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 …

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.

Meet other local JavaScripters to share knowledge, help each other out, review new technology and dream up new ways to use and make JavaScript the most loved language around. We encourage knowledge sharing and a comfortable environment to be yourself. Our meetings cover general Web Development topics focused on the programming side of things. Sometimes we cover the many JavaScript libraries available to aid in JavaScript development, including Backbone, Ember, ExtJS, Sencha Touch, jQuery, etc.

The DC Area R Users group has become Statistical Programming DC (SPDC), a part of Data Community DC. This change is a reflection of the reality that people working with data use multiple tools to get the job done. This group has a very strong R user base and following, and our content will be primarily R focused. However, we will also have events on other programming languages that are used for statistical, numerical and data programming including Python, MATLAB, and julia, among others. Our mee …

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!

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 …

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.

The Howard County Striders are an incorporated non-profit organization dedicated to promoting lifetime fitness through running, based in central Maryland. We sponsor or support many types of activities, including high quality race events, group runs, low-key weekly races, and a robust complement of training programs for both adults and youth, from beginners on up, to support continued active lifestyles in the community. This is our on-line Meet-Up to connect to runners not familiar with the HC S …

Overview The "Young Advocates" are a group of young professionals looking to get actively involved in volunteerism and social fundraising with The Boys and Girls Clubs of Annapolis & Anne Arundel County. Originally geared toward social fundraising 5 years ago, today’s organization works directly with club members through our Volunteer to Volunteer (“V2V”) program while secondary goals around social fundraising and networking opportunities continue to drive monetary needs for different club progr …

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 …

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 …

The Baltimore Perl Mongers is a group of people local to the Baltimore, Maryland area with an interest in the Perl programming language. Some of us are new to the language, some are well-acquainted, some use it on UNIX, others on Win32, but all are welcome. The group meets on the third Thursday of the month at 6:30 PM at the Tindeco Wharf building on Boston Street. Our pm.org site is http://baltimore.pm.org!

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

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 …

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

Interested in High Dynamic Range images from digital cameras? Looking to learn how to take better HDR photographs? Wondering which HDR software program works the best? Want to join a group of HDR enthusiasts who have like interests? You've come to the right spot. Our meetup group is interested in digital HDR photography. We examine the various alternatives for processing multi-images and look at the various software programs used including Photomatix, NIK HDR Efex Pro, Adobe Photoshop CS5, Topaz …

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.

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 …

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 …

The Baltimore Road Runners Club was founded to promote running for both the recreational and the competitive runner. Our current membership come from various running backgrounds and ages. Some members are competitive marathoners and ultramarathoners while others compete on the track and in cross-country. We offer programs and opportunities for all types of runners, from newcomers to experienced. Whether your goal is to run a marathon or just to get into shape, you'll find other club members who …

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!

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 …

A group focused on the Go programming language(golang). We want to learn about Golang's role in highly concurrent network services, concurrency, language design, and other related topics.

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.

This is a group for users of the SAS statistical programming and analysis package in the Baltimore Metro Area. Professionals, students, researchers -- all are welcome. Writing sophisticated macros in a UNIX enviroment? Come share your knowledge. Just learned the difference between a PROC step and a DATA step? Come join us, too!

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!

USA Fit Baltimore is a running group for novice runners, experienced runners, and everyone in between. We are training for the Baltimore Running Festival's Full and Half Marathon. We also have a 5K Family Run Program. We are also training for the Rock n Roll Half Marathon in Philadelphia. It doesn't matter if you've never run before, our training program will help you overcome the mental and physical barriers you've never thought possible. Join us!

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.