Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache open source search engine/platform. These Meetups are for developers in Southern CA that would like to learn more how to leverage Lucene/Solr to develop search applications.

The Burbank Hackers Club is a group of hackers who want to hack away and create cool interesting apps using Node.JS. We have several nodejs ongoing projects to choose from, or bring your own for everyone to work on. The goal though, is to have rapid development by having everyone work on a common project and see what can be hacked up in a single night. Hackers Unite!

A group dedicated to open source web application developers?perfect for those who program under PHP, Perl & Python. Presenters will be given the opportunity to share a new idea, technology or product for the open source LAMP community. Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/LALAMP/342666977517

This group was started to create a forum for experienced and aspiring web/mobile software entrepreneurs: product strategists, CTOs, hackers, CEOs, COOs, designers, developers/engineers, Scrum coaches, information architects, project managers. We will meet frequently to dscuss the rapidly changing web/mobile consumer software space:  - New technologies - New apps! - Cutting-edge hardware releases - Startup process and incubation - Open systems - Development process efficiency/theory - Idea …

Meet other local people interested in the Semantic Web, an initiative by the W3C [http://www.w3c.org] to make the web "one giant database": The Data Web. We address technologies such as RDF, RDFS, OWL, and applications that help to develop or that use ontologies, controlled vocabularies and rules systems in the enterprise and on the World Wide Web.

The Los Angeles/SoCal Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance is an organization formed to promote the use of best practices for providing security assurance within Cloud Computing, and provide education on the uses of Cloud Computing to help secure all other forms of computing. The Los Angeles/SoCal Chapter of the Cloud Security Alliance is comprised of many subject matter experts from a wide variety disciplines, united in our objectives: Promote a common level of understanding between the consu …

Let's talk and learn more about Ruby, Ruby on Rails, and other frameworks, and share practical experiences of using Ruby in the workplace. Meet local Rubyists and collaborate on new ideas. Meetup format will consist of at least one presentation and general discussion with special events like Ruby quiz nights and hackfests to be held on a periodic basis. Location will rotate throughout Ventura County and Conejo Valley. If you'd like to participate and know of a good spot, please recommend it!

Attention! Our official web site will be http://www.laphp.org/ We are currently building the official web site for our group, but until it is done the URL above will redirect to this meetup page. Los Angeles PHP Developers Group (LAPHP)  is a vibrant community of like-minded web developers who are working with or interested in PHP and related technologies.  We are meeting regularly at least once a month for high level talks on the technology topics and to mingle and network together with fell …

We're a strong community of former (and current) Flex developers with extensive enterprise application development experience. Given the transitions taking place with Adobe and the Flash Platform, we're changing focus to help enterprise application developers determine which technologies are right for the job, including, but not limited to, HTML5, JavaScript, CSS3, and various cross-platform alternatives.

The LA NewTech Meetup is an open forum for the discussion of new ideas and ongoing challenges in technology. It's informal yet substantive meeting focus on digital media, gaming, mobile and related platforms that support the development of new applications, as well as the revenue models that support them. Our mission is to provide LA area technology and media professionals with engaging, topical forums in which to meet their peers, share ideas, demo new applications and more. Simply put: to conn …

Silicon Beach Start-Ups was formed to get together like minded people involved in tech start-ups on the West Side of Los Angeles. The founders run a start-up making and marketing mobile applications out of their offices in Santa Monica.  This group is for entrepreneurial types to get together share their victories, defeats and help each other out generally.   I've set-up a Q&A section at http://siliconbeachstartups.org/ for anyone that needs help.     

Meet other locals who are interested in Project Management in Web Production and Software Application Development. Learn about education opportunities, share common problems and solutions, discuss techniques and tricks of the trade and network for career opportunities in the world of Project Management.

The mobile applications market is exploding as more phones, pads, & devices emerge.  Keeping up with developer options, new platforms, and best practices can be a challenge.  This group explores the work of developing software applications for mobile devices & how to help developers & entrepreneurs get there faster. Some of the platforms we cover are iPhone, Droid, and iPad, also operating systems like Symbian & Microsoft Mobile.  There are many software IDEs (interactive development environment …

Boxaplex is a co-working space in West Hollywood, California. Tired of working alone, or in a crowded (and noisy) coffee shop? We have desks for rent in a bright and modern office, where you can network with like-minded professionals and get...stuff...done. Started by Boxador (www.boxador.com), an online technology incubator. We would like to meet and work with like-minded entrepreneurs, user experience designers, web developers, software engineers, information architects, idea incubators …

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We are happy to be hosting meetups in the LA area. We will be doing presentations on various Cordova/PhoneGap, HTML5, Adobe AIR and mobile development related topics that the group shows interest in. Meet other mobile developers, the best tool for quickly building mobile applications for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Palm, iPad, Windows Phone 7, and Symbian. If you’re an entrepreneur looking to build a mobile application, or a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaS …