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 want to know more about Information Security, you should join! If you know much about Information Security, you should join! If you don't know anything about Information Security, you should join! While we focus on helping people earn the distinctive Certified Information Systems Security Professional title, this Meetup is for anyone who wants to learn or share knowledge of computer security. If you'd like to earn a CISSP certification, this group will help you get there. If you have a CI …

Get inspiration, ideas, encouragement or just general info to prepare your projects for the 2013 Charlottesville Mini Maker Faire. Have an idea, but need some help? Have tools to lend, but looking for a project? Come and meet other makers, crafters, DIYers and hackers.

Potomac 'Middle Ages' D&D is made of several groups of more mature folks, mostly in their 30s and 40s+, that meet regularly to play the Dungeons and Dragons V3.5 role-playing game. We're from the Metro Wash DC area (along the Potomac River and I-95), with most delves (sessions) held in Northern Virginia (Alexandria, Woodbridge, Stafford vicinities). Each of our Gaming Groups is different, tone set primarily by the location "Host" and the game's "DM" (dungeon master).  We're about having fun and …

We dig open source. From the Linux operating system to arduino electronics and all the points in between. We meet montly in Downtown Staunton for scheduled talks, hack sessions, demos, and anything else that might be connected with the free (as in speach) software while we drink some free (as in beer) ... beer.

We're a newbie-friendly Clojure user group oriented around talking about, learning about, and hacking on this awesome functional programming language on the JVM. We strive for openness and accessibility to all levels of experience. Our only prerequisites are an interest in building your skills in and furthering your understanding of Clojure, and your willingness to encourage and enable your peers to do the same. We also maintain a GoogleGroups list. You should consider joining this list if you w …

Welcome to the Roanoke Robotics & Makers Club! We build robots ... We make all sorts of things... we hold friendly competitions & workshops ... we learn from each other... and we have a lot of fun! We meet at the Science Museum of Western Virginia in Roanoke, Virginia, on the first Saturday of every month, at 12:00 noon. The robotics club is for everyone... adults, families, and kids of all ages. If you like to build, design, hack, modify, learn about & share robotics & other exciting technolog …

We're hosting an Extended Site for the Google I/O Conference. You can participate remotely in the keynotes with your peers from around the region. We'll be serving lunch and hosting a hackathon following the main sessions.

The DC Tech Meetup convenes technologists, entrepreneurs, investors and the broader innovation community regularly to learn and share. Each month, 800+ innovators gather to see demos, launch products and meet their future co-founders, partners and funders.

We're a bunch of hackers, inventors, engineers, techies, developers and makers who love all things IT and security. Everyone is welcome - from advanced hardware hackers to those who would like to learn what can be done with these new technologies in the arts, sciences, healthcare, gaming, academia, and business venture opportunities. Our meetups are totally informal and are a great opportunity to chat about projects, create new ones, solve problems, mingle, network and generally shoot the breeze …

We're a rag-tag group of software developers, mostly focused on web tech, but with a wide range of interests and experience. Our meetings are a mix of free-ranging discussion, short presentations, and project co-working. If you have ideas to share, questions to ask, or code to hack on, come by and say hi.

ClusterDC aims to bring together the Washington DC area's brightest developers, data scientists, analysts and big data fanatics to form a collaborative and hands-on group to solve the world's data problems. OK, that's a stretch, but this group is by invite and application only and for people interested in hacking and developing novel and intelligent solutions around Big Data, NoSQL and distributed computing technologies. Be ready to teach and to be taught and to collaborate with your peers. Plan …

We are DC-area technology entrepreneurs and innovators who want to build viable and vibrant business based on hardware, whether electronic, mechanical, or other. Atoms are the new bits: We believe that the time is ripe for a new wave of entrepreneurship in hardware in the United States and worldwide. Lean startup / pretotype methodologies: Thanks to inexpensive contract manufacturing, domestic and overseas, 3D printing, programmable hardware, and an Internet to propagate ideas, the principles of …

The NOVA Makers meetup is dedicated to creating and supporting a Maker community in Northern Virginia. Everyone with a passion and interest in making things is welcome to join!

Use your brain again! We are a hacker space located in Washington, DC. HacDC members improve the world by creatively rethinking technology. We break, build, and occasionally abuse technology in the pursuit of greater knowledge about how it works and repurposing it to build new things. Our shop is located in the Columbia Heights neighborhood of DC. Visit our site at http://hacdc.org for more details.

Reverse Space (RS) is a maker community, with a ‘space’ in Herndon, VA, currently sponsored by Cortona Academy. The community began in October 2010 by accumulating members of the Information Technology field, such as Network Security, Information Forensics, and the like. Now, the community supports many subgroups, ranging from 3D Printing, CNC, and any MakerSpace project members would like to build. Revese Space has the largest 3D printing capabilities and technology for MakerSpaces on the east …

In honor of the CitySec movement started several years ago, this is a local infosec meetup run by NovaInfosec.com. We basically meetup in at a local bar every 2nd or 3rd Wednesday of the month and talk shop, drink a few good beers and maybe grab a bite to eat. It's the perfect way to wind down after a long hard hump day.

Maybe you've read the Lifehacker blog, Tim Ferriss' Four Hour Workweek, Gretchen Rubin's Happiness Project, Leo Babauta's Zen Habits, or Chris Guillebeau's Art of Non-Conformity or The $100 Startup. If you liked what you saw and are looking for a community of other people who are tackling the same challenges, this is the group for you. All members will have the chance to share favorite new hacks and current obstacles, to help us learn from each other. Since we ascribe to the 'personal choices ov …

Do you know your ways around systems? Do you know more than just performing vulnerability, network scans, password cracking, or using a sniffer to listen across the network wire, etc.?  Can you decrypt encrypted files on the fly? Today's network traffic is mostly encrypted, how do you analyze traffic?  Do organizations have a box or appliance to decrypt traffic?  What if you are an Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Analyst, how would you examine the traffic -- if 80% to 90% of the traffic is enc …