This is a monthly meetup about cloud computing, where we cover cloud services from different cloud providers like AWS, Windows Azure, Google AppEngine, Heroku, AppFog etc. We welcome novice and experts in cloud computing development - you can learn basic and advanced skills from the speakers or get something hacked in the coding part. The format of the meetup is the following: We start with 2 or 3 twenty minutes long talks about practical solutions with cloud services. For those we try to invit …

This group is for members looking to connect around Devops Culture, Continous Integration, Automation, metrics testing, continuous deployment and all things Operations & Development.

This is a group for Interactive Developers to meet and discuss their craft. We're not focused on a specific technology, but rather the overall discipline of ID, which involves writing code for rich user experiences.

Join MeetUp group organizer Buddy Sliva, in learning about how to invest in alternative assets with your self-directed IRA. Learn from educational talks with leaders and peers who are making similar investment choices. Find out about their successes and failures with self-direction while learning how to conduct your own due diligence before leaping into a new investment with your self-directed IRA or tax-deferred account. Background on the Self-Directed IRA The fact is that a wide variety of IRA …

Monthly MeetUp group for practitioners of Machine Learning, Statistics, AI, and other aspects of "Data Science". Do you want to learn more about using R and nltk? Or Apache Mahout and Giraph? Do you write your own custom NLP code, and want to compare notes with others of your clan? We're going to try and alternate locations between Seattle Proper and the Eastside, to get a little bit of balance. Let's see if we can balance our time between formal presentations / talks, and breakout …

This group is for organizing and conducting the Seattle RailsBridge Ruby On Rails workshops. The goal is to increase gender diversity in the Ruby community by helping women learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails. The workshops are geared to help primarily women learn Ruby on Rails. It is a free workshop and any level of experience is accepted. Anything from "I have never coded before in my life" to "I have been doing this for years and just want to see what is up with this Ruby on Rails thing" will be fi …

… Brain Traffic's Kristina Halvorson defines content strategy as "the practice of planning for the creation, delivery, and governance of useful, usable content." And she knows what she's talking about. She wrote a book with "content strategy" *in the title.* For more info, check out "The Discipline of Content Strategy" (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/thedisciplineofcontent...) and "Content-tious Strategy" (http://www.alistapart.com/articles/contenttiousstrategy/) on A List Apart.

This is a meetup group for Opscode Chef users.  

This is a community of developers who value and care about software development as a craft and want to learn, excel, and connect with other developers and be a part of the software craftsmanship movement.

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 …

Welcome to Eastside Incubator (EI). This community is designed to help technical founders (who ship code) and business founders (who ship customers) develop their entrepreneurial talent, either to start their own company or to lead a new initiative within an existing company. It is like a gym for entrepreneurs. There are three components to this group: the physical space (in Redmond), the networking events, and this online forum. The value of each of these depends largely on the contribution of …

Do you enjoy riding your bicycle for transport, recreation, shopping, or just because? Cycle Chic's original concept of riding around the city wearing everyday clothing going to coffee is a fun thought. And we may do some of that, however, riding around in any city next to traffic can be a nerve wrecking and intimidating experience if you are not used to it. Here in the Pacific Northwest we have the option of trading the busy city streets for partial rural and urban streets with great views and …

WA is the home to the two biggest cloud service platforms (Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure). However, a platform is as good as what you do with it. This is a hands-on group for anybody, who wants to do something useful with popular IaaS, PaaS or SaaS cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Rackspace cloud/OpenStack, Google AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, Joyent, Heroku, Force.com, and others). The definition of "useful" is limited only by your imagination :-) The format of the meetu …

Have an idea? Good with code? Proud to be a geek? Want to start a business? You're on the right track! Startup City is the source events and educational programming for tech startups in Seattle. Our Mission? Promoting and supporting entrepreneurship in the Pacific Northwest. More information to come soon. For now, sign up and stay tuned...

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 8 cities across the country (Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, Detroit, Philadelphia, San Diego and Seattle). 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 …

Experienced firearms Operations. (3G - AR-TYPE, Pistol & Shotgun) We hire a variety of firearms experts for instruction and are the higher class of 3 Gun/Black Gun Operators. Code of conduct is our law. You are goal driven, humble, respectful and promote good sportsmanship.