This group is for anybody who is interested in cloud computing. The purpose of this cloud is to provide a forum and in-person social networking opportunities for who are working with cloud computing within both commercial and government organizations in the Washington DC Metro Area. This is about the free flow of information around approaches and cloud computing technology, what’s working and what’s not.

With the growing interest in Cyber Security and the various certifications, this is a club where like minded Ethical Hackers, Penetration Testers and Network / Computer Security professionals can come together and share knowledge and mentor those looking to break into the field. If you have or trying to get a Network+, Security+, CCNA, CEH, CISSP, CHFI...etc, lets get together and expand on our knowledge by cooperating in lectures, hands on labs and group discussions about all things network / c …

A group for computer consultants in the DC area to discuss the business of computer consulting and network with colleagues.

Welcome to the Cloud DC. Anything in 'Cloud' we will bring it for discussion. We will cover any technology that touches Cloud. We are open to suggestions and feedback.

Professional group of distributed computing practitioners.

Map/Reduce, specifically Hadoop is revolutionizing several areas of computing. This group is for those that are investigating this technology or perfecting their skills with it. Hopefully it will be a mix of introductory material and hands on labs. Meeting in Northern Virginia, usually Reston.

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 several sister groups that meet in other cities: New York, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of New York", Boston, Chicago, Silicon Valley, and Tokyo ... you can find them all on meetup.com

This group is for parents & educators who want to teach computer technology and design. We want to have regular meetups to exchange ideas and also to also provide opportunities for kids to learn programming, design, and robotics skills.

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? …

Membership is comprised of Women either in the Information Security field or wanting to enter the field. The purpose of this group is to advance women in Information Security by promoting networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing, and opportunities. Regular workshops will be offered to bridge the gap of theory and/or minimal hands-on labs from a course you took or self-studying. You will get to learn and practice in an environment of like-minded women. Workshops will be led by SME's in …

Washington DC ACM SIGGRAPH is a non-profit, professional computer graphics organization serving the Washington metropolitan area. Our mission is to foster the synthesis of art and technology while promoting and educating the computer graphics and interactive media community through the exchange of printed and electronic information and innovative ideas. We are a volunteer organization that relies on its members to provide unique resources for the benefit of those interested in the field of compu …

BNI is the largest business networking organization in the world and we believe in the "Givers Gain" philosophy. We offer members the opportunity to share ideas, contacts and most importantly, business referrals. We are a dynamic, fun and growing BNI Chapter and we invite you to come and check us out. We meet from 7:30 - 9:00 am every Thursday so you know we are dedicated and serious about building and growing our businesses. The first meeting is on us but you need to sign up. We want to make su …

We are the DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.  We help advance computing as a science and a profession.  We do this offline through lectures, workshops, discussion panels, and professional development seminars.  We partner with ACM HQ, ACM Public Policy, ACM special interest groups (SIGs), DC area technical user groups, and area university Comp Sci and Info Tech departments. Join us if you like any of the following categories: http://acm.org/sigs Suggest a topic or speaker, w …

This group will share the best practices and ideas for implementing the Amazon Web Services Cloud products for Customers in the National Capital Area. Our customers have unique requirements including professional associations, lobbying groups, government, technology startups, and large corporate headquarters. Cloud technology consultants and IT department leaders would benefit from joining this group.

To bring networking events to those interested in Information Technology. Anyone that works in IT or Telecom industries who might like to network with similar individuals.

This is to be the inaugural meeting of NoVA Networkers, a discussion group for computer network engineers and administrators of all skill levels. (Please note that this group is NOT for interpersonal networking.) The goal of the group is to facilitate the free exchange of ideas and experiences among like-minded professionals. The group was founded by Jeremy Stretch of packetlife.net, and is not sponsored by any commercial entity. (This means that all vendors and technologies are fair game!)

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 …

This group is for anyone interested in Ethical Computer Hacking.

User's group to discuss, review, and exchange ideas on BMC Software's BladeLogic server, network, and client automation solution. Including how it relates to Cloud Computing and Cloud Lifecycle Management.

ClusterDC aims to bring together the Washington DC area's brightest developers, data scientists, analysts and big data fanatics to form a collaborative and hands-on group to solve the world's data problems. OK, that's a stretch, but this group is by invite and application only and for people interested in hacking and developing novel and intelligent solutions around Big Data, NoSQL and distributed computing technologies. Be ready to teach and to be taught and to collaborate with your peers. Plan …

User's group for those using, planning, or supporting BMC Software Cloud Lifecycle Management solution.

This Washington DC Meetup mission is to help businesses understand and convert Data to be an Asset as compared to be a liability. Our community will cater to SAP HANA and its ecosystem (BI, BODS, MDM, ETL, EIM etc.), BIG Data and Hadoop community and predictive analytics with R and explore Cloud offerings. ABOUT HANA SAP HANA is a modern platform for real-time analytics and applications. It enables organization to analyze business operations based on large volume and variety of detailed data in …

Chevy Chase Cloud Computing Group

This group is for anyone in the Washington, D.C. area working in (or interested in) Natural Language Processing. Our meetings will be an opportunity for folks to network, give presentations about their work or research projects, learn about the latest advancements in our field, and exchange ideas or brainstorm. Topics may include computational linguistics, machine learning, text analytics, data mining, information extraction, speech processing, sentiment analysis, and much more. If you're active …

A comfortable learning environment where people come together to understand the basic computing.

Storm Users Group is a community for Storm developers and companies using Storm. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used with any programming language, and is a lot of fun to use!