Learn how to easily design, build, and maintain a web site for your business, community group, corporation, or family using Drupal, a free and powerful web publishing software package. You can use Drupal to build and maintain a small business web site, a blog, a community discussion forum, a wedding site, and many other types of web sites without any HTML or other programming skills. Got Drupal skills? Come and share with the rest of the group! We meet in different locations between Detroit and …

Meet fellow web designers near you! Come to a Web Design Meetup to compare tools, languages, and templates; trade advice on careers, rates, and freelancing; and share cool websites. Make valuable contacts as you mingle with new friends!

The purpose of Speaking of Design is to hold educational events for the professional design community in and around Ann Arbor. Each Speaking of Design event features an exceptional local or regional design professional who will discuss topics of interest and inspiration to Art Directors, Graphic Designers and Web Designers.

Why are there so few women leading and influencing the UX & design industry?  And what can we do to change that? This group aims to bring together brilliant and creative women in the design and UX fields who want to build and leverage a network of like-minded ladies for mentoring, support, and world domination. Just kidding on that last one. Maybe...

Welcome to Local Business Help Group on Meetup.com (Note our new name.) WHO: Galina Zwerlein is the founder and Creative Web Director at Remote Business Help, LLC, supporting web development and marketing solutions for business owners, company executives and individuals.   Visit RemoteBusinessHelp.com for additional information. WHAT: Our group's signature event is the Coffee Connection Networking, occurring on First Thursday morning of each month in Ann Arbor. WHY: With the explosions of online …

Meet with fellow Joomla! users and web designers in the Metro Detroit area. Discuss how Joomla! can meet your web needs. Learn from other local users. Organized seminar format Question and answer time General Topics Include but not Limited to... Hosting Installation Templates Components Maintenance SEO E-commerce Social Media

I have already begun a website of God Stories, and would like to meet a group of people who would like to work together to create a website along the same lines. Its goal would be to appeal to web surfers who are somewhat curious about God and Jesus, and who want to find real life stories about how Jesus has already made a difference in the lives of real people just like them. This site would be different than most Christian sites. It would not be preachy. It would be written in everyday languag …

JavaScript is quickly becoming required knowledge for all levels of web design and development, whether you're creating static web pages or highly interactive web applications. Join us to learn more about JavaScript. Our focus is on emerging technology including leading libraries such as Node.JS, Angular.JS and Backbone.JS. We plan to highlight techniques and tools but we're also interested in supporting beginners by teaching debugging techniques and skill building. We plan to have something for …

Refresh Detroit is a part of the Refreshing Cities organization. We are a group of web professionals whose goal is to promote web standards, usability, and accessibility, and to spread the knowledge of web design in metro Detroit Michigan.

eCommerce Ann Arbor focuses on encouraging innovation within the local eCommerce sector and helping local companies participate in initiatives through the import and export of visions, concepts, technologies, know-how and best practices. Topics include: development, usability, platforms, design, marketing, integration, security, organizational alignment, mobile, SEO, SEM, web analytics, functionality, strategy, social media integration We are aiming to have our first meeting in the next coupl …

The Metro Detroit WordPress Meetup is a community of WordPress users. Started as the Ferndale WordPress Meetup Group, we have members from around metro Detroit. Our monthly meetings are informal, fun and educational. We welcome new users, bloggers, business owners, designers and developers alike. If you have a blog, create websites, or are just curious about the internet's coolest blogging and CMS platform, this is the group for you. Blog Facebook Group

A group for anyone interested in WordPress, whether it's blogging with WordPress, developing with/for WordPress, running a business based around WordPress, or anything of that nature. Find us on twitter as @wpgrandrapids and elsewhere on the web at http://wpgr.org. Finally, be sure to join the WPGR Google Group so you can interact with everyone outside of our regular monthly meetings: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/wpgr

We are a group of professionals that build stuff for the web and mobile devices. But we are interested in learning about more than one topic. DevToledo is about being platform and language agnostic. We are about learning new things regardless of what we work with on a daily basis. We meet on the third Thursday of the month @ 6:30 at Seed Coworking in Toledo Ohio.

To create a robust community of stakeholders within Michigan to focus and develop opportunities which will strengthen the educational environment, encourage impactful dialogue, foster global knowledge, and forge new partnerships of collaboration and support between educators and developers around the use of gaming within education. Topics of interest will be led by the group to explore the many aspects of learning through gaming. This group is open to developers, educators, designers, entreprene …

The purpose of the Business Design & Innovation Meetup is to build a learning community focused on discovering innovation methodologies and exploring the topics around: the design of business, business models, strategic planning, Lean Startup methodologies, and profitability models for startups, non-profits, small businesses, and corporations. We are a community interested in learning more about designing business models, the process of innovation and strategic planning. We want to learn col …

Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses …

Publisher? Developer? Blogger? Student? Professional? Sharpen or share your WordPress skills by attending this monthly networking, education and sharing event in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Every meeting consists of a presentation by a local WordPress professional (which could be you!), networking, tips and general WordPress discussion. Optional post-event networking at local bars or coffee shops.

This group is for everyone interested in the MobiDevDay Detroit Software Development Conference.

We are a group of developers from around Northwest Ohio that center on PHP, as well as topics like MySQL, Linux, Apache, and Javascript. We want to help connect PHP developers in the Northwest Ohio area from all levels to share knowledge and experience.

Join other WP users to learn and share about all things WordPress! From dabblers to developers, all skill levels are welcome. We meet the 2nd Thursday of every month - come check out a meeting!

Why should you join? Our user group is all about expanding your .Net knowledge and having fun while doing it! Our purpose is to exchange knowledge, business cards, cocktails and Gamertags. If you want to join a .Net user group where you learn cool stuff and get to play Modern Warfare on a HD screen with killer surround sound, this user group is for you. To learn everything .NET To talk about industry trends To socialize and to have fun! Free food and cocktails! No event is complete without a DJ …

Detroit User Experience (DUX) is for people working in a UX-related profession who would like to meet like-minded folk to share ideas, present, learn, network, vent (a little), discuss good books, write good books, and more. Gatherings will typically include a topic for discussion (but don't be surprised if we veer off). We'll meet at various locations in Detroit and surrounding areas where food, coffee and/or drink is readily available.

We are a community devoted to the learning and sharing of information related to web design, development, tools and techniques with a focus on open source solutions. We have monthly meetings where people in the industry will lead discussions and workshops in numerous topics surrounding open source technology. It is FREE to join and FREE to attend the workshops.

The Great Lakes Community Leadership Summit 2013 will be based on the CLS in Portland each year. The GL-CLS will bring together community leaders, organizers and managers and the projects and organizations that are interested in growing and empowering a strong community. The event pulls together the leading minds in community management, relations and online collaboration to discuss, debate and continue to refine the art of building an effective and capable community. At the heart of Community L …

Grow the craft of software development by practicing it and helping others to practice it. Local meetups and events to grow the professional software development community and bring vitality and innovation to Genesee County. Sometimes in coordination with events such as Global Day of Code Retreat. "Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, Nothing is going to get better. It's not." - Dr. Seuss

With the rapid progress of urbanization and civilization on earth, urban computing is emerging as a concept where every sensor, device, person, vehicle, building, and street in the urban areas can be used as a component to probe city dynamics to further enable city-wide computing for serving people and their cities. Urban computing aims to enhance both human life and urban environment smartly through a recurrent process of sensing, mining, understanding, and improving. Urban computing also aims …

Introduction Founded by Atomic Object in the fall of 2003, SoftwareGR is a 501c6 non-profit trade association dedicated to improving the competitiveness of Michigan’s software development community. We are interested in all aspects of software, from design and development, to testing and user experience. Facts We meet regularly on the 4th Tuesday of each month, excepting December and summer months. Membership and attendance at meetings is free. We typically have between 30 and 60 people at our …

The Midland Social Good & Professional Community is designed to bring Midland together. We are about creating a solid professional community through social networking, sharing business ideas, and creating relationships. We will encourage a collaborative spirit to make Midland a destination for social engagement. This social engagement will help all of our businesses reach new goals, develop new ideas to use social technologies, and hopefully make Midland a place where people are encouraged to be …