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 …

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 …

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

Live in MD or DC area and want to get together and talk about NoSQL technologies like Hadoop, HBase, CouchDB, Cassandra? Whether you're an expert or an interested novice, everyone is welcome to come and discuss NoSQL technologies, get and trade tips, network, and learn more from each other.

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.

This is the group of Accumulo users and developers local to DC / VA / MD. Accumulo is a scalable, open source BigTable implementation written in Java with cell-level security and server-side processing. Join us!

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.

The Vertica Professionals group was created to provide a forum for those in the DC Area to share tips, tricks and knowledge about using Vertica and it's ecosystem for analytics.

This is a great group for I.T. Professionals to meet outside of the office to relax, socialize, talk about sports, politics, life, and the ever growing world of Information Technology. We emphasize finding new friends and associates with similar backgrounds to network with and do exciting things. Dinners, forums, happy hours, adventures, sporting events, and yes, parties are just a few of the types of activities we will partake. .

This group will be a hard-core technical focus on both what AWS currently offers and a regular review of new features and services rolled out. (With a focus on practical application, thereof.)