We are a group of pen-testers that love what we do (who doesn't?!). We meetup every month to discuss the latest techniques in pentesting. So if you love making sure security products practice "Truth in advertising" this is a group for you. We like to meet at least once a month (if not more). Depending on the topic/meetup we can have one or multiple speakers and maybe even a CTF tournament. Meetups follow hacker tradition with free Beer and Pizza for all.  Remember this is a community built b …

This group is people who want to form or join a start-up. It is a meetup for Hackers who built something that works and people want; and Hustlers who sold product/service, raised capital, and/ or built partnerships. - This is NOT a social outing to have a beer and gossip about the latest story on TechCrunch. - This is NOT a VC beauty show. This is a serious and purposeful speed dating for people who what want to build the NEXT BIG THING and have chops to prove they can do it.

nyhacker is a non-profit connector and mentorship organization led by hackers, for hackers. Our mission is to sustain and grow a hacker culture through shared resources, mentorship, programming, and opportunities. Please use this group to propose and organize your own nyhacker events and programs. If you need funding, volunteers, help, or anything else email us at brandon@nyhacker.org.   tl;dr -- free events, pizza, beer, jobs, and funding for hackers (by hackers).   Please Note: Our events …

Hackdays is a meetup based on the philosophy that: You're a lot more productive when there's a time limit When learning to code, the fastest way to learn is to make something The best way to be introduced to new programming concepts is by interacting with other hackers You don't have to be a code ninja - a lot of Hackdays participants are brand new to programming. There are plenty of experienced CS students and hackers around to help. If you're a current college student (CS or otherwise) and w …

Parents and their high school students, and college students are invited to join the group to learn about and experience Academic Life Coaching (ALC) concepts and techniques presented by a trained Academic Life Coach. ALC concepts address behaviors such as procrastination, challenging subject or teacher, lack of comprehension or organization, poor goal setting, and self defeating patterns in the academic settings in high school and college. These thought patterns and behaviors make up what I cal …

At Apartment Therapy we've always felt that the web's greatest asset was in creating community and that it should mirrored offline as well. Inspired by Scott Heiferman's NY Tech Meetup, which we've been going to lately, we've started a NY Design Meetup for product and furniture designers, architects, entrepreneurs, students and hackers. Our goal is to provide a unique, efficient and entertaining forum for designers - both professional and amateur - to offer solutions to our biggest problems and …

There are terrific marketing people working in Silicon Alley. We've all met them. But we've never met them all together. Marketing ideas and wisdom are amazingly transferable - even more than hackers, biz dev people, or product folks, we speak the same language and have the same challenges. We all have ideas and experiences to share, and every time we talk we share those experiences and get better at our jobs. So let's get together, have some drinks, and help each other out. Seriously, we're alr …

Millions of users listen to Spotify's streaming music service world wide. Behind the scenes is a world class technology organization that innovates hard to make the music easy. This Meetup is devoted to exploring how Spotify's technology stack works and to the hackers who use Spotify's APIs. We'll get together to meet both Spotify engineers and business leaders and anyone who takes the time to do something cool with Spotify's APIs.

Meet with other NYC IT Professionals and Hackers. We are gathering this monthly meetup to discuss our DCNYC group that has been formed to bring together minds to talk about building things, solving problems, breaking things and securing our networks. Ethical & Black Hat hacking in today's world is almost one in the same. We want our meetup to be about sharing tips, networking, and talking shop! Come all as this is an open invite to anyone who wants to learn and have fun.

… ists who design better medication management, adherence, distribution or other systems Game Designers who make patient education fun Quantification companies that help people self-monitor (see also Quantified Self meetup) Engineers, Programmers, and Hackers that invent and enable new care paradigms Designers who create popular apps Innovative government leaders seeking positive change Reporters and Bloggers who want to see the cutting edge before it happens and spread the word and so many more a …

This group is a place for the NYC developer community to get together and learn more about Lithium, the first truly "modern", full-stack PHP web application framework. Whether you are already developing applications using Lithium or are simply interested in exploring a new framework, please join us at one of our monthly get-togethers. Instead of a single long presentation, the focus will be on quick-format demos of applications built using Lithium, hacks, tips and tricks, and general QA/discussi …

This group is for everyone interested in building flying robots (a/k/a UAV, UAS, or Drone) using open source platforms such as Ardupilot, Paparrazzi, Gluon, etc.

New York Travel Massive is a regular meet up in Manhattan that brings together travel brands, travel bloggers, and travel startups. Part of the global Travel Massive network, the purpose of this group is to connect people in the travel industry locally while sharing a drink or two along the way. Come join us!

… Do not give hackers a free pass, keep your D.O.G. House membership separate from Facebook.     Leaders from groups hosted on all platforms & countries are welcome: Meetup, Yahoo, Google, Ning, MSN, Facebook, MySpace, Weebly, Webs, Yola, Microsoft, Jimdo, Bravenet, Homestead, Spruz, Intuit, BigTent, whatever!  

This meetup exists because I was damn tired of being the only black person at other tech meetups. We aim to be a network of developers in NYC interested in becoming better, learning from each other and networking. Developers of all skill levels are welcome, from experienced hardcore, neckbeard hackers, to n00bs. If you want to be awesome, or more awesome, I hope you can find yourself at home here.    If you're an MBA who's never written a line of code, and doesn't want to, this probably isn't th …

If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library (did you just write a library to access the Meetup API in Go!?), whatever. We're language and software/hardware agnostic, so it's all fair game. After you present, it's an open f …