nyhacker is a non-profit connector and mentorship organization led by hackers, for hackers. Our mission is to sustain and grow a hacker culture through shared resources, mentorship, programming, and opportunities. Please use this group to propose and organize your own nyhacker events and programs. If you need funding, volunteers, help, or anything else email us at brandon@nyhacker.org. tl;dr -- free events, pizza, beer, jobs, and funding for hackers (by hackers). Please Note: Our events …

This group provides a physical forum in NYC for people curious about creating with the Kinect and other volumetric cameras, software, and displays. Come exchange ideas, demo your projects, or just get exposed to the volumetric future. Everyone is welcome - from advanced hardware hackers to those who would like to learn what can be done with these new technologies. Learn more about these technologies at http://wiki.openvoxel.org & http://openkinect.org . Join the social community around these te …

The Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) is a 501c3 not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization focused on improving the security of application software. Our mission is to make application security visible, so that people and organizations can make informed decisions about true application security risks. Everyone is free to participate in OWASP and all of our materials are available under a free and open software license.

We're a group looking to create a hackerspace for all who are interested in a place to work on projects. We aim to find a suitable shared space in or near Hoboken with room to work on projects and which we can outfit with tools. For more information on hackerspaces, see http://hackerspaces.org

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!

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 …

Everyone has ideas. Not everyone can make them happen. Once a month we get together for a weekend to take a few ideas, chosen semi-democratically, and make them real. It's a hackathon, a community, a bunch of fun. How it works: Once a month we send out an email for projects. In order to submit your project for a barn raising you must have either:-- taken part (constructively) in a previous barn raising-- sponsor beer, pizza and general goodness for that barn raising The first Friday night of …