Imagine if there was a place, where at one table an entrepreneur meets her next $100,000 investor. A designer meets a new client, a web developer with a great internet startup. A Ruby engineer meets a charismatic founder that excites him with her vision, so much so that he can picture leaving his day job for the exhilarating experience of working tirelessly for technology stock options that could be worth millions one day... We're building this community. --- Part of the Tech Happy Hour Allianc …

Meet with other web site system administrators, developers, designers and business people who're interested in making their sites fast for a better user experience, lower abandonment rates and to make more money.

Games for mobile devices, the web, and other new platforms are a growing part of the industry. They feature smaller teams, faster dev cycles, iterative design, and innovative business models. This approach is more conducive to experimentation than most AAA projects. Yet, Austin seems to be lagging behind other cities in embracing this trend. This Meetup group is designed to help change that. We welcome any current or aspiring contributors to the Austin mobile/web game community, including coder …

The Cross Media Group, formerly the Austin Flash Platform Usergroup, has changed it's name to attract and retain a wider audience that includes print, web, video and mobile developers and designers. We having been serving members with events that target these technologies and found it suitable to change the name. This group is an official Adobe User Group.

Design is finally taking center stage in the business world. This presents an amazing opportunity for us to create something meaningful. Learning how to effectively incorporate design into the startup process allows us to change the way products are built, and quite possibly change the world. This group is for anyone interested in design and product development. We are exploring the art of entrepreneurship.

Group for developing ideas and apps with Sails.JS. We can all get together and brainstorm and if we like an idea, hack it out and try to launch it as a startup. This will happen every month.

Interesting topics presented by members on topics involving Ruby or Rails. We meet in Central Austin as an alternative to having to far North or South, or deal with parking and traffic downtown.

Share Front-End Developer opportunities with companies in the greater Austin area.

If you're looking to build your own fully functional, feature-rich website, a Content Management System like Joomla! makes the process much easier and quicker. Joomla! is one of the most popular Open Source (free GPL license) content management systems available. Come to the Austin Joomla! User Group (http://www.joomlaaustin.org) to learn more about this exciting system; compare tools, extensions and templates; trade advice; and share cool websites. ALL ARE WELCOME, whether you are developing yo …

The Moodle Use and Development Group is intended for educators and developers who are interested in using the Moodle Content Management System. Dont know what that is? Moodle is a wonderful CMS that is designed around education. It can be used to easily create elearning websites that allow the creation of students, courses, quizzes... really anything around education. This group is for anyone with an interest in Moodle, whether you are a teacher trying to learn more about how to use moodle in yo …

BUG Austin (The iThemes Builder User Group of Austin) is a group of people who are interested in building Web sites using iThemes Builder on a WordPress framework. Through monthly meetings, BUGAustin provides opportunities for its members to learn, share and assist one another in using iThemes Builder and related plug ins.

EE/CI Austin is an informal get-together of ExpressionEngine & CodeIgniter folks. It's a great chance to talk shop, commiserate, network, and exchange ideas. We're also keen on exploring other web dev topics. Beer and tacos included.

We all know Austin has a great RoR meetup group, but what if you want to work on your RoR projects? This is for those who are pursuing side projects, but hate to do it alone. Feel free to collaborate, work alone, or just chill out.

This is a business owner Mastermind group. We are looking for a few select business owners for a pilot program to meet on a regular basis to critique, enlighten, support, and mentor each other in growing our businesses online - Please RSVP at the Meetups tab up top for our monthly Austin, TX meeting. Our websites have become the most valuable marketing tool for our businesses - period. Internet Marketing has turned traditional marketing and advertising on its ear. It is the 10,000 pound elephant …

This group is for anyone interested in SEO. The idea is that all members are willing to participate in learning, teaching, and discussing. If you don’t have anything to bring to the table yet, don’t worry. Please come and learn. But also share with us what you learn as you go through your own SEO journey.

Learn and improve your skills with the Python programming language. Austin already has two excellent Python meetups for people familiar with the language (Austin Python and Austin Web Python). This meetup is for novice and experienced programmers alike who want to learn how to use Python idiomatically and pragmatically to build cool things, from web apps to hardware hacking to data science. The discussion list is a friendly, local resource for answering your Python questions, and our meetups are …

Welcome to Co-Founders Wanted Austin Meetup group! If you are looking for co-founders or want to join super-early-stage startups, this is the group to be in. Our goal is to organize face-to-face meetings. Everyone is welcome to our group! software engineers, designers, executives looking for a more exciting and challenging opportunity, angel investors and VC looking for the next BIG thing in Austin, come join us! Out meetups are always a great opportunity to meet engineering and creative talent …

Node.js is an event-driven I/O framework for the V8 JavaScript engine. It makes building scalable and elegant network applications easy. Praised for its brilliant design and simplicity it is quickly being adopted and extended by many developers, companies, and entusiasts around the world. Visit http://www.nodejs.org/ and http://npmjs.org/ to get started today!

The iSEC Open Security Forum is an informal and open venue for the discussion and presentation of security related research and tools, and an opportunity for security researchers from all fields to get together and share work and ideas. The Forum meets quarterly in the Bay Area, Seattle, New York City and Austin. Forum agendas are crafted with the specific needs/interests of its members in mind and consist of brief 20-30 minute talks. Talks are not product pitches or strongly vendor preferential …

Language-Tech Austin is a hub for discussions, keynotes, mixers, and social interaction between Austin's educators, entrepreneurs, designers, developers, marketers, and language learning enthusiasts. We want to explore topics that intersect world languages and technology to uncover new challenges that together we might solve. Also we can share appropriate findings using #lingotech on Twitter to engage with other language advocates around the world. Join. You are a welcome part of our meetup. Ple …

Developers, Designers, Users and curiosity seekers looking to share information about cross-platform mobile/desktop apps using Appcelerator Titanium. What is Appcelerator Titanium you say!? Appcelerator Titanium is a software platform that helps developers to create and deploy cross-platform desktop / mobile / web applications through their Javascript driven API. It allows you to target multiple platforms, currently Windows, Linux, Mac OsX, iOS (iPhone and iPad) plus Android. There is a Blackber …

Ultra Light Startups Ultra Light Startups brings together the world's most innovative technology entrepreneurs, in monthly events and accompanying online communities. Events feature pitching, networking and interactive, moderated panel discussions with leading industry experts. Topics cover: Design, Technology, Marketing and Finance And be sure to checkout our website and join our social media groups: Website - http://ultralightstartups.com/ Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/ultralight …

We started this Meetup to bring together the best devs, designers and entrepreneurs in the local social, casual and MMORPG games space. Come meet some friends, hear a couple of great industry speakers talk about what's cool in games. We're especially interested in Casual Game Association Minna Mingles members and IGDA members who may have not gotten together in a long time. Hopefully we can be a resource. Please join our Meetup and pass the URL to other friends of yours in the local gaming …

This group was created to connect entrepreneurs, designers, developers, investors, marketers, and other professionals with one another, in a strategic and efficient way. Have one-on-one interactions with 30-people in two hours and decide which members could be beneficial in helping you grow your ideas and bringing them to market. If you wish to participate in one of our tech demo days, or be a speaker at an upcoming event, please contact me through meetup.

@austinapi http://austinapi.com Are you obsessed about APIs? Are you building an innovative new API for your company? Are you creating tools to help reshape the world through API usage? Do you create mashups for everything? Are you frustrated that no one understands what you do at your API-related job? Join us for beers, discussion, and some expert perspective.

Free people, competing markets and lawful government The Austin Liberty Activists group is an Open Discussion Mailing List and Message Board serving individual citizen activists in the greater Austin Texas area. Many members are active within Austin Liberty Coalition (ALC) organizations. Open topic email exchanges via this group's mailing list are how members share, learn and develop their views on civil liberties. As this group is primarily a communication network with few restrictions organiz …

Free people, competing markets and lawful government The Austin Liberty Activists group is an Open Discussion Mailing List and Message Board serving individual citizen activists in the greater Austin Texas area. Many members are active within Austin Liberty Coalition (ALC) organizations. Open topic email exchanges via this group's mailing list are how members share, learn and develop their views on civil liberties. As this group is primarily a communication network with few restrictions organiz …