The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

Welcome to the html5 Codeshow! We are a group of hackers/developers/tech enthusiasts who are ecstatic about what the future of the web and mobile apps will bring. For years we've seen what the future might look like via sexy sci-fi films--well now the future is here and it's our turn to make that vision a reality! Join us in sharing our coding knowledge and let's develop ideas together over pizza and beer! Are you working on a website, mobile web app, or designing a game? What are some of the ch …

StreamUK uses the Kaltura Community Edition software for its online video proposition. We're interested in hosting a meetup to meet with fellow developers and hack through the code issues.

DataScienceLab - A meetup for data scientists, or those interested in data science (hacking data) to come together to build an output focussed community directed towards the practical aspects or the doing of data science. The primary focus of this group will be on doing good with data science through hackathons and other data hacking projects & events arranged in association with organisations actively involved in the making our world into a better place; charities, NGOs etc. Meetup schedule wil …

Inspired by 500startup's unsexy conference, http://unsexy.co/, we want to bring all the unsexy startups together. Well, if you are building another Instagram or Facebook, this is probably not a right meet up for you. If you are interested in "making money" much more than a TechCrunch coverage, you find yourself a second home! "Unsexy startups" in SMB/Enterprise, financial services, communications, email, data, infrastructure, and more. Let's mingle. Format: We are thinking bring (1)two speakers …

Calling all Raspberry Pi enthusiasts, hobbyists and hackers. We're creating a global network of likeminded individuals to help spread delicious Raspberry Jam all over the world and inspire a generation.

This is group for anyone in the London area interested in infrastructure automation with open source tools. We get together to give demos, share ideas and hack on automation frameworks (e.g. puppet, chef and salt) as well as other related software.

Meet the Stripe team and members of the Stripe community in London.

Our user group is for all the Arduino and micro-controllers enthusiasts meeting every month in London for social/tech/training. Get the training and feedback you need on your projects, share and learn skills, get involve in crazy projects and make LEDs blink... Whether you are a newbie or in need of support for your arduino-based spaceship, this is the perfect group is for you.

AngelHack Hackathon Workshops are a place for industry leaders, hackers, and entrepreneurs to come together in a relaxed atmosphere to talk about API's, SDK's, and how to use new and creative ideas to empower a new generation of developers.

For people who love playing, making, trying, testing and hacking games. We're up for playing anything but prioritise playtesting and developing new games. Got a card game that needs it's 500th run through? A concept for a word game you want to try out? Something gloriously old and obscure with an awesome central idea that you want to explore and discuss? We'll be meeting once a month on the first Tuesday of every month to play, make and talk. Bring your pet project and we'll give you feedback. O …

Welcome to the London Big-O Meetup! This is London's first meetup focusing on data structures and algorithms, regardless of programming language. I started this meetup for a few reasons. There's a general lack of similar events for people interested in the theory or maths behind the tools we use every day—dictionaries, sets, lists and regular expressions are things we all take for granted, but when you reach a large enough scale, the differences between implementations begin to show. It's import …

This is a group for gay men and women interested in horseback riding. I started this group because I wished to meet and socialise with members of the LGBT community who shared a passion and interest in horses. We can get together to go hacking on trails, share lessons and just hang out among horses. Our meeting spot could be The Holistic Horse & Pony Centre in Ockham/Horsley in Surrey, 50 minutes from Waterloo. It is a unique riding school where horses and peoples have the freedom to be themselv …

Welcome to the Spring of Code group! The project is based on the ethics of open data, free software, open source and creative commons. So join up, and shout out what's missing from the online tools already out there and how we can make them work better. What happens in a meeting? People meet people, projects get put on socially useful tracks, focus. What happens between meetings? People buddy up on projects, hack, design, get creative and update on site their progress. Where do I ask for help o …

BACON bits is a series of monthly meetups to continue the discussions started at BACON conference. We'll be inviting some more awesome speakers from the tech and non tech world to explore more things developers love.

ICT4E is a collaborative learning platform linking NGOs to the growing networked age of humanitarian assistance. Composed of LinkedIn Discussions, Causal Meet-ups and Presentations, the group is a fun, open space that brings together a cross-section of like minded people who want to transform the way aid agencies use information technology in emergencies. ICT4E puts special emphasis on the on the needs of practitioners and “how” these can be met in simple, practical ways. It’s open to anyone fro …

A collaborative environment for pushing the boundary of citizen science and engineering regardless of qualifications. Looking forward to hacking satellite and space in general, environment monitoring device, brain computer interface (etc, if you can think of more, ping me) together. Oh, robots too if you have/want one of those! Let's make science into tangible projects! If you have any suggestions or feedback, don't hesitate to get in touch: contactme [at] citizeninventor [dot] com

Hoodlums is a group for experienced software developers interested in the programming language Haskell. Members range in experience from those just reading about the language to those working with it daily. The purpose of the group is to help members learn from each other, to share experience, provide a forum for questions and to get a chance to hack some code. We meet monthly on the second Thursday of the month in Canary Wharf. It is a "Coding Dojo" format where we pick some interesting proble …

London DevOps is a group of both Dev & Ops professionals (managers, engineers & hackers) and entrepreneurs that meets to discuss topics related to DevOps (whatever that means). The group focuses on enterprise deployments in financial, insurance, health, and retail sectors.