Come learn to program in HTML5. This meetup is for beginnners. If you are looking for advanced HTML5 programming, this is probably not for you.

This group is an attempt to bring together Groovy / Grails users of all experiences levels to demonstrate, instruct, and spread information about the Grails framework and the Groovy programming language. Our meeting schedule will generally follow a bi-monthly schedule. Every other meeting will be a presentation/lecture, while the others will be a social night at a different bar where we can discuss Grails and other technology with like-minded people. Join us!

This group holds a variety of events throughout the year to support women in engineering and to encourage young women to consider an engineering career. Our monthly meetings usually feature a speaker who is asked to address a topic of interest to women in diverse areas of engineering, at various stages of career advancement, and with different priorities for work/life balance. These programs are geared towards encouraging women to achieve their full potential in careers as engineers and leaders. …

Our Mission: to educate and empower every girl and woman at every age level, on every skill level, at every income level on computer technology with fun and provide a legacy by giving back and paying it forward. We do this by providing full day Tech Boot Camps, Meetups, Geek Girl for Hire, Speakers, online blogs and help. Our demographics are from 10 years old to 86. Why you should be a part: * You want to learn more about computers, including Social Media, Blogging, Photoshop, Quickbooks, Mac a …

The Solar System Ambassadors (SSA) Program is a public outreach program designed to work with motivated volunteers across the nation. These volunteers communicate the excitement of Jet Propulsion Laboratory's space exploration missions and information about recent discoveries to people in their local communities. As a Solar System Ambassador in the Boston area, I created this meetup to meet other Solar System enthusiasts, astronomers (amateur or professional), and SSAs, and to spread knowledge …

Web Start Women is a group of smart, nerdy (and proud of it!) women who are taking over the world learning to program for the web so we can make awesome stuff online. If you have big ideas for new projects... If you want the satisfaction, control, and flexibility of building those projects yourself... If you're looking for a friendly community where you can share ideas and get inspired... And if you want to do it all in an open, supportive, intimidation-free environment with other women... …

Boston Storm Users is a group for developers using or hoping to learn about Twitter's Storm real-time data processing framework. We get together to discuss best practices, to exchange ideas and to learn how to apply Storm to various engineering challenges. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used …

This meetup group was created by the Boston Entrepreneurship Center (BEC) in order to connect the international population in Boston with local professional and academic initiatives.  For the past two years, BEC has been cultivating an international community concerned with socially impacting the world.  Boston is the premier source of incredible initiatives and opportunities for incoming international professionals and students. This network is ideal for people who want to learn more about the …

This is the R user group for the New England and Greater Boston area. R is a free and open programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. Along with this powerful software, comes a dynamic and vast community. The Greater Boston useR Group seeks to bring this community together to share ideas, discuss R related topics, and provide direction for new and experienced users. For more information on R, see The R Project at: http://www.r-project.org/

For Corona SDK developers to get together and discuss mobile development and technology, Corona tips and tricks, and the Lua programming language. Experienced Corona developers and newcomers are equally welcome!

Meet other local people who use Extreme Programming (XP) for software development. Gather and discuss this deliberate and disciplined approach to software development. In the tradition of London's eXtreme Tuesday Club, we hold these discussions in local pubs. We announce schedules and locations of meetings on our blog at http://xtcboston.blogspot.com/ and we'll also be announcing them here.

A group for the application of cutting-edge HPC & GPU supercomputing technology to cutting-edge business problems. With an emphasis on the useful application of supercomputing by practitioners, for practitioners. Note: We have a sister group that meets in New York, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of New York".

There have been over 18,000 SMART Recovery Self-Help Group meetings in Massachusetts since 1990. All groups are lead by volunteers, most of whom are graduates of the SR Program. SR meetings occur weekly in hospitals (e.g., MGH, McLean, Mount Auburn, Salem, Jordan, Lahey Clinic, etc.), a few in community facilities (e.g., Middlesex Community College) and several in prisons. The SMART Recovery Handbook has be translated into 11 languages (e.g., Spanish, Farsi, Mandarin, etc.). There are SR meeting …

Living On Purpose: Starting the Year with a Powerful Resolution and Resolve Each year, we make a commitment to ourselves for ourselves: to change something. Or to give something up. Or maybe to start a new project, or learn something. For most people, the coming year is going to be very important on many levels – financially, our relationships / interrelationships, and in our personal development. And the New Year is a powerful time to create this change and prepare for the coming year. We can c …

We are a group of fitness minded people that love working out! We typically get together on Fridays. Everyone is welcome no matter what your fitness level! All programs can be modified to fit your needs...don't be shy! We want to see you there! We workout to best-selling Beachbody programs like Tony Horton's P90X, Shaun T's INSANITY and Chalene Johnson' TurboFire, just to name a few. We also host challenge groups for those looking for accountability, commitment, and serious weight loss or fitnes …

Once a month weekend brunch program for LGBT Seniors. Held in Braintree. Networking LGBT Seniors in the South Shore Community. Activities and educational program. Not a bar scene at all! Yes, we are growing older and this is the place to network and navigate the older LGBT community. Brunch is free (donation of $2.00 suggested) to those 60 and over. Under 60? No problem minimal charge to eat with us.

Are you interested in meeting other Jewish families with young children in and around the area south of Braintree? Look no further … programs sponsored by the Jewish Community Centers of Greater Boston include Jewish holiday celebrations, parenting groups, mom’s night out, parent and child classes, story times and weekly drop-in meet-ups held in many locations south of Braintree. Members of this group are located as far south as Plymouth and include all the towns in between (Weymouth, Hingham, N …

Serlingpa Meditation Center (http://meditationinmass.org/) is dedicated to achieving world peace through following the Kadampa Buddhist Path. Kadampa teachings offer us special advice, so that we can learn to become happy and lead meaningful lives that have the power to greatly benefit others. It is a path of compassion and wisdom , with a great emphasis on integrating what we learn into our daily lives. You do not need to be Buddhist to benefit from Buddha’s teachings: this is ancient wisdom th …

Center “Makor” acts as community center providing free space and technical assistance with organizing cultural events to numerous local Russian, Jewish and Israeli groups and organizations who also participate in the development of programs for “Makor”. Those groups and organizations previously were not able to secure a place of their own for cultural and social events and programming. The Center is offering a plethora of new cultural opportunities and educational offerings affecting nearly ever …

Come meet-up and join our group of families raising/with young Jewish children, ages 0-5, in the Boston area (including Jamaica Plain, Back Bay and the South End). Opportunities include Jewish holiday celebrations, parenting groups, story times, Shabbat sing-alongs, and weekly drop-in meet-ups held in many locations in the Boston area and at Temple Israel of Boston. All of our programs for families raising/with young Jewish children are open to all – temple membership is not required. So whether …

The Greater Boston Morehouse College Alumni Association (GBMCAA) adheres to the vision of Morehouse College by providing alumni with opportunities to participate in both leadership and service activities. As an organization, we provide educational development opportunities for Boston-area youths through scholarship and mentorship programs. We also provide Morehouse Men in the Greater Boston area with a medium for ongoing fellowship opportunities with other Morehouse Alumni and black professional …

WSHF was born out of the idea that the power of change lies within each of us.  Our overall mission is to promote general wellness through healthy lifestyle and fitness for clients of all ages and fitness backgrounds.  Our coaches strive to individualize each client’s fitness experience using various aspects and modalities (i.e. running, cross training, resistance training, yoga, pilates, etc.) to accommodate skill level, body-type, age, overall goals, etc. Windswept Workouts:  Windswept Workou …

The HOTTEST club in town... Experience the My Fit Clubs phenomenon! Feeling less than inspired at the gym lately? We’ve all been there. Now there’s a NEW way to work out… Team Beachbody Fit Clubs are the latest fitness craze sweeping the nation! Guaranteed to put the spark back in your workout, you’ll sweat to best-selling Beachbody programs, like P90X, INSANITY, LES MILLS PUMP, Brazil Butt Lift and more. Join us for a COMPLIMENTARY WORKOUT and commit to GET FIT! WHY MY FIT CLUBS? *Work …

The Boston Internet Marketing Meetup, (@bostimm) is a rapidly growing local Internet marketing Meetup focused on the Cambridge and Boston locales. True to a Meetup format, we always have a presentation or learning session and a Q&A which is preceded and followed by general networking opportunities with both experienced and relatively new professionals interested in the Internet and its use in successful marketing programs.  We feel peer learning and networking with an educational component is th …

I am a young mom of 6 who would love to meet other Jewish moms and dads. The goal of this group is to give each of us a chance to interact and socialize with other parents who have the same interests and goals. We are starting a Mommy and Me with a Jewish Twist. This program will incorporate songs, art, dance, movement, play time, exercise, mommy yoga, baby massage, parenting tips, stories and various sensory stimulation's. The goal of our program is to deepen our relationships with our bab …

PSK (Public Speaking for Kids) is a group of global volunteers who teach children 8-18 public speaking skills.  Volunteers who learn the PSK curriculum and meet all the other PSK program standards will qualify to teach at PSK schools.  If your expertise is in administration, marketing or sales, there will be roles opening up for volunteers to lead PSK programs in local districts. PSK provides an easy way for volunteers who have a passion to help kids to become top communicators and leaders.  It’ …

The Boston BizSpark Meetup group brings fellow Microsoft® BizSpark™startups and other startups interested in the BizSpark™program together to connect, share ideas, and grow together. We also invite and welcome startup investors to join us, make contacts, and share ideas a well. Microsoft® BizSpark™ is a global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources when they need it the most. Learn more at http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark

The Boston Data Mining meetup focuses on making data mining accessible to everyone. It aims to be inclusive to all regardless if you are a beginner or expert in statistical modeling, machine learning, data mining, or any of the analytics (business, predictive, etc). Our talks will focus on the practical side of data mining and analytics by showing attendees how to perform data modeling in a non-programming environment. To achieve that goal we employ RapidMiner; an open source data mining platfor …