… Section 3 - Surprise Factor: This section is flexible and we try to do different things each time, ranging from topics as diverse as Peer Talk to Hardware Hacking.  

We started the Experience Hacking Dinner Salon for folks to get together for dinner once a month and discuss research findings in the fields of neuroscience, cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, linguistics, ethnography, and sociology to design better and more engaging experiences for our communities, constituents, and customers. We know so much more than we ever have about what motivates, captivates, and excites people, and we should use that knowledge to design better experiences and …

Get together with fellow hackers, tech Meetups from across NYC, and the best APIs around for the first ever tournament-style hackathon at Meetup HQ! 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 S …

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 …

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 Sa …

Meet with other NYC IT Professionals and Hackers. We are gathering this monthly meetup to discuss our DCNYC group that has been formed to bring together minds to talk about building things, solving problems, breaking things and securing our networks. Ethical & Black Hat hacking in today's world is almost one in the same. We want our meetup to be about sharing tips, networking, and talking shop! Come all as this is an open invite to anyone who wants to learn and have fun.

@brandhackers is a new york city meetup since 2008 showcasing prominent and rising digital marketing and brand technology opinion leaders. Embracing digital media and creative innovation @brandhackers seeks to keep members abreast of new corporate "hacks" - technologies, innovations and digital disruptive platforms which effectively connect brands to consumers in ways that facilitate commerce.The Meetup calls these brandhackathons.   Have a "brand hack" or rising star and panel idea you'd sug …

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 …

@brandhackers showcases prominent and rising digital marketing and brand technology opinion leaders. Embracing digital media and creative innovation @brandhackers seeks to keep members abreast of new technologies, innovations and digital disruptive platforms which effectively connect brands to consumers in ways that facilitate commerce.The Meetup calls these brandhackathons.    Have a "brand hack" or rising star and panel idea you'd suggest for our panels? Forward the following info below to us …

This meetup group has been started because of the challenges I've had of finding Pathfinder and D&D v3.5 players around that are my own age. I know you're out there and are busy with your professional lives and perhaps you have family obligations as I do. The purpose of this group is to initially meet for a bimonthly game of Pathfinder and to escape from reality a couple times a month. I've had the books for two years now & I've kept putting off this group because other things just keep coming u …

The group for auditing CSC 297 "Pervasive Computing" at the University of Rochester with Professor Henry Kautz.

This is a meetup for programmers who support, work or live in the Brooklyn community. I am overwhelmed by the interest so far in this group! I should have known other people loved both Brooklyn and Coding like I do. I am working on getting room for the first meetup and should have a date and location posted soon. I would like the format to be freewheeling and involve showing code and coding. This will not be a just come, listen and network experience, but we will all both teach and learn. Progra …

I love FPGAs. To me, they're a fascinating, exotic computer architecture. To others, they're high-bandwidth video processors, high frequency trading engines, network coordinators, and ASIC prototype platforms. Some people just want to use FPGAs for their hobbies, because they're curious. This group is for all of you. We'll meet to talk about the things we're doing with FPGAs--the languages we're using, the systems we're building, how we manage design flows and complexity, and other things of int …

This is an open hack night for friends and family of Shutterstock employees.

Discuss all Ruby and Ruby on Rails related topics, meet other developers and other interesting folks. Presentations, workshops, hack-fests and more. Meet other developers, find out about interesting projects and opportunities for work and potential employment. Join the group and you'll get a weekly NYC on Rails newsletter with lots of great beginner material.  If you are looking for a ruby developer or a technical co-founder, I highly recommend you post your job at RubyNow. It's one of the most …

Socially Functional is a meetup group for programmers that like to chat/scheme/vent about functional programming. It is also known as Functional Alcoholics, which is a hilarious pun except when people see it out of context and think you have a drinking problem. We have weekly hacking sessions at a coffee shop, and bar meetups at fairly random intervals. If you have an idea for a good bar or other venue, post it!