Although we're about spreading awareness of the root causes of persistent social problems and a solution: A Natural Law/Resource Based Economy. We're not here to try to "convert" or blindly convince. We're presenting information to give you a better tool to see the world as it is. What does that mean - to see the world as it really is? That's something that you yourself will have to determine and that's one of the things we highly value; your individual ability, as well as ours, to come to an ag …

The Next Women is the first Women’s Internet Business Magazine and Community, with a focus on startups and growing businesses, led, founded or invested in by women. The magazine covers news on business, events, funding and tech from a female angle and interviews and profiles Female Business Heroes. We are the female Business Week, the female Techcrunch and the business Red. So join us, if you are an entrepreneur, startup, tech savvy or not, investor, female hero or next woman! We organize B …

The CWDNUG is a monthly meetup for .NET developers, with a focus on what's relevant (and what's about to be relevant) to developers in the wharf, on the first Wednesday of every month. Expect to see topics such as: WPF & Silverlight. F# & other alternative languages. High volume systems & complex event processing. Agile tools, methodologies and experiences. Open source systems that you can use (or that need your help!). Upcoming releases from Microsoft (WP7, VS2010, TPL). This meetup's …

Regular meetup for readers of the amazing Hacker News, as well as assorted tech and startup junkies. Come along to meet your online buddies in person, catch up with old friends and make new ones. The meetup is pretty informal and is a great opportunity to chat about your projects, get feedback and possibly find co-founders.

Zappers is a peer sharing community designed for those who believe in learning from each other and sharing testing knowledge. Zappers are from all walks of life, some are professional software testers for large international corporations, whilst others are computer science students looking to see how their skills match up, anyone with an interest in software testing would be most welcome to join us. Zappers believe in raising the standard of software testing internationally so most Zappers come …

About the Art of Digital London monthly Meetups This Meetup group is open to all those interested in bridging the gap between the arts and tech communities, exploring the ways that digital technologies can be implemented in cultural production with an equal focus on the creative and the organisational work involved. These are social events which are also a chance for workers within the arts community to meet in person and mingle with others from arts disciplines or professional areas outside of …

We are an enthusiastic group of entrepreneurs, investors and people involved with startup companies. We are dedicated to helping each other succeed by leveraging the knowledge, talent and resources of our group members. We hold meetings to provide relevant information in the form of speaker events, seminars and workshops. We encourage networking and we help members showcase their business to attract new talent and funding for their startups. ->Maybe you're an entrepreneur with a recently funded …

This Meetup is for people interested in the ‘I’ of ‘IT’ – information architects, user experience designers, content organizers and publishers as well as knowledge practitioners are all welcome. We share practical information management experience through case studies and discussion, whether it be to monetize content; build better customer programs; manage governance risk and compliance or simply help drive operational efficiencies and improve the way we work. If you make your living advising, b …

London ICT4D Meetup is an informal networking opportunity for people with an interest in the use of Information and Communication Technologies for Development (ICT4D). Regular attendees include folk from international development agencies, CrisisCommons, FrontlineSMS, IT journalists, ICT4D academics and various 'geeks with critiques'. This is an open group which anyone is welcome to join and we actively seek to include new members from the Crisis Mapping community, the Standby Volunteer Task For …

A regular meetup for people working with the clean, green, web. Energy, sustainability, technology and (normally) a few beers. Part of the wider Cleanweb UK movement.

An informal gathering of IT and business decision makers who want to share thoughts and experiences to help them leverage technology. These sessions should appeal to Members and Affiliates alike and provide topic based knowledge sharing and debate around the hot technology trends. The meetings are only open to APSCo members and affiliates.

The Meetup group for anyone interested in IT Kanban and lean agile information technology in London UK.

Note: In order to join the group, all members must have a meetup username that displays their first AND last name. Health 2.0 London is a meetup group focused on innovations in the delivery of healthcare and health related technology. This group is dedicated to creating a community around Health 2.0 in London as part of the international Health 2.0 movement. It's a venue for sharing, discussing, showcasing and developing ideas for how to improve patient care. If you are interested in the interse …

The Big Data Debate is a meetup group where like-minded professionals can get together and discuss relevant and timely topics in big data. We facilitate discussion by bringing you highly regarded speakers across a range of disciplines and allowing you the chance to become an interactive part of the discussion. Members of this group include a range of professionals working across all areas of big data in and around London. Meetups are held once a month at a central London location and include sp …

This group is aimed at anyone who has deployed or is interested in Information Management, especially Alfresco and its surrounding infrastructure. We are based in London and have regular pub meetups.

Welcome to the London .NET user group. The group was etablished in 2002 to provide developers developers working with Microsoft's .NET framework with access to the latest and best information. At our monthly meetings you can hear expert speakers who dig 'under the hood' and keep you informed on best practices and future directions. We have long pushed beyond the boundaries of traditional MS education; we covered topics like TDD and NHibernate as early as 2004 and today we talk about Node.JS, NoS …

There is a great opportunity in the Information Technology market at the moment. IT Contractors are currently some of the highest paid professionals in the UK. Being an IT Contractor has a great deal of reward associated with it, yet it also has a number of challenges that must be faced and overcome before you can find the success that you desire. This group is about discussing mainly Java Technologies Topics and learn from other members different ways of writing efficient code , how to keep …

This is a group that will hold events for start up entrepreneurs and anyone else interested in entrepreneurship and building businesses. The group is run by Mark Needham and Patrick Greaney with the strong support of our boss Quentin Bargate.  We all work as lawyers at Bargate Murray and specialise in advising tech companies on a range of commercial work, while also being involved with our own startups. Our events will mostly be focused on the legal issues that startups face, but we will also ar …

Launched a product but not happy with the user experience? Built an MVP but design was an afterthought? Have a web or mobile app but the design doesn't 'pop'? Have no fear, The UX Café is here. We're a meetup for startups that need a little design love. We'll be encouraging you to pitch your UX problems and will have a panel of experts to give you guidance and advice. We're also hoping that this will be a place for informal networking where designers can meet startups that may need their help (o …

The Apéro Entrepreneurs are informal meetups on the first Thursday of each month for entrepreneurs only . As the name suggests, the atmosphere will be relaxed but it is also a good opportunity to network (don't forget to bring your business cards!)

Open to anyone who is interested in Bitcoin. Whether your wanting to learn more, the economic impacts benefits of using them, potential business opportunities, political/financial implications, software development ideas ... Open, Friendly, Informal discussion meetups, just throwing this out there to see what happens!!

London Lua is a friendly welcoming group for anyone who uses or wants to learn about the Lua programming language. Lua is perhaps best known for its use in games such as World of Warcraft and Angry Birds, but is also used for high performance web applications, mobile applications like Spotify, embedded systems, desktop applications like Adobe Lightroom, or embedded into systems like Redis or Nginx and in financial services. We arrange talks and informal chats, and welcome all people whatever the …

Total 3D Experience 3D Printing London is for anyone interested in the revolutionary 3D technology. Whether you are: a novice and would love to see a 3D printer in action, owner of a 3D Printer and keen to show off your creations and share your experience, a designer or an artist using 3D printing in your work - or keen to, enthusiast user of Sketchup, Blender, SolidWorks or any other 3D drawing software, a developer interested in new 3D modelling techniques, curious about making your own jewel …

This is a meetup that will hold events in London for new and seasoned entrepreneurs and anyone else interested in building communities and scaling a business successfully, particularly tech startups. The group is run by Jonathan Lea who mostly works as a freelance corporate and commercial lawyer and advises a number of startups while also building his own web platform for businesses. Quite a few of our meetups will deal with the legal issues that startups and entrepreneurs encounter, but we will …

This is a group for anyone interested in exploring the possibility of using digital technology for the purpose of self-discovery, increasing self-awareness, raising consciousness, getting in touch with inner wisdom, and nourishing higher values. Although we are not anywhere near creating a computer that can answer the perennial questions, we are more than capable of creating technology that could guide us to find those answers (and values) within ourselves. We will be meeting to talk, listen to …

ICT4E is a collaborative learning platform linking NGOs to the growing networked age of humanitarian assistance. Composed of LinkedIn Discussions, Causal Meet-ups and Presentations, the group is a fun, open space that brings together a cross-section of like minded people who want to transform the way aid agencies use information technology in emergencies. ICT4E puts special emphasis on the on the needs of practitioners and “how” these can be met in simple, practical ways. It’s open to anyone fro …

Meet up over a pint and meet other makers, technologists, educators and people-in-sheds engaged in using or simply interested in the new wave of affordable and accessible technology lead by the Raspberry Pi. We are a community formed to inspire the use of open source hardware and software in projects for fun, education and creation through technology. We will meet for a pint on the last Wednesday of each month (maybe more if there is demand) - looking forward to meeting other like-minded souls a …

This group will focus on the use of Amazon CloudSearch for the development and deployment of search applications. Amazon CloudSearch is a fully-managed search service in the AWS cloud that allows customers to easily integrate fast and highly scalable search functionality into their applications. Meetup presentations and discussions will cover topics such as: User case studies and lessons learned Getting started with CloudSearch Ranking and relevance tuning Working with other AWS services This gr …