Welcome to the Washington DC Software Craftsmanship User Group! This group is for software developers in the Washington DC area that care about the quality of their work and want to practice and improve their programming skills, share what they know and learn new things from others. This is a hands-on coding user group with no presentations. Each meeting will be a dojo where we will go through a challenging software craftsmanship exercise that focuses on clean code, test-driven development, des …

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 …

If you develop software for a living, you need at least one "dynamic" language in your toolkit. Languages that make it easy to do meta-programming are invaluable for many types of problems. If you are a Java developer, there are especially compelling reasons for investing in Groovy and the numerous Groovy-based frameworks -- Grails, Griffon, Gradle, Spock, Gaelyk, etc. The purpose of this group is to cultivate a local community for learning and sharing about experiences with the Groovy and Grail …

This is a group for anyone interested in learning to program. I'm trying to teach myself Ruby/Ruby on Rails/Git/general programming and I feel like it would be more fun in a group. I would love to meet regularly and work through a beginner book or building a program. Please let me know if you're interested in joining me!

Scala is a general purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way. Scala programs run on the Java VM, are byte code compatible with Java, and can make full use of existing Java libraries or existing application code.

You are invited to join us for networking conversations over lunch with local IT professionals,  webmasters and people of diverse professions and backgrounds to exchange experiences in programming, administration, hosting, development, design, and/or just to meet to chat and learn from non-webmasters to understand where clients are coming from for greater overall long term success. These events are great for practice skills required to build business ventures and develop mutually supportive and …

A group for Python ladies of all levels of programming experience, in the Washington, DC area. Developers and aspiring developers only, please! Let's keep this group primarily focused on Python programming. We have zero tolerance for anyone who comes just to recruit developers. Join us on IRC - #pyladies or Ask us questions in our local Google Group: https://groups.google.com/group/pyladiesdc

Meet others who love programming in Erlang, share information, and swap Erlang war stories. If you are excited about Erlang and want to meet other like-minded folks, or if you just want to see Erlang become more popular as a language, then join this group.

You are invited to explore the extraordinary realm of Ericksonian Hypnosis, Brief Psychotherapy and Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). This group is for Coaches, Counselors, Psychotherapists and those people who are interested in seeking knowledge and skill in these fields. The mission of the group is to set out on adventures in learning to enhance skills for achieving excellence both professionally and personally.

This group is for parents & educators who want to teach computer technology and design. We want to have regular meetups to exchange ideas and also to also provide opportunities for kids to learn programming, design, and robotics skills.

You in talent acquisition/recruitment/technology/studying/job search? Then this group is for you! Meet other local recruiters, HR professionals, ERE.net members and hiring managers. Discuss topics including recruiting tactics, eRecruitment, social media, web 2.0/recruitment 2.0, talent management, best & next practices, and building business relationships. Corporate talent acquisition practitioners are especially encouraged to join to share your front line experience. Other Topics of discussion: …

DC Perl Mongers meets monthly to celebrate and share Perl and related (generally open-source) technologies and cultures. Perl is a programming language which excels at text manipulation, and is additionally used for all sorts of software development. Also check out our website/wiki - http://dc.pm.org/ We primarily communicate via our mailing list. To subscribe, send an email to majordomo@lists.pm.org with "subscribe dc" in the body of the message (no subject necessary). You may then send mail to …

We are a group of people in the DC-MD-VA area who are interested in hypnosis and/or NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming). Some of us have no experience in hypnosis or NLP and some are professionals of many years, with others everywhere in-between. All who are interested are welcome. We will hold meetups where members can learn and share, and enjoy themselves. Join us and participate!

Meet people interested in personal growth, inner and outer aspects of self-empowerment, advancement. EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED! We believe there is the opportunity for self-empowered people in the Washington D.C. area to play a very important role in the 21st century. These free monthly events on 3rd Sundays are a fun way to meet people passionate about personal growth and self-empowerment, as well as people interested in related topics including spirituality, A Course In Miracles, Conversations wit …

Several of us attending the Montgomery College World Languages program completing French I - Part 2 wanted to continue practicing conversation during the January break. We're happy to have others join us who've had at least a semester or so of French.

Storm Users Group is a community for Storm developers and companies using Storm. 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 with any programming language, and is a lot of fun to use!

We're inviting Corona SDK developers (and future developers) in the Washington DC area to get together and discuss mobile development and technology (for iOS and Android), Corona tips and tricks, and the Lua programming language. Experienced Corona developers and newcomers are equally welcome!

Women who have completed Celebrating Men, Satisfying Women workshop and live in the DC, MD, VA area.

Motivation in a group setting to get fit and stay fit. Anyone who is interested in joining should be in physical shape to undertake basic physical activities. You should consult your physician before undertaking any diet or exercise program. It is hard in our professional careers to maintain the motivation to not de-compensate after coming home from work. The purposes of this group is set goals and achieve them with the professional assistance of Mr. Owen Lentz who currently plays for Maryland E …

The dynamic, diverse and service-centered Rotary Club of Capitol Hill draws members who live or work in DC, Maryland and Virginia. Since 2003, our members have represented the dynamic diversity of Capitol Hill and Washington, DC. Ranging from those in their 20's to 60's, more than half of our members are women and the members of our club represent numerous races and nationalities -- both from the United States and abroad. We have several members who are alumni of Rotary Foundation programs such …

Tennis Player, We are the Washington DC / Northern Virginia / Montgomery County Online Tennis Community. With over 6,500 players we have the members who will want to meet up with you on the tennis courts. We allow players to put post meetups. So feel that it is acceptable to promote an event that you will take ownership of and we'll let the meetup group know about it. The community is large enough that we are able to run Socials, Tournaments, Tennis Partner programs and our primary product, Leag …

Abraham's message continues to evolve. Processes evolved into the Vortex Work and are now the Grid Work. What hasn't changed is: Most of us are lazy. :) We're going to do the work...later. We're going to find ourselves in the vortex and milk it...next time we remember to. Here:  kind accountability for doing the written vortex work. In ultra-small groups, in a lovingly supportive format, we post Abraham-based processes daily on a private forum with others doing the same thing (no more than te …

Are you ready to get inspired? Are you ready to go shopping and update your wardrobe without breaking the bank? Don't shop!!! SWAP! At our "Swap Til' You Drop' Clothing Swap Events you can meet with locals to swap the cool clothes you no longer want or need. Our events cost just $5.00 for entry - Just bring all of the clothing, shoes and accessories you have! You can shop/swap for all the items that you want! No limit;) Are you a Recessionista Fashionista? Let's not allow our economy to get us d …

Welcome to the Meetup group for the activities of the C&O Canal Association.  We sponsor hikes, canoe trips and bike rides along the 184-mile-long towpath between Georgetown and Cumberland. Our events are open to the public. C&O Canal Association is an all-volunteer citizens organization established in 1954 to help conserve of the natural and historical environment of the C&O Canal and the Potomac River Basin.  The association works with the National Park Service in its efforts to preserve and p …

Hi, I'm creating this group because I'm so excited that the company that trained me to be a life coach, Accomplishment Coaching, is starting a program in Washington DC. I have a rewarding and profitable coaching practice and a great life thanks to the work I have done with these amazing and dedicated people. Please join this group is you are looking for a new way to create power, enjoyment and velocity in your life and/or to become an outstanding coach. Some of the best coaches in the area a …

We are a fun energetic group who has a true love of dachshunds of all shapes and sizes. We like to get together in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia to share a wealth of information with each other (i.e. good nutrition, training tips, pet sitting, health care providers, etc.). If there's a dachshund (s) in need, our group pulls together and we do whatever it takes to lend a hand. The group is now lead by new organizers Kelly Ann and Tyler. Together with their three loveable dachshunds Norma …

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 several sister groups that meet in other cities: New York, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of New York", Boston, Chicago, Silicon Valley, and Tokyo ... you can find them all on meetup.com

Let's teach ourselves Objective-C for iOS development! If you want to learn to develop iPhone or iPad apps, please join us. Early meetups will start from scratch. As we grow, we can start helping beginners as we become more experienced. We plan on having meetings twice a month in Northern VA and DC. The NoVA meetings will meet on Mondays at 7 or 7:30 PM. The DC meetings will be on Thursdays. I'm standardizing on the Big Nerd Ranch book series: Objective-C Programming: The Big Nerd Ranch Guide …