Meet other local Python programming language enthusiasts!  Ask your questions about any aspect of Python development, including "how do I start learning Python?" You may also join the merged APUG/AWPUG mailing list to participate in more discussions.  Visit http://austinpython.org to sign up! Additionally, you can find us on IRC in the #austinpy channel on Freenode.

Free people, competing markets and lawful government The Austin Liberty Activists group is an Open Discussion Mailing List and Message Board serving individual citizen activists in the greater Austin Texas area. Many members are active within Austin Liberty Coalition (ALC) organizations. Open topic email exchanges via this group's mailing list are how members share, learn and develop their views on civil liberties. As this group is primarily a communication network with few restrictions organiz …

Ask anyone who has done it, there is nothing like finishing a marathon or a half marathon. You'll be fit, happy, and mentally strong. And you can do it all with Houston Fit! USA Fit Houston has a twenty-year track record of helping people of all ability levels live up to their mental and physical potential. Houston Fit has the following programs for 2010: * Fall Marathon and Half Marathon Training, starting May 8, 2010 , 7:00 AM, Luke's Locker at 1953 West Gray. * Chevron Houston Marathon …

Please join us July 8, 2009 at 7 PM, Luke's Locker, 1953 West Gray Houston to hear more about HOUSTON FIT Marathon and Half Marathon Training Programs. Join us as we enter our twentieth season of marathon & half marathon training. We began 20 years ago with only 50 participants from around Houston. From there we have grown to 8 programs in the Houston area and over 1500 in the Memorial Park location. Many of our members have developed and continued friendships well after the marathon and other …

Austin Coworking. Formerly called Austin Webmasters, this group includes webmasters, system admins, web designers, web developers, web video and podcast producers and any business who is using coworking or interested in learning more about coworking. If you work at a coworking space, this group is for you. Whether it's HTML, XML, DHTML, JavaScript, CSS, Flash, or any number of other web languages (txt based FTP, dreamweaver, site-based-pagebuilders, content management systems (like wordpress …

In the usage of 2600 Magazine and affiliates, the often loaded term "hacking" refers to Grey Hat hacking, which is generally understood to be any sort of technological utilisation or manipulation of technology which goes above and beyond the capabilities inherent to the design of a given application. An agenda for each meeting will be announced with every scheduled meeting. Usually we will discuss things that range from "hacking" to urban exploration, phreaking, lock picking, programming, disc …

RowFree Program at Austin Rowing Club offers free beginner rowing lessons to staff and volunteers of nonprofit organizations, teachers, government employees. & seniors.   Instruction in rowing a racing shell, on Lady Bird Lake, by experienced members of Austin Rowing Club (Austin's only nonprofit rowing club). Lessons can be scheduled on weekday mornings, or if you have a group of three or more we can schedule an event on a Friday evening, or Saturday or Sunday afternoon. Email RowFree@austinrow …

The Houston Perl Meetup group helps people interested in the Perl programming language meet. This group is associated with the Houston.pm group associated with the Perl Mongers. Anyone who is interested in the Perl programming language is welcome. No experience with the language is required. The group can answer questions or help mentor new programmers through problems.

Texas Fertility Center’s programs are open to both TFC patients and anyone in the community experiencing infertility, and there is no charge to attend. These infertility seminars were designed to bring comfort, raise awareness, and increase your chances for a healthy and successful pregnancy.

KeyNote Presentations are a series of classes that are designed to entertain, inform, and give you new knowledge and / or skills: Some of the presenations are: 1) How to know who is Lying vs telling the truth (at a glance). 2) Mind Mapping your future! 3) How to be your own Private Investigator. 4) HANDWRITING ANALYSIS "The Write Way - An insight into your Analysis through Handwriting" 5) Astrology vs Ancient Star Names/messages 6) Angels, Aliens, Ghosts, & Spirits! each one has …

This Meetup features discussions and open practice of: - Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP) - Meditation - Timeline Techniques - Performance Hypnosis - Psycho Cybernetics - More Join us and get your questions answered. GOALS Our main goal is to exchange ideas and experiences we can use to further each other's personal development and life success.

This group is focused on Clojure and related Lisp languages specifically Common Lisp and Scheme as they strongly influence the approach Clojure takes. Java is a foundational system for Clojure, but the focus is not on the Java language, but the JVM and associated libraries that are the power base for Clojure. Functional programming, multi-methods, etc. will be discussed and demoed with the focus on real-world uses and power. Abstraction and advanced techniques will be discussed as well. We're lo …

This group is for people interested in iOS development whether it's their full time job or they've never opened XCode. It's also for the convenience of people who live or work in South Austin, but everyone is welcome. Not gonna lie, members should have programming experience, but not necessarily in Objective C. No social media experts. No recruiters.

The White Picket Fence Project aims to help single parents and divorcees shift their focus from the past to the future. Our discussion groups, mentor ship programs, conference calls, panel forums, seminars, charitable social events and babysitting exchange network are targeted to help you build your "own fence" one picket at a time. No matter how you feel-you are not alone. According to 2010 US Census Bureau over 92 million Americans are heading unmarried households-we are the norm. Lets take ac …

We are the local R user group for Austin, TX. R is a free software environment for statistical computing and graphics (http://www.r-project.org/). Our goal is to support and share R experience and knowledge among its users in the Austin community. We would like to hear how you use and enjoy the R language and statistical programming environment.

Heard of jQuery?  CSS? plain javascript?  Let's do it!  For the next meetup, we'll cover how to use javascript/jQuery, sprinkled with a dusting of CSS.  To top it off, let's dive into MySql.  We'll pretend we're dba's and create tables and stuff. Please have your hosting account with php, cuz it's gonna be wild. You've seen those examples on the web, but they don't make sense? I'll clue you in, but you have to stay awake and have your php hosting account ready. Please practice on some php progra …

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!

A gathering of minds for the exploration of the Processing and ProcessingJS programming languages. Come ready to learn and/or share what you already know. We want to attract artists and coders interested in generative art and parametric design.

A group for developers in the Houston area with an interest in the F# programming language. Programmers of all skill levels and backgrounds are welcome.

Whether you are interested in career advancement or just home computing, building computer skills can make you more reliable and productive. I used online videos to learn how to edit a wiki, install a software package, and program in python. I started this group because I think interacting with like minded people would supplement watching the videos. Let's meet on a regular basis to learn beginner+ to intermediate computer skills. Each meeting topic could be a stand alone mini-topic, or part of …

This is a group for Magento developers. The goal is to be able to have a time of discussion surrounding Magento development/programming topics, as well as a hands-on time to work on Magento together and learn from one another. So, bring your laptops!

The Houston Open Development User Group is about all things programming. If it's got source code, we want to know about it. We cover everything from Ruby to Javascript to Python to mobile development. The topics are partially driven by the attendees and what we as a group want to learn more about. If you're a programmer, we want you in our audience. If you have a topic you'd like to see us cover, please recommend a topic via our UserVoice page.

Clojure is an awesome programming language for the JVM. Come join us monthly for teaching each other Clojure and libraries, presenting ongoing work, and looking for Clojure work opportunities

Learn and improve your skills with the Python programming language. Austin already has two excellent Python meetups for people familiar with the language (Austin Python and Austin Web Python). This meetup is for novice and experienced programmers alike who want to learn how to use Python idiomatically and pragmatically to build cool things, from web apps to hardware hacking to data science. The discussion list is a friendly, local resource for answering your Python questions, and our meetups are …

First 20 min is A meet+greet. We spend an hour on learning syntax, where it's used, examples of it being used effectively. Beginners are welcome.  Many patient people come to these and can help you get your machine setup to program effectively. 2nd hour on is getting down to the practice of programming using community projects as a base. Don't worry if you don't have a machine. We are meeting in a computer lab that currently accommodates 26. Save your work online so you can access it when you ge …

Studies have found that pair programming produces cleaner code, facilitates learning and improves productivity. Pairs often find that seemingly "impossible" problems become easy or even quick, or at least possible to solve when they work together. Let's get together for pair programming in Ruby and Rails. Whether you've never written a line of code or you're the most experienced Rubyist out there, you have something to teach and something to learn. No egos, no intimidation. Come out and experien …

Getting Started is a 10 week training program designed to help the walker/ light jogger to learn the basics of running and help avoid the pitfalls of injury while training. We will meet on Saturday mornings at 7 am. as a group for our group runs. We will cover the A-Z’s of running and you don’t have to do this alone bring a friend or two and a fun attitude and this will be a awesome running group for you. All fitness levels are welcome :-)

A user group to meet and discuss the Go programming language (golang). Follow us on Twitter @atxgolang and join our chat room #atxgolang on Freenode. From golang.org: The Go programming language is an open source project to make programmers more productive. Go is expressive, concise, clean, and efficient. Its concurrency mechanisms make it easy to write programs that get the most out of multicore and networked machines, while its novel type system enables flexible and modular program constructio …