Bringing Washington DC area Cyber Security developers together. This hands on user group meets monthly to learn about Cyber Security. We are currently studying penetration testing following the outline for the Certified Ethical Hacker.

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 …

DC based group focused on education technology in the K-12 and post secondary spaces.

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.

Study group for Cisco, Juniper Networks, Certified Ethical Hacker and CISSP. Use online study format but meet up once a month to talk about topics face to face. Study Topics - certification Internetwork Expert (INE) CCIE Routing and Switching Internetwork Expert (INE) CCIE Voice - Workbook Micronics Network (Narbik) CCIE Routing and Switching Certified Ethical Hacker Certified Information Systems Security Professional Lab by remote access CCIE R&S for both INE and Narbik track CCIE Voi …

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'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 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 …

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.

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 …

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'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 Open Web & Application Security Project is a global non-profit dedicated to making the Internet a safer place by helping people build more secure applications. The DC Chapter is the local version for people in and around Washington DC who want to discuss application security or other related security topics. OWASP DC is open to all people with an interest -- you don't have to be a "security person" to attend, interact, join, or just drop by. The chapter web page with more details is at http: …

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 …

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 …

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.

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 …