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 course …

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... …

We meet to discuss whatever comes up relating to and sometimes not relating to web design.

For people involved in developing Facebook Platform Applications in the Boston area. Meet with great speakers and engineers who are developing Facebook applications. Do a lightning demo of your Facebook product or idea!

We discuss mobile app development issues and strategies. The group shares among ourselves and brings in outside experts to help educate and advance our knowledge. We offer the opportunity for developers to share their projects and get feedback from group members and have live demonstrations of new apps that our members are launching. Our conversations will include marketing and advertising so we can help get apps in the hands of our target audience and fund the work we are doing. Join us in shap …

Meet and collaborate with other developers who are interested in building scalable applications using google app engine. Lightning sessions showing real code example will be encouraged and you will have time to network around.

Meet other CMS professionals, aficianados, and neophytes who want to learn about current and best practices, state of the art, and current quality practices for these CMS and related system used in business, government, and academia for collaboration, website development, eCommerce, and simpler things like family websites, web galleries, and other social networking applications. Come to see demos, profiles, and assessments of the latest systems. Hear independent evaluations of the most popular …

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.

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 …

Boston PHP is the largest and most active PHP community in the world. We are a lot more than PHP! We have been meeting since 2002. We have over 3,200 members, and usually meet every month on a Wednesday. We have a wide range of topics all related to PHP, Web Development, and Open Source technology. All meetings are free, and we encourage everyone to participate and get involved and help grow the PHP community. After each meeting we typically go to a nearby restaurant/bar/pub for more informal di …

This meetup provides engineers, practitioners and managers the context needed to evaluate and adopt rapidly evolving business technologies. Leave with an understanding of what the technology is, why it’s used, when to use it, and next steps to take. We’ll review use cases, processes, tools, and practices in a mini-conference format through short presentations, hands-on tutorials, Q&A and code walkthroughs. Topics may include Mobile app development, HTML5, responsive design, high-concurrency appl …

Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. Read more about it at http://djangoproject.com

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium to test their web applications. The Greater Boston Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the Greater Boston area and beyond. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend throug …

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!!!

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 …

This is your chance to prototype your ideas before going to VCs or for seed funding. We all have dream applications that need machine learning and predictive analytics. We can hack those app. using available machine learning APIs (from Microsoft, Google, BigML, BPA EyeQ, and so on). No need to learn those complicated math or gymnastics of matrices. This is also your way to find a co-founder, good developers, and some good feedback. By the way, investors are also welcome; coding is good for our …

This is a social and technical group for those wanting to meet with web developers and discuss ColdFusion/CFML and other related tools and technologies such as JavaScript/jQuery, Mobile Development, HTML, CSS, and databases. Developers of all levels, from newbies to veterans, are welcome!

We are a group of developers looking to build products motivated by BarCamp style sessions. We want to hear the ideas of developers and rally around ideas worth building. Our goal is to build knowledge, product, and community. Anyone with an idea or a will to build should jump in. All levels and background are welcome.

If you're sick of all the emails from Meetup.com: Subscribe to the BYC email list for updates Whether or not you just graduated school or are new to Boston, we all know how difficult it can be your first few years as a professional. Let's use this group to bridge that knowledge gap, the experience gap, and the networking gap. I'm talking ALLLLLLLL kinds of creatives: writers, artists, bloggers, designers, developers, programmers, entrepreneurs, builders, doers, movers, shakers. Use this gr …

A meetup for Boston-area Twisted Python developers. Most of our activities are Sprints, for fixing bugs and working on new features for Twisted, but developers looking for help with their Twisted projects are welcome as well, as are new people who are just getting started (or just curious about Twisted in general.)

For fifteen years, Mozilla has been defending the open web and leading in its advancement. Now with ambitious new projects such as FirefoxOS and Webmaker, Mozilla is taking things to a whole 'nother level! This meetup group is for people who want to get in on the open web action!

Boston Backbone.js is a community of client-side web application developers who are interested in or have been using Backbone.js in their work. This meetup will feature events for all things backbone.js - plugins, tutorials, future direction, etc. and serve as a general purpose space for the community to gather around this fantastic technology and help it grow.

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 …

The Boston Music Technology Group is a community for entrepreneurs, hackers, founders, developers, designers, programmers, musicians, idea-ists, scientists, and data experts, who are currently working in a music-tech space, or looking to join a music-tech startup. Collaborative events such as the Music Hack-a-Thon during the Re-Think 2012 occur far too infrequently, despite the wealth of talent in the area with a thirst to create. Join us and meetup with like-minded music-techies to network, col …

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 …

From PyLadies.com: We are a group of women developers worldwide who love the Python programming language. We write code by day or night. Some of us hack on Python projects on the side, while others work full-time on Python development. But it doesn't matter. We all just like writing Python code, and that's what brings us together. This group is for anyone who identifies as a woman and is a Python programmer or an aspiring Python programmer. Or even if you have no clue what Python is, but you're …

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 …

Welcome! Boston Python is the world's largest local Python user group.  Meet other local Python developers, learners, employers, and enthusiasts of all kinds.  All skill levels are welcome, if you are interested in Python, we are interested in you! We have a number of great regular events: Monthly presentation series: these are longish presentations (about an hour) about topics of interest to the community.  Often we also have lightning talks (5-15 minutes) also.  If you have something you'd li …