"A civic hacker is an open source software developer who uses his or her skills to make their community and country a better place. ... A civic hacker will just do something, not asking for permission, ignoring government bureaucracy, in order to build tools and technologies with a civic-minded bent." -- Luigi Montanez Help transform Cleveland and Cuyahoga County using your design or development skills. Let's get together to clean up unstructured data, catalog public datasets, build apps, create …

User Group for Microsoft Developers in Western New York. Meet with like-minded developers using Microsoft Platforms and tools and other technologies, primarily Buffalo and the Western New York region

I'm a big fan of MongoDB and we use it quite extensively at my company (Cloud CMS). We'd like to promote the use of MongoDB - the premier document-oriented NoSQL database - among the Cleveland business and tech community!

Come out and chat about iOS development and design at the iOSKW Meetup. We'll start with a presentation or two then chat about technology, our projects, app store experiences, business insights, Objective-C, Xcode, Interface Builder, ... Food will be provided. Use the hashtag "#iOSKW" on twitter. Sponsored by Monolith Interactive.

The Cleveland chapter of CocoaHeads meets once a month for presentations and discussions of programming for the Mac, iPhone, and iPad.

CTUG (Chautauqua Technology Users Group) is a group for those who enjoy talking about the web, computers, social networking and all things technology-related. Regardless of if you're an IT professional, a passionate enthusiast, or an inquiring mind, all are welcome.

This is the official Meetup group for BlackBerry Developers in the Guelph and part of the BlackBerry Developer @Guelph_BBDev

Hey Cleveland! Ready for a tech revolution? Soon the new "Internet of Things" industry will change our lives by allowing us to connect, control and monitor "things"  with our smartphones. These smart devices will rely on an internet connection to stay in constant contact with us no matter where we are in the world. Imagine preheating your oven before you leave work, or opening a garage door remotely to let your son into the house, or even having your alarm clark start your morning shower. Sound …

Are you a woman in tech? Or perhaps you've mentored and helped women in tech navigate the industry? Whatever your role may be, this group is to help address issues common to women in tech and provide constructive criticism, feedback, share stories, and do what we can to promote the tech industry to get more women involved. Whether we want online forums or to share our stories in person, we can do both here with the help of Meetup!

We're bringing the next wave of human-computer interactions to Cleveland. Augmented Reality, Wearable Computing, Google Glass & Location Based Services innovation discussions, designs, development, architecture, social networking. Investigating design, development and marketing of augmented reality and its interfaces.

Canada's largest tech meetups RSVP to get a nametag. This is important, because people without nametags aren't even really people. There, I said it. ******** HackerNest is a grassroots, nonpartisan, nonprofit movement dedicated to uniting local tech communities globally. We do this by cramming lots of very smart people into a room and providing free beer - rescuing them from the isolation of basements, offices, and the plight of code tunnel vision. Our friendly, relaxed, and inclusive Tech Soc …

HER Ideas in Motion relies on the support of professional women and men, who share a commitment to empowering the next generation through creative and technology training. The mentors in our programs come from a variety of technical and creative backgrounds ranging from IT, web technologies, filmmaking, gaming and design fields who volunteer to teach kids what they do. In addition, mentors have the opportunity to network with other technologist, designers filmmakers, artists, community leaders, …

Startup Grind is a global startup community designed to educate, inspire, and connect entrepreneurs. We host monthly events in more than 40 cities and 15 countries featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share personal stories and lessons learned on the road to building great companies. Our monthly fireside chat interviews, startup mixers and annual conferences provide ample opportunities to connect with amazing startups and the people behind them, tap into a …

Already a well known technology, Javascript is gaining more and more traction every day. In addition to it's traditional use in the browser, we will also be discovering additional uses. We'll look at the latest and greatest client side frameworks (Backbone, Ember, D3 etc) as well as server side javascript (Node, Wakanda and others). Together, we can increase our skill level and build truly amazing solutions!

This is a group for MOT(Masters in Management of Technology) or MBA students or graduates who want to meet, share and integrate knowledge from different topics ranging from Human Resources Management to Management to Technological Innovation. This is a great opportunity to collaboratively use the case study and other innovative methods to master, link and integrate the different concepts learned in the MOT and MBA programs. The main objective is knowledge cross pollination and provide opportunit …