OUR MISSION This Meetup strives to make New York City a Model for 21st Century Democracy. We are committed to using technology to build a scalable, sustainable, flexible platform designed to engage more New Yorkers in their local democratic process, that can then be used to serve the Nation and inspire others globally. Never before has local government thrown its weight behind a platform that truly embraces the ideals of ‘by the people, for the people.’ Here, we will continue our conversation …

A group for the application of cutting-edge HPC & GPU supercomputing technology to cutting-edge business problems. With an emphasis on the useful application of supercomputing by practitioners, for practitioners. Note: We have a sister groups that meet in Boston, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Boston", Chicago,  "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Chicago", and Silicon Valley, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of Silicon Valley".

What is CloudStack? Apache CloudStack (Incubating) is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable, hypervisor agnostic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premise (private) cloud offerings. Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foun …

A group for Web Ops engineers, Sysadmins or other Engineers to sit, drink and swap war stories, compare current headaches, and share ideas. If you join, include a short blurb about what sort of ops you do!

Our group is focused on having discussions around scaling real-time, high transaction and low latency NoSQL database systems. We will have guest speakers talk about their real world experiences and learned techniques around building and managing mission critical businesses that realize 100% up-time. Collaborate with peers trying to solve the same complex problems that arise when you bet your business on your infrastructure.

For Erlang, related technologies and interested technologists in New York City.

This group is focused on learning and sharing ideas on NOSQL and distributed graph database technologies and solutions.

What is NoSQL? The definition of NoSQL varies greatly, but the NoSQL NYC Meetup will be a place to discuss any alternative databases: from large distributed key-values hashtables to document-stores.  Newbies welcome! You can also keep track of various NoSQL events in the city by following the group on Twitter:  http://twitter.com/nosqlnyc  Please let me know if I missed something. The goal of the meetup is to build a local community, so please do not join the meetup for the sole intention o …

A group committed to teaching and learning all aspects of Web Technology. This group is made possible by Vork, the enterprise PHP framework designed for rapid development of performance-oriented scalable applications. Vork has no learning curve! No proprietary syntax or terminology to learn! PHP developers can use Vork productively within minutes and become certified Enterprise Architects within a short time. Vork is the most-intuitive PHP framework and an ideal tool to architect any PHP project …

Monthly beer social for geeks and non-geeks interested in the vagaries of cloud. Based in NYC. Occasionally on the road. No presentations. No formality. Real discussion. Real beer. [Credit to: Mike McCracken for photo]

Meet others who are interested in private equity and venture capital - currently working in pe or vc, looking for investment or financing opportunities or exploring pe or vc. Our meetings are causal and fun, providing members with the opportunity to network, and we will also have invited speakers/presenters. This group is made possible by Vork, the enterprise PHP framework designed for rapid development of performance-oriented scalable applications. - Vork is designed to maximize ROI from your …

Welcome to the NYC Private and Hybrid 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. Private clouds give users immediate access to computing resources hosted within an organization's infrastructure. Users self-provision and scale collections of resources drawn from the private cloud, typically via web service interface, just as w …

Redis is a powerful and fast key-value store (www.redis.io) which is used by increasingly many companies in New York Area. Let's meet up, talk about Redis, NOSQL, startup community and help grow the Redis community!

This NYC MySQL Group is the world’s largest database group organized on Meetup! HD-Video of our previous events is regularly published on the IT Management & Leadership eMagazine (www.LeadIT.us) and on the Database Month (http://www.DBMonth.com) website We are here to help new and seasoned users alike; join us regularly for discussion, networking and the chance to meet with the most world-renown experts in MySQL, Drizzle, MariaDB, Percona as well as NewSQL and NoSQL. The NYC MySQL Group Meetup …

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 of the key committers are based right here in New York City. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us at one of our monthly sessions. We typically meet on the third Tuesday of the month, have some pizza and network, and enjoy a p …

A group devoted to the use and development of open source, big data, agile intelligence solutions, for the NYC Metro area. Join our group if interested in solving real business problems utilizing open source, big data analytical solutions.

OpenStack is a collection of open source technology products delivering a scalable, secure, standards-based cloud computing software solution.  It is used by corporations, service providers, VARS, SMBs, researchers, and global data centers looking to deploy large-scale cloud deployments for private or public clouds leveraging the support and resulting technology of a global open source community. Join us in discussions from users perspectives on OpenStack and cloud computing in general.  Once a …

Come Together For Health™ Improving access to affordable healthcare by promoting innovative technologies that transform healthcare. Health Technology Forum (HTF) is a platform for people worldwide who have a common interest in making healthcare better, more accessible and affordable. Our international network of technology and healthcare entrepreneurs, developers, regulators, and providers are advancing the pace of healthcare innovation by engaging in exciting and productive dialogue between exp …

NY Graph is a place for people to learn about and discuss graph structures, graph theory, graph databases and related topics. We host technical presentations and lectures, product demos, lightning talks, seminars, town hall-style open forums and hands-on tutorials, in addition to less-structured monthly gatherings. Why graphs? Why now? Graph structures and methods are being used everywhere. As the size of datasets being generated, processed, and presented continues to grow, the relative strengt …

Opani is a community of data people working together to understand humanity's rising river of information.

We're a rails programming shop in midtown that wants to interact more with the local rails, and other programming communities. We want this to be a knowledge sharing, experimentation venue.

The Vertica Professionals group was created to provide a forum for those in the NYC Area to share tips, tricks and knowledge about using Vertica and it's ecosystem for analytics. We will be managing this group out of linked in -- http://www.linkedin.com/groups?gid=4210608

Meet with developers, engineers and business people who are users of Varnish cache and want to share knowledge or just want to learn more about how Varnish can help a website scale up and run faster.

Purpose: To learn and implement Steve Blank's customer discovery and customer validation business model. The goal is to find a repeatable, scalable business model by the end of the 8 weeks. We will get out of the building during the week to speak with customers, partners, and competitors. We will follow his syllabus as taught at Stanford School of Engineering 2012. Who: Entrepreneurs: Apply as groups of 2 - 4 or individuals. We are capping it at 40 people, or 10 teams. Materials: "The Startup Ow …

This is a group for anyone interested in research concerning artificial neural networks, deep learning, and so on. The format varies between discussion groups, guest speakers, and tutorials. Proposed topics include: training deep belief networks with unsupervised pre-training/supervised finetuning, recurrent neural networks, different optimization methods, scalable architectures for large networks across clusters, practical GPU programming (with Python!), NNs for NLP, using NNs in robotics, visu …

What is EO Accelerator? Accelerator is experiential, entrepreneurial education based on an annual calendar year. Through the following education methods, you will be able to demonstrate the application of the content through annual deliverables. • Quarterly Learning Events – Through a series of quarterly events focused on four core areas: Strategy, People, Finance and Sales & Marketing, this experience-based three year curriculum is delivered by entrepreneurs to entrepreneurs. This access to rea …