A place where like minded folks go to learn and collaborate on projects.  Please visit us at smhack.org for more information.

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

A group for Python ladies of all levels of programming experience, in the Washington, DC area. Developers and aspiring developers only, please! Let's keep this group primarily focused on Python programming. We have zero tolerance for anyone who comes just to recruit developers. Join us on IRC - #pyladies or Ask us questions in our local Google Group: https://groups.google.com/group/pyladiesdc

Are you a hardware or software engineer longing for something interesting to work on? Would you like to meet other engineers to discuss projects, hobbies, interests and possible collaboration. If so this is the Meetup group for you.

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.

We currently have a 1600+ SF space located in Severn, MD. This space is open to the public, anyone can join, and is available for people to come and collaborate on their projects. The motto of the space is Teach, Learn, Build! FYI most of our members don't use meetup.com, so it doesn't look like many people are registered, but nearly every event posted has had 10+ people.

This group is a place for developers to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database and many people are interested in learning more about it. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable, and fun alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions.

The Baltimore Node is a member-run space where people can hack, craft, and make interesting things in a supportive and collaborative environment. The Node follows the Hackerspace model that is flourishing in cities around the world, including New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Berlin, Sydney, and many more. Members receive 24/7 access to the space, which is stocked with shared and donated tools and equipment. In addition to the informal exchange of wisdom and experience that comes from simply wor …

Over ther years, the founding member of this group has installed Linux (mainly Ubuntu and Debian but also OpenSuSE and several others) on many computers and sent them out to friends and family as well as Craigslist buyers and flea-market shoppers. What he's learned is that some new users (newbies) need face-to-face help with getting things done; these type of computer users are folks who are just somewhat uncomfortable with computers overall or who are nervous about slight differences in the way …

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 …

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 …

*New Baltimore Linux meetup* Let's meetup to share knowledge, ideas, and best practices with Linux through speakers, workshops, and industry experts. All levels of Linux proficiency are welcome. Meetups will be held quarterly at Advertising.com on the Under Armour campus in Locust Point. All meetings are free to attend with snacks and beer provided. If you have a topic you would like to share or suggest, reach out to paris.pittman@teamaol.com.