This is an informal group of female developers in Austin, representing a wide variety of languages, backgrounds, and niches. We meet once a month or so to share information, do some coding, and hang out and talk. Bringing your laptop, your vexing technical problems, and your expertise is highly encouraged! We've had some members volunteer to give short presentations on various technologies, and we've also been lucky enough to have awesome sponsors who've provided beer, wine, and snacks. This is …

SolaTech – founded on South Lamar – is a MeetUp for tech-savvy individuals looking to connect with like-minded professionals with a passion for new technologies, a drive to create and produce, and an interest in sharing their experience and vision. Come enjoy a delicious breakfast (on us) at Kirby Lane on South Lamar at 7:15 AM every third Thursday of the month. Sign up quickly; space is limited! We welcome new members, encourage you to engage & contribute to the content and meeting agenda. If …

This group was created to connect entrepreneurs, designers, developers, investors, marketers, and other professionals with one another, in a strategic and efficient way. Have one-on-one interactions with 30-people in two hours and decide which members could be beneficial in helping you grow your ideas and bringing them to market. If you wish to participate in one of our tech demo days, or be a speaker at an upcoming event, please contact me through meetup.

The group started to create a networking hub for pharmaceutical, medical device, biotech, life sciences professionals and service providers to these organizations in the Austin, TX area and surrounding cities. The purpose of the group is to connect life science professionals through face to face networking and discuss the latest industry trends, challenges and opportunities. Topics of discussion will include business strategy, design, development, manufacturing, quality and regulatory, IP, fundi …

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 exp …

Refresh Austin is an organization of Web professionals working together to foster new ideas and refresh the creative, technical and professional aspects of their trade. The Web Design Meetup is set up to funnel new Austin web professionals into Refresh Austin. Head over to http://groups.google.com/group/Refresh-Austin for the discussion list and view http://refreshaustin.org to see what's in store for this month's meeting. Meet fellow web developers and designers near you! Come to a Web Design M …

SWIGGIS is a professional and social organization. Our meetings provide women geographers with a positive and productive space as well as a supportive and engaging environment in which we mentor each other, enhance our intellectual climate, and are innovative in our strategies to promote the professional status of women in Geography and GIS. Our goal is to meet monthly, and our meetings will be scheduled alternatively as educational sessions and social happy hours. Social Hours are available to …

Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. 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 …

A group hosted by the Online News Association for local professionals interested in the changing landscape of digital media and new technology. Gather with writers, editors, photographers, producers, technologists, developers, designers and more with an interest in the production of news for digital presentation. For more information on ONA, check out http://www.journalists.org NOTE: We must have your first and last name in order for you to attend ONAC meetups. Please make sure these are in your …

If you're looking to build your own fully functional, feature-rich website, a Content Management System like Joomla! makes the process much easier and quicker. Joomla! is one of the most popular Open Source (free GPL license) content management systems available. Come to the Austin Joomla! User Group (http://www.joomlaaustin.org) to learn more about this exciting system; compare tools, extensions and templates; trade advice; and share cool websites. ALL ARE WELCOME, whether you are developing yo …

Imagine if there was a place, where at one table an entrepreneur meets her next $100,000 investor. A designer meets a new client, a web developer with a great internet startup. A Ruby engineer meets a charismatic founder that excites him with her vision, so much so that he can picture leaving his day job for the exhilarating experience of working tirelessly for technology stock options that could be worth millions one day... We're building this community. --- Part of the Tech Happy Hour Allianc …

AustinSEM.org is a group of non-affiliated professional internet marketers in Austin and surrounding areas. We don’t care where you work, as long as your job is Search Engine Marketing, Search Engine Optimization or Social Media. If you don't do this for a living, we respectfully ask you look for a group more suited to learning about SEO/SEM. This is the place for professionals to get together and discuss relevant events and topics. We are there for each other to be a support group of sorts. Thi …

Ultra Light Startups Ultra Light Startups brings together the world's most innovative technology entrepreneurs, in monthly events and accompanying online communities. Events feature pitching, networking and interactive, moderated panel discussions with leading industry experts. Topics cover: Design, Technology, Marketing and Finance And be sure to checkout our website and join our social media groups: Website - http://ultralightstartups.com/ Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ultralight …

The purpose of Austin CTO is to establish a tight knit group of tech leaders who are executing on the strategy of their companies, contributing to the growth of their peers and affecting change in the city of Austin through technology. Achieving these goals will be a fruit of increased accountability, commitment and transparency towards each other at a level that might be at odds with the more casual groups out there.

We are Women Who Code: in any framework any level of experience any size of company or just code for fun! We meet weekly for technical study groups and monthly for larger format events including tech talks, career trainings and hack nights. Current and aspiring coders are welcome. Bring your laptop and a friend! #wwcode http://fb.com/womenwhocode

Nic Tolstoshev and I decided to start this meetup group because there needs to be a central hub for online community managers to meet. This meetup group will allow community managers to network, share best practices, and innovate through interesting conversations. You should join this group if you are working in the online community management field, have a passion for online community management, or simply want to learn from the experts.

Meet with other web site system administrators, developers, designers and business people who're interested in making their sites fast for a better user experience, lower abandonment rates and to make more money.

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Group of geeks of various flavors, mostly tech, that get together for lunch. Read the Geek Lunch Manifesto.

Social Media and Web Innovators come together with Social Change Makers and Nonprofits to mix, swap stories and ideas, and build new relationships.

As a startup, entrepreneur, or small business, you can get so busy running your business that you forget to learn the skills you need to be successful. In our consulting practice we see a lot of companies with the same issues, and spend a lot of our time helping them to resolve them. So we prepared this small business education series to help you learn some of the biggest pitfalls and challenges of being an entrepreneur, and how to avoid them to become more successful more quickly. These are int …

Interesting topics presented by members on topics involving Ruby or Rails. We meet in Central Austin as an alternative to having to far North or South, or deal with parking and traffic downtown.

Hi, Anybody interested in Sikuli, Visual tool that can automate GUI tests using screenshot image? Software Developers, Testers, QA Engineers, let's get together to share the experience and tips. What You See is What You Script!

Tech Hustlers is dedicated to empowering startup founders and co-founders by sharing each others stories of success and failure. We bring the startup community together in a variety of formats (many of which involve beer) to learn from each other. Connect with us today and come build relationships of substance in person and get a private invite to our Facebook group here https://www.facebook.com/groups/techhustlers/

We are interested in facilitating and meeting with people to discuss the trans-media/convergence "mashup" marketplace which we define as the global $500 billion+ global marketplace for entertainment-focused products, services & offerings in a number of areas: social everything, gaming & immersive worlds, mobility & communications, digital advertising & interactive, net video/tv, digital film, digital music and animation & cgi. This includes "mashups" involving content/context, applications, serv …