This group is for photographers of all skill levels who want to learn professional skills. Our meetups will be on a variety of photography and videography topics including events, weddings, portraits, products, architectural, sports, video, editing software as well as researching, buying and using equipment. Some of these meetups will be educational while others will be social - with an accent on being fun! If you're a beginner or experienced photographer and/or videographer looking to learn pro …

Building web-based applications requires knowledge beyond software development from architecture to operations. Austin Web Architecture wants to focus on web-related technical topics that can span different language-specific and technology-specific meetup groups.

The mission of this group is for individuals who have an interest in developing small scale housing & commercial projects to meet for the purpose of sharing information, ideas and finding potential partners for projects. Ideally members will bring expertise in architecture, engineering, law, planning, finance, real estate, interior design etc to the group. Crazy ideas and finding new ways to do things are always welcome!

Join us if you are interested in the following topics: Interaction Design, Data Analytics, Information Architecture, Business Intelligence, Data Visualization, R Project for Statistical Computing, Data Analysis and Modeling, Statistical Computing, Infographics, Visual Communication.

Love the style of early to mid 20th century? Like to wear vintage clothing, appreciate vintage living (architecture, housewares), and go to vintage themed events (Titanic teas, hangar parties, car shows, burlesque)? This group is for you!

After organizing the Houston Unity Group almost 2 years ago, I thought it might be time to share some of the Unity 3D goodness with the rest of Texas. Unity is the fastest growing game engine out there. And not only is it being used for game development, there are several examples of applications in advertising, medical, energy, architecture and education. We are a group passionate about the usage of Unity and we welcome new developers and artists as much as we do seasoned industry veterans.

R is an open source computing language used for statistical analysis. The purpose of the group is to bring together students, academics, and practitioners to share knowledge and experience in data analysis utilizing R.

Discussion and integration the principles and techniques of Sarah Susanka’s inspiring book the not so big life (see description below). We will be spending approximately one month on each chapter. "The bigger-is-better idea that triggered the explosion of McMansions in home design has spilled over to give us McLives. In her bestselling Not So Big House series, Sarah Susanka showed us how to change the way we live by adjusting the physical space we inhabit. Now, in The Not So Big Life, Sarah take …

The is the local, Austin chapter of the Defcon hacking conference. Started in 1993, Defcon (a.k.a. DEFCON or DEF CON) is one of the world's largest annual computer hacker conventions, held annually in Las Vegas, Nevada. Attendees include computer security professionals, journalists, lawyers, federal government employees, security researchers and hackers with a general interest in code, computer architecture, phone phreaking, hardware mods and anything else that can be "hacked." The Defcon 512 ch …

About Us: Antique Pickers & Ar·chae·ol·o·gists [ahr-kee-ol-uh-jist] noun Hobbists, pickers, collectors, mavin, admirers, specialists in archaeology, the (fun) study of prehistoric peoples (i.e., 1960's, 1970's LOL) and their cultures by analysis of their artifacts (the Beetles, the Stones, etc,) inscriptions, monuments, etc. SAQ Antique Archaeologists Meetup are people who enjoy antiques, the joy of the hunt to find buried treasure and the history about an object, era, whatever the "provenance" …

Every week in Austin, an old business or storefront closes down, and the really cool, old, rusty retro-style sign gets taken down or repurposed into something else. We aim to preserve what those old signs looked like for the photographic record. We'll have a Flickr stream, a photoblog, and maybe a facebook group or twitter feed. We'll meet periodically on a particular street, break up into pairs or groups, and spread out to take photos of the old signs we find in a particular stretch, then post …

Has a stranger ever said something to you that brightened your day? Have you ever wanted to find a way you could take that feeling and pay it forward? So have we! There are amazing things going on all around us. What if we could find, create, and take advantage of ways to make people feel connected to the community around them? Like build a ball pit in the middle of the city that brings two random people together. check this out! Or maybe ask questions to others that helped them appreciate their …