The workplace is drastically changing. A December survey showed that a whopping 84% of people planned on leaving their job in 2012, up from 60% just two years ago. Some will look for more pay. Others will look for a better opportunity. But a growing number of passionate workers will strike out on their own, abandoning the safe corporate life to pursue a side project or dream that has been burning inside them. Are you working in a full-time job you hate? Do you have a great business idea inside t …

Calling all coders under 21 in New York City. We're here and we're great coders, so let's get together and talk about coding among other things. Should be a lot of fun, and a great chance to meet other kids who are great at programming.

Technology, as always, offers opportunities and challenges. The education sphere has its own special needs. Let's get together to talk, share stories, and learn from each other. What makes students tick? What works when working with(in) institutions? How can technology help? Where are the opportunities to help the students? How can we help improve education?

Meetups are held the third Tuesday of every month, with the goal of sharing AngularJS knowledge and best-practices and providing a space where people can meet up and chat with others working with Angular. Presenting We are always looking for speakers & presenters for future meet-ups, so if you are using or teaching AngularJS, please Contact Us if you have an interest in sharing your work with the group. Watch these and other AngularJS meetup talks at youtube.com/angularjs Lightning Talks Signu …

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NoteWorking is a New York City-based meetup for musicians and music-industry professionals using digital tools for promotion, marketing, sales and collaboration. Every month with experts give quick presentations, full of great advice you can take home and do yourself. You'll have a chance to network with other musicians and music professionals, and there's free pizza at every meetup! Our mission: The NoteWorking mission is to service a community of aspiring and professional recording artis …

Coworking Westchester is based out of W@tercooler, a shared workspace for area freelancers, located in Tarrytown, NY. This group is for anyone who loves coworking. We are a bunch a like-minded entrepreneurs, small business owners and catalysts who find that working together under one roof makes us more productive, more focused, and mo bettah. Join us if you are interested in learning about coworking, joining our space, or attending our many workshops and events.

The web as we know it evolves rapidly. New layers are added, of social, collaboration, semantic, interactivity and accessibility.. it reaches across all platforms, from the PC and mobile devices to TVs and beyond. Through the web, we're connected any where, at any time. This group is dedicated to bring developers, designers and thinkers together, to explore the vast opportunities and great potential of the web. We hack together, discuss implementations and design approaches. All on the basis and …

Hackers + Designers + Entrepreneurs = Code Crew! Passionate about learning how to code, creating beautiful designs or building the prototype for your business idea and tired of doing it alone? Then this is the group for you! This is the perfect group for people serious about learning how to code through self-study using resources on the web like Code School, Codecademy, Treehouse, P2PU, Coursera, edX, Udacity, programming books, screencasts or whatever else is out there on the internet. We also …

NJ's largest technology community. The NJ Tech Meetup is a monthly meeting of 150+ entrepreneurs and innovators.  We meet monthly at the Stevens Institute of Technology campus in Hoboken, NJ to hear from smart feature speakers and interesting startups.  The goal is an atmosphere of sharing best practices and learning from both failure and success. Past speakers include David Kidder (Clickable), Ben Sun(Community Connect), Tad Martin (Overstock), Seth Besmertnik (Conductor), Gabe Zichermann (Ga …

Welcome software and web developers, designers, architects. Whether you use Java, Python, C++, Go, JavaScript or HTML, we will cover the many technologies that Google offers such as App Engine, Google Glass, Chrome, Android, and many, many others. The best way to contact and to follow us however is via our Google Plus page: https://plus.google.com/u/0/102033742326416578905

Huge Events are open to anyone who has interest in UX, design, agency life and more. Join us for a fun evening of refreshments, networking and talks by design professionals and leaders in the industry.

Travel 2.0 meetup discusses web and mobile travel innovations and technology. The best Travel Meetup in New York, and now in San Francisco bay area, talks about travel in the web 2.0 and mobile context: online travel, social travel, travel innovations, travel technology, travel planning, mobile apps, travel mobile tech. More broadly, anyone interested in web technology, mobile app for travel, social commerce, social media, startup, innovation, entrepreneurship, and online marketing could benefit …

This is a social networking group for NYC area Java developers, managers, recruiters, basically anyone with an interest in Java technologies. We feature technical presentations. Feel free to bring a presentation, a demo, flyers, make an announcement or ask questions. We usually adjourn to a nearby bar afterwards The NYC Java Study Groups JUG is the sponsor of the NYC Java Meetup and it's traditional monthly general meetings (for over 15 years) and the NYC Java Monthly Meetup are now one in the s …

Join us for our monthly NYC meetups every third Tuesday of the month, meet some new people, learn some new things, make plans to take over the world. Web: WPNYC.ORG / Twitter: @wpnyc / Facebook: WordPressNYC

In this group we'll make our way through the book "Seven Languages in Seven Weeks: A Pragmatic Guide to Learning Programming Languages," by Bruce Tate. It's a quick deep-dive into seven very different languages: Ruby, Io, Prolog, Scala, Erlang, Clojure and Haskell. I know almost nothing about these languages myself -- I'm a JavaScript guy with some very limited exposure to Ruby -- and do not expect to become an expert in any of them overnight, but I am excited to dive into paradigms I know nothi …