Meet with other web site system administrators, developers, designers and business people who're interested in making their sites work fast to get better user experience, lower abandonment rates and more money. @nywebperf LinkedIn group [+] see our sponsors More Web Performance groups around the world: San Francisco & Silicon Valley Web Performance Group Boston Web Performance Group LA Web Speed London Web Performance Group Web Performance User Group Vienna - Web Performance Group Atlanta We …

The focus of this group is for IT professions to meet and hang out in a social  environment . The  Genesis of this group is from the IT organization that included two major hospitals in the NYC area and has evolved over time. This 'Team Building excerise' began as a way to thank and repay coworkers with the purchase of a beverage, and has evolved into a way to keep in touch with friends, colleagues, and to repay those old debts. Feel free to join us and share old war stores, talk about technolog …

The Christian Party of America (www.christianpartyonline.com) is a new, national third-party of Christian voters, dedicated to proclaiming that Jesus is Lord in the political arena. Our purpose is to bring our country back to being an unabashedly Christian nation, by offering and electing competent candidates who share and promote our vision. Please join us in our goal of uniting believers under the banner of Jesus Christ to bring constitutional freedom to all people of the United States. We bel …

DC³: Everything about Data Center and Cloud technologies, from architecture and design, to efficiency, virtualization management, energy control, green tech and more. Collaborate with CIOs, managers, users and visionaries to network, improve and stay on the cutting edge.

PuppetNYC is a group of system administrators that use the open source configuration management framework Puppet to manage our systems. We try to meet monthly to exchange best practices, socialize and occasionally host formal presentations. We have a mailing list here: http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-nyc

This is a group for writers who want to master powerful strategies to write better. The organizer, Charles Euchner, is a former teacher and administrator at Yale and Harvard and the author of a number of acclaimed works on politics, sports, civil rights, and more. The approach: Euchner has developed what he called a "brain-based system" for writing well. What's that mean?  It means that if you understand how the brain works -- how the brain gets engaged or confused, what makes it excited or bore …

Chef-NYC is a users group for people in the New York City metropolitan area who are interested in using the opensource configuration management tool called Chef, developed by Opscode: http://www.opscode.com/ Every month, we get together to discuss Chef, Ohai, and related devops topics ... and SHARE COOKBOOKS/RECIPES! :-) Whether you're a "dev", "ops", or "other", join us!

New Jersey needs big changes that help people like you instead of Chris Christie's conservative con-artist gimmicks that benefit the richest one-percent and global corporations. If you are looking for better government service and fair taxes, you have to make sweeping changes in New Jersey's broken political establishment. Jim Devine has proposed massive changes to cure the Garden State's plague of 'politics as usual' ~ including plans to strip political bosses of their power and eradicate the c …

Northern New Jersey area Drupal users group. All experience levels welcome. We usually meet at the New Jersey Institute of Technology or around that area. We are also part of groups.drupal.org (http://groups.drupal.org/node/234853) "Drupal is a free, open-source software package that allows an individual, a community of users, or an enterprise to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website" - drupal.org

Unigroup is the oldest and largest Unix User's Group (Unix/Linux/BSD) serving the Greater New York City Regional Area since the early 1980s. Unigroup has been serving the NYC Unix Community for over 30 years! Unigroup is a not-for-profit, vendor and platform neutral, member funded, volunteer organization. Unigroup holds regular and special event meetings throughout the year on technical topics relating to Unix and the Unix User Community. Most Unigroup meetings are open to the public! Unigroup p …

This is the meetup group for the SharePoint User Group in NYC that meets at Microsoft Manhattan on the first Wednesday of the month. The NYC SharePoint Users Group (NYCSPUG) was founded in March 2006. Our mission from inception has been to share deep SharePoint experience with individuals who are interested in learning, sharing and growing their Microsoft SharePoint knowledge and capabilities. The group’s vision is to provide members with a forum to hear top industry experts present, learn and t …

What has happened to the north Brooklyn tech scene?!?!?! You Cant tell me that everybody went to Etsy?!?!? Seriously though, I am a systems engineer trying to find some new local talent, and I am picking up the bar tab to get people to hang out, and discuss the things that they like/dislike about technology, and to see if there is a good place for them to join my team.

Fostering an ecosystem of African-American Coders.

Do you run web sites on IIS, .NET (or Mono) and Microsoft Windows Server? Do you use Windows PowerShell to manage your Infrastructure. Do you spin up Microsoft Windows cloud instances on Windows Azure, EC2 or RackSpace? Microsoft shops that run Web Sites face the same problems with configuration management, deployment and operations as folks that run on the LAMP stack. This community will teach each other good practices with running web sites on Microsoft Windows, IIS and .NET from OS provisioni …

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!