OVERVIEW Do you work in the IT (Information Technology) field in British Columbia? Or are you an IT professional who is planning to move to British Columbia? Network with other people who are working in the same field as you. Some, but not all, areas you might be working in include: - Enterprise Systems - IT Infrastructure - Databases - Project Management - Security - Applications and Development - Mobile Technologies - Sales and Marketing - Human Resources BENEFITS OF JOINING THIS G …

Learn about and the how-to with Linux and other Open Source alternatives. This is a group for women of all skill levels to learn about new alternatives in computing. A softer introduction to geeking, linuxchix is a different sort of community. no one is excluded, you are warned, there may be knitting and pedicure discussions with no apologies.

We're a group of folks who use / are interested in scalable computing technologies, mostly Hadoop, HBase, and "NoSQL" platforms. We've had attendees and speakers from Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Visible Technologies, Drawn to Scale, U.S. National Labs, and many more! Groups are usually 75-150 attendees. We've been meeting since August 2009, and encourage anyone to attend! Usually we have: 1 or 2 ~20 minute "Feature" presentations Up to 4 "lighting talks" Friendly and helpful group discussion …

This is a group for computer experts who spend enormous amounts of time trying to legally breach the security of networks, web servers, email servers, and who are interested in hacking, IT security, incident handling, pen testing, information assurance, privacy, etc. All skill levels are welcome. If you exist in a reality beyond the alternate reality that normal people don’t think exists then this group is for you. I started this group because I am interested in forming a specialized Red Team. W …

Join us for an evening of discussion and beers about Puppet and DevOps. If you are using or want to learn about Puppet, configuration management, DevOps practices, etc, please stop by.

Work and Learn together to create Strategy Games for Web, PC, MAC, Linux, Iphone, and Android. We will be using different languages, engines and frameworks. Python, C#, JS, HTML5, Flash, Unity3D, and many more. Brought to you by Ice Turtle Studios. www.iceturtlestudios.com

Security and beers is an informal gathering of IT Security professionals in the Seattle area to unwind, network, chat and drink beer with like-minded people in the industry. Come and join us for a drink, some laughs and some conversation. No name tags, no cheesy presentations - just Security and beers.

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 …