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 International Space Apps Challenge brings together people around the world in creating solutions of global importance related to spaceflight. Chaotic Moon is hosting the 2013 International Space Apps Challenge in Austin, Texas.

With rotary tools and soldering irons, thermal paste and multimeters, cable ties and (sometimes) duct tape, we have taken many Macs, some new, mostly old, and wreaked madness on them. Case mods, motherboard swaps, overclocks, wholesale transplants... this group is for anyone in Austin who trolls through salvage shops and recycling centers looking for old busted machines and parts, puts them together in Mac-ensteinian ways, and otherwise engages in Mad Mac Hacking. We meet to show our creations, …

Austin is more than just software and semiconductors. It's time to bring attention to the middle of the stack. The purpose of this group is to bring together folks interested in building businesses around physical products - to grow the Austin hardware community, raise awareness of hardware startups and resources, and learn from each other and those who have done it before. Meetup photo courtesy of Flickr user alorenzi

Group for developing ideas and apps with Sails.JS. We can all get together and brainstorm and if we like an idea, hack it out and try to launch it as a startup. This will happen every month.

Hello and welcome! The charity we support through this meetup is called the D.O.V.E. Fund Bandage Brigade and they knit and crochet bandages for a leprosy camp in Vietnam. People suffering from leprosy need their wounds cleaned and rebandaged very frequently and the typical Ace bandage just doesn't hack it, so the group makes bandages from 100% mercerized crochet cotton. Please join us if you would like to help! We can teach crochet or knit if you don't know how! It's easy! For more into: http:/ …

CodeforSA is a Code for America Brigade for San Antonio

Learn and improve your skills with the Python programming language. Austin already has two excellent Python meetups for people familiar with the language (Austin Python and Austin Web Python). This meetup is for novice and experienced programmers alike who want to learn how to use Python idiomatically and pragmatically to build cool things, from web apps to hardware hacking to data science. The discussion list is a friendly, local resource for answering your Python questions, and our meetups are …

PyLadies is a social/professional group for female Python programmers at every experience level. Developers and aspiring developers only, please.  (Beginners are always welcome!) Join us on IRC: #pyladies Don't forget to follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/pyladiesatx Ask us questions in our local Google Group: https://groups.google.com/group/pyladies-austin Join us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PyladiesAustin And if you'd like to get some more information about our parent organiza …

TechShop is the first membership-based, do-it-yourself workshop and fabrication studio. We provide members with access to tools and equipment, instruction from local professionals and educators and a community of creative and supportive people. TechShop offers training on every piece of equipment in the facility to members and the public. Our wide range of classes lets you learn how to use the tools and equipment as you need them. At TechShop you can build your dreams and we will provide the too …

The iSEC Open Security Forum is an informal and open venue for the discussion and presentation of security related research and tools, and an opportunity for security researchers from all fields to get together and share work and ideas. The Forum meets quarterly in the Bay Area, Seattle, New York City and Austin. Forum agendas are crafted with the specific needs/interests of its members in mind and consist of brief 20-30 minute talks. Talks are not product pitches or strongly vendor preferential …

L.I is made up of people who are interested in physical security, such as bypassing locks, learning new techniques for opening difficult locks, and connecting people. We abide by the laws set down in each State or Province (For our Canadian neighbors). Likewise we have our own code of ethics we adhere to. They're almost all common sense rules that you should always practice. You should never pick locks that you don't own, or that you don't have the owners explicit permission to pick. We enjoy h …