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 …

Fair Use Building and Research Labs (FUBAR Labs for short!) is a vibrant hackerspace located in central NJ. We feature lounge, classroom, and workshop spaces with lots of tools for making and hacking, including a laser cutter, lathe, mill, drill press, band saw, chop saw, 3D printer, mig welder, soldering equipment, electronic supplies, raw materials, expertise, and a fun atmosphere. Come hack with us!

"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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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!

Join this group if you're interested in everything technology.  From hacking on software to demoing the latest gadgets our members are passionate and are interested in learning, sharing and collaborating on all things technology.  We foster a diverse social setting that welcomes interested individuals and offers something for everyone regardless of your technical background. Join the group and have some fun with technology.  If you are interested in starting projects or are currently working on …

Meet with other NYC IT Professionals and Hackers. We are gathering to discuss solving problems, breaking systems 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 some enlightening discussions.

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 …

betaNYC is building a better tomorrow for all. (This group is formerly known as "Open NY Forum.") Since 2009, we have been NYC's civic technology and open government vanguard. By leading elected officials to engage with NYC’s technology community, passing transformative open government legislation, supporting NYC's civic technology startups, and building apps to protect democracy and serve our fellow brothers and sisters, we have become America’s largest civic technology and open government com …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

We have monthly hackathons in the Philly area for people working on or interested in startups (primarily Internet related). A hackathon is an event with no specific agenda--everyone comes and "hacks" on their projects. It is a great place to meet other local hackers and get feedback/help on your projects. Every month we have the meetup at a local Philly company where cool hacking is going on. We have pizza for dinner, hang out and talk about our startup experiences, and hack on our projects toge …

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 …

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 …

Most people believe that black technologists are rare. I chose to believe otherwise. Why we exist: This meetup exists because I was damn tired of being the only black person at other tech meetups. I knew I couldn't be the only computer nerd of color in New York, so I started this group to find others like me. Here's what you need to know: We aim to be a network of developers in NYC interested in becoming better, learning from each other and networking. We mix hardcore computer science with s …

RSVP to get a nametag. This is important, because people without nametags aren't even really people. There, I said it. ******** HackerNest is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit movement dedicated to uniting local tech communities globally. We do this by cramming lots of very smart people into a room and providing free beer - rescuing them from the isolation of basements, offices, and the plight of code tunnel vision. Our friendly, relaxed, and inclusive Tech Socials provide a casual, unprete …

A monthly gathering of techies around Princeton. Nerds, creatives, entrepreneurs, and investors welcome! We hope to create a community similar to the NY, NJ (Hoboken), Jersey Shore and Philly Tech Meetup groups, without the long drive for those who live and work in between the metro areas. We want to bring Princeton students and faculty together with experienced professionals so they can benefit from each other's advice, knowledge, experience, perspective, and energy. Each meeting should have so …

NYC has countless tech meet-ups and events, but where's all the hardware love? We want to bring together a strong community of folks eager to build businesses with physical products, be it a cold fusion engine or a bionic fork. Whether you're an engineer, designer, CEO, investor, or anyone interested in being a part of the hardware start-up eco-system, come join us and let's create an amazing addition to the tech scene in the Big Apple.

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 …

This is a group for hacking Big Data with Math, Machine Learning, Statistics. We will learn how to ask good questions about data and derive actionable insights. Group will focus on recent advances in math algorithms on unbalanced real world datasets. We will look at a rich tool chain for datascience including and not limited to R, Python, H2O. Focus will be on practice of data science along with nuances of popular algorithms on public datasets. Most all sessions will have a demo or a hands-on c …

This meetup is about growth hacking – the space where marketing and technology intersect GrowHack fosters an ecosystem where startups, marketers, technologists, investors, larger businesses or a mix of the above can discuss ways to best take advantage of using the web to distribute — whether it’s for a consumer internet startup, or targeting businesses. Content will include technology and growth cases studies, as well as cross-industry and vertical specific meetups in Consumer, Fintech, Mediatec …

You're obsessed with Making It. You made It, that thing, that object, and you want to show It off. Perhaps you're in the process making It, but you'd like some feedback from your peers before you finish It. Or you want to make It, but you have no idea how. Maybe you've perfected It, but now you need to figure out how to Kickstart It, sell It, license It, manufacture It. MakeIt is a general show-and-tell for physical things that you've made, where Makers can talk about their projects, how they cr …

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