The DC Tech Meetup convenes technologists, entrepreneurs, investors and the broader innovation community regularly to learn and share. Each month, 800+ innovators gather to see demos, launch products and meet their future co-founders, partners and funders.

Ladies' Tech XXchange is a DC Metro area community for tech inclined women to knowledge share, learn new skills and gather feedback on their startup ventures. The XXchange is a venue for women to: •    Network with like-minded tech savvy women in the greater DC metro area. •    Gain practical skills through the community’s hands-on training workshops. •    Preview the area’s latest web ventures by female founders. Join us! (formerly Girls in Tech DC)

You've got big ideas and not enough time in the day to see them through. Join us! BYOProject, your brilliant minds, and a willingness to help your peers.  Diverse backgrounds welcome, we are bounded only by our desire to get things done.

This is a collaborative community, not just a meetup group.  Got an idea for the next great  mobile app,  web service or product?  If you are ambitious and hungry for success, this is the place for you.  Are you a graphic/industrial designer, mobile or web developer?  Are you an independent contractor, entrepreneur, or small business owner?  If so, this is where you need to be.  If you are an investor looking for opportunities, these are the people you may want to meet.  Want to contribute or cr …

This group is for parents & educators who want to teach computer technology and design. We want to have regular meetups to exchange ideas and also to also provide opportunities for kids to learn programming, design, and robotics skills.

Got an idea for the next great  mobile app,  web service or product?  Are you seeking a co-founder for a new startup?  Are you a small business looking for resources to support or re-invent your brain-child?  If you are ambitious and hungry for success, this is the place for you.  Are you a graphic/industrial designer, mobile or web developer?  Are you an independent contractor, entrepreneur, or small business owner?  If so, this is where you need to be.  If you are an investor looking for oppor …

Thank You For Joining & Welcome To The Community! Drupal is widely used by many government agencies, hi-profile businesses, not-for-profit firms and community-based organizations to build their websites and applications. Internationally, Drupal powers millions of websites and applications in many countries and is built, used and supported by an active, passionate and growing world-wide community. The Drupal Technology Meetup is a resource for the growing community -- including professionals in …

Xykon hosts hands-on workshops and get-togethers looking at Drupal, CiviCRM, and other open source applications. We want you to join us for some of them or give us your opinion on how these meetups can improve.

The purpose of the group is to showcase local area talent and cover the graphic design, illustration, responsive web design, typography, advertising, self promotional, interactive and photography scene.   We want to also share ideas, discover opportunities, collaborate, meet potential clients, tap expertise, and establish partnerships. Meet the organizers, each one of them seasoned professionals in the creative and web design disciplines. How will we do this? Presentations on Photoshop, Illust …

This group explores the use of mobile cross platform development tools and web technologies such as HTML5 and Javascript to accelerate the process of designing and building mobile applications for the iPhone/iPad, Android, Windows Phone 7/8 and other mobile devices. PhoneGap, appMobi, Appcelerator, Corona and other development tools leverage web technologies including JavaScriptand HTML5 and compile to various mobile device platforms. We are going to cover new, emerging tools such as Adobe Shado …

If you are interested in learning or sharing anything about designing, developing and supporting a great web site, service, app or online social network community, this group will not just explore, but we will discuss and possibly build, together.  This includes Javascript, HTML5, Ruby on Rails, MongoDB, mobile web support, CakePHP, WordPress and other content management systems.  But it does not stop there. This group will identify and explore the use of technologies, content, media and social …

One idea, one team, one solution at a time is what it's all about.  Conceptualize, design, develop and deploy a new app, web service or product every three weeks.  Share in the fun, excitement and equity of the next big thing.  No need to wait in line to pitch for a limited amount of spots to get your idea up and running.   No need to pay to join a group of strangers for a few days hoping that you can put together something meaningful and move forward.  Join our community of entrepreneurs, devel …

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 …

Meetup Group was created to promote all the organizers in the Washington, DC, Virginia and Maryland areas to congregate and exchange tips, schedule joint events and much, much more. Our main goal is to create an alliance to share knowledge, organizers, presenters, venues and other resources. If we work together, our events' quality will increase which results in larger members rolls and possible sponsorships. Of course, this is a closed group by design.  We will open it up routinely with events …

The CDG Social Summer is a series of parties over the 2012 summer that will bring together like minded mobile and web professionals. These gatherings are focused on being social and having a good time vs digitally social. No agenda - just booze.

Do you have an idea that could be your organization's next big thing, but you are unsure of what to do next? Innovate DC is a community for intrapreneurs; employees looking to create change and get things done within an organization. We believe that innovation can happen inside organizations of any size.  All you need is someone with an idea and a champion to help navigate the waters of change.  We offer a support organization for intrapreneurs and champions that will focus on providing content …

Looking to meetup with people interested in discussing business challenges, or goals and how web, mobile or application development solutions can be developed to achieve those goals or resolve the problems they are designed to overcome for their end users. The first meeting will be a brief presentation about how we do that at The Nerdery and to learn more about what tech topics members are interested in discussing in future meetups.

The group for networking and collaborating with others interested in UX, MobileUX, and other areas of Design in DC, MD, and VA.

Startup Grind is an event series and website designed to help educate, inspire, and connect local entrepreneurs. Each month we welcome an amazing speaker who shares their story with our community and tells us what worked, what didn't, and what they'll do differently next time. It's an amazing opportunity to learn from the best, network with other members of the startup community, and improve your chances of entrepreneurial success.

Have a web or mobile application you want to test? Have a prototype or mock-up you want to introduce to the light of day? Let's test with 1) real users 2) in real time 3) face to face and 4) FREE? Premise: People who want users for their applications/designs for testing, will test others applications/designs, in exchange. In addition, our group will have expert speakers on usability, UX and UI. You are welcome to attend to learn, network and help others test their software and designs, even if …

Our objective is to provide Web API enthusiasts, people who are thinking about, interested in, or actively developing Web APIs, a space to get together, share ideas, and discuss techniques and technologies in a vendor neutral environment. Please come and join us, learn from each other, and have a little fun.

This is a group dedicated to sharing tools, tips, and techniques for user experience research (UXR) via story telling and demonstration of real life examples and the subsequent lessons learned.

Interested in learning Unity3D, helping others learn Unity3D, Unity3D best practices and/or game development? This group helps members become better Unity3D users and game developers through face-to-face meetings, round tables and lectures.  This isn't a group for just programmers, artists are welcome too.

Develop, design and publish Windows 8 and Windows Phone apps with the help of Microsoft and our Community of Developers and Designers. Listings will include events, contests and news of interest to software developers. This group caters to anyone in the greater DC and Baltimore areas wanting to learn more about app development for the Windows Store or Windows Phone.

Local get together for developers, designer, editors, and anyone interested in the concrete5 content management system.

We are designers and developers with a passion for taking big data and turning it into unique, awe-inspiring data visualizations and user experiences. Combining new data visualization techniques with great UI design allows others to draw meaning from raw data. Bring your examples of great data visualization applications on mobile, multi-touch or web based applications. Bring your ideas and brainstorm with us about better ways to make digital information useful. No slides here. Presenters are e …

We're a group of folks in DC who are interested in learning about web development, mobile development, Ruby, PHP, and maybe even starting a small business. But we're not experts, that's why we're using Treehouse (teamtreehouse.com) as a learning tool. Treehouse provides great instruction, quizzes, code tests, and other tools to give you a great education in coding, design, and business. If you're interested in getting started in the world of development, or if you want to take your skills to the …

The Digital Exchange (dX) is a group created to bring together individuals who are changing how their organizations work, operate, and communicate with new digital tools, technologies and strategies. From top-down digital strategies for organizational operations, to new back-office tools to improve process and workflows, to mobile engagement and stakeholder engagement, organizations of all types and sizes are working to embrace digital and unlock their organization’s digital future. dX is the pl …