We are a Philadelphia based group of adventurous, queer-friendly people who relish the rich details not duly appreciated in our metropolitan landscape.  Urban exploring is the sport (art?) of discovering and experiencing areas of the city that are often hidden in plain sight, and normally considered off-limits. Some examples of interesting locations would be abandoned buildings, industrial areas, tunnels, etc. Most people are involved in this sort of thing because they like adventure, architect …

A meetup for people who are committed to bringing natural building into and around Philadelphia

Meet and learn from PHP developers in the Philadelphia area. Come to a PHP Meetup to exchange ideas and talk about code, architecture, innovation, and MySQL, LAMP, CMS systems like Drupal and Mambo/Joomla, open source web development in general. Anyone interested in PHP is welcome!

Brite Networking Overview Brite Networking is a business to business networking group established in 2007 to promote business products and services in and around the data center and companies moving to new locations or growing. Members are primarily technology providers but other trades and professions are welcome. Examples of possible members may include, Design Build Services, General Construction Management, Relocation Migration Services, The Concierge for IT, UPS Single and …

Are you a passionate environmental advocate? Do you love being outdoors? Do you work in Environmental Science or Ecology, Sustainable Design, Architecture, or Agriculture? Do you have an interest in Environmental and Eco Art? Do you care about wildlife conservation?  Are you concerned about imparting values of conservation and caring to young children? If you answered 'yes' to any of the above questions, we want to meet you! The Young Friends of the Schuylkill Center for Environmental …

Now in its 31st year, Mt. Airy Learning Tree (MALT) offers over 250 classes in fall, winter and spring terms, ranging from Tai Chi, yoga, drawing, knitting, cooking, computers, How To classes and many more for all ages, backgrounds and skills. Classes are held in over 50 locations in NW Philadelphia including community centers, churches, and schools. MALT draws 5,000 students from Mt. Airy, Chestnut Hill, Germantown, NE Philadelphia, Montgomery and Delaware Counties and even New Jersey.

… We appreciate architecture, sculptures (Philly has more than any other US city, yea!), or whatever we find near our path. After a hike we often eat at a special place. And, we rarely repeat ourselves.  Fearless lost explorers and sidney (fleas) are curious. This group is not for people content to only go down one trail and up another, nor for people happy to take the same or beaten path. This group may also be different because only one person leads hikes, gets folks lost, and does the bulk of …

Interest in the semantic web/semantic technologies is growing in the Philadelphia area! Folks from the Philadelphia suburbs to mid-New Jersey have been looking for something a little closer than New York and D.C. This group will meet in and around Philadelphia to talk about ontologies, linked data, NLP, AI, and other topics of interest. Please join if you are a practitioner or interested in the semantic web, semantic technologies or Web3.0.

Entrepreneurs Roundtable is a global organization active in USA, Japan and Turkey (with India coming soon) with the sole aim of helping entrepreneurs become successful. ER holds free monthly events for investors and entrepreneurs in New York (since January 2007) and free bi-monthly events in Istanbul, Turkey (since August 2010) and Tokyo, Japan (since September 2010). Now, by demand, ER will meet in Philadelphia, PA. The mission: Helping entrepreneurs succeed. ER strives for this goal throu …

… The architecture of that house is our context for Being, and the house itself is built with Language.  What is there besides "knowing" are our Ways of Being Working with Ideas, Feeling, and Sensation, we can experience something of Life, in the moment. The Laboratory for this is our everyday ordinary life,, and the familiar patterns the we recognise constantly. These patterns are embodied with "Meaning" created by thought as we interpret the events that constitute life. Please join us for an o …

If you're curious about spreading awakening through a unique open source architecture, please join us to explore meditation, gazing transmission, embodied awakening, and compassionate dialogue. You'll discover more of who you are -- in both your Vastness and your unique particularity -- in a safe, supportive setting. Waking Down in Mutuality was founded in 1992 by Saniel Bonder (http://www.sanielandlinda.com/saniel_bonder.html), whose passionate commitment to democratize awakening has birthe …