Meet with other website developers, designers, system administrators, and business people who all want to improve the user experience, lower abandonment rates and raise conversation rates by making their websites fast! Other Web Performance Meetup Groups:

This Meetup group focuses intentionally on building an informal, friendly, and supportive community that helps Atlanta-area designers share, develop, and prosper. Our members are primarily graphic designers across all career stages, skill levels, and media. Building on what already exists in the market through other groups and associations, our programming will be a mix of events and social experiences that challenge, encourage, and inspire members to create their best work ever. Allied profess …

The Atlanta User Experience Group (AUX) brings together members of the UX community. From information architects to designers to coders, this group provides a place for UX professionals to meet new people, exchange ideas, learn new things, and have a good experience (pun intended). If you are not a UX professional, don't worry, we have something for you, too! UX is an approach to experience marketing -- creating an experience that keeps the user's needs & motivations in mind at all times. This h …

This group is the oldest and largest Atlanta WordPress Meetup. It is usually held in the evening, on the 4th Wednesday of each month, in Inman Park near Downtown, Atlanta. We have one or two presentations depending on the degree of complexity of the topic. The presentations are designed for beginners and/or intermediates to learn to build, customize,and maintain WordPress websites. We will also cover plugins as well as how to address business uses such as e-commerce, membership sites and support …

Welcome to ExpressionEngine Atlanta (The pEEch State), a meet up group dedicated to EllisLab's fantastic PHP-based CMS. The group events will feature structured presentations as well as more informal networking and conversation. Meet other local developers and designers and share your ideas and techniques or just come to learn something new.

This is a group for people who genuinely enjoy learning, sharing, creating and designing anything data. It's about telling a story, and how data visualization is becoming more important than ever. So if your creative, obsessed with data visualization, and love infographics, come join the rest of us!

Our group covers most of the products Adobe offers, focusing on products in the Creative Suite family. Whether your interest is in design, development or eLearning, we have something for you! Join our Facebook Page http://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=554748417890911&id=211998105499279&ref=notif¬if_t=wall#!/pages/Adobe-User-Group-of-Atlanta/211998105499279 or Follow us on Twitter @AUGAtl

UX Book Club Atlanta is part of the international UX Book Club network – UX/IA/IxD professionals, students and fellow travelers who gather to discuss books related to User Experience, Information Architecture, Design, Interaction Design, Strategy, Creativity and more. Sometimes authors join us online, including John Kolko (Thoughts on Interaction Design) and Whitney Quesenbery / Kevin Brooks (Storytelling for User Experience). Follow us on Twitter; @UXBooksATL and join our GoodReads group where …

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.

Website: http://atlantanodejs.org/ So I think it's time that Atlanta catches up with the rest of the innovative cities in this country and dive into the world of Node. The focus of this group will be to learn node js through a practical approach. We will have keynote introductions of meetings, followed by discussions, and then hacking/development sessions where we will learn to rapidly build applications. While we may have the occasional outside expert speaker, our goals are to promote knowledge …

Designing and Building Glassware Experiences with Google Glass. Curious to know about Google Glass? The Google Mirror API has just been released and first batch of devices are being shipped. Here's your chance to ask questions to several Google Glass Pioneers in the Atlanta area about Glass and what's on the horizon for wearable glass technology. Designers and developers, whether you're just curious about Glass or are waiting for your pair to land on your doorstep in the near future, come join u …

CoderDojo ATL is a free and open non-profit group founded to teach youth (ages 7-17) to code. Our sessions are located in downtown Atlanta and are open to all metro Atlanta community youth and parents/guardians. The international Coder Dojo movement began in Ireland in 2011 and has spread rapidly around the world! Important note: you must be a parent or older than 18 to sign up on this meetup site: This site is for parents or people over the age of 18 to help us with events and to see how many …

We're insanely passionate about online publishing, WordPress, and the fine art of creating building a startup. http://standardtheme.com http://8bit.io http://wpdaily.co We're looking to help you go further, faster with your technology and publishing needs. How can we help?

Meet other local JavaScripters to share knowledge, to review the state of the art, or to dream up new applications.

This is the Atlanta OpenStack developer Meetup. We are a group of free software developers who are passionate about working together to help make the Openstack project a success! Can't wait for the next meetup? Join us on IRC! We hang out on Freenode at #openstack-atlanta.

"eHire Labs assembles the top technologists to create elegant and sustainable solutions for our clients’ toughest business challenges. We aim to leave our clients with the tools and knowledge that will change their business forever." In the spirit of that, we are hosting a series of Geek Nights that will focus on learning more about today's hottest technologies and networking with other top technologists in the Atlanta area. Important: This group is invite only - without an invite, you will be …

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 …

Meet with others in your local area interested in building and strengthening the Drupal Community. Discuss new and exciting Drupal-related news - or just socialize with like-minded people! More information about our meetings and attendees can be found at: http://www.drupalatlanta.com

Atlanta Coworking Enthusiasts is a planning group for Ignition Alley Coworking Facility/Startup Incubator in Poncey-Highlands just off Ponce between Midtown Atlanta and Virgina/Highands.

AngelHack Hackathon Workshops are a place for industry leaders, hackers, and entrepreneurs to come together in a relaxed atmosphere to talk about API's, SDK's, and how to use new and creative ideas to empower a new generation of developers.

.You probably realize your small business needs some form of internet marketing, but no one can seem to explain to you how internet marketing works in plain English... This meetup group will be an ongoing series of classes about how small business owners can successfully use various methods of internet marketing to build their offline or online business. *looking to get a website but amazed at how expensive it can be? *already have a website but feel it's not being used effectively as a busin …

Meetup with other local freelancers. Network, discuss freelancers' issues, barter, find a space-share, and make new friends! Freelancers Union provides info and resources for officially sponsored freelance Meetups.

The Atlanta Mobile Developers Group is a group of individuals that are involved with or interested in the area mobile development & technology.

Grow Your Business with Referrals In today’s bleak economy, smart businesses are using every outlet to promote their services. The American Business Network is the perfect place to develop a large passive referral sales force. Learn what others do and offer and refer them when you come across someone needed those services. Likewise, as our members get to know you, they will refer your services or products as well. It is a win-win situation and the perfect marketing tool. How This Works Your gene …

A business networking group focused on Chamblee, Brookhaven, Sandy Springs, and Buckhead businesses that provide products or services directly to consumers or small businesses is forming. We are hoping to get 30 to 50 participants and currently have about 10. We need people who rely on referrals and are interested in being part of a group dedicated to learning about one another so we all in effect have a small army of advocates who can recommend each others services when the opportunity arises. …

This group is dedicated to people developing native or web applications for the Apple iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch or any iOS device (including Mac apps). We have speakers and workshops ranging from software and usability design to deep dive iPhone SDK topics as well as Titanium, MonoTouch, HTML5, WebKit Html, JavaScript and CSS. Membership is, officially, free - but a suggested donation of approximately $2 / mo will help support the costs associated with organizing the group and, potentially, enhan …

A group for WordPress Developers, Designers (e.g. people who code in PHP, MySQL, HTML5, CSS or Javascript), Webserver admins, consultants, etc.  We meet monthly to discuss advanced WordPress topics including theme and plug-in development, core WordPress development and ways to create a professional or company income using WordPress.

Open Atlanta is coming. Open Atlanta is part of the worldwide movement to use technology and information to solve problems and improve communities. Open Atlanta is civic applications, crowdsourcing, open data, visualization and communication protocols but mostly Open Atlanta is people - developers, designers, researchers, IT professionals, communication experts, government officials, nonprofits, business and citizens coming together. We are starting our first projects and planning many more for …