Meet others interested in all aspects of Web Technology - Standards, Networks, Marketing, New Web Technology, Graphic Design, Databases, Corporate Web, Webmasters, and BarCamp Tampa Bay. Open to anyone involved in web technology! BarCamp Tampa Bay: Building a Community! Attention: We can't advertise every event - it makes our own events just part of a lot of noise - and people stop listening. Now if you want to buy a sponsorship.... contact me

Are you frustrated at websites with poor content and navigability? Do you want to make the web a better place? Me too – let’s discuss how! In Elements of Content Strategy, Erin Kissane explains the core principles that make content effective: Good content is appropriate Good content is useful Good content is user-centered Good content is clear Good content is consistent Good content is concise Good content is supported Each of these points directs a company to bridge the gaps between their goa …

PHP as a Social Activity is looking to provide you with a comfortable environment where you can probe the depths of PHP, explore new uses and possibilities, share your enthusiasm, and help build a stronger and more diverse community of developers. Meet & Greet PHPaaSA has a casual meetup each month on the third Thursday.  This is a great time to share, make introductions, discuss past, current, and future projects, rally a cause for code, and make friends in a relaxed setting. PHP Classes Clas …

Drupal is an open source content management platform powering millions of websites and applications. It’s built, used, and supported by an active and diverse community of people around the world. This group is your opportunity to meet up with fellow Drupal users, designers, and developers in the Tampa Bay area. We meet on the 1st Thursday of every month to talk Drupal and showcase modules, projects, and themes. Share your tips and tricks, and get your questions about Drupal answered! This is als …

This group goal is to explore areas in technology, business, Internet, freelancing, web design, co-founders search meetups, communication, launching ideas and to further expand the growing community of thinkers Tampa Bay has even further. If you like to be surrounded with intelligent people just you, learn, collaborate and expand your potential, please join us. It will be great to have you! That's nice, but why should I Join? Some of us believe if you're like me, we are living some very interest …

Ed Talks is a series of seminars by 13 Guys Named Ed. They are designed to educate business owners in the truths and non-truths of modern technology and how it impacts a business. In the grand scheme of things, information technology, web design and the Internet are brand new tools that grow and change every day. It gets confusing, and quick. With the confusion comes misinformation. With Ed Talks, 13 Guys Named Ed hopes to strip away the false promises and misinformation so business owners can m …

This is a group for developers, designers, business owners, and entrepreneurs that are interested in creating web applications using the Laravel PHP Framework. All skill levels are welcome.

Tampa Bay PHP is a group of professionals that are dedicated to PHP development and web technology. TBPHP actively supports Florida PHP and web communities by organizing technical presentations and mailing lists, networking events, and training. Our goals are to: Further PHP locally in the area's business, university, and entrepreneurial communities. Collaborate with other technology groups, including non-technical groups, for joint networking, education and social events. Nationally engage the …

Founded in 2008, Tampa Bay WaVE is a non-profit charity (filed as a 501c3) with a mission is to enable and support the founders of tech startups and the supporting technology innovation community throughout Tampa Bay. Today we have over 60 members who are building, launching or growing over 80 different web and mobile tech ventures, 30% of whom are profitable and cash flow positive. One of our member ventures (Wufoo) was acquired earlier this year for $35 million, and we hope our efforts will g …

This is a group for developers, designer and technology enthusiast to share ideas, problems and information about mobile development.

This is a group for anyone interested in the Foundation CSS framework.

This group is for WordPress users, developers and those who would like to know more about WordPress. It's all about learning, sharing and having fun. Although there may be business between members, there is no business conducted at the meetings, i.e., there will be no sales presentations or marketing garbage. That's not what the group is about. Think of it as a micro-sized BarCamp!

We foster women in tech entrepreneur workshops, social mixers with technology community leaders in the Tampa Bay area, collaboration among start-ups and future start-ups, tech in art and music festivals and much, much more! To become a member, sign up for updates or contact us, fill out our handy form! Tell us what you'd like to get out of Girls in Tech in the Tampa Bay Area and help us brainstorm awesome events! Check out our website: GITtampa.com Follow us on Twitter: twitter.com/GITtampa Joi …

A group for Tampa bay area Javascript developers.

The purpose of this group is to educate and inform small business owners, executives and department heads who are not IT professionals, with a view toward operating a more profitable business by leveraging and streamlining cloud applications. We would like the group to be tool for business owners and executives to help train their staff, in addition to staying informed concerning the cloud industry. Topics include web design, mobile web, SEO, social media marketing, cloud computing, computing in …

Entrepreneurs and business owners will have the opportunity to meet one-on-one with loan officers, talk with web designers, graphic artists, insurance providers and merchant service specialists, all in a comfortable, neutral environment. Attendees will be able to find and compare everything from small business loans to printers, small business software and phone systems. Small business owners and entrepreneurs may visit and speak with small business lenders and other service providers, or simp …

Develop, design and publish Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps with the help of Microsoft and our Community of Developers and Designers. Listings will include events, contests and news of interest to software developers.

Founded in 2008, Tampa Bay WaVE is a non-profit charity (filed as a 501c3) dedicated to helping entrepreneurs turn ideas into growing tech businesses in Tampa Bay. Today we have over 100 members who are building, launching or growing over 100 web and mobile tech ventures. WaVE's officially stated goal is to help build an ecosystem here in Tampa Bay in order to build & launch 50 new tech ventures a year within 5 years. We are working with the local universities and other like-minded organization …

Join Other Entrepreneurs Who Eat Problems For Breakfast. Compare Notes Exchange Ideas Learn from Others’ Mistakes Brainstorm with Peers Find Partners Small Group Atmosphere Serious Conversation Bootstrappers Breakfasts® are for founders of early stage software startups. It is a chance to compare notes on operational, development, and business issues with peers. These breakfasts were designed for entrepreneurs to share ideas and leverage thoughts with other folks who are serious about growing t …

This is a forum for local tech innovators, geeks and entrepreneurs who want to connect with others to discuss how we can make Tampa Bay more startup friendly. Topics include startup challenges, emerging industry trends as well as public policy issues that need more attention and investment from our local elected officials and economic development agencies. Current participants are founders of tech companies, free lance developers / designers and people with boring day jobs looking for the next b …

Meet with local Businesses to discuss How Best to use Internet Advertising in Tampa Bay If your Business is local and you need clients in the door or customers in the store then 50,000 Chinese seeing you on the Internet doesn't really help you. Learn how to advertise your Service, Retail, or Health Care business Successfully with or without a website. Use well designed turn key solutions for your new or established Business. This group is about Advertising your Local Business on the Internet. …

Miss the comraderie, spontaneous conversation, and dynamic energy of working in the same room with other creative people? Welcome to The CoWork Lab. We take the best elements of a coffee shop (social, energetic, creative) and the best elements of a workspace (productive, functional) and combine them to give independent workers bricks and mortar to call their own. The CoWork Lab was built on coworking philosophy. Our members (aka "Scientists) are: software engineers, real estate brokers, web deve …

"Where Native and non-native Spanish speakers meet, talk and grow" We are the original Tampa Bay Area Web community for Spanish Language and Culture Aficionados. Our members are from different backgrounds, nationalities, ages and language skill levels. We offer weekly Spanish language lessons and Spanish conversation for beginner, intermediate and advanced Spanish speakers and social activities for native and non-native Spanish speakers. OUR ROOTS: From the beginning, Tampa Spanish Language Mee …

We are a group of men and women from the St Petersburg area who ride larger displacement scooters, usually 250cc or more. Whether you own a Yamaha, Suzuki. Vespa, Lambretta, Aprilia, Italjet, Kymco or any other scooter, join up and find other scooter riders like you! Our group rides are designed for bikes that can maintain a speed of 45mph unless otherwise noted, unfortunately most 50cc models are unable to meet this requirement. There is another club in town designed for the smaller scooters an …