Developer community in North America

User groups

• The LA Internet Professionals Mastermind Group

  Pasadena, CA, United States

  This is a group for experienced Internet professionals who currently have or have had internet startups, and who are interested in really growing their businesses beyond just themselves. This is a sounding board, your own internal resource group for useful Internet information. Be ready to share what you know and have learnt and learn from others in the group.

• Girls in Tech NYC

  New York, NY, United States

  Since its inception in February 2007, Girls in Tech’s main focus is empowering, educating and elevating the status of women in the technology field. Local Girls in Tech chapters engage the local community of women in the technology industry, as well as highlight the specific industry concerns in each geographic region.

• HBase Hackathon Los Angeles

  Manhattan Beach, CA, United States

  HBase developers meet to tackle big development issues with whiteboarding and hacking.Also check out the SF HBase User Group (http://www.meetup.com/hbaseusergroup/) and LA Hadoop Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/hadoopla/)

• The Vancouver JavaScript Meetup Group

  Vancouver, BC, Canada

  Meet fellow scripters near you! Come to a JavaScript Meetup to compare tools, projects, and ideas; trade advice on careers, rates, and freelancing; and share cool websites. Make valuable contacts as you mingle with new friends.

• New York iPhone Boot Camp

  New York, NY, United States

  The three day - a full 24 hours of training- iPhone Boot Camp NYC is a five star rated workshop limited to fifteen iPhone developers that get together each month to learn how to develop iPhone Apps. It's part seminar, part hack-a-thon, fueled by vast quantities of pizza, the best New York Deli and Red Bull, all in the quest for the next killer iPhone appDeveloping iPhone Applications has proven to be a great opportunity.

• Chicago .NET User Group

  Chicago, United States

  Our mission from inception has been to share deep .NET experience with individuals who are interested in learning, sharing and growing their Microsoft .NET knowledge and capabilities. The group’s vision is to provide members with a forum to hear top industry experts speak, learn and teach others who are interested in the same technologies as you and are facing the same challenges.

• Houston OpenCoffee Club

  Houston, TX, United States

  OpenCoffee Club events are monthly informal meet-ups for Houston entrepreneurs, investors and people interested in technology startups.

• Toronto SQL Server User Group

  Toronto, Canada

  The TSSUG is a non-profit technical forum for people who work with Microsoft SQL Server. The group provides people with a common place to network with peers, share ideas and information as well as keep current with changes taking place in SQL Server development.

• The Washington Semantic Web Meetup

  Fairfax, VA, United States

  Meet local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Data Web. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web.

• The Denver MySQL Meetup Group

  Denver, CO, United States

  How can I build a custom MySQL function? What is the best backup strategy to use to minimize down time? How do I achieve greater reliability with MySQL clustering? What nifty tools are part of MySQL that can tell me what's going on with my database? What's the best way to design my database? Why is it called MySQL, anyway?Find out at the Denver MySQL Meetup for developers, users and administrators. All levels of experience welcome. We will discuss everything from basics to advanced topics.