Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses …

This is an IBM sponsored Big Data meetup group.  Geared towards developers, data scientists and all Big Data enthusiasts, our meetups provide an opportunity to work hands on with the solutions and tools in our Big Data platform. Our Meetups typically include a 45-60 min (max) presentation that serves as an introduction and overview for a specific Big Data technology.  It is followed by ~3 hours to collaborate with fellow developers and apply your Big Data skills.  We provide a cloud environment …

This Group is for Health Care Professionals. As Health Care Professionals we Give and Give. We extend ourselves to those who need our Help. This help could be from brushing someone's teeth to massaging their feet. So when you are all finished Giving of yourself...what about You? Over and Over the Stressors that we deal with Daily do you Lose yourself? Come to this Group with ideas, stories, jokes, and most of all...a Good Attitude. Whatever you may use to Help you get through your Work day. So …

Facebook is a part of your life and the life of just about everyone you know. The Facebook Developer and Marketers Meetup has been created for those who want to utilize the power of Facebook to expand their, or a client's, business. THIS MEETUP WILL COVER APPS TO ADS. So whether you are interested in creating a Facebook fan page, an application, or an ad, through this group you'll discover trends, tips, tools, and techniques that you can use to construct, connect, interest and influence via the …

Women in Film and Media (WIFM) Pittsburgh is a nonprofit membership organization whose mission is to improve the status and portrayal of women in film, television, and other screen-based media in Southwestern Pennsylvania and beyond. Our Activities We serve our community by facilitating their access to opportunities in industry. In addition, we lend our services to non-profit organizations helping women and children. Our programs and events include workforce skills development through mentoring …

What happens when we pay careful attention to our lives with curiosity and an open mind? This is a group for people who want to answer this question for themselves, with the aid of the many wonderful books that have been written on mindfulness and its application to many areas of life. We will meet monthly to work through our favorite books on mindfulness and talk about how mindfulness applies to our lives. We look forward to see you at our next meeting.

Pittsburgh Now is dedicated to exploring the concepts in Eckhart Tolle's books The Power of Now & A New Earth and to incorporating them into our complex everyday lives. This group is for people who are ready for peace in their lives; People on the journey of personal growth; People who are ready for fulfillment; People seeking abundance; People who understand that the time is NOW. Discussions and events focus on sharing experiences in terms of how each one applies these principles in their life. …

Health 2.0 Pittsburgh is a meetup group focused on innovations in the delivery of healthcare and health related technology. This group is dedicated to creating a community around Health in Pittsburgh as part of the international Health 2.0 movement. It's a venue for sharing, discussing, showcasing and developing ideas for how to improve patient care. If you are interested in the intersection of health care and information technology, this is a group for you. Technology enthusiasts, developers, s …

GlobalPittsburghCONNECT serves as a hub connecting the Pittsburgh community with people here from other countries through group programs, events, and activities. The program is designed for internationals who want to meet people and discover more about the Pittsburgh community, and for local residents and American students who want to meet people from other countries and help them feel more at home in Pittsburgh. For international students, professionals and new families, GlobalPittsburghCONNECT …

Welcome to the Pittsburgh Node.js community Meetup! This is a meetup to discuss Node.js, web development and javascript on both client and server.  If you'd like to learn how to Node or grow your professional network we'd love to have you!

We're here to bring together anyone who programs in the Go programming language, based in or near Pittsburgh, in western Pennsylvania, and welcoming visitors from further afield. Professional programmers, system administrators, home tinkerers; students, entrepreneurs, retirees.  If you can program, and are doing so at least partly in Go, or just considering Go as an option, you're all welcome.  We'll adapt. We're currently just getting started, organising our first meeting, so a character has no …

SteelCloud is a user group / meetup for Pittsburgh-area cloud application developers. We get together to discuss technologies, architecture, patterns and techniques of interest to developers working on large-scale, distributed applications. We try to meet monthly - either to hear engaging speakers present topical information, or to open the floor to roundtable discussion of what’s on our collective mind.

You belong to Meetup and you've attended a meeting here and there. You may also belong to LinkedIn, or Facebook, you probably are also tweeting. But are you really getting what your want or need from those organizations? If not, read on... These forums are all serve a purpose, but wouldn't it be better to have an opportunity to join forces with a small group of business owners that have complementary skills and are willing and able to promote you. This is an exclusive group of carefully s …

A regular venue for technology entrepreneurs and enthusiasts to - give a cool technology demo - give an elevator pitch - listen to a keynote - see a tutorial - meet like-minded people - share ideas - discuss the hottest trends Join us at our next event!

Our goal is to help IT Security professionals to grow in their career, build the Pittsburgh-based community of security and forensics professionals, and help each other to develop our expertise so that we can collaboratively be a leader in the white hat community. This is a group is an unconference for anybody working in IT security or forensics, or just looking to get to know other people in the area with similar interests.  We are not affiliated with any company and all members attend understa …

Since 2007, we have been a local social support group for Southwestern Pennsylvania Autistic and Aspergers Adults (age 18 + over) for monthly gatherings at various venues around Allegheny County. In the last four years we have met consistently every month in various venues in Allegheny county. OUR GOALSThe goal of this Meetup group is to create connections and camaraderie for diagnosed Autistic and Aspergers adults age 18+ and older. By meeting for monthly gatherings and events, our membe …

This group covers non-relational data storage technologies, which may either be a complement to or used instead of RDBMSs. Topics covered include Document Stores, Key-Value Stores, Graph Databases, Object Databases, and RDF Databases. Products covered include CouchDB, BigTable, memcached, Objectivity/DB, Hbase, Cassandra, redis, and InfiniteGraph. The general approach to our meetings are to go round-robin on the specific products and technologies in a hands-on manner, rather than talk about the …

Pittsburgh Geek Out Days (PGODs) are semi-regular meetings of technologists to discuss software engineering, how to be rockstar programmers, trends in software, and anything else that people find interesting. We do this by following an Open Spaces (or unconference) format. We typically meet every other month on Saturday mornings. We don't have topics or speakers, though we will often have a word or two as "inspiration" (e.g. design). When we arrive, we will introduce the format, then anyone who …

For lovers of Adobe software and web technologies.