Enterprise search meetups are an opportunity to get together with other people doing search. Grab a drink, be challenged by one or two search-related talks, and join in the discussion. Topics can cover everything from ranking algorithms, to working with Solr and the Google Search Appliance, to designing the user interface. It's also a great way to network and stay on top of the latest developments in search. Disclaimer: This meetup is NOT about SEO. Topics covered at this meetup include: Enter …

The BIRT User Group (UK) is an independent body for users of BIRT Open Source and Commercial reporting software from Actuate and the Eclipse Foundation. Our aim is to share information, ideas and experiences of BIRT usage in regular meetings, via our web site, forums and news letters. Meetings are initially going to be held in the evenings in central London at interesting and unique venues and we hope to feature some great presentations, useful tips and tricks, a bite to eat and maybe even som …

Come and share your experiences with Magento with other users and developers. Meet local developers, potential clients, network, trade stories, hints and tips.

JBUG London is a group of people who share a common interest in JBoss software. JBUG is organised and supported by the community, we meet on a regular basis to discuss new technologies, development methodologies, interesting use cases, and other technical topics in friendly and casual atmosphere (usually with some beer and pizza).Our goal is to provide education and help, to promote open source, to network and share real world experiences with other members of the community. If you would like to …

ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers in London to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Design, Development and Management, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, networking opportunities, and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to companies big and small. We also welcome early-stage technology businesses looking to …

The CWDNUG is a monthly meetup for .NET developers, with a focus on what's relevant (and what's about to be relevant) to developers in the wharf, on the first Wednesday of every month. Expect to see topics such as: WPF & Silverlight. F# & other alternative languages. High volume systems & complex event processing. Agile tools, methodologies and experiences. Open source systems that you can use (or that need your help!). Upcoming releases from Microsoft (WP7, VS2010, TPL). This meetup's …

We think Drupal is an awesome content management and development framework (see www.drupal.org) The Learning Drupal Meetup is for people who are interested in sharing experience and knowledge about all things Drupal. It's a great opportunity for some informal Drupal learning and for exchanging ideas of better ways to learn Drupal concepts and solutions. The meetup is free, organised by volunteers and open to anyone who is interested in learning more about Drupal in an informal, collaborative w …

London HTML5 User Group is focused on the next-generation Web technologies, specifically HTML5, WebSocket, CSS3, JavaScript and so on. Members are those who have a passion in seeing Web applications advance in a rich and dynamic fashion and a keen interest in new and emerging standards and technologies for Web infrastructure. Regular topics of discussion will focus on the gamut of HTML5 technologies that promise to deliver a better, rich Web experience for all.

London UX Bookclub meets every other month to discuss a book that we've chosen to read together. We are an assorted group of UXers from newbies to ancients, and lots of others who are interested in learning more about User Experience. All welcome!

Informal meetup to share knowledge and stories from our own experience, to provide peer support, and to discuss anything related to agile, design and UX. We are part of the agile ux retreat family. Developers, (UX) designers, scrum masters, agile coaches, product owners, project managers, ... all welcome.

Are you interested in making your website faster aka Web Performance Optimisation (WPO) then this is the group for you! Meet with other web site system administrators, developers, designers and business people who're interested in making their sites work fast to get better user experience, lower abandonment rates and make more money. If you've read Steve Souder's books and you use ySlow & PageSpeed and you want learn more or share your knowledge please please sign up!

The Unity London Usergroup is intended to be a social experience, allowing Unity users to connect with fellow developers, either to share experiences or to inspire new collaborative partnerships. It is designed to be accessible for all Unity users with advice for both beginners and experienced users. We're also aiming to provide inspiration for all.

If you’re looking for an informal meet-up to talk about user-centred research, you’ve come to the right place. At The Research Thing you’ll be able to meet others who share your interest to exchange tips, tricks and horror stories. Your evening will be jam-packed with everything from the tools and techniques for bringing users into design, to analysis, deliverables and presentation skills. You can look forward to workshops, activities and talks by those who want to share their experiences. There …

This group is for anyone who deals with content. That’s user experience designers, information architects, web writers and editors, web developers and technologists, marketers, communications pros, community managers, product managers, publishers, entrepreneurs, and content strategists of all stripes. We set up this group to allow professionals from all backgrounds with an interest in content strategy to share ideas and learn from each other in an informal environment. If we’re going to help our …

This Meetup is for people interested in the ‘I’ of ‘IT’ – information architects, user experience designers, content organizers and publishers as well as knowledge practitioners are all welcome. We share practical information management experience through case studies and discussion, whether it be to monetize content; build better customer programs; manage governance risk and compliance or simply help drive operational efficiencies and improve the way we work. If you make your living advising, b …

The world is going Digital and so is Business! The Digital Pond is a meetup community welcoming all those from a digital discipline and those wanting to learn more or build networks with those within the industry. So whether you are an entrepreneur, business owner, website designer, UX (user-experience) designer, online marketer, web developer or social media guru: enter the pond and meet like-minded professionals.

We are the Hadoop users group for the UK based in London. We meet monthly for talks and discussion on all topics related to Hadoop. Join if your intrested in learning what Hadoop is, how people are using it with their big data problems, and to meet other people with experience running and coding on Hadoop cluster around London and the UK.

The aim of this group is to build a network of people interested in recommender systems and give them a forum for presenting and discussing ideas. We are a mixed group of people from research, industry, education, design and startups. If you have an interest in recommender systems, come and join us.

Behat Behat is a Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tool for the PHP applications developed by Konstantin Kudryashov who is known as @everzet on Twitter. Behat is a BDD framework for PHP. There are some tools available for BDD like Cucumber for Ruby, SpecFlow for .NET and Lettuce for Python. Behat is the first BDD tool for PHP applications.Behat can be used for API testing, functional testing and data-driven testing. London Behat users is a group of people following BDD practices using Behat in t …

For those of us that enjoy participating in hackathons and jams - where we create and compete to produce the next big thing that will change the world... even if it's just a little bit at a time. Important RSVPing 'Yes' to our meetup.com group does not grant you entry to an event. You MUST follow the links in the event description to sign up on the hackathon's dedicated signup page.

We've set up this meetup group to engage London's wider digital community in a constructive evaluation of the current and future shape of digital. We're excited about the emerging social, commercial and cultural possibilities enabled by rapid advances in technology and we'll be opening the floor to a combination of forward thinking Reading Room colleagues and guest speakers. It's been a year getting around to our first event but our hope is to establish a semi regular programme of meetups so if …

Coming from a software development background, I wanted to learn how to write apps for the Android platform and my 25 years experience in software development has taught me that a small team of focused people from diverse backgrounds with a common aim always makes better progress than an individual. You should join if you have good PC and internet literacy, a passion for software development, little or no experience of Android, and a windows laptop. A computer science degree is not a requirement …

Launched a product but not happy with the user experience? Built an MVP but design was an afterthought? Have a web or mobile app but the design doesn't 'pop'? Have no fear, The UX Café is here. We're a meetup for startups that need a little design love. We'll be encouraging you to pitch your UX problems and will have a panel of experts to give you guidance and advice. We're also hoping that this will be a place for informal networking where designers can meet startups that may need their help (o …

Joomla! User Group Suffolk is a community of people interested in and/or working with Joomla! regardless of your level of experience. We have complete beginners through to developers and designers attend our monthly meetings, which consist of a general interest session followed by a short break, then a more specialised session. More information at www.joomlasuffolk.co.uk - come along even if you're thinking about using Joomla! - we're a friendly bunch and we don't bite! Generally a good idea to …

Are you thinking about gamification at work? Are you wondering how to go about gamifying your team, organisation, product or service? Or do you just want to use gamification in your marketing campaign? Well this meetup is for you! A chance to meet others involved in gamifying their workplace, team or online community. We'll be holding meetups for about an hour or so in a centrally located coffee shop.

A group for the new breed of entrepreneur that wants to realise their dreams and do things differently. We're all about startups that put people first and measure success in happiness, as well as profits. We believe happy teams, storytelling and customer experience are key to delivering on vision. The future belongs to organisations that live their values, love their customers, have a clear purpose and focus on a strong company culture. Think Southwest Airlines over Ryanair. Agree? Then come joi …

Are you interested in Twitter's open source distributed realtime computation framework "Storm" & based in London? Then this meetup is for you. We get together to share use cases, experiences and tips on how to use this framework. "Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation." Project GitHub Group photo courtesy of Paul Bica

Paper Take Flight is a meetup group about digital magazines, and it provides an opportunity for journalists, designers, developers and product managers to talk about what happens when the habits, content and design from paper and print migrate to the screen. It's a group for exchanging ideas and experiences of creating digital magazines for phones, tablets and computers, and to talk about things we all want to know and improve. This is a new meetup group, the plan is for meetups to be monthly, a …