We are a group of Deaf, hard of hearing, and hearing people who meet every week to chat in ASL. This group is open to ANYONE with an interest in American Sign Language and Deaf culture, from beginning ASL students to those who are fluent. We especially encourage people to come to our group who want to HAVE FUN while socializing with all sorts of different people! This is not a study group! It's a great group for practicing having real conversations in ASL. We welcome ANYONE with an interest in A …

This group is an attempt to bring together Groovy / Grails users of all experiences levels to demonstrate, instruct, and spread information about the Grails framework and the Groovy programming language. Our meeting schedule will generally follow a bi-monthly schedule. Every other meeting will be a presentation/lecture, while the others will be a social night at a different bar where we can discuss Grails and other technology with like-minded people. Join us!

Are you tired of reading: "Bilingual Spanish speaker needed", "Spanish Speakers A+", "Spanish Speakers to the front line" or “Basic Spanish will help” when applying for jobs??? Are you at a job where a basic knowledge of Spanish will make your work easier? Do you have Spanish speaking customers and have difficulty understanding them? Do you have Spanish speaking employees and aren’t sure if they understand you when you address them? Spanish speakers make up the fastest growing segment of the …

We were really founded in 1984! The MacTechGroup has its roots in the old BCS and we just kept going. It's designed for Macintosh and iOS programmers, iPhone and iPad technical discussions. If you are writing Mac or iPhone code, or want to find out how, this is your group.

The Boston Ruby on Rails group is for Ruby on Rails users of all experience levels to discuss, demonstrate, and share information, projects, and best practices regarding the Rails framework and the Ruby programming language. Welcome to all new members!  We're in the process of planning our first meetup.  Feel free to add your own ideas.

This group is for those interested in apps and app development for iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod, and Android).

This is the R user group for the New England and Greater Boston area. R is a free and open programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. Along with this powerful software, comes a dynamic and vast community. The Greater Boston useR Group seeks to bring this community together to share ideas, discuss R related topics, and provide direction for new and experienced users. For more information on R, see The R Project at: http://www.r-project.org/

There have been over 18,000 SMART Recovery Self-Help Group meetings in Massachusetts since 1990. All groups are lead by volunteers, most of whom are graduates of the SR Program. SR meetings occur weekly in hospitals (e.g., MGH, McLean, Mount Auburn, Salem, Jordan, Lahey Clinic, etc.), a few in community facilities (e.g., Middlesex Community College) and several in prisons. The SMART Recovery Handbook has be translated into 11 languages (e.g., Spanish, Farsi, Mandarin, etc.). There are SR meeting …

Hi. This group was established in 2009. Anyone interested in the Scala programming language is welcome. We meet at various locations in the Kendall Square neighborhood of Cambridge. Lately most meetings have been at MIT's Stata Center. Meetings usually start at 6:30, include one or two talks or sessions, and conclude by 8:00; there is usually pizza and soda provided by a sponsor; and some of us usually go out for drinks and further conversation afterwards. We'd love to hear from interested speak …

The ultimate goal of our group is for you and our group members to obtain a strong global presence. We understand the complexities and intricacies of the global marketplace. The more countries, languages, and cultures involved, the more attention will be required in the execution of your strategy. Visionary business leaders understand these barriers and risks involved but also understand the potential rewards that can result, including new revenue streams, sales channels, and partnerships. All …

This group offers an alternative to many enthusiastic francophiles eager to learn the language. This is your opportunity to start or continue learning French! These classes held online are relatively small but conducive to healthy exchanges while allowing personalized help from the instructor. Yes, students do get to converse with fellow students of the same level who are attending the class simultaneously. A native speaker with fifteen years of experience teaching in a French Lycée, I can help …

For Corona SDK developers to get together and discuss mobile development and technology, Corona tips and tricks, and the Lua programming language. Experienced Corona developers and newcomers are equally welcome!

This meetup group was created by the Boston Entrepreneurship Center (BEC) in order to connect the international population in Boston with local professional and academic initiatives.  For the past two years, BEC has been cultivating an international community concerned with socially impacting the world.  Boston is the premier source of incredible initiatives and opportunities for incoming international professionals and students. This network is ideal for people who want to learn more about the …

This group is for anyone interested in the F# programming language. We'll discuss a wide variety of topics related to programming with F#, and developers of all skill levels and backgrounds are welcome.

Your mobile development a little- listless?  Your Rails lost some of its groove? Then join us and meet other technology enthusiasts as we explore a different technology every month.  Each month our group will focus on learning a different technology (i.e programming language, framework, development tool, concept (OOP, cloud computing) etc,...) and together review that technology with experts and teachers at our monthly Meetup.  In between Meetups there will be hack sessions where we gather and w …

Boston Storm Users is a group for developers using or hoping to learn about Twitter's Storm real-time data processing framework. We get together to discuss best practices, to exchange ideas and to learn how to apply Storm to various engineering challenges. Storm is a distributed realtime computation system. Similar to how Hadoop provides a set of general primitives for doing batch processing, Storm provides a set of general primitives for doing realtime computation. Storm is simple, can be used …

The Boston Data Mining meetup focuses on making data mining accessible to everyone. It aims to be inclusive to all regardless if you are a beginner or expert in statistical modeling, machine learning, data mining, or any of the analytics (business, predictive, etc). Our talks will focus on the practical side of data mining and analytics by showing attendees how to perform data modeling in a non-programming environment. To achieve that goal we employ RapidMiner; an open source data mining platfor …