Mission To make IT Professionals in Richmond, Virginia leaders in Linux and Open Source Initiatives. Goals Educate and support Linux and Open Source professionals and hobbyists with peer-to-peer learning and certified training. Advocate for the use of Linux as the primary operating system for home, enterprise and educational purposes. Contribute to the global Linux and Open Source Community by developing the local Linux and Open Source community.

After a rekindle of the idea at Capital Camp DC, a place for drupalers, women came together to discuss having more events and meeting more often. So let's see how it goes. Women from across all Tech and social media platforms should join and hang out when we have events in the DC Tech Community. There are so many of us but we are all spread out for various reasons. Geeky Girls Night Out

An OpenStack DC Group for the Washington, DC metro area. Technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, government, or corporate employees are encouraged to join in this exciting and very promising world of open source cloud computing called OpenStack (http://openstack.org/).  Let's OpenStack & learn together.  We will be known as the OpenStackers. Are you interested in deploying a Private, Community, Public and/or a Hybrid cloud in the Washington, DC metro area or do you just want to learn or teach? …

It is time to bring an active MySQL meetup group back to the DC area. New and seasoned users are welcome for discussion, networking and the opportunity to learn from the DC area's MySQL experts. Please follow us on @NOVA_MySQL

A Linux Users Group to meet and talk about Open Source and Linux. We discuss a variety of subjects from very technical to high level all concentrated in providing IT solutions using Open Source and Linux. Besides the meetings, we use http://calypso.tux.org/mailman/listinfo/fredlug to communicate between the group members outside the meetings. Feel free to join.

We're a rag-tag group of software developers, mostly focused on web tech, but with a wide range of interests and experience. Our meetings are a mix of free-ranging discussion, short presentations, and project co-working. If you have ideas to share, questions to ask, or code to hack on, come by and say hi.

Do you know your ways around systems? Do you know more than just performing vulnerability, network scans, password cracking, or using a sniffer to listen across the network wire, etc.?  Can you decrypt encrypted files on the fly? Today's network traffic is mostly encrypted, how do you analyze traffic?  Do organizations have a box or appliance to decrypt traffic?  What if you are an Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) Analyst, how would you examine the traffic -- if 80% to 90% of the traffic is enc …

Welcome to the Eucalyptus Cloud User Group! We are here to bring together developers, architects, sysadmins, devops people, enterprises, start-ups... basically anyone interested in various possibilities of private and hybrid cloud solutions. Being an Open Source IaaS cloud platform means not only open source code but also open source ideas and communication. We will organize hackathons for code and hackathons for ideas. Eucalyptus is the world's most widely deployed open source cloud computing s …

hack.rva is a Richmond-based hacker collective. We like to take things apart, put them back together, figure out how they work, and create new things.Public hack and project night every Thursday night at 7:30. Come see us!

LOPSA DC is the DC chapter of the League of Professional System Administrators (LOPSA), a local group created for system administators in the DC Metro area. LOPSA is a nonprofit corporation based out of New Jersey with members throughout the world with the mission of advancing the practice of system administration; to support, recognize, educate, and encourage its practitioners; and to serve the public through education and outreach on system administration issues. While membership in LOPSA is e …