The goals of the CT chapter of the Usability Professionals' Association include to: 1. Provide a local network through which usability professionals can share information about the techniques and methodologies in the profession. 2. Create an inclusive community for those interested in usability, whether it is their primary focus or a related discipline. 3. Change new product development processes to include a concern for the people who use them by presenting the business case for usability in …

… If you are a developer, web designer, or just interested in Google technology this group is a great place to meet others, network professionally and learn. We're going to have varied meet-ups that are both social, and educational in nature. We're going to focus on Google technologies including You-Tube, Android and Google maps. If you take advantage of Google Technologies, this group is for you!

… If you're a Web Designer from Westport, a programmer from Prospect or a DBA from Danbury you're going to find great opportunities to network, have fun and meet new friends in this group.

This group was formed for people in the Hartford area who use Adobe products, like Photoshop, Dreamweaver, Flash, Illustrator, etc. It's a great way to meet like-minded people and to learn more about design and development. All levels are welcome.

The Connecticut Java Users Group organizes monthly meetings on new and emerging Java technologies. It aims to help professionals stay abreat of the latest developments in Java and related open source projects. Meetings are free and open to the public. The group was initially founded in 2000 as a special interest group of the Connecticut Object Oriented Users Group. It is presently chaired by Ryan Cuprak who assumed leadering of the JUG in December of 2002.

In a nutshell, it's a skill exchange group. We discuss different topics in different programming languages and related technologies. Anyone would like to discuss deploying applications to EC2? How about learning and experimenting with dynamic languages vs. static languages? Us too.. all of us are here to learn!

Evening jam sessions creating code rather than music organized every couple months.

A monthly gathering of techies around Hartford. Nerds, creatives, entrepreneurs, and investors welcome! We hope to create a community similar to the NY, NJ Tech Meetup groups, without the long drive for those who live and work in between the metro areas. We want to bring Hartford students and faculty together with experienced professionals so they can benefit from each other's advice, knowledge, experience, perspective, and energy. Each meeting should have some demos, a group discussion about a …

… THE GROUP STUDIES various resources for practicing the law of attraction, meditation, spiritual development and creating our dreams. Each week we read from (or listen to CDs of) Abraham-Hicks books, A Course in Miracles, New Thought*, yogic teachings and other LOA/spiritual practices. Sometimes we watch DVDs of A-Hicks workshops or spiritual films. We do fun exercises and projects, such as vision boards and partnered exercises that evoke feelings of joy, enthusiasm and greater belief in abundanc …