Meet other local iPhone, Android, Blackberry, Windows Phone and Mobile Web designers and developers. Discuss various programming languages, design patterns, techniques or just plain business strategies in the app market!

Welcome Lean Kanban DC! Lean Kanban DC is associated with the Limited WIP Society, which is the home of the global community embracing Kanban for software development. "Limited WIP" refers to limiting the amount of work in progress -- a core practice in lean pull systems such as kanban. The goal of this group is to help grow and learn from each about Lean Kanban techniques to help us deliver products. This community is open to a wide array of topics including: Lean, Kanban, Agile, Lean Startup, …

FredDev is a social group geared toward developers and designers from around the Fredericksburg, VA region. It's an opportunity for you to come together with your peers to build community, discuss technologies, and solve problems. WHEN: 6:30pm to 8:30pm on the 2nd Tuesday of each month. WHERE: Location to be announced at least 1-week prior to monthly meetup.

Meet, share ideas and learn about Lean Start-up efforts from local entrepreneurs. The initial meeting is intended to discuss the feasibility of a Tysons Corner Lean Start-up group, given that there is already an active group in Washington DC. Can another group exist without diluting the DC group? Lean Startup is a set of processes used by entrepreneurs to develop products and markets, combining Agile Software Development, Customer Development and existing software platforms.

We dig open source. From the Linux operating system to arduino electronics and all the points in between. We meet montly in Downtown Staunton for scheduled talks, hack sessions, demos, and anything else that might be connected with the free (as in speach) software while we drink some free (as in beer) ... beer.

You in talent acquisition/recruitment/technology/studying/job search? Then this group is for you! Meet other local recruiters, HR professionals, ERE.net members and hiring managers. Discuss topics including recruiting tactics, eRecruitment, social media, web 2.0/recruitment 2.0, talent management, best & next practices, and building business relationships. Corporate talent acquisition practitioners are especially encouraged to join to share your front line experience. Other Topics of discussion: …

A meetup for those interested in the area to meet and share ideas and knowledge about web development, mainly focusing on front end development. The meetups would be for those who also would be interested in creating a team project from the meetups that would help the group learn faster.

Meetup group of local Microsoft Robotic Developer Studio (RDS) developers and enthusiasts to discuss this technology to build robots and large-scale distributed applications. MSRS is an integrated development platform that uses a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) approach to develop robotic applications as well as high performance distributed applications.

Javascript has good parts, bad parts, and parts you're most likely to only discover from the JS genius next door. Join the Central Virginia Javascript Enthusiasts if you want to tap the rich brain trust of web, node, and mobile developers using "the worlds most popular language" in Charlottesville, VA and surrounding areas. We meet every 4th Wednesday of the month in Charlottesville (exact location TBD) to share presos, code, tools, techniques and tall tales of Javascript (and Coffeescript) wond …

ShRUG aims to bring together Ruby enthusiasts in the Shenandoah Valley. All are welcome. There will be topics of interest to web developers and designers, programmers of all kinds, students of OO development in high-level languages, and anyone wanting to use Rails to create dateabase-backed MVC web applications. Whether you are an experienced Rubyist or a curious newbie, come to our meeting and share your interests in learning and using Ruby. Official Ruby logo used under Creative Commons A …

This group explores Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). If you are interested in designing, developing, or using DSLs, come hang out!

What I.F … Techies + Talk + Brains + Creativity + Drink + Food + Funds + Experience = IDEA FUSION™ Join a group of tech startups, innovative entrepreneurs, mentors, investors and resource gurus, most of whom are based in Loudoun. Let’s create a tech community in Loudoun County where there is a lot going on! Idea Fusion™ has been organized to bring like minds together to share ideas, experiences and potentially to create business relationships. Idea Fusion™ is facilitated in cooperation with th …

The SharePoint Special Interest Group (SSIG) is focused on delivering the content the users want. While the SharePoint platform is extensive, we plan to deliver speakers able to address a wide variety of topics, including development, information architecture, user experience, governance and infrastructure. All these components come together to create the best SharePoint experience. Our meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of every month from 7 PM - 9 PM at the Knowlogy Offices on 1934 Old Gal …

About Coworking: Are you a freelancer, web developer, entrepreneur, startup or creative that works from home or coffee shops?  Do you suffer from getting distracted from all of the things your house has to offer?  Does the work day fly by and you realize that you haven't even had a chance to take a shower because you're glued to your computer screen? Well, get up, take a shower, and come cowork with us for a day of free coffee, free wi-fi and good people. What more can you ask for? We are way mo …

We're a group of executives, managers and "intrapreneurs" who want to learn, share or teach how to apply Lean Startup* methodologies in the Enterprise. Our focus is on adopting Lean Startup techniques within a larger organization. Let's connect to collectively drive Lean Startup adoption through the application of Lean Startup, Lean Thinking, Customer Development, and Agile managerial disciplines. *The Lean Startup is a trademark and service mark owned by Eric Ries.

RVA Data Hackers is a community of programmers who meet regularly to develop skills and learn about the tools and techniques of Big Data. We discuss how to find, organize, understand and serve data sets large and small. We'll cover anything related to 'big data' -- machine learning, artificial intelligence and architectures to scale Big Data for the Internet. If you're a programmer interested in machine learning algorithms and managing big data, this group is for you. Topics vary from basic conc …

We want to help Richmond area startups (aspiring, budding, emerging…) build successful and sustainable businesses by learning and practicing LEAN STARTUP techniques. The Lean Startup approach for developing new products and business ventures has gone global, and we hope to implant its principles within our startup ecosystem. If you are an entrepreneur or intrapreneur seeking a better way to bring new products to market and launch new businesses, then this group might be for you. Join fellow inno …

We are a group of people in IT that want to exchange ideas on best practices in Application Lifecycle Management.

The intention of this meetup is to provide a focal point for those interested in learning more about Kanban. It's for those who are in the midst of adopting Kanban, those who are considering it and those who are seasoned in the practice of Kanban.

Discussions around Microsoft Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) including but not limited to Visual Studio 2010/2012, TFS 2012, SQL Server 2012, Microsoft Hadoop on Azure. For architects and enthusiasts.

This is a group for anyone interested in learning more about the Scaled Agile Framework, discussing experiences implementing any and all portions of the framework, sharing lessons learned, retrospectives, progress, successes and those experiences that are less than positive in bringing Agile transformations to the enterprise level. Whether you have any SAFe certifications, have scaled agile practices, or are merely curious. You are more than welcome!

A Linux Users Group to meet and talk about Open Source and Linux. We discuss a variety of subjects from very technical to high level all concentrated in providing IT solutions using Open Source and Linux. Besides the meetings, we use http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug to communicate between the group members outside the meetings. Feel free to join.

The Northern Virginia IBM Rational Users Group - for all the users of Rational Tools and Technology.

Culpeper Technology Center provides local students and young professionals with an enjoyable and entertaining learning atmosphere that encompasses 21st century skills in an open and collaborative environment. This group is for anyone (all skills levels are welcome) interested in technology and computers.

OpenHack Winchester, VA: code together, code anything. Our goal is simple: bring together programmers of any experience level together to code. We meet on the third Thursday each month at Bright Cowork in the Bright Center on the Old Town Mall in Winchester, VA. Food is provided by a sponsor. You BYOB, your computer, and your hacker buddies.

We're hosting an Extended Site for the Google I/O Conference. You can participate remotely in the keynotes with your peers from around the region. We'll be serving lunch and hosting a hackathon following the main sessions.

This group's purpose is to share our knowledge of MySQL with each other, and help each other find the resources we need to solve MySQL-related problems.  We meet on the third Wednesday of every month.