The Melbourne PHP User Group is a group of enthusiastic local programmers who get together every month and discuss Open Source technologies with a focus on PHP and associated topics. PHP is an extremely popular general-purpose scripting language that is highly suited for web development. We strive to promote PHP and Open Source in the IT industry, both locally and internationally. Our meetings are educational and cater to all skill levels. Anyone is welcome to join us. As a group, we aim to educ …

An informal get-together for people who work in the web industry around Melbourne to catch-up, have a yarn, share ideas and talk about new techniques and technologies. Put together by the gang at @thirststudios

This group has been created to help our community schedule events, social night outs or any other group based meeting. Welcoming anyone who is into PHP, programming and anything web/tech related. Let me know if you are interested in being part of the organisers :) Suggestions open for the name of the group or other details.

This group is for web practitioners and other professionals who are interested in web accessibility and inclusive design practices. After the success of meetings in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane, Melbourne now has its own Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup. It makes no difference if you work in a large organisation, a small business, are an independent consultant or an accessibility advocate. This group is about regularly connecting Melbourne’s accessibility community, allowing us to share …

Melbourne Web Developers is a bi-monthly meetup that brings together Melbourne's awesomely talented web development community to exchange ideas, have a beer and talk about all things interwebs related! We cover web development topics including high scalability, user experience (UX), web frameworks and languages, social media, harnessing cloud tools and SaaS and anything else that makes web applications tick!

We are passionate about web that's available for everyone and accessible with any device.

The Melbourne Joomla User Group has been running since 2007 and attracts a regular group of Joomla users from all over Melbourne including: beginners - people building their first joomla site hobbyists - people tweaking their own joomla site designers - people who design joomla sites for a living implementers - people who implement more than just basic joomla sites eg ecommerce, forums, interfaces etc guns - people who can answer almost any question you may have about Joomla! Often members ar …

We want to help people from all different backgrounds to learn coding together and share experiences. As part of Open Tech School, this is a supportive environment for learners to hear talks on topics which can help them, but also to encourage them to share their learnings. Programming language agnostic! http://www.opentechschool.org/

The WordPress Melbourne Meetup is for any WordPress user from new to experienced to get together and discuss all things WordPress. If you are a Web Designer or manage a website for your company but have never used WordPress please join, as we will try to alternate between advanced and beginner topics at each Meetup. Please join the conversation and let us know what WordPress topics you are most interested in. Archive of Previous Presentations

This is a group for anyone using or interested in Django, a Python web development framework.  We are interested in bringing together people from Melbourne's Django and Python communities and providing a place for people to learn from one another and showcase things they have built or have found useful.  It will take a few Meetups for us to catch our stride and find a format that works best, so we encourage you to come and help us shape these nights into something awesome! Our venue and drinks a …

If you love programming Ruby and use the Ruby on Rails (RoR) framework, or would like to learn, then this group is for you. If you don't care for Ruby or Rails but love programming and web development in general, are involved in a startup and have an entrepreneurial spirit, then this group may be for you too. :) Oh yeah, and you must live in the world's most livable city to join. If you don't know which city that is, then you probably don't. :)

Interested in CiviCRM, the awesome open source CRM solution aimed at the not-for-profit, civic and community sector? www.civicrm.org This will be a meetup group with alternating meetings for Developers and tech types as well as meetups for users and planners.

DNTrade is the premier community for Aussie domain and website owners. We talk about the latest news in the Australian domain industry, advice on buying, selling, developing and marketing your domains and websites. All skill levels are welcome. This is our home on Meetup.com to organise physical meetings.

This group is made for individuals that want to learn about online business strategies. During these meetings you will develop the following skills: Learn how to start and expand an online business from scratch. Learn how to build an effective web presence, promote and sell online. Simple-to-understand training events for both new and experienced web business owners alike. Learn about writing for marketing, NLP strategies and how to configure a website to maximise profits. Thinking about makin …

This meetup group is for people doing creative things with mobile. This can be anything from mobile-optimised websites to frameworks such as PhoneGap and Sencha to Objective-C and Java. Or maybe you're purely an interface or icon designer. Or maybe you've come up with some other crazyly cunning way of utilising a mobile device. However, this isn't a group for mobile marketeers, business folks and the like... Sorry!

Meetup group for Melbourne based Drupalers. In between meetups, you can engage with the Melbourne Drupal community on Twitter at #drupalmel or IRC at #drupal-au or even on our Drupal Groups page!

We are the Melbourne Girl Geek Dinners! We are a chapter of Girl Geek Dinners which was founded in 2005 in London. Girl Geek Dinners is non-profit and we organise dinners, workshops and field trips. We have over 400 members interested in technology, the internet, craft, code, design, communication, social media, marketing and more! Most of our events are free as we try to find sponsors to help us pay for food and drinks. Inspire9 have been hosting us and allowing us to use their space for ages n …

This is a group for people interested in co-creating a new maker lab / hacker space / social enterprise incubator in the old Cotton Mills in Footscray. We meet monthly in Footscray. The Footscray Maker Lab is a Hackerspace established to provide a place for transformative and commons oriented creative initiatives from many avenues. A place for pioneering new products, services, processes, artistic visions, and social change. In particular we aim to: Engage and support an emerging generation of …

Startups are rapidly becoming a boom industry in Australia, but unless you're lucky enough to get into one of the few incubators in Australia (like Startmate, Pushstart or Angelcube) it can be an real challenge even knowing where to start. HeadStart is a monthly meetup designed to give budding entrepreneurs the right information they need to get their business started. With guest speakers every month and access to a growing mentor network, HeadStart is like a hackathon for starting a business. S …

This group is designed to bring people from IT business together. You should join this group: If you are an IT Developer, IT Consultant, IT Analyst, Project Manager, IT Recruiter, Start-up manager or small business manager then this group will help to build your professional network in Melbourne. If you want to be more aware of the market's tendencies and up to date on new technologies. If you are looking for an IT Professional then you might find your perfect geek here as well. If you need an a …

Hi and welcome to the InternetPreneur meet-up! This meet-up is for people of all ages starting an internet business. There are plenty of start-up groups out there but this group is mainly for those starting an online business who has built or still building their website. Running a business is fun and rewarding but loaded with challenges. We need some outlet to socialise, have a chat and exhange ideas with other online business start-ups. The purpose of this group is to meet with like minded peo …

This SilverStripe meetup group is organised by the team of SilverStripe Australia. Connect with SilverStripe developers, designers and users in Melbourne and hear about what is happening in Australia and SilverStripe.

This is a group for anyone interested in buying and selling of Australian domain names, i.e. com.au and net.au. We are known as domainers and by nature will monetize domains and even develop web sites. Anyone interested in domain names is welcome.

This is an open group for potential and current SilverStripe partners.

If you love ExpressionEngine or would like to jump on board but don't quite know how to, then join us. Also please let us know your ideas for topics by visiting the Calendar and using the Ideas for Meetups tab.

Starting or contributing to a world-class technology start-up in the world's most livable city, Melbourne, Australia. What exactly is a start-up, I hear you ask? Well, according to Paul Graham of the famed Y-Combinator, "essentially a startup is a new business designed for scale". According to Dr Graham, "Most new businesses are service businesses and except in rare cases those don't scale." and quite often, if not always, startups involve (disruptive) technology. If that doesn't make it any cle …

Startup Weekend is an intense 54 hour event which focuses on building a web or mobile application which could form the basis of a credible business over the course of a weekend. The weekend brings together people with different skillsets - primarily software developers, graphics designers and business people - to build applications and develop a commercial case around them.