The Boston WordPress Meetup is a Meetup group for fans of WordPress, the most popular open source blogging engine. Join us once a month to learn more about WordPress and meet other WP fans, including SEO gurus, theme designers, plugin developers, bloggers, and beginners. Traditionally, we meet at the Microsoft New England Research & Development Center for a presentation, Q&A session, and casual networking. When we don't have a formal event planned, join us for informal social events at nearby re …

Meet other users of the DotNetNuke portal/CMS platform, an ideal platform for building professional websites with dynamic content and interactive features.

We started this Meetup to bring together the best devs, designers and entrepreneurs in the local social, casual and MMORPG games space. Come meet some friends, hear a couple of great industry speakers talk about what's cool in games. We're especially interested in Casual Game Association Minna Mingles members and IGDA members who may have not gotten together in a long time. Hopefully we can be a resource. Please join our Meetup and pass the URL to other friends of yours in the local gaming …

The Boston BizSpark Meetup group brings fellow Microsoft® BizSpark™startups and other startups interested in the BizSpark™program together to connect, share ideas, and grow together. We also invite and welcome startup investors to join us, make contacts, and share ideas a well. Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources when they need it the most. Learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark

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 …

The main Web site is http://bostonandroid.org/ . We are designers, developers, employers, and general enthusiasts around building the Android mobile platform. We gather to share ideas, help each other, and generally get things done.

While there are plenty of groups around for specific languages (PHP, Ruby, Javascript) there's no group around the hub dedicated to the discussion of experience-based best-practices on the ridiculous number of things front-end web developers need to master to be at the top of their game: HTML5 CSS3 Cross-browser Support Grids, Design basic CMS's Mobile support JavaScript jQuery Performance Optimization Conversion Tracking A/B Testing ...AJAX, JSON, OpenGraph, RDF, and on and on and …

Boston's ALT.NET group

Web Start Women is a group of smart, nerdy (and proud of it!) women who are taking over the world learning to program for the web so we can make awesome stuff online. If you have big ideas for new projects... If you want the satisfaction, control, and flexibility of building those projects yourself... If you're looking for a friendly community where you can share ideas and get inspired... And if you want to do it all in an open, supportive, intimidation-free environment with other women... …

Are you a coder who works with Microsoft development technologies? You know...stuff like Visual Studio, SQL Server, ASP.NET, Silverlight, Team Foundation Server, and Windows Azure. This is the group for you. (BTW, you might remember us from when we were called Beantown .NET). We are now holding meetings in Cambridge, MA and Waltham, MA after the Boston .NET User Group has become part of Microsoft DevBoston.

Inspiration Chow Down Are you interested in following the latest digital trends? Do you like free pizza? The Big Studio is starting a monthly lunch Meetup and we will be providing plenty of both. This Meetup will have a rotating format but will always focus on highlighting trends in design and process. Some examples of the rotating formats are - Hosting Guest Speakers Start-up reviews Workshops Peer Reviews Trend Sharing Since the format will rotate from Meetup to Meetup we would love to take …

We are webOS developers and users working to keep the platform alive.

Are you interested in accessibility? Join passionate developers, media specialists, designers, usability professionals, and accessibility experts to share knowledge and learn at the Boston Accessibility Roundtable. The Boston A11Y Roundtable meets monthly to discuss online accessibility, including trends in regulations and guidelines, barriers that people with disabilities face online, and techniques for achieving equal access by all for websites, applications, and documents. The format of the m …

As ardent vim fans, a few thoughtbotters thought a Boston Vim Meetup could be an awesome idea. Our first meeting took place in October '11 and much fun was had by all. This meetup is open to all current and aspiring vim users who wanna talk motions, macros, and mappings.

Once upon a time, 5 people from Vitamin T, the staffing agency for Creative/Digital talent, decided to create a MeetUp - thus Digital Rendezvous was BORN!  We are looking to have a meeting of the minds once per month at a local pub to discuss emerging trends in design, development, all things web!!!

A community for anyone interested in the intersection of technology and the humanities.

The first chapter of Leaders in Software and Art was founded in New York in 2009 as a networking group for cutting-edge artists who use technology to create museum-quality pieces. Meetups feature artist speakers showcasing their work and are attended by people fascinated by the field, such as curators, collectors, engineers and programmers, and of course other tech artists. What began with software art presentations has grown to include data visualization, sculpture made using LEDs, microprocess …

Boston d3.js is a group specifically focused on data visualizations based on d3.js. If you haven't heard about d3, then you should probably check it out! http://d3js.org/ https://github.com/mbostock/d3 Our goal is to create a community of designers, developers and researchers interested in d3 in the Boston / Cambridge area. If you - Love d3.js - Interested in data visualization - Would like to learn some / more about it - Want to show / teach your d3 visualizations - or whatever reason you may h …

Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

Are you an Adobe Business Catalyst Partner? Or, just have an interest in learning more about creating/managing websites using Business Catalyst? We are an official Adobe User Group, and our mission is to share information on building and improving online businesses.

The Reverse Startup is an accelerated product launch camp, driven by the open source community, focused on rapid prototyping and rapid execution around a series of proof-of-concept exercises. Encompassing a wide range of topics, this group is ideal for developers, designers, technologists, marketing professionals and entrepreneurs. The Reverse Startup is a non-profit organization, dedicated to the community and helping people actualize their dreams and professional goals. We endeavor to come tog …

Designers in all professions use Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Creative Suite applications in their workflow. These designers include graphic, UX, web, fashion designers and more. The most popular applications in the Creative Suite include: Photoshop-for photo-editing and retouching, as well as prototyping web sites and applications. Illustrator-for graphics such as illustrations, logo design, fashion design. Also used for prototyping web sites and applications. InDesign-For layout of documents …

Your mobile development a little- listless?  Your Rails lost some of its groove? Then join us and meet other technology enthusiasts as we explore a different technology every month.  Each month our group will focus on learning a different technology (i.e programming language, framework, development tool, concept (OOP, cloud computing) etc,...) and together review that technology with experts and teachers at our monthly Meetup.  In between Meetups there will be hack sessions where we gather and w …

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.

Calling all Growth Hackers! Are you obsessed with growing your business through carefully designed and tested internet marketing? Do you like to A/B test everything you do in life? If so, you have come to the right place! We plan to gather the very best Growth Hackers in Boston to exchange ideas, brainstorm new growth hacks, and inspire each other to achieve new levels of growth hacking success! [growth hacker (noun) - one who’s passion and focus is pushing a metric through use of a testable and …

Imagine if there was a place, where at one table an entrepreneur meets her next $100,000 investor. A designer meets a new client, a web developer with a great internet startup. A Ruby engineer meets a charismatic founder that excites him with her vision, so much so that he can picture leaving his day job for the exhilarating experience of working tirelessly for technology stock options that could be worth millions one day... We're building this community. --- Part of the Tech Happy Hour Allianc …

This is a group that thinks technology can do a lot to address the challenges in our food system. We want to come together to share ideas about how we could leverage web-based tools to facilitate conversations about food, make information about food easily available, inspire broad interest in healthier food systems, and design products that make it easier to find healthy food.