Welcome to the New York Web Standards Meetup! The New York Web Standards Meetup gets together once a month to discuss standards-based web development. We take a broad approach to standards, including not just Web Standards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_standards), but also Web Accessibility (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_accessibility), best practices for client-side and server-side development and web performance. We'd love to hear you present on the topic of your choice! Please revi …

Welcome to BroadwayMeetup.Com Meet new friends (between ages of 18-35* years old) while seeing a show at a reasonable price (some shows will be around $20 a ticket for off broadway&$99 or less a ticket for Great Broadway Shows/ Seats, below box office price!). We will also do other fun events,such as meeting at restaurants and bars for drinks and/or dinner, baseball games, or theater related movies... Meet other Broadway enthusiasts near you! Come to Broadway Meetup and talk with fellow minglers …

TimeOut NY Rates Paradigm Shift "Critics' Pick" honored an unprecedented 8 times!http://www.paradigmsh...Use the "F" word. Change NYC. Change the World.Mission Statement: We foster a thriving, active, diverse, and expanding feminist community with the purpose of self-expression and coalition building, creating a shift in social, political, and economic consciousness.Paradigm Shift is the New York City metro-area’s critically acclaimed and largest feminist community group and event series. We hos …

This is a social, business and performing group for serious artists, BOTH PROFESSIONAL AND NON-PROFESSIONAL, devoted to the craft of acting, writing, voice, movement and more...for FILM, TV and THEATER. The organizer is Jason Bennett, Runner-Up for BEST ACTING COACH in New York CIty in 2010 and Runner-Up for BOTH Scene Study Teacher AND Best Acting Coach in 2011! Jason Bennett is an acting and musical theater teacher and founder of "The Jason Bennett Actor's Workshop." The Meetup group is used, …

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 …

This group is designed to explore the ways in which social media and technology can help bring arts and culture to the masses. "Democratizing" the arts has been a long-standing goal in the art world, and no medium makes it more feasible than the web. The purpose of this meetup is to bring together those working at the intersection of arts and technology to share ideas, strategies, successes, challenges and failures, and to explore the following questions: - How can the new technology avail …

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 purpose of this Meetup Group is to gather local techies together monthly to learn from one another. Presentations should be around 30 - 40 minutes, more technical than not, and ideally, be showing how the presenter has solved a particular tech problem. Slides w/ source code encouraged! This is a group for techies. This is not a group for people who work at tech companies. If you don't write/test code or work with servers, this is probably not the right group for you. If you would l …

Scalable Software Architecture is the Meetup for software architects and people who want to learn how to architect high performance and scalable software platforms using different technologies.

The Creators Project is a global culture and technology initiative created by Intel and Vice in order to showcase artists, musicians, and filmmakers, and enable them to realize new artworks. The project includes an online community, a content creation studio, and global events. We bring together hundreds of artists using technology to push the bounds of creative expression. The Creators Project meetup series will showcase exemplary artists and ideas at the intersection of culture and technology, …

I’ve got an idea I’ve never seen that before. Be First.  Find it at COLLECT. COLLECT is committed to “art for community” – creating work and events that enhance and celebrate culture within the civilization of New York City. COLLECT is committed to artists - providing a forum and mentorship for career development. COLLECT is the first voice on arts in New York City – via its blog and involvement with other media and publications If you are a working artist in New York City we want you to bring y …

The Real Time Web group’s main goal is to raise awareness towards high-performance real time web applications and the Real Time Framework. The Real Time Framework — which is a multi-million dollar investment from an international company group — is comprised of a set of patented technologies that allow developers to produce real time-enabled websites quickly and easily over any real time server provider: ORTC (Open Real Time Connectivity) and xRTML (Extensible Real Time Markup Language). The do- …

DoActCrazy is a collaborative artistic group of that specializes in creating new media, focusing mostly on video for the web. Our name is a variation of the term "doOcracy", which is defined as structure in which members of the group choose their roles and tasks on any chosen production project. We post the ideas/schedule on meetup.com/doactcrazy-nyc for other members to decide how they want to get involved.

This group is a place to learn more about and discuss mobile web programming technologies. Focusing primarily on non-native technologies such as HTML5, CSS3, Spine, Sencha, SproutCore, jQTouch, jQuery Mobile, and new frameworks made by innovative up and coming startups in NY and beyond. We'll discuss techniques for building high performance web apps in different domains. In particular, apps for e-commerce, content creation,

They say to make it in Hollywood, it isn't what you know, but WHO you know... ...and if Kevin Bacon has taught us anything in life, it's that each of us is only separated by a few degrees. Here at Awoken Artists, we want to bridge that gap even more. Connecting Creativity Our goal is to help artistic minds network and collaborate. We range from working professionals in all genres of the entertainment industry -- film, television & stage, actors, writers & performers. We even made room for yo …

Filmmakers!  From Concept to treatment to script to production to distribution deal. Let's get together and discuss it all! This meetup is for filmmakers to meet and discuss the creative side AND the business side of filmmaking. WRITERS with a script, meet filmmakers who may want to develop your film. FILMMAKERS, let's brainstorm and compare notes about distribution. DP's and DSLR shooters, let's talk about casting, directing, about web series, and about self-distribution.

This group is for anyone interested in exploring the connections between digital humanities, new media, digital games, with music, film, theatre, and other performing arts. All are welcome: join us to share your experiences and discuss new projects and ideas!

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.

No libraries, no frameworks, no shortcuts - this group focuses on core JavaScript. Here we will address different low-level JS issues such as code excerpts, performance, paradigms, etc that can be applied anywhere including building new libraries or improve existing ones. We will steer clear from having presentations of frameworks written using JavaScript as there are enough meetups for that purpose. Our goal is to engineer solutions to complex problems and present our findings in core JavaScrip …

Learn from and meet with other developers, devops and QA professionals that use JMeter to test web apps. JMeter User's group is an open forum where JMeter and even Selenium users from all levels (beginner, intermediate, afficianados) can interact, network and share insights and information. Topics include JMeter, Selenium, scripting, performance, load and stress testing, test-driven development, continuous integration, building automated test scripts and other topics. Feel free to request and po …

NYC UX Acrobatics primary focus is the varied facets of UX design, research and usability. Our aim is to create monthly 'UX themed' workshop style meetings where members work with each other learning, discovering and networking on all things UX. Potential topics: paper prototyping, experience maps, user research and testing, persona dev, a/b testing, front-end best practices, RWD (Responsive Web Design), PET Design (Persuasion, Emotion, and Trust Design), competitive analysis, sketching UX, cont …

The HTML5 Games Meetup is a meeting place for anyone interested in creating HTML5 games. It will provide a platform for learning and collaboration around the development, distribution, and monetization of HTML5 games. The list of HTML5-compatible platforms and devices is constantly growing--Desktop, Browser, Facebook, iOS, Android, Windows 8, Kindle, Nook, etc. We will explore general approaches, business models, design considerations, platforms, and technology. Look forward to presentations and …

To showcase the hottest unsigned and signed talents, to network with professional movers and shakers, to entertain with theatrical plays, tv and web shows and to educate on latin culture to mainstream and latin audiences.

The Click Lab is a venue for professionals and entrepreneurs to share their passion for digital marketing. It is a friendly, collaborative environment to learn, and connect. Disciplines, experience and marketing channels may differ, though the objective is unified. I recently started Click Lab for a couple reasons. I love geeking out about this stuff...my wife and friends were tired of listen to me talk about funnels and A/B test results. I know there are tremendously talented and ambitious mar …

Each Month, Our Group Brings You Cutting Edge Trainers and Coaches From Around the Globe to Share Inspiring, Powerful and Most Importantly, 'Sustainable' Learning for Business Growth, Leadership and Personal Development.  And, our events will also offer an engaged and wonderful group of NYC area professionals for networking both before and after our presentations. Thursday, May 9th, We Are Thrilled to Host the NY Debut of New Zealand and Australia's Top Business/Leadership Coach, Sally Anderson …