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 …

Hey folks! We've got online courses in HTML and CSS starting January 6th. Come nerd out with us... HTML: Welcome to Tagville CSS: The Basics Web Start Women is a group of smart, nerdy 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 g …

Code for Philly—a Code for America Brigade—would like to invite you to come join us.  We are PHL-based developers, designers, catalogers, organizers, and other citizens working to build a better Philadelphia by applying web technology to government and communities.  We meet weekly, usually Tuesday evenings, and work on a variety of projects building PHL 2.0.  You can join an existing project, create a new one, or bring in something you're already working on and get CfP to help out.  We welcome a …

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.

RSVP to get a nametag. This is important, because people without nametags aren't even really people. There, I said it. ******** HackerNest is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit movement dedicated to uniting local tech communities globally. We do this by cramming lots of very smart people into a room and providing free beer - rescuing them from the isolation of basements, offices, and the plight of code tunnel vision. Our friendly, relaxed, and inclusive Tech Socials provide a casual, unprete …

Our goal is to help people gain the skills, experience, and connections necessary to be successful in the tech industry, regardless of their race, religion, sex, or sexual orientation. We work to achieve this goal by providing low cost classes, professional development seminars, networking opportunities, and employment resources. We encourage anyone who is currently in the tech industry, would like to enter the tech industry, or just interested in the tech industry to join.

Philadelphia Startup Pitch Night focuses on providing monthly opportunities for you to practice, refine, and perfect your startup pitches.  We also provide targeted networking and learning opportunities in the Philadelphia, Pennsylvania region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new start-ups. Philadelphia Startup Pitch Night's events are run by a leadership team that works to find the meeting venues and plan out and execute all the Meetup events.  Our mission is to be known as …

Philly Accessibility is a forum for anyone who is interested in the design and development of technology that works well for everyone. Accessibility is not just about adding a feature or setting to software or a device. It's thinking about how someone uses technology, whatever their ability, age, skill or know-how. It's making that consideration a fundamental part of your design. Let's work together to make technology better for everyone.

Have you ever joined a networking group for creative professionals, and the organizers/members rarely ever scheduled events? This group is different. As the organizer, I try to keep things active—despite having professional obligations of my own. The purpose of this group is to get together and share ideas with like-minded professionals; share leads, cool sites, network, and collaborate. Partnering for project work is definitely encouraged. I invite you to join my group if you are enthusiastic, …

A Better Place to Work Starts with Better Coworkers. We are a community of people who could work from anywhere but choose to work together, more productively, here at Indy Hall. Indy Hall’s community is the intersection of designers, developers, writers, artists, entrepreneurs, scientists, educators, small business owners, telecommuters, marketers, videographers, game developers, and more. The only thing we’re missing is you.

This is a group for people interested in Ember.js, whether developing Ember.js for your day job, or just interested in learning more about it. We'll meet monthly or quarterly in Center City Philadelphia.

Want to see cool new technology? Want to interact with other cool techies, startups, and business folks? Have some time in the morning? Then come to TechBreakfast, a monthly breakfast in Philadelphia (modeled after the existing ones in DC, Columbia, Baltimore, and Northern Virginia -- check out http://www.meetup.com/techbreakfast for that...) where entrepreneurs, techies, developers, designers, business people, and interested people see showcases on cool new technology in a demo format and inter …

Meet others interested in all aspects of web technology. Gather to discuss development, standards, networks, new web technologies, graphic design, databases, and tools of the trade such as Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Flash, Premiere and Soundbooth. Open to anyone interested in learning more about web technology!

The Philadelphia Semantic Web Meetup is here to share and discuss all things related to the semantic web. Programmers, database administrators, information technology managers, web masters, entrepreneurs, content management specialists, Intranet managers: you're all welcome to come and see what semantic technology can do for you. We'll meet in an around Philadelphia to talk about technologies such as RDF, ontologies, SPARQL, linked data, microdata, schema.org, and much more.

We are Tech in Motion: Philadelphia This is an inclusive group for all Philadelphia tech lovers and enthusiasts. We will be having regular meetups on anything and everything that we think will interest the tech community. Whether you are an entry-level programmer, an expert in the field, an open-minded entrepreneur, or just a hobbyist- we’d love to have you. This is a group by the people and for the people, so if you have any suggestions for topics or presenters, let us know! Thank you for joi …

Philly Tech Meetup convenes technologists, entrepreneurs, investors and the broader innovation community regularly to learn and share. Each month, hundreds of innovators gather to see demos, launch products and meet their future co-founders, partners and funders. Apply to demo. Contact us to sponsor. Send us tech news. Check out PhillyTechMeetup.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube. Join the PTM Press List if you are interested in covering our events, programs and community …

This is a great group for I.T. Professionals to meet outside of the office to relax, socialize, talk about sports, politics, life, and the ever growing world of Information Technology. We emphasize finding new friends and associates with similar backgrounds to network with and do exciting things. Dinners, forums, happy hours, adventures, sporting events, and yes, parties are just a few of the types of activities we will partake.

Philly.rb is the one and only user group in the Philadelphia area dedicated to helping Ruby enthusiasts learn, network, and socialize.

A group to support women speakers in technology.

We have monthly hackathons in the Philly area for people working on or interested in startups (primarily Internet related). A hackathon is an event with no specific agenda--everyone comes and "hacks" on their projects. It is a great place to meet other local hackers and get feedback/help on your projects. Every month we have the meetup at a local Philly company where cool hacking is going on. We have pizza for dinner, hang out and talk about our startup experiences, and hack on our projects toge …

The most up-to-date GGD PHL information can be found at www.ggdphl.com Girl Geek Dinners Philadelphia's (GGD PHL) primary goal is to bring women from various technical fields together for socializing, networking, and learning. It also sees itself as providing a place to encourage women who may be considering technical interests. GGD PHL welcomes its sisters from creative and new media disciplines as well and aims to be a supportive community for the women of the Greater Philadelphia area who con …

A group for Drupal users and Drupal site builders.  Meet, Discuss and learn about Drupal.

For those working with or interested in Node.js.

PhillyCocoa is a Philadelphia area Mac and iPhone programming group, a chapter of the worldwide CocoaHeads. All skill levels are welcome. The only requirement is an interest in Apple-related technologies and moderate tolerance for geeking out. We hold our CocoaHeads group meetings on the second Thursday of every month at Indy Hall.

Philadelphia meetup for SASS enthusiasts and professionals.

1. Startups for Grownups is a community where likeminded baby boomers (women and men) with diverse skillsets connect, learn, create, collaborate and launch ideas together. 2. Although the startup world is now dominated by young technology folks, research reveals that startups ignited by women and men aged 40-60+ statistically fare much better. It is our goal to unite our region's best and brightest boomers and create a dynamic, creative environment that's conducive for collaboration and success. …

PhillyJS is a JavaScript user group in Philadelphia, PA. We want to get local coders together to talk about anything and everything JavaScript.

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 just …