Security practices * To share job or opportunity leads * To become a support structure for each other

We are a group of software developers, architects and leaders interested in the Scala language. Join us as we explore the language, frameworks and paradigms. Participation is encouraged and speakers and topics are needed.

DFW is not only the 2nd fastest growing city in the U.S but is also home to several Fortune 200 Companies! Cloud Computing is the latest buzz term in the IT Industry. There is a lot of confusion over even the definition of Cloud computing and many Organizations are looking to do more with less. So, it’s about time we have a local Cloud computing User Group Community. Meet others in the DFW area to share our respective experiences with the “Cloud”. Who should attend?: Business Users, IT leaders, …

Our mission is to help people build better websites using the Drupal content management system (CMS). Drupal is the world's most popular enterprise open source CMS. Drupal is not just another free open source site builder, it powers some of the world's top websites such as whitehouse.gov, The Economist, Sony / BMG's music sites and Twitter's developer community. Its' popularity is derived from its power and flexibility. With the proper Drupal training, you can build practically any kind of websi …

Come Together For Health™ Improving access to affordable healthcare by promoting innovative technologies that transform healthcare. Health Technology Forum (HTF) is a platform for people worldwide who have a common interest in making healthcare better, more accessible and affordable. Our international network of technology and healthcare entrepreneurs, developers, regulators, and providers are advancing the pace of healthcare innovation by engaging in exciting and productive dialogue between e …