Meet other Vancouver users of Joomla, the Web's grate dynamic content management system (CMS). Whether you're an absolute beginner learning the ropes or a power user blogging daily, or making professional web sites with Joomla, you are welcome to come out to exchange ideas, network with each other, and have a good time. We will try to learn from each other and have few training sessions on any Joomla topic included: Templates, Modules, Components, Development, Structure and lot more. VanJoomla. …

This Meetup is for creative folk to geek out about all things design. Fueled by our passions (and maybe a drink or two) we hope to inspire each other and grow some friendships. If you're looking to hound people for a new job then this group is not for you. Each month will focus on one of the following types of sessions: Guest Speaker, Show & Tell and Mashup. Guest Speaker: will stimulate your creative gene on a topic relating to design. Show & Tell: is an opportunity to share completed work ( …

Discussions, Presentations, Troubleshooting and Usage for SEO, Search Engine Marketing, AdWords, Website Improvement, eCommerce/Shopping Cart optimization and more Founding members set the tone and purpose of the group. One foundational, non-negotiable rule - THE GROUP IS NOT A SOLICITATION OPPORTUNITY Learn, Teach, Troubleshoot, Share, Give & Get Insight on all things Web Analytics. Measuring what has failed, to improve your web-site for success. Where is the money is in our sites?

We'll look at interface design and development as a dedicated discipline, and build community among members of Vancouver's growing crop of internet startups. We'll talk about integrating Interface Driven Design into your project, and within your development team.

Pixels and Pints is a monthly meetup of graphic designers, web developers and anyone else involved in the world of web development and digital art.

Pub Standards is a casual meet-up in a friendly pub or bar for those who work, or are interested in, the web industry. Loosely aimed at web design / development / programming dogsbodies, that doesn’t mean you have to fit into those categories and it doesn’t mean chitchat need necessarily be web-related. Don’t expect structure, don’t expect presentations, just relax with likeminded people. Based on the Barcamp-like premise that half of the value from conferences comes from the chatting and sharin …

Based in Vancouver, a place to share ideas and collaborate on all things Baha'i related to design, programming & development for the web. To read more about the Baha'i Faith, visit bahai.org.

Creating & marketing your online business is a challenge we're all facing today. This meetup group will therefore be dedicated to knowledge sharing, networking and support on all aspects of your online business. So whether you're a business owner, a social manager, an entrepreneur, a creative professional or a student -  just starting out or need a reminder about the essentials -  we'd love for you to join our class for Free and learn: Core lessons (will be repeated every few months): How to Cr …

Meet with others in your local area interested in building and strengthening the Drupal Community. Come out for monthly Drupal training sessions, discuss new and exciting Drupal-related news, or just socialize with like-minded people from Surrey and the Fraser Valley! Surrey Drupal Users Group is organized by Katy Laan of Seascape Web Design and sponsored by Seascape Web Design and smallrobot.org.

It's been long overdue the need for a CSS meetup in Vancouver... The world of CSS is changing extremely fast and it's getting harder and harder to keep up. There are no shortage of challenges when it comes to writing and maintaining CSS for modern web applications. Let's solve that problem. Come to share and learn the latest CSS techniques at CSS Brigade. Responsive/Adaptive Design Semantic Grids SMACSS, OOCSS and BEM CSS Frameworks Anything related to CSS...

The Vancouver Community Experience Group (VanCX) represents Vancouver-based online community developers, managers, designers and participants! Do you own, operate or participate in the management of an online community or social network? Are you passionate about cultivating online community? Join up and share your experiences with the rest of us.

Meet other developers using Meteor. Share your knowledge, apps, and get feedback from others. Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

A shared workplace in my home for other like-minded technology people. I work in and around the world of web applications, including (but not exclusively) Ruby on Rails, Unix (including Macs), and all related web technologies. If you know what Open Source Software is, you'll probably like working along side us. If you think Microsoft is the greatest technology in the universe, we'll probably have some spirited debates. I also run the Fraser Valley Ruby Brigade (http://www.fvrb.org) and have our …

This MeetUp group is all about building feature rich, maintainable, scalable, and testable JavaScript applications! We’ve all hacked together our share of web apps using vanilla jQuery, but without a clear separation of responsibilities things get messy and difficult to maintain very quickly. Talks will focus on using libraries like Backbone and Jasmine, and on architecting, testing, and useful patterns for your JavaScript applications.  Many of these practices are well established in other stac …

IxDA is the global professional association for the practice and advancement of Interaction Design. This is the chapter for Vancouver, BC, Canada. If you are part of the design community, join us as we work to bring good IxD to the world and offer events and programs to help you enrich your practice.

UX Book Club Vancouver is part of a larger collective of clubs worldwide that have been rapidly forming since 2008 and are now active in over fifty cities across the globe. Each meeting brings together a diverse group UX professionals—including information architects, interaction designers, visual designers, usability specialists, researchers, developers and students—for a fun, enriching discussion on books related user experience. The club will provide an opportunity to engage in learning acros …

Meet other Vancouver users of WordPress, the Web's best dynamic content management system. Whether you're an absolute beginner learning the ropes or a power user blogging daily, you are welcome to come out to exchange ideas, network with each other, and have a good time.

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WordPress 101 is for anyone who wants to get the most out of their WordPress-powered website without getting into all the techie details. We're a friendly group of Wordpress *users* - We don't do techie jargon about the latest widget thingy to make your banner go 3D. If you want to create simple website designs that help you attract more customers and convey your message to your online users and customers...then WordPress 101 is for you. Join us and connect with solopreneurs and small business o …

The Bellingham Software Developers Network is a community oriented group aimed at furthering the education of developers in and near Bellingham, WA. We are all about software development, the latest technologies and real-world experience to help developers. We welcome new members to join, ask questions and contribute ideas. Join us to learn more about Mobile, Web, .NET, Cloud, and other technologies. Programmers of all skill levels and backgrounds are welcome.

Empower by Design is a Meetup group for women in business. It's about creating a community that helps brings fresh perspectives, lively discussion and empowering ideas to your business challenges. Facilitated by DeAnn, a graphic designer and digital marketer, and Kristi, an internet strategist and business systems developer, both these women bring a wealth of professional experience and insights to help you simplify the overwhelming amount of technical, marketing, web and branding information ou …

We are a group of Facebook developers in Vancouver and lower mainland area. We share ideas, issues, and experiences developing applications using the Facebook platform.

This group is for anyone interested in unique representations of data, you may be a programmer, artist or data nerd (or all of the above!)

Meet with others in the Vancouver region interested in building and strengthening the Drupal Community. We meet on the 4th Thursday of the month at the Jibe offices in Vancouver, BC. Come out for monthly Drupal training sessions, discuss new and exciting Drupal-related news, or just socialize with like-minded people from the area! The focus of our group is various Drupal related topics from theming, configuration, module development to how to run a successful Drupal business. Our official Twitt …

Hello Fellow Geek Entrepreneurs! This meetup is for tech entrepreneurs who want to elevate their game.  As a professional entrepreneur coach, I will provide 15 minutes or so of coaching to each person in turn. It will be great learning for both the group watching and of course for each of you who get's to be coached. So, each of you should bring something specific that you want to work on. Remember that coaching is not first and foremost about technology or business although both those realms …

The number of ExpressionEngine users is growing rapidly, and Vancouver has been a leading community of EE development for several years. The purpose of this group is to share knowledge, skills and enthusiasm for Expression Engine. I'd suggest the format might include some informal 'show n tell' presentations where members can demonstrate how they have used ExpressionEngine to meet their needs. Anyone who develops websites using ExpressionEngine should definitely join this group. Those curious ab …

We're a friendly group of Ruby programmers who meet weekly to hack on code. Bring a project to work on, or drop by and we'll help you find one. We encourage building real projects because learning in the abstract is too difficult. Hacking on something you care about makes a huge difference.  We talk a lot about Ruby on Rails, Sinatra, Datamapper, GitHub, Macs and related stuff. You're welcome to hang out with us on IRC, which is active mostly during the work week. Join us at irc.freenode.net #fv …