NY HTML5 is focused on next-generation web technologies, specifically HTML5, WebSocket, CSS3, JavaScript and other web tools. We're exploring ways to build next generation web applications that leverage a modern web infrastructure.

We're talking urban infrastructure, smart grid, open hardware, quantified self, open data, environmental monitoring and more.  Anything that puts a networked computer where none has gone before.

We are not chip-tuners or projection designers. We are not moving light programmers or expert sound designers. We don't do the sexy stuff, and we like it. We are arts infrastructure geeks. We are a group of people interested in 1) Technology, computer programming, geeky stuff 2) Arts administration3) #1 used in service of #2 Marketing, analysis, grant-making, ticket-selling, modelling, reporting, cultural asset mapping, open source, service-oriented architecture, the cloud, constituent relati …

Calling all Gutsy Lawyers!Have you started your own law firm or are you in the process of doing so? If so, this group is for you.More and more lawyers are breaking out and founding their own firms, many while they are still relatively early on in their legal careers. These trailblazers encounter similar challenges in starting and operating their firms, including: setting up the firm’s legal, administrative and technological infrastructure; branding and marketing; finding affordable office space; …

CDI was created by a group of creative, motivated and committed young professionals from around the world and aims to build strong and sustainable urban and rural communities in both the worst off developing countries throughout the world and in disadvantaged local communities in the developed world. CDI implements innovative projects and programs, following the Millenium Development Goals and within CDI's six core inter-related focal areas; Education, Health, Agriculture, Energy, Eco-Enterprise …

New York City is filled with nurds who ride bikes. This meetup is brings together the two geekiest sides of NYC. We'll try to meet highlight projects, tips, collectively do projects that improve the cycling infrastructure, and ride bikes in and around NYC. You can find us on twitter at "#BikeNYC".

ABOUT The New Marketplaces, Science & Tech For A Better Internet meetup invites scientists, engineers, entrepreneurs, software coders, designers, activists and financiers to discuss and explore how new online marketplaces, business models & infrastructures can create more interaction and innovation on the Web. MEETUPS We meet on the fourth Tuesday of the month at some of NYC's most cutting-edge tech company offices. MEMBERS Where does the network end and where does the marketplace begin? Wh …

Animation Study Hall is a group for animators of all stripes who come together to teach each things they know well or weller than other members of the group. Rather than just network or watch/discuss animation we're here to sharpen your skills and gain new ones for the low price of free. Unless you've been animating for the last several thousand years, there's always more to learn than naught. We give each other feedback on shots we have in progress, teach workshops, and demo new techniques. Top …

The Tribeca Running Club provides a opportunity for downtown runners to train, compete, or just go on casual group runs. Downtown Manhattan doesn't have as much of a running infrastructure as other parts of the city, so this group helps local runners stay motivated and connected, while enjoying the great paths and other running-related perks our neighborhood offers.

The masses should have access to the tools, people, and resources to learn technology and help us continue to grow the IT sector in New York City! The biggest players in NYC tech scene come together to help shine a light on the latest goings on for both experienced and novice/aspiring techies. The best way to learn is to be interactive. Learn from the professionals, have your questions answered real-time, discover new tech, and hear stories that inspire. NYC boasts the best and the brightest, th …

PuppetNYC is a group of system administrators that use the open source configuration management framework Puppet to manage our systems. We try to meet monthly to exchange best practices, socialize and occasionally host formal presentations. We have a mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-nyc

Chef-NYC is a users group for people in the New York City metropolitan area who are interested in using the opensource configuration management tool called Chef, developed by Opscode: http://www.opscode.com/ Every month, we get together to discuss Chef, Ohai, and related devops topics ... and SHARE COOKBOOKS/RECIPES! :-) Whether you're a "dev", "ops", or "other", join us!

Welcome to the NYC Private and Hybrid Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Private clouds give users immediate access to computing resources hosted within an organization's infrastructure. Users self-provision and scale collections of resources drawn from the private cloud, typically via web service interface, just as w …

An online space for members of the Saint Ann's community to share resources as NYC's infrastructure is repaired.

Imagine… Hundreds of New Yorkers coming together in small groups of neighbors and fellow citizens to discuss topics of intensive interest… Hosted at no cost and at convenient locations and times… Aided by simple guiding principles… Inspired by the city’s grand tradition of robust conversation… Our vision is to inspire, organize, publicize, facilitate and celebrate a renaissance of healthy dialogue in New York City. Our Mission: 1. Encourage and support interesting and important conversations a …

Twitter New York welcomes software engineers and technologists who are interested in learning about our engineering projects and initiatives. While we have made great progress, there are lots of massive technical challenges to solve. With millions of  active users on Twitter, we're always working on ways to scale our products and play with massive amounts of realtime data. Our New York based engineering teams own the Discover tab, working on new approaches to search quality and building highly s …

This is an internal group for Meetup.com engineers. We will meet biweekly on Tuesdays during lunch time (1pm). Our topics will cover anything from back-end infrastructure to features on our site. The focus will be primarily technical in nature.

What is CloudStack? Apache CloudStack (Incubating) is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable, hypervisor agnostic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premise (private) cloud offerings. Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foun …

The mobile enterprise meetup fosters a community to help enterprises to mobilize their businesses.   Events will be centered around enterprise mobile ecosystem - app, device, data, security & infrastructure. If you're interested in contributing or sponsoring a future event, feel free to message the organizer.

Our group is focused on having discussions around scaling real-time, high transaction and low latency NoSQL database systems. We will have guest speakers talk about their real world experiences and learned techniques around building and managing mission critical businesses that realize 100% up-time. Collaborate with peers trying to solve the same complex problems that arise when you bet your business on your infrastructure.

Do you run web sites on IIS, .NET (or Mono) and Microsoft Windows Server? Do you use Windows PowerShell to manage your Infrastructure. Do you spin up Microsoft Windows cloud instances on Windows Azure, EC2 or RackSpace? Microsoft shops that run Web Sites face the same problems with configuration management, deployment and operations as folks that run on the LAMP stack. This community will teach each other good practices with running web sites on Microsoft Windows, IIS and .NET from OS provisioni …

A group for Web Ops engineers, Sysadmins or other Engineers to sit, drink and swap war stories, compare current headaches, and share ideas. If you join, include a short blurb about what sort of ops you do!

Guided by an international panel of industry experts and practitioners, HDI serves a community of more than 120,000 technical service and support professionals and is the premier resource for best practices and emerging trends.

Client/Customer Success Management is a relatively new field tasked with serving the customers of SaaS companies. While the exact titles and responsibilities seem to vary a lot across B2B tech companies, Client Success Managers oversee client engagement, account renewals, upsells and often tech/onboarding support as well. This group is a chance for CSMs at SaaS companies in New York City to meet and learn best practices for retaining clients over the long run.