Welcome to Eastside Incubator (Ei). This community is designed to help software founders (who ship code) and business founders (who ship customers) develop their entrepreneurial talent. It is like a gym for software-focused entrepreneurs. There are three components to this group: the physical space (in Redmond), the networking events, and the online forum. The value of each of these depends largely on the contribution of the members. So if you have a problem, ask it so that somebody who has alre …

This is a community of developers who value and care about software development as a craft and want to learn, excel, and connect with other developers and be a part of the software craftsmanship movement.

This is a monthly meetup about cloud computing, where we cover cloud services from different cloud providers like AWS, Windows Azure, Google AppEngine, Heroku, AppFog etc. We welcome novice and experts in cloud computing development - you can learn basic and advanced skills from the speakers or get something hacked in the coding part. The format of the meetup is the following: We start with 2 or 3 twenty minutes long talks about practical solutions with cloud services. For those we try to invit …

This is a meetup group for those interested in the DevOps movement.

Check out the herbal meetups at http://www.meetup.com/The-Hermits-Grove/ The Rowan Tree Church, legally incorporated as a Church with full recognition from the U.S. Government, is an extended family throughout North America. Our primary community is centered at The Hermit’s Grove, serving the Puget Sound area. We meet for Full Moons, Sabbats and Sunday Circles and work together on projects. Our legal bylaws state that: I.A. "Membership is open to any person age twelve or older who wishes to shar …

Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses …

Do you believe web sites should be about something? Not just well-coded and well-designed, but filled with information that's interesting, fun, provocative, substantial ... and most of all, well-written and well-produced? Are you in the Seattle area? Then you belong here. (Especially if you're a content strategist, want to be a content strategist, want to work with content strategists, or are curious about the idea of content strategy.) Seattle has lots and lots of web professionals, and a small …

For video editors looking to improve their skills using Premiere Pro. People curious about switching over to Premiere from Final Cut and Avid greatly encouraged. We will also cover other Adobe software that is related to Premiere such as Photoshop, After Effects, InDesign, Encore, Prelude, Speedgrade, Muse, Edge Animate, Audition, Lightroom, and Bridge. Want to know how to build a website and embed video without writing code? This is the place. Want to know how to improve your audio without ProT …

Monthly MeetUp group for practitioners of Machine Learning, Statistics, AI, and other aspects of "Data Science". Do you want to learn more about using R and nltk? Or Apache Mahout and Giraph? Do you write your own custom NLP code, and want to compare notes with others of your clan? We're going to try and alternate locations between Seattle Proper and the Eastside, to get a little bit of balance. Let's see if we can balance our time between formal presentations / talks, and breakout white …

A community of Chef users in the Seattle area (and beyond) meeting to discuss a variety of Chef driven topics from Continuous Delivery to daily workflow issues.

Purpose: The purpose of this meetup is to help you achieve your health, wealth and relationship goals using Emotional Freedom Technique (EFT/”tapping”) & other strategies. We will cover a different topic each week, chosen by you! Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Dealing with stress & feeling overwhelmed, recovering from loss, overcoming rejection, overcoming the fear of change, conquering phobias, recovering from pain, and weight loss. What will we do? Most of this meetup is abou …

Network After Work - Networking Events for Professionals is a national business and social networking event company that launched in June 2009. We currently host events in 19 cities across the country. Events are created for professionals who want to expand their network and create new business opportunities, events range in size from 150-600 professionals and take place in each city's top nightlife destinations. Events draw a diverse mix of professionals from all industries and career levels an …

Do you enjoy riding your bicycle for transport, recreation, shopping, or just because? Cycle Chic's original concept of riding around the city wearing everyday clothing going to coffee is a fun thought. And we may do some of that, however, riding around in any city next to traffic can be a nerve wrecking and intimidating experience if you are not used to it. Here in the Pacific Northwest we have the option of trading the busy city streets for partial rural and urban streets with great views and …

This group is for organizing and conducting the Seattle RailsBridge Ruby On Rails workshops. The goal is to increase gender diversity in the Ruby community by helping women learn Ruby and Ruby on Rails. The workshops are geared to help primarily women learn Ruby on Rails. It is a free workshop and any level of experience is accepted. Anything from "I have never coded before in my life" to "I have been doing this for years and just want to see what is up with this Ruby on Rails thing" will be fi …

"All the brilliant people working at the same time, in the same space, at the same computer, on the same thing." - Woody Zuill, Mob Programming geezer. Read about mob programming at http://mobprogramming.org/. Every couple of weeks or so, Mondays 6pm-8.30pm, you can join us when you can, in downtown Seattle or Redmond (we're alternating for now). Our most recent session was at Nordstrom's Innovation Lab, where eight people had all sorts of fun and games coding up a browser-based chat applicatio …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

From big, well-organized hackathons like Startup Weekend and AngelHack to small, ad hoc hackathons like a couple of friends in a coffee shop, we want to help increase the number of hackathons going on in Seattle, help support them, and help publicize them.

AngelHack Hackathon Workshops are a place for industry leaders, hackers, and entrepreneurs to come together in a relaxed atmosphere to talk about API's, SDK's, and how to use new and creative ideas to empower a new generation of developers.

Join MeetUp group organizer Buddy Sliva, in learning about how to invest in alternative assets with your self-directed IRA. Learn from educational talks with leaders and peers who are making similar investment choices. Find out about their successes and failures with self-direction while learning how to conduct your own due diligence before leaping into a new investment with your self-directed IRA or tax-deferred account. Background on the Self-Directed IRA The fact is that a wide variety of IRA …

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.

WA is the home to the two biggest cloud service platforms (Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure). However, a platform is as good as what you do with it. This is a hands-on group for anybody, who wants to do something useful with popular IaaS, PaaS or SaaS cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Rackspace cloud/OpenStack, Google AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, Joyent, Heroku, Force.com, and others). The definition of "useful" is limited only by your imagination :-) The format of the meetu …

We welcome you to Michael Maier Pronaos and thank you for your interest in learning more about the Rosicrucian Order, AMORC. Perhaps you have already explored the vast sea of metaphysical and self-help books, programs, lectures, and seminars, and you may have found yourself wondering how to make sense of it all -- how to put it all together in a way that's practical and truly relevant to you. The Rosicrucian system is unique -- it provides a foundation that ties together all of the different asp …

This is a group for those who have taken a keen interest in Dan Brown's series of books which feature Robert Langdon as the Harvard professor of Religious Symbology and all the topics these books have engendered. The novel and subsequent movie "The Da Vinci Code" in many ways has been ground-breaking. It brought to public awareness that various forces ( or historical movements ) have been at odds with each other, and, at the same time share so much, as if there is some symbiotic relationship bet …

This is a group for WordPress developers who gather once in a while for a few hours of semi-coordinated, informal hackery. At each meeting we'll provide a central development task/suggestion for the group. For example, we might team up to implement new features on a large open source plugin, create a needed plugin of our own, or work on a core issue. If you attend, you can choose to participate in the group activity, or bring your own WordPress development project with you and do your own thing. …

Overwhelmed with all the technical advancements in software development?   Come join a group of fellow geeks and we'll go through them together. While the internet provides a plethora of information, there is nothing like being able to discuss and bounce ideas off of fellow developers.  The study group gathers once a week to watch courses from the Pluralsight library, discuss the material, and get some coding done. Every participant receives a free one month subscription to Pluralsight the first …

What is the group's purpose? A group dedicated to spreading the science of reverse engineering software and hardware. Who should join? Anyone interested in software and hardware coding and reverse engineering. Why should I join? To learn more about software and how it works and just to have a good time taking things apart to see how they work. What can members expect out of this meetup: Every meeting we will cover some new aspect of the skills required to be successful during your reverse engine …

This is a group for people interested in Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG), Canvas, HTML5, CSS3, OpenGL and web-based graphics libraries, as well as the use of these technologies for user interface development, information graphics, maps, storyboards, clipart and similar tools. It's primarily focused towards code developers (especially but not exclusively JavaScript developers) but may evolve over time to cover more general graphics professionals.

MASTER POLITICAL DISCOURSE Whether you're a libertarian, conservative, or social democrat, would you like to be better able both understand others viewpoints? Would you like to advocate your ideas in rational rather than allegorical or moral terms? Would you prefer to better understand the different political ideologies and the moral codes that underpin them? Would you like to be able to articulate the ideas of every political ideology in rational terms? Would you like to learn to debate better …