Holland hackers interested in startups. Are you building something? Is it awesome? Shiny enough to show to other people and possibly found a company on? Please come hangout with us. We need more of those people in our lives. Formed by fans of Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com), the original Hackers and Founders started in Silicon Valley almost 3 years ago. Hackers and Founders meetups have since been meeting in New York, Indianapolis, Wellington, New Zealand, Boston and Mumbai. We are the …

The Dutch Django Association (Django Vereniging) is a Dutch community for Python and Django enthusiasts. Originally founded to organize DjangoCon Europe 2011 in Amsterdam, we have now become a platform for Django developers in the Netherlands. The goal and mission of the Dutch Django Association is and has always been 2-folded: Stimulate more communication between Django developers and users. Promote the use and development of the Django framework. Activities include the organisation of a quar …

Welcome to the Amsterdam Motion Graphics Meetup Group! For users of After Effects, Motion, Maya, Cinema 4d, Smoke, FCP, Premiere and other motion graphics/editing programs. Let's meet up over beer and jaw about what we do, the industry, cool things we're learning, etc.

Welcome to the Dutch Android User Group (DutchAUG) The Dutch Android User Group (DutchAUG) organises monthly meetups where Dutch Android professionals can meet and connect with each other. The main goal is to inspire and be inspired by hearing members sharing their knowledge about- and experiences with their passion, Android. Our meetups are fun and technical, with presentations done by Android gurus, open discussions, demo's and workshops in an informal setting. The purpose is to provide you “t …

One of the most enjoyable things of being a developer is that you can quickly make stuff work together. Getting to know other tinkerers is a great experience. It helps get new ideas, blow off steam and show off new tricks. Apart from all that it's important to share food and drinks with like-minded people. Combine all this into an early exit from work, followed by an evening of hacking, eating and drinking with other makers. Would be awesome, right? So why not join the next time?

Do It Yourself Biology (DIY Bio) is a growing movement of citizen scientists working with biology. Meetings will be about the tools to do so, such as hardware, software, wetware and DIY protocols. Also invited speakers will present their projects and/or insights. Please feel free to join and learn.

Hi! I'm an expat living in Utrecht and i started this group because I would like to meet with new people and chat about web design and web development while drinking a beer. If you are a web designer/developer/seo/sem/etc. and like to meet with new people and chat, join us!

De Symfony User Group - Nederland(s) is de nederlandse gebruikersgroep van Symfony. Symfony framework voor het ontwikkelen van internet applicaties op basis van PHP.

De maand april zal in Amsterdam elk jaar in het teken van apps. Appril wil de wereld van apps inzichtelijker maken en wil de verschillende partijen die betrokken zijn bij deze groeiende markt met elkaar in contact brengen. Appril organiseert door de hele stad workshops, lezingen en bijeenkomsten op het gebied van creatie, educatie, ondernemerschap en techniek. Appril roept ontwikkelaars, ontwerpers, ondernemers en gebruikers op om mee te helpen van april een prachtig Appril te maken of hun (nu a …

Join us to have fun, make friends, and get in great shape! We host structured training programs for ALL fitness levels--from beginners to experienced marathoners. Membership fee required. www.houseofrunning.com We follow a structured program with trained coaches to prepare for races such as the Dam tot Dam, the Amsterdam Marathon, half marathon, & 8 Km race, the Rotterdam and Paris marathon, and others, and we focus heavily on the social aspect of running. We also host a variety of other running …

A english-speaking group for PHP Developers in and around Amsterdam. Our goal is to grow the local community, search for new developers and spread knowledge and resources. Amsterdam is a very active technology center for the Netherlands, many companies and people from various countries have chosen this area to settle down and start their companies. PHP has a big role in this and for that reason we created a User Group focused on this area and in doing activities in english to acommodate all of t …

Hi there! Welcome to European Professional Women's Network - Amsterdam! EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam is a non-profit international networking association for professional women in the Netherlands with a paid membership fee. We offer an open platform for members to communicate and share expertise through organized monthly meetings and informal networking sessions. An integral part of the EuropeanPWN-Amsterdam philosophy is our open, positive approach – one that aims to promote the personal growth of o …

RailsGirls aims to introduce more women to the wonderful world of programming in Ruby on Rails.

Calling all JavaScript developers in Amsterdam! AmsterdamJS is back and more alive than ever. We are hoping to create a big JavaScript community in Amsterdam that reflects the vibrant tech scene of the city. Every month we organize a meetup with amazing talks, great developers and snacks and drinks to go with it. If you want to give a talk about your project, or whatever interests you that is related to JavaScript, just give us a shout!

We will meet regularly to explore the use of .NET for building mobile applications. We will focus on multi-platform mobile development, including MonoTouch, Mono for Android, Windows Phone, Windows 8 and ASP.NET. This group is targeted at all skill levels, from beginners to experts in .NET looking to explore the mobile space and reuse your existing knowledge. We will have a mixture of presentations, discussions and demos with plenty of opportunities to get to know each other.

This is a meetup group for developers and designers with a passion for Facebook in the Netherlands. Let's get together and develop fun and inspiring Facebook apps! A hackathon serves as the foundation for some great (and not so great) ideas. Join us and have the opportunity to try out new ideas, learn and collaborate with other people in a fun environment.

This is a user group for MySQL users. This is the place to meet other MySQL users. It's for DBA's, developers, architects and all other interested users. It's both for experienced users and user who are starting to learn about MySQL and databases in general. It's for users of Oracle MySQL (Community and Enterprise), Percona Server, MariaDB, Drizzle and all other branches and forks. Feel free to suggest locations for the meetups.

This group is for anyone interested in how communication and NLP influence many aspects of life. We explore how the models and NLP thinking style shed light on actual topics and/or issues.

With Founders Coffee you visit another startup office every time, learning about them, about fellow founders and taking some ideas with you that you can use right away in your own startup. We have a small program of max half an hour with an hour of networking attached to it. Best of all, the coffee is of great quality... and free! Founders are aspiring, starting, started, seasoned or former entrepreneurs. Founders coffee is for founders and their +1s only.

Deze bijeenkomst is speciaal voor jonge ondernemers die aan hun netwerk willen werken. Tijdens deze bijeenkomst kan je jouw ervaringen delen met andere jonge ondernemers. Als jonge ondernemer ben je elke laatste donderdag van de maand van harte welkom in hartje Utrecht.

Cross Functional Amsterdam aims to bring together commercial users of functional programming. We want to support and promote functional technologies in the Dutch software industry. Topics for future meetings could include, Essentials of functional programming Real world experiences with functional styles Mixing functional code into existing imperative/OOP codebases Functional programming language specifics: Scala, Haskell, F#, Erlang, Ocaml, Clojure, Scheme. Functional idioms in non-functional …

An Amsterdam based group for those interested in Riak, distributed systems, NoSQL, and app development.

GOTO Nights are free evening community events, driven by involvement from both speakers and participants. These events are organized in the runup toward the GOTO Conference in June and are designed for software developers, IT architects, agilists, product owners and project managers and everyone who is interested in the topics presented at one of the GOTO Nights. GOTO Amsterdam offers ideal opportunities for learning, networking and tracking innovation occurring in the Java, Mobile, Cloud, OpenS …

Amsterdam loves Scala! We believe there should be more Scala events in Amsterdam and we will make sure there will be!

This group is for everybody who is interested in Golang (www.golang.org). The aim of this group is to organize meetups in (or around) Amsterdam.

The dutch Scala enthusiasts have been organizing regular meetups since 2009 to bring together Dutch Scala developers, experts, speakers, and anyone else interested in learning or teaching about Scala. We have hosted speakers like Jonas Boner, Daniel Spiewak, and even Martin Odersky himself, but mostly we like to serve as a way for the Dutch Scala community to stay in touch and exchange knowledge and opportunities with each other. We are in the process of moving our old Ning site (and all its me …

We're bringing together all developers interested in the Play Framework (http://www.playframework.com/), version 1 and 2, Java and Scala. We will try to meet four times a year in an office around Amsterdam. The format will be a combination of a few short presentations plus drinks and networking.