Meet other local architects, interior designers, designers and developers to network, mingle, and build personal and business relationships. Scheduled lectures and field trips to historical landmarks will be scheduled on a monthly basis.

Take a car, drive from one house to the next to the remaining pieces of another one, take photos, go to diners, go swimming in the nearby ocean, get invited to fancy cocktail parties by random people. There are ideas to have an official tour as well as do house hunting on our own, drinking martinis (virgin or not), going to the MOCA and hearing a Breakfast Series lecture. More here: http://www.opentrips.co.uk/trips/15

Welcome to the neighborhood! CULTURE PUB Los Angeles is a world–class cultural amusement park from Pasadena, Chinatown, to the Miracle Mile and the Westside. Let’s chart an expedition into excitement and intrigue! Join art aficionados in search of treasures at world renown museums, contemporary galleries, and the hip new art scenes sprouting up. THE SOCIAL VIBE The good news is your fellow members are a sharp mix of people who are inquisitive and outgoing. Most are college age mid 20s to early …

Are you LGBT and a foodie? Have you always wanted to join a dining club that will try out a wide variety of restaurants - from street food, all the way to fine dining, from American cuisine, to all types of ethnic cuisine Southern California has to offer? Then this is the group for you. We have a wide variety of events to fit everyone's budget - from $10 to $15 at street food and certain ethnic restaurants, all the way to $100 plus for fine dining. Its up to you what event you want to sign up f …

Attention! Our official web site will be http://www.laphp.org/ We are currently building the official web site for our group, but until it is done the URL above will redirect to this meetup page. Los Angeles PHP Developers Group (LAPHP)  is a vibrant community of like-minded web developers who are working with or interested in PHP and related technologies.  We are meeting regularly at least once a month for high level talks on the technology topics and to mingle and network together with fellow …

The UUASC is for all persons using UNIX either personally or professionally, or interested in learning more about UNIX. We recognize all varieties of UNIX, including (without prejudice) SCO, Linux, SVr4, Solaris, AIX, HP/UX, and BSD. This is a good place to meet others with similar interests and broaden your skills and knowledge. We meet on the first Thursday of the month in Los Angeles and the second Monday of the month in Orange  County. Visit our site at http://uuasc.org for more details.

This meet up is all about exploring Los Angeles on foot.  There are so many interesting parts of Los Angeles that you never notice as you drive by it in your car.  By getting out and exploring the city, we'll discover new things we didn't know existed.  We'll try to keep most hikes between 4-7 miles to make sure we have time to complete the hike and have time to explore during the hike. What is Urban Hiking? An urban hike gives us the chance to explore the terrain we live in, to contemplate how …

Presentations and discussion of innovations and applications with Lucene & Solr, the Apache open source search engine/platform. These Meetups are for developers in Southern CA that would like to learn more how to leverage Lucene/Solr to develop search applications.

This group is for Software Engineering professionals to meet and discuss all aspects of the Software Engineering = development, analysis, test, quality, project management, refuse, methodologies, support, release, best practices, languages, new stuff, trends, tool sets, SWE careers. Eventually we will open some meetings to non-engineers but for now we would like to have members that have some background as a practicing engineer or developer. We will also cover scripting and scripting languages a …

Southern California Renegades.... what kinda photo shoot are you interested in? Time to dust off the moped and head south. There are many photography education workshops on the market. None have the Renegade photo vision. Crowded markets need break away mavericks. The Renegade Photo Shoots group is for serious photographers intent on improving their skills, sharing with one another and trying a variety of things. Renegade Photo Shoots does photo education and adventure differently. We create as …

Because Cool Nerds are hard to find! Art, culture, travel, music, theater, photography, science, yoga, film, architecture, design, fashion, writing, poetry, wine, museums, nature, hiking, painting, social media...name your passion! Per Paul & George.. ""A Good Nerd is hard to find," "A Nerd is a terrible thing to waste."

The intent is to create a Group of Passionate people that have an interest in improving their mastery in creating Software using the Go Language. All the meetups are gonna be structured in two parts. Beginner Intermediate - Advance Beginner part would be for User that already know how to program but that want to learn the fundamentals of the language. no prior knowledge of Go will be required. More experienced members will be welcome to bring neophytes up to speed. Because Coding is about doi …

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 …

We provide innovative physical and virtual infrastructure that freelancers, entrepreneurs, and creative class professionals need to succeed in the 21st century knowledge economy. In an increasingly disconnected world, NextSpace creates a collaborative community that is revolutionizing the nature of work. Our business model is simple: NextSpace sells membership in that collaborative community. Our members come from a wide variety of industries: software, design, marketing, legal services, archi …

Los Angeles Windows Azure Developers is a local meetup for Windows Azure Developers in Southern California. We host 3 types of meetup events for Windows Azure Developers. Hack Nights - Bring what you're working on, ask questions, demo your stuff, get feedback. These are informal events where you can come to get help or just to talk about Azure.  These events don't have a specific topic, and often have several conversations going on at once. Presentations - Come listen to an Azure expert presen …

The group is organized by Dustin Laurence and Jan de Leeuw . We will be meeting once a month at UCLA to talk about issues relating to GPGPU and parallel programing.

Designfudge is centered on LA based UX & Design professionals. We're focused on.. 1. Monthly gatherings; once a month we’ll get together to hear case studies of local projects and discuss outcomes over food and drinks. 2. Local Studio Showcase; we’ll take close looks at design studios in and around LA for inspiration. 3. Open Projects; we’ll share projects for freelancers and those looking for work. If you're interested on sharing a case study, please send your brief proposal to mike@macadaan.co …

An opportunity to facilitate a variety of venues for like minded individuals. Relax and unwind, enjoy the music and ambiance with a wonderful vibe at the Out of Asia showroom for events such as: a concert, fashion show, yoga, meditation, dance performance, a jam session with a great weekend band and or sing with the Karaoke crowd of Rock, Blues Jazz, Folk, Pop, R&B, or World music or absorb the creative flow of gifted artists like yourself or the ones you want to become. With our current economi …

At the NoHoWeHo JUG you get to meet other local Java professionals and talk about code, architecture, innovation, opportunities, and share ideas about real-world problems. Our meetings will be technically focused and often include expert speakers on Java-related topics. We welcome engineers, developers,  geeks and professionals at all skill levels. * NOTE: This MeetUp Group is closed to recruiters.

MESS: Media/Entertainment & Scientific Storage. This group is all about large files, big data, and workflow optimization. It's a place that peers can talk about storage challenges, discuss ways of dealing with them, and hear about the new technologies that are making a difference. Food, fun and smart storage people, all in one place.

This group is for Large Format photographers who wish to network and brainstorm with other LF film photographers. Come and show off your large format view/field or monorail camera! Photographers who are new to LF are welcome as are those who are established and happy to pass on advice to those just starting out. It doesn't matter what you shoot, whether it's landscape, portrait, architecture or still life etc, as long as you're shooting LF or MF film but not digital. Also welcome are creatives …

We, at Onward Search, love interactive more than double fudge chocolate cake, and looking to connect with web folks who share our passion. It's hard enough keeping up with the interactive world, why not get together and discuss what's new, what's old, and what's coming next....and we might POSSIBLY throw in some fun! Our focus is interactive design, UI/UX, IA, web development, and new media. We're getting together industry leaders for panels and speaker events, and also looking to have more c …