We're a bunch of hackers, pirates, ninjas, trolls, keyboard warriors, thinkers, tinkerers, inventors, and makers. We're known for our thought-provoking beer and delicious content. We love security. Come at your risk. Follow us on twitter at @securitymeetup

The Geek Group of Western Mass is a group formed to get a physical space where members can get together to share, learn, create and collaborate with each other. Anyone can join, regardless of experience. In order to help us with bring this dream to reality, we are teaming up with "The Geek Group", to become come their very first Chapter. So if you're interested in making things, hacking, programming or just hanging out with like-minded individuals, come join us. We plan on having tiered member r …

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 …

CT Hackerspace 30 Echo Lake Road Watertown, CT CT Hackerspace is the name of a group located in the US State of Connecticut . Our Mission is to provide a physical location where community members interested in technology can gather to collaborate on projects both physical and conceptual. To provide infrastructure to the community in the form of education, tools and equipment that will allow members to transcend from being interested in technology to implementing technology in actual physical man …

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 …

If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library (did you just write a library to access the Meetup API in Go!?), whatever. We're language and software/hardware agnostic, so it's all fair game. After you present, it's an open f …

Join the local New York City forum for the Volumetric Society ( http://volumetric.org ) an eclectic group of innovators exploring the arts & sciences of a new world of natural user interfaces between body, brain, and spatially aware computing for the physical world.  Come exchange ideas, demo your projects, or just get exposed to the volumetric future that devices such as Kinect, Emotiv/MindWare, volumetric 3D displays and cameras and telematic interfaces are taking us. Everyone is welcome - fro …

What is crisismapping? Crisismappers are online teams of people who gather and provide data online to people responding to and people caught up in disasters. Crisismapping has been around for a while, but for most people it started with the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where all the government and NGO information needed to respond to the earthquake was lost in the earthquake. We created online maps from satelllite images, put SMS and media reports onto an Ushahidi map, got documents into Sahana, …

First off, we have an official website! -> http://squidwrench.org/ Squidwrench's mission is to promote the interaction of creative and technical people in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Squidwrench is a home-grown community of creative people. Our modes of creation encompass painting, composing and performing music, building high-tech toys, building low-tech toys, and probably a lot of other stuff, too. There is no limit to the problems people can solve, given the resources, the inclination, the assista …

A monthly event inviting folks from other disciplines who are intimidated or frightened by the prospect of learning programming to join a judgment-free community that will offer free education and fellowship. The Meetup is typically split into three sections - Section 1 - Learn2Code: An introductory session on some aspect of actual programming with real coding examples. Section 2 - API Junkie: An introduction to the world of APIs. Learn how easy it is to develop using a specific API. Section 3 …

HackDays is a meetup based on the philosophy that: You're a lot more productive when there's a time limit When learning to code, the fastest way to learn is to make something The best way to be introduced to new programming concepts is by interacting with other hackers You don't have to be a code ninja - a lot of HackDays participants are brand new to programming. There are plenty of experienced CS students and hackers around to help. If you're a current college student (CS or otherwise) and w …

The web as we know it evolves rapidly. New layers are added, of social, collaboration, semantic, interactivity and accessibility.. it reaches across all platforms, from the PC and mobile devices to TVs and beyond. Through the web, we're connected any where, at any time. This group is dedicated to bring developers, designers and thinkers together, to explore the vast opportunities and great potential of the web. We hack together, discuss implementations and design approaches. All on the basis and …

It's Tech@NYU's monthly party! At each DemoDay, Tech@NYU members and other NYC students will demo what they've been working on for the last month in the areas of programming and design. It's a monthly celebration, where Tech@NYU opens it doors to show off what we've been doing. NYC students - if you'd like to demo your latest hack, project, or pre-funding startup, please contact one of the organizers. Past demos have included: A Javascript library for calculus and statistics A remote control fo …

Wikimedia NYC is the nonprofit supporting Wikipedia and related projects (and resulting cultural and educational outreach) in the Greater New York City area. We also work with Free Culture Alliance NYC, and this account will also support meetings of everyone interested in that broader movement.

Get together with fellow hackers, tech Meetups from across NYC, and the best APIs around for the first ever cross-language hackathon tournament. Every programming language and platform has its strengths and weaknesses, its devoted fans and its bitter detractors. To celebrate the techno-diversity that makes software programming such a fascinating sport, we're hosting a series of hackathons at Meetup HQ... JavaScript in June PHP in July Python and Ruby in August FINAL BATTLE OF THE BRACES in Sept …

"Hacking" is creating solutions to problems in complex systems. As it turns out, "Health" is an unbelievably complex system (the body), tangled up with an unfathomably real abstraction (the mind) and wrapped in a morass of business, government, and good intentions so labyrinthine in nature that it would make Kafka cry. If you love exploring elegant fixes to problems of mind-shattering difficulty in a collaborative environment then HealthHackingNYC is the group for you. So: Come ask questions tha …

Code together, on anything. Hack New York is a meetup for computer programmers and enthusiasts to get together and work on software together!  You can work on anything! Any language, framework, public/open-source, personal, etc. You don’t have to have an idea to work on and you’re more than welcome to come hang out or pair with someone. Please note this group is not for illegal activities or computer security research specifically. It's just about programmers getting out and sharing with each ot …

For this New York City meetup, we will focus on classes and workshops on the topic of growth hacking. To further connect with and join our community go to meetup.com/growhack What is a growth hacking? Growth hackers have a way of looking at the traditional question of “How do I get customers for my product?” and answer with A/B tests, landing pages, viral factor, email deliverability, and Open Graph. Some of the most successful startups of all time have used growth hacking techniques to grow pro …

Tech Tuesday is the weekly open night at Hack Manhattan, a community hackerspace in the Union Square neighborhood of Manhattan. Stop by to chat about your projects and use our electronics tools, 3D printers, sewing machines or machine shop. Hack Manhattan is located on 137 West 14th Street between Union Square and Chelsea. We are dedicated to technology, art and craft. Our physical space is open every Tuesday evening. A smaller 3D printing foucsed group gathers on Thursday evenings, and it’s pos …

Calling all Growth Hackers! Are you obsessed with growing your business through carefully designed and tested internet marketing? Do you like to A/B test everything you do in life? If so, you have come to the right place! We plan to gather the very best Growth Hackers in Boston to exchange ideas, brainstorm new growth hacks, and inspire each other to achieve new levels of growth hacking success! [growth hacker (noun) - one who’s passion and focus is pushing a metric through use of a testable and …

The goal of this group is to help each other learn about 3d printing and modeling.  We will be printing on my Makerbot Replicator 2 and modeling using any software (I use Google Sketchup).  Beginners to experts are welcomed. There is no fee for the group, but if you would like to print something there will a small fee to cover electric and materials cost.  I only have my laptop, so it's recommended you bring your own computer.  Looking forward to meeting everyone!

We are a group of developers looking to build products motivated by BarCamp style sessions. We want to hear the ideas of developers and rally around ideas worth building. Our goal is to build knowledge, product, and community. Anyone with an idea or a will to build should jump in. All levels and background are welcome.

Conscious Coder is a meetup for coders (hackers || developers || engineers) making the world a better place. We provide a hub for exchanging ideas and inspiration while learning about new technologies. Whether it's collaborative consumption, crowd funding, conscious commerce, collective action, micro finance, clean tech, social good, digital currency, or a completely new concept that moves humanity in a positive direction, if you believe that the intelligent application of technology can create …

This is a group for anyone who makes anything creative with either their computer and/or electronics. Audio, Video, Lighting, Programming, etc. We'll meet monthly and have workshops, lectures, audio and video improv jams, hack sessions, a party to wrap up the evening, and more!

This group sprang out of a conversation on the Hack and Tell mailing list. Let's get lunch and geek out together! Meet up at coffee shops to hack! Announce impromptu events whenever we'll be hanging out at the Tea Lounge to code or wake up early enough for breakfast with other hackers! Pair over pastries! Learn Lisp over lunch! &c &c &c. Any member can schedule Hack & Snack events. Yes, that means you! If you want company for lunch or brunch or drinks or whatevs, please feel free to schedule it …

Whether it's getting more done with less work in less time, or defining your goals and hacking your way there, Life Hack NYC is the go-to community and event series for being the best possible version of yourself! In the words of Seth Godin, "the key to getting a reputation for being brilliant is actually being brilliant, not just acting like who you are." The core values of this meetup group are as follows: Focus on the essential and rid the optional, less is more Always conquer the 20% of eac …

We will be serving the rails community with educational content geared toward novice, intermediate, and advanced rails developers and enthusiasts. There will be guest lecturers, demonstrations by rails community members, hack-a-thons, networking with other startups, and hopefully fun. Food and beverages will be provided.

From PyLadies.com: We are a group of women developers worldwide who love the Python programming language. We write code by day or night. Some of us hack on Python projects on the side, while others work full-time on Python development. But it doesn't matter. We all just like writing Python code, and that's what brings us together. This group is for anyone who identifies as a woman and is a Python programmer or an aspiring Python programmer. Or even if you have no clue what Python is, but you're …