We are a group of ExpressionEngine users and developers in the greater Boston area who are interested in learning from each other, sharing best practices, and otherwise geeking out about EllisLab's ExpressionEngine, a fantastic PHP-based content management system. We run structured presentations, informal "show-and-tell" sessions, co-hosted events with other local Meetup groups, "code & conversation" nights, and whatever other types of events our members dream up. We aim for one event per month …

Looking for a better social life? New to the area? Have your friends moved away? Got married? Had kids? This group is for females who are  single, married or divorced, who want to get out and have some fun and make new friends. Hello, my name is Sue and I am the organizer of North Shore Women's Group. We are a fun loving "circle of friends", we are non judgemental, a group that is accepting of everyone and here to reach out to eachother and make some true friendships. I would best describe us as …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

A coding dojo is a place where programmers practice to improve their skills, using training techniques similar to those of martial arts training centers. Problems are presented and solved in a variety of formats and using a mix of approaches. The goal is not necessarily to solve the problem. The goal is to improve through deliberate practice: trying small steps, getting immediate feedback, thinking about how to improve for the next step, and repeating. Improvement comes from understanding an …

*****WE NEVER MARK UP OUR TRIPS, OUR COST FROM THE VENDOR IS OUR COST TO YOU***** Welcome to our  Women’s Travel Group This group is for DAY and WEEKEND trips and WEEK long travel VACATIONS, GETAWAYS. YOU MUST BOOK YOUR LAND OR CRUISE VACATIONS WITH US, IN ORDER TO TRAVEL WITH US:) CHECK OUT OUR FEEDBACK AND PHOTOGRAPHS FROM PAST TRIPS!  OUR REPUTATION SPEAKS FOR ITSELF....THAT'S WHY OUR MEMBERS ARE REPEAT TRAVELERS AND LOVE US!  WE PRIDE OURSELVES ON FAIR TRIP PRICING, WE NEVER MARK-UP OUR TRI …

Google Developers' Group Boston (formerly Boston GTUG). Bringing together experts, beginners and enthusiasts alike to meet and discuss a wide array of topics related to Google technologies and writing code that uses Google product APIs. We hold the occasional hackfest, and we get involved in Google developer challenge events. Follow us on Twitter (@BostonGDG) and add us on Google+ . Some of our talks will be posted as Hangout On Air videos to our G+ feed. We typically hold meetings in the office …

A unique adventure group fun for those 25- 125! We are dedicated to outdoor activities combined with good beer/wine and good food. Join us on our weekend outings of hiking, snowshoeing, x-country skiing, kayaking, biking, horsebackriding, etc.. Share your favorite wine, cheese, snacks with energetic friends who like to "earn" the calories we so enjoy! These are NOT hard-core, survivalist elite level sporting events, but you do need to be in decent physical condition and bring your own equipment …

We love scalable architectures, performance optimizations, sound architectures, defensive-performance minded coding, quality documentation. This group is for people working in or interested in web ( including mobile web) technologies like HTML5, Rails, Django, Java/JEE, JavaScript, jQuery/Ext JS/Dojo, PHP, ASP, Flex, Actionscript etc. We advocate Agile Processes and Scrum.

If you live in the southern part of Worcester (zip codes 01602, 01603, 01604, 01607, 01608, 01609 and 01610), Auburn or Leicester, MA, and are either expecting a child or at-home full or part-time with child(ren), we would love to have you check out the MOMS Club of Worcester South.  Please request to join this Meetup site and you will become a pending member of the MOMS Club. As a pending member, you will receive invitations to upcoming events so that you can come and meet us. Once you've come …

*****WE NEVER MARK UP OUR TRIPS, OUR COST FROM THE VENDOR IS OUR COST TO YOU***** WELCOME TO ON THE ROAD BUS TRIPS & MORE..... Misc. events will still be listed (dinners, movies, etc.)...that's the and more :) More travel events will be listed, many bus related. Someone recently commented on bus trips and said, “what are we 80“. I had to laugh, bus trips are no longer orientated toward a particular age, sure the senior centers have them, but now-a-days so don’t the 21+ and all ages in between. …

For artists who like to code and coders who love to create, This is a collaborative space for creative coders, designers, and artists to come together to share the latest tips, tricks, and techniques in any area from data visualizations, to generative art, to kinect hacks. Focusing on open tools like Processing, OpenFrameworks, Cinder, Protovis and R.

Network After Work - Networking Events for Professionals is a national business and social networking event company that launched in June 2009. We currently host events in 19 cities across the country. Events are created for professionals who want to expand their network and create new business opportunities, events range in size from 150-600 professionals and take place in each city's top nightlife destinations. Events draw a diverse mix of professionals from all industries and career levels an …

New to coding? New to software development? Looking to connect with someone willing to share their hard earned knowledge? Let's get together on a regular basis to practice our coding skills, share tips on writing good code and provide constructive feedback on each other's projects.

Market research suggests that cross-platform development tools for mobile devices are here to disrupt the status quo where IOS apps have to be developed in Objective C and Android apps in Java. Did you know that you can build and deploy an IOS app to an IPhone or IPad and an Android phone all from your local Windows machine? Cross-platform tools(CPTs) allow developers to create applications for multiple platforms - usually mobile, but increasingly tablets or TV screens - from almost the same cod …

Hello and welcome to EXPLORE HAUNTED LOCATIONS. This group is for people that enjoy visiting haunted locations, joining in group ghost walks through historical buildings, restaurants, pubs, homes and cemeteries. This is where those with paranormal interest can unite and share experiences, stories, ideas for future site visits. I am an amateur! I inadvertently found a very old cemetery while geocaching. I snapped pictures of the site. When I uploaded the pictures I was surprised to see spirits in …

@Windows8Boston   #Windows8Boston Welcome! Why Join? Everything and everyone you need to know about Windows 8 style apps. Take advantage of the need for Windows 8 app developers, designers, user experience experts and solution architects. Take your existing skills and create Windows 8 apps. Find the Windows 8 app experts and mentors you need in the Boston area. Please DO join the group, even if you don't plan attending the meetings. Use the group as a resource to keep updated on what happening i …

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011. All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by po …

Welcome to the Eucalyptus 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. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

*****WE NEVER MARK UP OUR TRIPS, OUR COST FROM THE VENDOR IS OUR COST TO YOU***** WELCOME TO ON THE ROAD BUS TRIPS Someone recently commented on bus trips and said, “what are we 80“.   I had to laugh, bus trips are no longer orientated toward a particular age, sure the senior centers have them, but now-a-days so don’t the 21+ and all ages in between. We are NOT Your grandparents bus trips! Do you love to take day, overnight, several day trips? Rather go with a group than solo or just a friend? …

This supportive group promotes sisterhood among all direct sellers so that we gain strength from our shared vision, knowledge from our collectible wisdom and pride from our mutual respect for one another. This is a place to meet and learn from other direct sellers within our community and the Greater Boston area. We host a fun and welcoming environment where you have an opportunity to share products, ideas, trials, and triumphs as we learn from each other.  We also honor the code of No Cross Rec …

Network After Work - Networking Events for Professionals is a national business and social networking event company that launched in June 2009. We currently host events in 30 cities across the country. Events are created for professionals who want to expand their network and create new business opportunities, events range in size from 100-1000 professionals and take place in each city's top nightlife destinations. Events draw a diverse mix of professionals from all industries and career levels a …

SOUTH SHORE TRAVEL GROUP *****WE NEVER MARK UP OUR TRIPS, OUR COST FROM THE VENDOR IS OUR COST TO YOU***** Welcome to the South Shore Travel Group (you don’t have to be from the south shore to belong, it just home base for this meetup group, we welcome members from all towns and states). This group is for DAY and WEEKEND trips and WEEK long travel VACATION GETAWAYS. We have recently added bus trips, they also will be a mix of some day trips, weekends and week long trips. This meetup is for all g …

We're a community of artists, designers, engineers, programmers, and hackers interested in working with creative coding platforms like openFrameworks, Cinder, Processing, Unity3D. We enjoy things like real-time graphics rendering, physical computing, robots, projection maps, and interactive art installations. We do this professionally, academically, artistically, or just purely for the joy of making awesome stuff, every day. We meet regularly and casually to share tips, swap ideas and form colla …

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 course …

Almost Awesome, Inc. hosts an NSCoder event based out of Workbar on the third Tuesdays of each month. Think of it as individual work in a group environment. Bring your pet rock iPhone, iPad or Mac development projects and spend 3 hours coding surrounded by other developers working on their projects. It doesn't matter if you're brand new to iOS development or a seasoned pro - you'll find help if you need it or some quiet time away from work or home distractions to make your ideas a reality. Just …

The Boston Data Mining meetup focuses on making data mining accessible to everyone. It aims to be inclusive to all regardless if you are a beginner or expert in statistical modeling, machine learning, data mining, or any of the analytics (business, predictive, etc). Our talks will focus on the practical side of data mining and analytics by showing attendees how to perform data modeling in a non-programming environment. To achieve that goal we employ RapidMiner; an open source data mining platfor …

Code for Boston is a Code for America Brigade - a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Boston-area developers, designers, urban planners, and data geeks with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of creative technology. We feel that Boston was the driving force in the creation of Government 1.0; we should be leading the way for Gov 2.0. We seek to leverage the revolutionary spirit of New England to help open, improve, and engage our local governments acro …

Join us for an exciting 24-hour Hackathon competition sponsored by AT&T. This hackathon is designed for both technical and non-technical attendees to build apps, connect products, and compete for $10k in prizes. Bring your team if you have one. If you don't have a team, no worries, you can find a team to collaborate with on site. For more information and to register go to the Hackathon Eventbrite page: http://cx13hack.eventbrite.com Take one step closer to becoming an award-winning hacker – the …