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 …

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 …

Hey all, Paul and I are engineers working in the Philly area and we were interested in trying to get people together to talk about how different platforms, infrastructure, and networks interact and inter-relate to each other. The general idea is to get out of the "I am a {network jockey, storage jockey, developer...}" and explore how these systems inter-relate and discuss the good the bad and the ugly about those relationships.

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 …

Fancy meeting up with other IT virtualization enthusiasts in NY & NJ to socialise and chat over a cold beer, wine or soft-drink? This is a great opportunity to meet with other virtualization enthusiasts and Data Center professionals and enjoy discussing all things virtualization, and in fact anything else that comes up in conversation… The Software Defined Data Center provides any and all IT Services to any application, on any hardware, over any transport or network protocol, to any hypervisor. …

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

This group's target is to share "Assessment of IT Infrastructure" for Cloud and Execution of the prescribed Road to Cloud.

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!

Hello! And welcome to the Philly Enterprise Software meetup (PES). If you live or work in the Philadelphia region and are interested in ERP, CRM, HR, BI, ECM, SAP, Lotus, Exchange, accounting software, BPM, Sharepoint, archives, content management, enterprise architecture, or security, then this group is for you! The purpose of the group is to bring together vendors, integrators, engineers, and users of enterprise software in order to share experiences, make business connections, and discover ne …

This meetup group is organized to explore new cloud technologies, network with peers of cloud computing, and be open to experience with new & emerging technologies. We will have multiple speakers and hands on workshops during our meetups. If you want to share your idea, your innovation, or if you want to learn other's ideas and innovations, or simply just build up your network, you are most welcome to this group. We plan to have monthly collaborative sessions, based on one of the Universities, i …

Bike Wilmington is an advocacy group for biking in Wilmington Delaware. The group meets to promote bike initiatives but also holds fun bike "cruises" that are slow and suitable for any skill level or age group. Started by the Mayor of Wilmington, Bike Wilmington also provides critical feedback to the City's Public Works Department regarding bike infrastructure (bike signage, sharrows, parking etc.). Working with the City's Planning Department, the committee is helping to develop a citywide bike …

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 …

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.

OpenHack is a meetup with a simple purpose: Code together, on anything.

Bucks County DevOps is a meetup group in Chalfont, Pennsylvania for individuals who are involved in the move toward a concerted integration between software development, operations, and systems administration.

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 …

The Amazon Web Services User Group (Baltimore) is a group dedicated to cloud services provided by Amazon. Because we are specific to Amazon Web Services (AWS), we can go deep into some of the technical services provided by AWS and get some really great insights into how their services work. If you want to put your application in the cloud and have already chosen AWS, or if you already have applications in the AWS cloud, then this is a great group to get helpful insights and advice from other g …

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.