Women Developers and Programmers! 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 …

Welcome to NYC Apps! We host events to inspire, educate, and accelerate the NYC mobile community. Our focus is iOS and Android development/design, all the way through to marketing and advertising. Our mission is to cultivate a sustainable NYC mobile community that drives innovation in software around the world. The format: - Speakers: Developers, Designers, Marketers, and Investors - Demos: App/Technology previews - Discussion and Networking: A lively discussion where we cover current topics a …

Meet other local fans of PhoneGap, the best tool for quickly building mobile applications for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Palm, iPad, and Symbian. If you’re an entrepreneur looking to build a mobile application, or a web developer who wants to build mobile applications in HTML and JavaScript while still taking advantage of the core features in the iPhone, Android, Palm, Symbian and Blackberry SDKs, PhoneGap is for you. Come to learn about PhoneGap and share your knowledge.

HUGE Events is a way for HUGErs and non-HUGErs to get together over common interests. Anyone interested in agency life, design, or tech is welcome! Upcoming Meetups: The State of HTML5, Summer 2011: Sparkle Edition™(featuring Paul Irish) http://www.meetup.com/doctype-html/events/22447051/ Tues, July 5 @7pm

Travel 2.0 meetup discusses web and mobile travel innovations and technology. The best Travel Meetup in New York, and now in San Francisco bay area, talks about travel in the web 2.0 and mobile context: online travel, social travel, travel innovations, travel technology, travel planning, mobile apps, travel mobile tech. More broadly, anyone interested in web technology, mobile app for travel, social commerce, social media, startup, innovation, entrepreneurship, and online marketing could benefit …

The NYC Mobile Experience is an outgrowth of "pocketmints", a Mint Digital experiment focused on the "making" of mobile applications of the "maker's" perspective. After a quick glance at the the NYC meetup landscape, we felt that mobile topics tend to either get lost in larger, more general tech groups or they meet very specific needs like those of a platform (iPhone, Android, WinMo) or even a type of app (location-based). We are shooting for a space for mobile were we can bring together desi …

A group where product managers, developers, UX pros, designers, and anyone else can gather to discuss the process, challenges, and fun of developing a mobile product, be it an app or a mobile-optimized site. There are some meetup groups out there that focus on (and do a great job of) discussing the tech aspects of building for mobile. The emphasis of this group will be on the research, requirements gathering, definition, UX, product management, and design of mobile apps and sites.

Welcome to Responsive Web Design NYC! If you are interested in a common web strategy for mobile, tablet and desktop then Responsive Web Design NYC is right for you! This group was the first NYC Responsive Web Design Meet-up launched in Sept 2011 with the spirit of serving the design, developer, product management and business community of NYC around all topics pertaining to Responsive Web Design.  Anyone from the community can organize, participate and run an event!  We are very fortunate to hav …

Are you a hacker, designer, or startup founder? Do you like playing ping pong? Then this is the group for you. We get together to talk about tech startups, discuss our latest software hacks, or get UI design advice; all over friendly games of table tennis. FAQ: Q: Why only founders, hackers, and designers? A: So we all have something in common Q: What if I suck at ping pong? A: That's ok. Noone's going to make fun of you. Everyone sucked at some point, right? Q: Do I need to bring my own ping p …

What is Techmeetups? TechMeetups has been setup to create a global network of Tech communities from San Francisco to Sydney. We believe that Tech communities are isolated and great things can be achieved if we connect within our cities and outside our borders. Our goal is to create a global Tech cluster of over 50 inter-connected Tech communities by 2013. Our global community started out with the launch of the London Silicon Roundabout Tech community in December 2010. Following it's success in …

I was born in the Silicon Valley, grew up in a tech family, and I've always been fascinated by technology. Over the last year this fascination has grown. As I take on more entreprenuerial projects, I'm discovering that there are other people, designers, programmers, idea people, marketing people, venture capitalist, who are equally passionate about producing great social, web, and mobile applications, but are struggling to find a team who is equally capable and passionate about producing amazing …

Huge Events are open to anyone who has interest in agency life, graphic design, visual design, basically all things design and more. Join us for a fun evening of refreshments, networking and talks by design professionals and leaders in the industry.

It's not your grandfather's web anymore. Mobile is multiplying, tablets are thriving, and the not-so-distant future is a giant question mark following by a giant exclamation point. Responsive web design—the process of creating a site that adapts to the range of web-enabled devices—is poised for a huge breakthrough. First, though, we need to figure out how to do it. Our group is for people from a range of web disciplines—design, development, project management, content strategy, and more—looking …

This is a group that is founded to celebrate and expand upon interesting work by interesting people. We hold meetings that display new tech developments and cool new companies. Most importantly, these meetings are a great place to discover new people, connections, and possible co-workers.

Design Founders: A community for designers turned entrepreneurs. Whether you're a designer launching a tech startup, a clothing-line, a letterpress shop, or a non-profit, you're likely navigating the same challenges, and sharing the same goals, as other designers-turned-founders. Our goal is to connect designers who are creating new companies so we can exchange our shared experiences, challenges, best practices and resources. This group could also become a forum for sharing work in progress, c …

Innovation in the mobile payments, banking, retail, and social spaces. •Product launches and demos from the hottest startups and influential companies •Expert speakers ranging from game changing entrepreneurs to seasoned financial service veterans •Networking and knowledge sharing with industry thought leaders Interested in demoing your product? Contact Julianna at julianna [at] moven [dot] com.

Designers + Geeks is a popular monthly event that brings together designers, developers, artists, and geeks of all types. Born in San Francisco, we're extending to New York to continue the fun.

Welcome to Mobile Web US, the US group dedicated to the Mobile Web and Mobile Web Apps. We believe in the Open Web and are passionate about web technologies, HTML5, Javascript, CSS3, user interface & user experience, web design, especially for new mobile devices (smartphones and tablets) are compatible with HTML5. The purpose of the group is to create short regular meetings, where to study issues of web development on mobile, in particular the creation of web apps, games, mobile sites are compat …

Join us! The first Windows 8 app event will be announced soon.  The New York Windows 8 App Development Group is modeled after the success of the Boston Windows 8 App development group.  (www.windows8boston.com) This NY Win 8 group is Focused on Windows 8 app development and everything and everyone you need to know about Windows 8 style apps. Take advantage of the need for Windows 8 app developers, designers, user experience experts and solution architects. Take your existing skills and create Wi …

The Mobile Apps Roulette meetup is for interactive iOS/Android demos with full audience participation.  Instead of just watching demos then asking questions, we the audience use each app as it's being presented. Many mobile apps today have a social and/or location component and so having a group of people using them at the same time provides a valuable use case for the apps' developers and interesting audience interactions. At the beginning of each meetup, all attendees download the apps that'll …

Thoughtworks is a home for anyone interested in user experience design and the development of technology products. Join us for talks, workshops, and new perspectives on UX, and meet others in the experience design community. TW NYC is located at 99 Madison, floor 15.

Starting Bloc is a new group for entrepreneurs, freelancers, and professionals -- people out in the world building things, who want resources to help them do it.  Our goal is to harness the power of community to help support developing businesses. Our first challenge... WORKSPACE! Tired of fighting for seats at cramped coffee shops with limited internet access?  We’ll be putting together a series of jellies, where we line up pop-up workspace on the weekends and all get together to jam.  In addit …

This meetup provides an online space for Microsoft app builders to come together and build apps with the help of Microsoft and our Community of Developers and Designers. All meetings are at the Microsoft Office at 1290 Ave of the Americas, 6th Fl, NY NY 10016

Making Android apps more beautiful. This is a group for professional, novice and aspiring Android app designers.

The Design Task Force for Global Change is an interdisciplinary team that addresses the citizen usability of software and mobile applications with organizations such as The Guardian Project, Open Internet Tools Project, Witness.org, Georgia Law Society Project, and many more. Comprised of designers and open source developers, The Task Force meets semi-regularly to discuss the UX/UI/design strengths and weaknesses of current software projects in development; discuss software usability from a desi …

Talk about anything and everything app related such as features, designing or geek out on code. Meetups will consist of talks from Developers, Designers, Project Managers, etc.

The Optimizing Mobile Apps Meetup is for anyone with a passion for mobile metrics, mobile user experience, conversion optimization, increasing video consumption as well as performing A/B testing on a mobile app - This is a group who shares best practices about optimizing mobile apps - specific topics include mobile UX case studies, tools, latest lessons learned and of course networking! There will be plenty to share and learn about for those from agencies to stand-alone app owners to ecommerce t …

DUMBO Designers is the group for enthusiastic designers of all kinds in DUMBO, NY. Follow on twitter @DUMBOdevs Support us on gittip.com: https://www.gittip.com/DUMBOdesigners/ Meetups: Currently hosting a monthly lunch and talks about design in DUMBO, NYC. PLEASE NO JOB POSTINGS Also, don't contact other members about jobs unless they've contacted you first, or that's a chop.