Dear Creative Jewelry Friends, This Meetup is sponsored by the Northern Virginia Bead Society (NVBS), a Non-Profit organization created in February of 1992. Our purpose is to encourage members of the community to appreciate and participate in the visual arts through beads. We endeavor to provide a network for education opportunities and the exchange of ideas about beads and techniques in beading. We sponsor a bead and jewelry Auction (May) and a full scale Bead and Jewelry show (Sept/Oct) every …

DC/MD/VA Pick-ups is the new club sports program hosted by DC Social Sports Club.  Whether you're looking to play grass volleyball, sand volleyball, touch rugby, broomball, cornhole, kickball, dodgeball, ultimate frisbee, for street hockey ... then look for organized games through DC/MD/VA Pick-ups.  Club Sports are typically offered free of charge or a nominal charge to cover facilities. About DC Social Sports Club: What began as a simply a kickball league has now expanded to over 16 recreatio …

The Inventors Network of the Capital Area (INCA) is a non-profit educational organization founded in 1993. Our members are interested in patents, the innovation process, product design, marketing, licensing, prototyping and other product development issues. Every month we host a meeting with a speaker and time for experienced and beginning inventors to network.The meetings are usually held third Mondays of the month at the Tysons-Pimmit Regional Library in Falls Church, Virginia. Private sector …

The SharePoint Special Interest Group (SSIG) is focused on delivering the content the users want. While the SharePoint platform is extensive, we plan to deliver speakers able to address a wide variety of topics, including development, information architecture, user experience, governance and infrastructure. All these components come together to create the best SharePoint experience. Our meetings are held on the 3rd Wednesday of every month from 7 PM - 9 PM at the Knowlogy Offices on 1934 Old Gal …

This is a group for Healers that have taken at least Level one of Healing Touch International or HT program that get together to practice Healing Touch of all levels. We have been meeting for the last three years. Our second Sunday meetings are strictly a practice of techniques from Level one and two HTP.        Our Third Sunday meetings are for the practice of HT along with a wide variety of Healing techniques combined. We usually work in multiple hands on sessions. We are looking to expand our …

We'll share spiritual workshops, chant, drum, and meditate with the intentions of love and joy for our Mother Earth and all creation, to bring peace, sustainability and balance!  We affirm the Global Oneness by building on various sacred traditions (Christian, Hindu, Buddhist, Native American, Sufi, Celtic etc) Let us know what kinds of workshops or sessions you'd like to offer or attend.  Most programs will have suggested donations to pay for the space and support the talents of the leaders. We …

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 …

NAMI Northern Virginia (NAMI NoVA) is the local affiliate of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI), the nation's largest grassroots organization dedicated to improving the lives of persons with mental illness. NAMI Northern Virginia sponsors local support groups, educational programs, and advocacy with the goal of affording individuals with mental illness opportunities to live, work, learn, and participate fully in their communities. Anyone interested in knowing more about mental illnes …

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 …

LUNCHES Each month, Nicholas Hartigan and Chris Talmont, the Co-Chairs of the PMIWDC Reston Luncheon committee, strive to bring you interesting and informative speakers from a wide range of professions. They present these speakers to you in a casual restaurant setting that allows you to network with other professionals of the PMI.  All restaurant venues offer maximum seating of approximately 50 guests and each monthly the event sells out. Pre-registration is required. Luncheons are held very thi …

For more than 36 years, Volunteer Fairfax has been the heart of volunteering in Fairfax County. With a personal touch, the Center matches the skills and interests of volunteers and donors to the needs of local nonprofit organizations, helping to build a better community through service. Through a variety of programs and services, Volunteer Fairfax strengthens the capacity of its nonprofit members and offers meaningful volunteer opportunities for local citizens. For more information and to start …

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: …

Come on hackers, lets get together and do some pair programming. We all need to practice and learn from each other, so lets stop talking about it and do it.

Founded in 1988, the Potomac River Smallmouth Club (PRSC - www.prsc.org) is the Washington D.C. Capital Area's leading river fishing and conservation organization. With approximately 121 current members, we promote catch and release angling for smallmouth bass, support conservation organizations and agencies, publish a monthly newsletter, present monthly programs with guest speakers, and provide the contacts required members to connect with each other for fishing trips While we are principally f …

Rotaract is an international program of Rotary International for young professionals ages 18-30 who want to make a difference.  There are 163,000 members of some 7,088 Rotaract clubs in 151 countries! Rotaract clubs conduct meetings, usually every two weeks and use their weekends for service projects, social events, and workshops. Even though Rotaractors work hard, we believe in having a good time! We have social events with local Rotary clubs, cultural events, and more! What does Rotaract do e …

NOVA Tribe series provides Jews in their 20's and 30's living and working in Northern Virginia with innovative programming & leadership activities. You will find events for singles, couples, and everyone in between from small gatherings to larger soirees and networking opportuntiies. Programs are held in Northern Virginia so they are accessible for most people out in the suburbs, but we would love our DC/Maryland friends to cross the river and see what is out there beyond the city.

•Private group, founded in January 1966 as the first chapter in Northern Virginia. •Actively involved in community services and programs involving youth and children •Each year we strive to better partner with the community to create a legacy for Jack and Jill

Entrepreneurship permeates the culture of the Digital Age. The advent of the Digital Age has democratized innovation and entrepreneurship. Never before has it been more possible for anyone from anywhere,  with  a great idea and a burning desire to succeed,  to make it big, and,  in the process, change the world in a relatively short period of time. HP, Intel, Apple, Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, Yahoo,  eBay, Amazon, Google, Facebook and many, many, many other iconic companies all started with just …

Want to become part of a growing movement to use fashion for charity? Fashionable Causes is a start-up non-profit organization with a mission to use fashion to bring positive change to the world. We collaborate with models, designers, photographers, make up artists, photo retouchers, event planners, fashionistas, bloggers, and volunteers who want to pitch in and help anyway they can. This is an exciting opportunity to get involved in your community in a fun and fashionable way. At our meetups we …

We're a rag-tag group of software developers, mostly focused on web tech, but with a wide range of interests and experience. Our meetings are a mix of free-ranging discussion, short presentations, and project co-working. If you have ideas to share, questions to ask, or code to hack on, come by and say hi.

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.

This group is for anyone interested in Ethical Computer Hacking.

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 …

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 …

“This group is for Veterans from all branches and from all periods of service, Transitioning Service men and women, their families and anyone interested in finding services, resources and programs available to assist Veterans with the job search process. I started this group because, as a Veteran, I know that researching those services, resources and programs can be overwhelming. Learn about those that will work BEST for YOU and how do you get the process started. Get the correct information fro …

This is a place to discuss and learn trending topics related to the development of highly customizable, user-centric web sites. This will serve as a platform for users to share and discover new frameworks and technologies that we can incorporate into our own development efforts. Such topics will include, not are not limited to JavaScript, jQuery, Ruby on Rails, Java, PHP, Python, HTML5, CSS3, Responsive Web Design, and anything else being used to make really cool web sites.

The Northern Virginia IBM Rational Users Group - for all the users of Rational Tools and Technology.

Trees for the Planet (TFP) creates learning programs and environments to allow individuals, student teams and communities to participate in hands-on ecosystem restoration, on-going maintenance, and education. We are building networks and teams of neighborhood people (students, parents and all interested) who want to learn about and engage in actual eco-system restoration where they live. We plant trees and remove invasive species on property in our neighborhoods. Our work is in consort with the …