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 focus on coding, leveraging existing technology, and having something t …

The Web Design Meetup is an open floor forum for people with Web-related problems or interests. No matter what your background or skill level, amateur or expert, freelancer, entrepreneur, developer, or other, you're welcome to attend! Attendance is usually diverse and mixed. Ticker topics are set in advance to spur ideas. The format for the regular monthly meetup is always "open floor". People should feel at ease to raise issues that concern them and ask for help. Contributions are completely vo …

Joomla!Days are a unique opportunity for Joomla CMS web designers, developers and integrators to connect, learn, share, and innovate. February 23, 2013 is the start of the first Joomla!Day in the Southeast United States, connecting Joomla! users who otherwise wouldn't be able to attend a local Joomla! event. Students planning to enter the web development field are encouraged to attend with a special student rate. Curious what the web industry for one of the major open source CMS platforms is rea …

Looking for a front end development meetup in the triangle area? Relax, you've found it. Discussions at Function Pink center around the latest techniques and best practices for professional HTML, CSS and JavaScript development.

TACFUG, or the Triangle Area ColdFusion User Group, is the home for ColdFusion in the Research Triangle Area of North Carolina. We discuss web development, front end development, database development and general application development topics. Serving Raleigh, Cary, Durham, Chapel Hill, Apex, Holly Springs, Clayton, Garner, Wake Forest, Creedmore, Butner, Morrisville and those brave souls from the Piedmond Triad who come out to the meetings

TrianglePHP is a community organized group of PHP developers in Raleigh, Durham and Chapel Hill, North Carolina (commonly referred to as the Triangle).  We have monthly meetings on the third Thursday of every month with presentations about PHP and the surrounding technologies like database design (MySQL, NoSQL, etc), web design, javascript, CSS, and more. All levels of experience are welcome, so join the group, introduce yourself, come to one of our meetups, and plug in to the fantastic PHP com …

Can't get a job without experience? Can't get experience without a job? The Tech In exists to solve that catch-22. If you're a college student or a recent college grad studying software development, computer science, information systems, or anything else that makes other people ask you to fix their computer, we can help. That is, if you're in the Triangle area of North Carolina. Hopefully we'll get bigger soon. We try to have fun, help you learn a little, fill your stomachs with something other …

A group for software entrepreneurs, developers, marketers, and evangelists. Network, share ideas, and learn from other local technology innovators. Starting in February 2013, we'll be meeting monthly at the HUB co-working space in downtown Raleigh. Meetups will feature one or two short presentations, but will focus mainly on open discussions and personal interactions with the local software community.

This group is a place for developers to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database and many of the key committers are based right here in New York City. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions. We typically meet on the second or third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and …

This group is meant for all people who are somehow related to e-commerce. All are invited to join, e-commerce site owners (new and old), e-commerce developers, e-commerce platforms, EVERYONE. The objective of this group is to help e-commerce owners get in touch with service providers, professionals, etc, as well as different fellow e-commerce owners so we can help each other out with the daily problems of e-commerce activity. Regularly we will be organizing meetups, keynotes from e-commerce comp …

Everybody likes lunch, and we all love agile development. Let's do one and talk about the other! For starters we'll meet for lunch and casual conversation. If people are interested, we can add in some more structured content. Until the group decides otherwise, we'll meet once per month in Raleigh, Durham, and RTP.  Please join us and suggest restaurants!

Developers interested in learning about and working with graph databases for social, spatial, hierarchical or other highly connected data sets. We host hands-on lab sessions, technology reviews, topical lectures, and plenty of social beer nights. Curious about graphs, want to pimp your non-RDBMS skills? Join us!

Come hang out with friendly users and developers of FileMaker Pro and FileMaker Server database applications. We'll have a mix of presentations, hack nights, show-and-tell and even bar-and-burger hangout nights and discuss all things FileMaker including: --Using and developing FileMaker databases --The latest FileMaker-related tools and techniques --Cool Third-party FileMaker software and hardware products --FileMaker books and magazines --FileMaker Go for iPads and iOS devices --Deploying FileM …

The group is open to anyone in the RTP/Durham/Chapel Hill Tech community who works on business development or partnerships. This could be actual BD folks, founders, CEOs, VCs, whatever. The purpose is to get together, network, exchange ideas and help each other overcome roadblocks or issues. All are welcome, so please feel free to include anyone who would benefit. The first meetup will kick-off in September 2012

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere, with a great idea and a burning desire to succeed, to make it big, and in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo, eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with j …

We're a community of entrepreneurs, hackers, VCs, and founders focused on growing the local triangle tech community. You can regularly expect to see demos, hear from expert panels, and meet like-minded individuals so spread the word, bring your friends, and see you at the Triangle Meetup!

The focus of this group is to grow our understanding of the following technologies: Groovy, Grails, Griffon, Gradle, GORM, and more.  We will have speakers from different companies including SpringSource (which is also our primary sponsor).  We also plan to collaborate with the Raleigh Spring Meetup group because there is a lot of synergy between them. If you want to learn more about the features of the dynamic Groovy language that is built on the JVM, then you should join this group.  We look f …

Like the Ruby programming language? We do too! Want to learn more about it? You're in good company. Come join us in our pursuit of humane programming. We also have a mailing list: http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/raleigh-rb-members.

SplatSpace (*space) is a multidisciplinary workspace, playspace, and hackerspace in Downtown Durham. Our name is derived from the geeky and wonderful asterisk, also known as a "splat." An asterisk, or splat, is a symbol meaning everything: at our space, we do it all and all are welcome. We're a non-profit, member-driven, member-funded organization focused around the idea of having a physical space for people to get together, work on projects, collaborate on their work or hobbies, and teach/lea …

Welcome to Triangle JavaScript, a group for people in the Raleigh-Durham area interested in discussing all things JavaScript.

This group was originally formed to discuss the formation of a hackerspace in the triangle. Since the group's formation, interest has been sparked in every vertex of the Triangle. Our mission changed from creating one mega-hackerspace to creating separate (but equal) hackerspaces throughout the area. Our hope is that by creating multiple spaces in the area, Triangle hackerspaces will be both accessible and convenient for professionals, students, and hobbyists throughout the area. Hackerspaces ( …

TRINUG holds weekly meetups... really - every week! Click here to see our 2013 Meeting Schedule... Our Main Meeting is the 2nd Wednesday of every month. It's a get together for .NET developers of all levels. We usually have a high powered awesome speaker discussing one of the latest technologies, best practices, and anything else of interest to our craft. Food is provided by our meeting sponsor. On other (1st, 3rd, 4th, and sometimes 5th) Wednesdays we hold special interest groups (SIGs) at v …

Refresh is a community of designers/developers working to refresh the creative, technical, & professional culture of new media endeavors in their areas through design, technology, usability & standards. Refresh is an international initiative, now over 60 cities strong. Visit refreshingcities.org for more.

This is a great chance to meet other Drupal developers and to hear about some of the cool Drupal projects people are working on in the area. No matter what level of Drupaler you are - pro or newbie - come on out to meet others in the community.

Meet other local fans of WordPress, the Internet's classiest and fastest dynamic content management system. Gather and discuss the best ways to work with your software. Meet WordPress developer and plugin author Michael Torbert. Whether you're a WordPress novice or pro, we have something for everyone! Topics: Search Engine Optimization Security Apache Directives Theme Development/Design Plugin Development General WordPress Techniques WordPress MU BuddyPress Tips and Tricks Widgets

Everything design presented by professional designers. Crop is about sharing methods and techniques. We want to give designers a platform to showcase their skills and learn about the latest and greatest. If you love design, love to collaborate then we want you at the next Crop meetup. The format for the meetup will be an overall design theme and the second segment we will showcase a cool technique, latest software or new technology related to design. We don't want to focus solely on one area of …

E-Commerce, ecommerce, Passive Online Income, Drop Ship, Internet Startups, App & Software as a Service developers, Information Product builders, Affiliates, Bloggers, etc. If you are trying to make the majority of your money online, and you work for yourself you might like this. This group is primarily for Internet business owners to get together for the occasional daytime escape from our laptops. We have coffee, conversation, share a few tips, and help each other get motivated about progressin …

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted of Raleigh Meetup group! Maybe you are a serial entrepreneur, maybe you are a developer, and maybe corporate life is not for you. Have you been doing searches on CoFoundersLab.com? Tasted a startup, or want to startup your own business? Co-Founders Wanted of Raleigh serves as an in-person matchmaking service for co-founders. Did you know VCs prefer co-founders over one-man startups? There are lots of benefits to starting a business with someone who complements you. …