An informal get-together for people who work in the web industry around Melbourne to catch-up, have a yarn, share ideas and talk about new techniques and technologies. Put together by the gang at @thirststudios

Salesforce Platform Developer Users Group for Melbourne. If you do develop on, or you're interested in developing on the Force.com platform then please join!

iMug - the Melbourne Internet Macintosh User Group - provides Apple Macintosh, iPod, iPad and iPhone enthusiasts with an opportunity to share knowledge and experiences with other business, educational, professional, hobby and home users. We have an open, supportive membership who are anxious to help other learn more and make better use of Apple technology. iMug features: monthly meetings in Melbourne an active email mailing list members from novices to experienced, including industry experts an …

The MelbJVM group discusses the Java Virtual Machine (JVM). Topics covered are frameworks and languages on the platform. Many of our members are software developers using the Java language and looking to find out what's new, and what they can bring to their own projects, bringing up to date techniques and software technologies to the perennial development platform. Examples of talks in 2012 to illustrate this:- CucumberJVM (Groovy) to illustrate BDD Play framework to demonstrate rapid app devel …

We are a group of people interested in functional programming. This ranges from academic discussions around type systems right through to demonstrations of software we've developed using practical functional languages. At our meetups we usually have two or three talks and some pizzas before heading out to a local pub for some drinks and more conversation. People of all experience levels are welcome. If you've never done FP before and are curious to see what it's about, or looking to figure out w …

The Melbourne PHP User Group is a group of enthusiastic local programmers who get together every month and discuss Open Source technologies with a focus on PHP and associated topics. PHP is an extremely popular general-purpose scripting language that is highly suited for web development. We strive to promote PHP and Open Source in the IT industry, both locally and internationally. Our meetings are educational and cater to all skill levels. Anyone is welcome to join us. As a group, we aim to educ …

Melbourne Raspberry Jam (hashtag #raspberryJam) is an Australian user group that meets to support hobbyists, developers, teachers, students and families - in fact anybody that would like to put their Raspberry Pi to use. Raspberry Jam is not endorsed, sponsored or formally associated with the Raspberry Pi Foundation, but we do share their goals. We are very grateful to the organisations that do support us: Element14; Connected Community Hackerspace; and RMIT Please note that Melbourne Raspberry …

This group is a monthly gathering of Python users and developers in the Melbourne area. We discuss Python and related open source technologies. It is a networking forum for meeting other locals interested in Python and exchanging news and ideas. I decided to start the group because the venerable Melbourne Python User Group has stalled since May, lacking a venue. We're negotiating for a great regular venue for this meetup. If you do any kind of Python development, or have done, join the group! We …

Melbourne Web Developers is a bi-monthly meetup that brings together Melbourne's awesomely talented web development community to exchange ideas, have a beer and talk about all things interwebs related! We cover web development topics including high scalability, user experience (UX), web frameworks and languages, social media, harnessing cloud tools and SaaS and anything else that makes web applications tick!

This SilverStripe meetup group is organised by the team of SilverStripe Australia. Connect with SilverStripe developers, designers and users in Melbourne and hear about what is happening in Australia and SilverStripe.

We're excited to announce HootUp Melbourne, an informal get together of social media users and professionals of all skill levels. We talk a lot about HootSuite, but we'd welcome anyone with an interest of the social web and technologies to come along. We're aiming for 2 presentations each month, with the first focusing on HootSuite and the second focusing on a platform or general topic. We meet on the 3rd Tuesday of the month and the venue is sponsored by The Lost Dogs' Home. Pizza and drinks …

Melboune, Australia based Magento e-commerce users and professionals.

The Melbourne GPU Users group is an informal special interest group, hosted by VPAC (Victoria Partnership for Advanced Computing), to bring together GPU users from all fields and experience levels from Melbourne to learn and share their ideas and creations at friendly meetings. The Melbourne GPU Users group is a sister group of the Brisbane, Sydney and Perth GPU Users groups, and it is expected that the groups will interact through publicly accessible video conferencing facilities, taking turns …

Interested in CiviCRM, the awesome open source CRM solution aimed at the not-for-profit, civic and community sector? www.civicrm.org This will be a meetup group with alternating meetings for Developers and tech types as well as meetups for users and planners.

A group of professionals working with Identity Management systems located in Melbourne. This will be a bi monthly meetup which will consist of different presentations and open discussions on all aspects of IdM.

There is a blossoming of search technology usage in Melbourne, but a definite lack of an unofficial, relaxed gathering to allow some fruitful information and experience exchange. Our aim is to make the meetup more welcoming to all search developers in Melbourne who are facing similar challenges -- while maintaing the level of technical depth that we've come to enjoy. Search technologies include, but are not limited to: ElasticSearch, Apache Lucene & Solr, AWS CloudSearch, Microsoft FAST, Apache …

This group is to gather Augmented Reality enthusiasts of all descriptions - technical, arts, sports, industrial, commercial, investors, entrepreneurs and simply any end user. There is a lot happening in this tech niche and in particular locally which beckons more co-ordinated face to face interactions and formal/informal meetup gatherings. Jump on board with us!

This is a group for developers and system administrators to discuss and learn about MongoDB. An open source document database. You don't have to have to be using MongoDB in production to join our group.

If you are interested in issues relating the Internet in Australia and worldwide, then this might be of interest to you. This Meetup group is an experiment to encourage Members of ISOC-AU and those who are interested in getting together for a chat about issues relating to the Internet in Australia. - Privacy - IPv6 - Security (Hacking, Law, Identity Theft) - Access (Disability) - Internet Governance - Human Rights (for Internet Users) - Social Media - Domain Names We are planning bi-monthly meet …

This group is for web practitioners and other professionals who are interested in web accessibility and inclusive design practices. After the success of meetings in Sydney, Perth and Brisbane, Melbourne now has its own Web Accessibility & Inclusive Design Meetup. It makes no difference if you work in a large organisation, a small business, are an independent consultant or an accessibility advocate. This group is about regularly connecting Melbourne’s accessibility community, allowing us to share …

Site builders, themers, content editors, project managers, community builders, plain old interested parties, whatever your role may be you are all welcome.  We have an ambitious goal to find all the hidden women of Drupal to help build and strengthen the wider Melbourne Drupal community, as well as provide a forum for women to network and learn about Drupal. You can also join us on IRC (#drupalchix on Freenode), on Twitter (@DrupalchixMelb), and at http://groups.drupal.org/women-drupal This is n …