The .NET Developers Association is a eastside community oriented group aimed at furthering the education of .NET developers.

This group is for anyone interested in continuous delivery and software development (including Agile project management, software development, test automation and DevOps, among other topics). Come and join us for a lively discussion, beverages and snacks!

We're a group of professionals that want to explore all the best practices of Agile Methodologies and Frameworks. We want to meet, discuss, build relationships, exchange ideas, tips, tricks, tools, news and foster agile project innovation. We're made up of Scrum Masters, Agile Gurus, Product Owners/Managers, Developers, Testers and newcomers to Agile. We welcome people from all backgrounds, not just the IT field, to join us, learn and network with our community. We meet once a month with a happy …

The Center of the Agile Universe is a group of agile software development enthusiasts in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle. We are building a community who share best practices, network, and provide support to each other. We meet in Fremont on the third Thursday of every month from 5pm to 7pm.  The location will be announced.  Beer and pizza are always provided! To learn more, check out http://centeroftheagileuniverse.com.

Meet people from around the world interested in working in distributed teams, Agile, Scrum, and Lean  project management. Hello! I just wanted to welcome you to our Agile Study Group!  We are but one node in your personal learning network.  We are all here to learn - Some by quietly observing, some by doing, some by sharing what they know. We have a couple of exciting activities. Agile Witness News (tm) We interview key industry speakers ten times per year.  Some examples of the experts we i …

Overwhelmed with all the technical advancements in software development?   Come join a group of fellow developers and we'll go through them together. While the internet provides a plethora of information, there is nothing like being able to discuss and bounce ideas off of fellow developers.  The study group gathers once every other week to watch courses from the Pluralsight library, discuss the material, and get some coding done. An evangelist expert in the subject we are studying will be attend …

Seattle GiveCamp is a weekend-long event where software developers, website wonks, project managers, designers, and other software professionals of all skill levels work with their peers to donate their time to create custom software for non-profit organizations. The 4th annual Seattle GiveCamp is the planning stages at this time but likely will occur in October of 2013. The great thing about a GiveCamp is that your volunteer commitment is only for 1-3 days. That's it. Please consider giving bac …

Meet other Seattleites working with the Backbone.js development framework. This is a brand new group. We're hoping to have our first meetup the week of July 9th and will be announcing the existence of this group to the other Seattle JS / dev groups soon.

SAPUG is for all developers, vendors, and end-users in the greater Seattle area who use Multi-Value (aka "Pick") BIG DATA databases. This includes SQL, UniObjects, SBXA, XML, .NET, D3, U2, OW4, etc. etc. There is no membership roster; all activities are self-funding, so we need your continued participation to keep SAPUG going. SAPUG meetings are a perfect place to network, trade tips and ideas, and keep in touch with other users such as yourself. Please sign up through Meetup.com to get meeting …

Learn to write code. Attend workshops where you'll learn the basics of Javascript, Javascript libraries. and development tools like Chrome's Dev Tools, Git, and Github. Work on projects with peers as you learn, and get help from tutors at these monthly workshops. Overview of each workshop: - Introduction to the basics of Javascript and jQuery. - Make maps with leaflet.js and graphs with chart.js. - Learn how to make a little character move around the screen using javascript and the html5 canvas …

This is the Seattle-wide discussion forum for technology (esp. IT, web, mobile, game, cloud, social, telecom ...). The forum is a platform for professionals to collaborate, share ideas, foster creative brainstorming. It is also a platform for companies to increase their branding and network. You could also join discussion and get event update at our Email group: http://groups.google.com/group/seattle-tech-forum

A monthly workshop for coders to learn from each other and ask questions as needed. Coders bring his own project, book, or tutorial. A hacknight for coders to work on open source projects together, learn and solve some real world problems.

We're a group of folks who use / are interested in scalable computing technologies, mostly Hadoop, HBase, and "NoSQL" platforms. We've had attendees and speakers from Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Visible Technologies, Drawn to Scale, U.S. National Labs, and many more! Groups are usually 75-150 attendees. We've been meeting since August 2009, and encourage anyone to attend! Usually we have: 1 or 2 ~20 minute "Feature" presentations Up to 4 "lighting talks" Friendly and helpful group discussion …

Kick start 2011 by hacking on Go, Google's new programming language. If you're a systems programmer who wants to push their productivity full throttle - this group is for you. If you're staring at pictures of elephants, take a break from writing map reduce jobs, and ditch your old copy of The Little Schemer, and join this group. If you ride a fixie, sport wayfarer glasses, and want to look even cooler than you already do, this group is for you.

The goal of this group is to come together as a community and talk about search based on open source stacks (solr/lucene/elasticsearch) and tie this into applications with emphasis on AI, machinelearning, games and more

This meeting is for anyone interested in or working in the gaming industry. Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hosting a interactive discussion around reducing the risk in the Free- to-Play gaming industry. Hear from leading gaming company, Meteor Entertainment , how they are leveraging the leveraging the AWS cloud platform allowing them to focus on innovating in key areas such as persistent game environment, character progression, social interaction, in-game culture, and more.

This is a monthly meetup about cloud computing, where we cover cloud services from different cloud providers like AWS, Windows Azure, Google AppEngine, Heroku, AppFog etc. We welcome novice and experts in cloud computing development - you can learn basic and advanced skills from the speakers or get something hacked in the coding part. The format of the meetup is the following: We start with 2 or 3 twenty minutes long talks about practical solutions with cloud services. For those we try to invit …

Formerly: The Seattle Flash and HTML 5 User Group This is a user group for people interested in Interactive Media using Adobe software and other necessary skills. This group will gather to learn about creating Interactive Documents, Games, Responsive Websites and porting things to Tablet, Phone and Computer devices. The Seattle Flash User Group has been going for many years and with this change, we will be expanding our focus to incorporate HTML 5, JavaScript and the direction of the web with ri …

We are women who work with, want to work with, or are simply interested in technology, be it software, hardware, aerospace, biotech, energy, or anything else. Instead of playing in our own sandboxes, let us meet, teach and learn from each other. We may have different levels of knowledge and experience, and that’s OK! We are here to share, to learn, to support each other and, most importantly, to have fun. Group activities may involve: Tech jams: showing each other what we are working on and w …

AVIOS is an international speech technology applications professional society, and we have launched a local chapter in Seattle. Our mission is to: Build a vibrant speech technology community to encourage future commercial and research partnerships Increase awareness of current and future speech technology trends Stimulate innovation and further investment into speech technology Our goal is to bring together researchers, industry suppliers, companies using speech technology, developers and design …

This is the place to be for mobile fans (including BlackBerry, Symbian, WIndows Mobile, iPhone, Android), developers, and entrepreneurs who are involved in the planning and implementing of applications as well as those wishing to learn more about the business opportunities related to the technology of the BlackBerry. Symbian, Windows Mobile, and other platform folks are also welcome. We get together monthly to share information on projects, opportunities, and how-to’s related to developing for t …

This group is for members looking to connect around Devops Culture, Continous Integration, Automation, metrics testing, continuous deployment and all things Operations & Development.

Local MicroStrategy community for Business Intelligence professionals and users in Seattle and Portland. Join fellow MicroStrategy users to share best practices, hear about the latest releases, generate new ideas and discover how to make the most of your MicroStrategy investment. Ideal for customers, partners & all users of MicroStrategy software.

The goal of Pacific Northwest Cloud and Connected Systems User Group (PNWCCSUG) is to educate, evangelize and inform the community about distributed software technologies. The group will specifically focus on the Microsoft Cloud and Connected Systems product stack which includes: Windows Azure, BizTalk Server, WF, WCF and other related technologies. The PNWCCSUG seeks to connect developers, architects, and IT decision makers in the Pacific Northwest region with best practices, architectural conc …

Welcome to Eastside Incubator (Ei). This community is designed to help software founders (who ship code) and business founders (who ship customers) develop their entrepreneurial talent. It is like a gym for software-focused entrepreneurs. There are three components to this group: the physical space (in Redmond), the networking events, and the online forum. The value of each of these depends largely on the contribution of the members. So if you have a problem, ask it so that somebody who has alre …

R is a free software environment for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphics. Although R is primarily used in academia, it is rapidly growing in use by major companies as well and is becoming increasingly more visible. One of the major strengths of R is the community-based nature of the project. From the original development to current maintenance and development, R is maintained by a growing community of members. This community is what we seek to foster with this group. The Seatt …

Welcome to Eastside Forex Club.  We have been meeting for 5 Years (since 2007, before we found Meetup!) and we help people learn something new every week.  Your interest in learning to trade Forex can change your life!  Thank you for allowing us to participate in your education process. We are a club of like-minded Currency Traders using an EA on MT4 (Don't know the jargon?  Show up and we'll help you!) to minimize the time "sitting in front of the computer" waiting to trade, while also maximizi …