Professional group of distributed computing practitioners.

Meet other local people interested in the technology, opportunities, marketing, scalability, advertising, and social impacts of social platforms including: * Bebo (OpenSocial, f8) * Facebook (f8) and Facebook Connect * Hi5 * Imeem * Kickapps * Linkedin * Lycos * MySpace * Ning * Orkut * Plaxo * Salesforce / Exchange And also stuff like Friend Connect, MySpace Data Availability, Facebook Connect, and clouds: AppEngine, Amazon Web Services/EC2/S3. And timeless marvels such as Softwa …

The cloud unleashes a whole new world of growth possibilities for owners and executives of businesses and nonprofits. The cloud can directly increase productivity and output by unchaining staff to the confines of the office; eliminate the need and high costs of physical servers and maintenance; lower energy costs and decrease carbon footprint; and increase business agility and flexibility. In this Meetup, business and nonprofit executives will learn how the cloud can help their particular organi …

We're a group of Hadoop & Cloud Computing technologists / enthusiasts / curious people who discuss emerging technologies, Hadoop & related software development (HBase, Cassandra, Hive, PIG, etc). Come learn from each other, meet nice people, have some food/drink.

Federal Innovative Technology (FIT) – Web, Cloud & Mobile is a venue for Senior Federal thought leaders in the greater DC metro area to meet, share with, and learn from colleagues dealing with similar challenges and issues. Our driving mission is to discuss innovative ways to use technology and strategy to better serve the Government and its constituents. FIT is focused on providing a collaborative forum for senior decision makers to learn from their peers.

(PLEASE NOTE: MY VIDEO TALK NO LONGER RESIDES AT THIS MEETUP.  THIS MEETUP IS STRICTLY RELATED TO CLOUDZOW AND OTHER LOW-COST TECHNOLOGY RELATED INFORMATION AND RESOURCES) Join us to connect with other professionals and entrepreneurs and learn to maximize Cloud and other technology to enhance your workplace or business.   There are so many questions around The Cloud, its security, whether we need it and how to choose a Cloud-based solution. Like the President of CloudZow (a Microsof …

This group will share the best practices and ideas for implementing the Amazon Web Services Cloud products for Customers in the National Capital Area. Our customers have unique requirements including professional associations, lobbying groups, government, technology startups, and large corporate headquarters. Cloud technology consultants and IT department leaders would benefit from joining this group.

This group brings together anyone in the DC area who has a stake in Amazon Web Services - system integrators, ISVs, end users or any other. And being in the government center of the country, we have a focus on the GovCloud, Amazon's new AWS initiative to help the government move IT workloads to the cloud. So please do come to learn, share, and network!

We are the DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.  We help advance computing as a science and a profession.  We do this offline through lectures, workshops, discussion panels, and professional development seminars.  We partner with ACM HQ, ACM Public Policy, ACM special interest groups (SIGs), DC area technical user groups, and area university Comp Sci and Info Tech departments. Join us if you like any of the following categories: http://acm.org/sigs Suggest a topic or speaker, w …

Welcome to Federal Cloud Enterprise Operations - FedCEO.  The FedCEO group focuses on forward looking trends, emerging techniques and best practices in cloud and related technology areas. Specific areas of interest include the following:  -- Application/Infrastructure including VMWare, Amazon Web Services, Eucalyptus, Joyent, OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenShift, Azure, Heroku, Azure, CloudFoundry.  -- Large Data Processing using Hadoop, Accumulo, In-memory, NoSQL, and related products and …

Map/Reduce, specifically Hadoop is revolutionizing several areas of computing. This group is for those that are investigating this technology or perfecting their skills with it. Hopefully it will be a mix of introductory material and hands on labs. Meeting in Northern Virginia, usually Reston.

This is a group for nonprofits using Salesforce in the DC area to network, share best practices, and enjoy tasty snacks. Please join us!

Deploying and supporting mobile capabilities for an enterprise is easier when you know what works (and what doesn't). The goal for this meetup is to share notes, ideas and insight regarding deploying mobile capabilities for enterprises.

A group, lead by the team at IKANOW, devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the DC/Metro area. Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data solutions.

Open to all those interested in Apache Cassandra, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Hector, NoSQL, Pig, and high scalability. Let's get together and share what we know.