Come join developers, designers, data geeks, leaders, and idea-makers who volunteer to help Seattle, WA government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies. Technology and civic activists fostering the community-authored and LocalWiki powered site, SeattleWiki.net, among other projects. Inspired by, and eager to contribute to, Code for America's http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/.

You are interested in all things spatial and want to share that passion with others through technology. Perhaps you like to develop custom solutions and understand APIs and programming or you're just someone who has a use for web mapping. The Fraser Valley is on the outskirts of most of the existing mapping organizations and we want to build our own community. We have much to learn from one another: open data, open street mapping, open source software, new technology and techniques, and more. Le …

Focused on Mozilla Webmaker: Web and Digital Literacy + the fun of 'Making' in British Columbia. Empowering children and youth in the digital age. Talking about family-friendly Hack/Maker spaces. Membership is diverse: Web Developers, EdTech, Filmmakers, Open Data advocates, Scientists, Educators and beyond!

“This is a group for anyone interested in Big Data. All skills levels are welcome."

Monthly MeetUp group for practitioners of Machine Learning, Statistics, AI, and other aspects of "Data Science". Do you want to learn more about using R and nltk? Or Apache Mahout and Giraph? Do you write your own custom NLP code, and want to compare notes with others of your clan? We're going to try and alternate locations between Seattle Proper and the Eastside, to get a little bit of balance. Let's see if we can balance our time between formal presentations / talks, and breakout white …

Interested in Distributed Databases, Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, Neo4j? Predictive or Realtime analytics? Data/text mining? Join us! Everyone loves use cases. If you would like to present one to the group, send me a note at lynn@lynnbender.com. Lightning talks are welcome too.

Open to all those interested in Apache Cassandra, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Hector, NoSQL, Pig, and high scalability. Let's get together and share what we know.

You love maps and computers, preferably at the same time! If you don't own a GPS, you kind of wish you did. You know what the acronym ESRI stands for. When someone offers you data, you say "yes!" Victoria is a hot-bed of geospatial technology and GIS smarts, but the community is fragmented and doesn't talk amongst itself nearly enough! We have much to learn from one another: what is the state of geodata, open government, open street mapping, open source software, new tricks for web mapping, and …

Open to all interested in the Hadoop and its surrounding ecosphere. Let us know what you would like to see! Do you have a presentation that you would like to share? Would your company like to host or sponsor a meetup? Send a note to data@lynnbender.com.

WA is the home to the two biggest cloud service platforms (Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure). However, a platform is as good as what you do with it. This is a hands-on group for anybody, who wants to do something useful with popular IaaS, PaaS or SaaS cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Rackspace cloud/OpenStack, Google AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, Joyent, Heroku, Force.com, and others). The definition of "useful" is limited only by your imagination :-) The format of the meetu …

This a right place for you if you are willing to drive your e-business based on real data and not guesses and assumptions, or if you'd like to help e-businesses collect and analyze their online and offline data. The group mandate is to create a community of local e-business owners, online marketers, web analyst, technology experts, entrepreneurs, and managers. V-WACH is committed to hold affordable or free high quality events including trainings, social events and seminars, to educate members, h …

This is a meetup group for those interested in the DevOps movement.

A monthly gathering for Seattle area tech junkies. More specifically, those focused on storage, HPC, and general IT. Industry guys, IT guys, nerds, geeks, tech philosoraptors, whatever.... Whether 3 or 30 this should be good times to get together talk shop, learn from peers, or just have some beers and a good time. Only a couple of rules: 1. No management, No selling, No recruiting 2. BYOA (bring your own AMEX) Industry guys or those with P-Cards will typically be covering festivities but this i …

From big, well-organized hackathons like Startup Weekend and AngelHack to small, ad hoc hackathons like a couple of friends in a coffee shop, we want to help increase the number of hackathons going on in Seattle, help support them, and help publicize them.

Our group seeks to create a community of couples and singles who are diverse and interesting. We know that true friendships are more than demographic data points or people who share a particular interest. We believe that friendships take time to evolve and a commitment to engage on a deeper level. If you want more than an occasional dinner, superficial conversation and the Seattle Freeze, then we want you to join us. If you are open to meeting new people who are from all ages, religious affiliat …

Join us for an evening of discussion and beers about Puppet and DevOps. If you are using or want to learn about Puppet, configuration management, DevOps practices, etc, please stop by.