RubyOnBeer is a developer meetup for people interested in Ruby. The group is intended to help grow the local Ruby community and to share experience and knowledge across it's members. All experience levels welcome :)

We meet monthly to learn about things related to software development. Meetings happen on the second Tuesday of every month from 16:30-17:30 at Microsoft Offices in Bryanston, Gauteng. While we currently meet at Microsoft - that doesn't mean we restrict ourselves to just one technology stack - we find all platforms and technologies interesting. Topics cover a wide range of software related fields from software development methodologies to patterns, best practices, various language paradigms and …

We welcome beginner to advanced software developers to join us on our mission to build tech capacity here in Johannesburg and create an open and inclusive community where one can come learn and/or teach. If you love technology and want to be a part of it, come code in Braam. Our aim is to get to the point of collectively doing projects that positively impact the community.

Do you feel the traditional 9 to 5 office job is not the right thing for you? Would you like to hear more about being your own boss and improving your work/life balance? Are you looking for new career opportunities in the Human Cloud? Join our community of online freelancers in Johannesburg! We are holding various social events and informational trainings about freelancing and how to offer your services online. You will be able to socialize with other online professionals, share best practi …

Lean Startup Circle is dedicated to applying lean startup thinking and building lean startup leadership. We bring the Joburg lean startup community together to learn from each other - What works? What doesn't? Is lean just a buzzword? Or can it really help build businesses? This community's objectives are for Joburg startups to achieve success faster than most by getting out of the building, talking to customers, using agile software development to decrease time to market and leveraging continuo …

Our mission is to empower young women of color between the ages of 7-17 to embrace the current tech marketplace as builders and creators.

The Lean Hackathon's aim is to create sustainable businesses using the Lean Startup Principles in collaboration with Agile development techniques. We meet every second Saturday for 5 hours to hack away at the technical challenges of the business model we're trying to implement, and will from time to time have community leaders and mentors to help guide us along the right path. Each session starts with a meet&greet, followed by lean canvasing if necessary, hacking, and lastly product deployment/s …

Coderetreat is a day-long, intensive practice event, focusing on the fundamentals of software development and design. By providing developers the opportunity to take part in focused practice, away from the pressures of 'getting things done', the coderetreat format has proven itself to be a highly effective means of skill improvement. Practicing the basic principles of modular and object-oriented design, developers can improve their ability to write code that minimizes the cost of change over tim …

The Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE) is a three way partnership between government, academia and industry. Based at Wits University, the JCSE is multifaceted with various programmes and facilities positioning it as a focal point of a software development industry for South Africa and the rest of the continent. The JCSE strongly supports the City’s “Joburg 2030 Vision”, which sees Johannesburg becoming a World Class city with service delivery and efficiencies that meet global best pr …

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.

Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential’s fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets. Mobile Monday has the following objectives: To encourage innovation within the mobile sector. To facilitate networking between small and large companies, and between local and foreign. To help local companies effectively participate …

Free Ruby on Rails workshops open to everyone!

This is a group for all users, developers and designers interested in the Drupal Open Source CMS, who are based in Johannesburg, South Africa. The goal of this group is to foster the local community, provide local support and to allow the local Drupal industry to grow.

For all those who develop web applications using HTMl5,CCS3 and Javascript. Lets share your knowledge and learn from each other to keep up with the fast changing landscape of Javascript frameworks, browsers capabilities, HTML5 & CSS3 features and development tools and best practise. We plan to meet once a month for a presentation, dinner and networking.