Meet with local Revit users to discuss and share the platform's use for BIM implementation. Our group will cover Architecture, Structure and MEP. Be sure to also check out a closely related Meetup - the Metro NYC BIM Group - at http://www.meetup.com/NYC-Metro-BIM. Our group meetings are now held at the Pratt Manhattan Campus. Please visit Pratt's Center for Continuing and Professional Studies at http://prostudies.pratt.edu. They offer a wide range of continuing education courses including Revi …

This group is designed to bring together the Microsoft Windows Azure development community in the NYC Metro area to talk about challenges, roadmap, what we'd like to see in future releases, and overall user experience. Please use our hashtag on Twitter to tweet about this usergroup: #NYCAZURE

Do you have a cell phone but only use it for calls? Do you know you can make calls using your iPad with just a wifi connection? Do you have a Kindle, an iPad, a laptop and/or cell phone gathering dust? Are you intimidated by technology? With the ever changing development of technology, the choices and information available can be very daunting and overwhelming. This group is geared towards those with a voracious curiosity about technology (and all it has to offer), but just don't know where to s …

Welcome to NYC-CHI, the NYC chapter of SIG-CHI (Special Interest Group - Computer Human Interaction www.sigchi.org/). We hold UX-focused events and have an active mailing list to service the NYC region. We have over 1900 active members in all aspects of HCI, including information architects, interaction designers, user experience designers, service designers, product and museum experience designers, usability practitioners, digital librarians, user interface designers and UI developers. We're t …

With all of us being on the bleeding edge of this first true social networking medium there seems like is a lot of interesting applications it could be used for. I think it would be great to have some question and answer between developers, community groups that would like to use Google+ to help build local connections, regular users and any other movers and shakers in the Google+ Scene to try to flesh out some of the unknowns about it while everyone is still in the trial stage of all of this. W …

The Optimizing Mobile Apps Meetup is for anyone with a passion for mobile metrics, mobile user experience, conversion optimization, increasing video consumption as well as performing A/B testing on a mobile app - This is a group who shares best practices about optimizing mobile apps - specific topics include mobile UX case studies, tools, latest lessons learned and of course networking! There will be plenty to share and learn about for those from agencies to stand-alone app owners to ecommerce t …

Curious to know about Google Glass? The Glass API has just been released and first batch of devices are being shipped. Here's your chance to ask questions to several Google Glass Pioneers in the NYC area about Glass and what's on the horizon for wearable glass technology. Designers and developers, whether you're just curious about Glass or are waiting for your pair to land on your doorstep in the near future, come join us. Note: This event is hosted by Google Glass enthusiasts in the area and …

A gathering of all those interested in the discussion and study of signs, meaning systems, web science, thinking, language, and knowledge in digital and web spaces. Open to all disciplines: All interested individuals are welcome, including academics, philosophers, advertising professionals, communications professionals, independent researchers, computer scientists, digital anthropologists, linguists, designers, information architects, user experience, human interaction, developers, localization, …

The Design Task Force for Global Change is an interdisciplinary team that addresses the citizen usability of software and mobile applications with organizations such as The Guardian Project, Open Internet Tools Project, Witness.org, Georgia Law Society Project, and many more. Comprised of designers and open source developers, The Task Force meets semi-regularly to discuss the UX/UI/design strengths and weaknesses of current software projects in development; discuss software usability from a desi …

Welcome to Responsive Web Design NYC! If you are interested in a common web strategy for mobile, tablet and desktop then Responsive Web Design NYC is right for you! This group was the first NYC Responsive Web Design Meet-up launched in Sept 2011 with the spirit of serving the design, developer, product management and business community of NYC around all topics pertaining to Responsive Web Design.  Anyone from the community can organize, participate and run an event!  We are very fortunate to hav …

This is a group for anyone interested in Technology, IT, Cyber Security, Mobile Technology, Microsoft, Apple, Cisco, etc. Our goal is to connect with tech lovers like us and get together in great events such as Meetups, Seminars, Happy Hours (Yes, we love happy hours!) to share information, learn new technologies, discuss and network. We are looking forward to connect with you!

Natural user interface (NUI) is about to take the world as the newest revolution in computing and devices. The next tech rock stars are the people developing NUI and the businesses they envision will be the next hot tech start-ups. We are those people that are changing the world and the way people interact and experience things through our projects, products, and start-ups. We use voice control, voice recognition, facial recognition, eye tracking, gesture, motion capture, emotional response, sen …

The IT world is changing even more rapidly than before. New technologies like cloud, mobile, and social, and new phenomena like Shadow IT and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) are in some cases changing the very meaning of IT to an organization. This is a Meetup to get together and discuss how we can create a 21st Century IT department that can exist within the new rules for the new IT. We will have panel discussions, guest speakers, new product demos, and anything else that serves our members well. …

As of April 2011, this group will discuss "website marketing methods", (Google Adwords, Facebook Ads). Google Adwords is great, but I would like to expand the discussion Here's the original greeting from the previous organizer: Everything you ever wanted to know about Google Adwords, who invented it, how it will be regulated, how it works, why it works so well, the magic behind it, and why Google's implementation of this amazing technology is causing so much fraud - more than $3 billion a year i …

We're a community of content strategists and other professionals working in digital technology. We meet to network, provide mutual support, share knowledge, improve our skills, and contribute to the growth of our discipline. If you have a professional interest in web or digital content from any perspective — or are simply curious about what content strategists do all day — please join us.

The NYC SharePoint Developers user group is a free monthly meeting where SharePoint professionals present on various topics related to SharePoint development. We try to vary the meetings so that they are not just about Visual Studio coding and the SharePoint API, but also about all the other programs you need to customize SharePoint: SharePoint Designer, InfoPath, PowerShell, etc. In addition, you'll get insights into the practical usage of the various SharePoint functionalities via the interact …

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium to test their web applications. The NYC Metro Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the NYC Metro Area and beyond. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related ar …

The Enterprise Search User Group is a SharePoint based community with a focus on Enterprise Search aimed to provide valuable and timely information to its members. Its primary goal is to provide a forum that encourages disparate practices and business groups to come together and share thoughts, ideas, successes and failures, to cultivate a borderless body of knowledge.

What is CloudStack? Apache CloudStack (Incubating) is open source software designed to deploy and manage large networks of virtual machines, as a highly available, highly scalable, hypervisor agnostic Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud computing platform. CloudStack is used by a number of service providers to offer public cloud services, and by many companies to provide an on-premise (private) cloud offerings. Apache CloudStack is an effort undergoing incubation at The Apache Software Foun …

Chef-NYC is a users group for people in the New York City metropolitan area who are interested in using the opensource configuration management tool called Chef, developed by Opscode: http://www.opscode.com/ Every month, we get together to discuss Chef, Ohai, and related devops topics ... and SHARE COOKBOOKS/RECIPES! :-) Whether you're a "dev", "ops", or "other", join us!

The NYC Lync User Group is targeted at IT Pros and Developers interested in Microsoft Unified Communications. Our goal is to provide the NYC area with a vast amount of valuable information as it relates to all forms of Microsoft Unified Communications. Our meetings will include both Technical and Business information relating to Lync 2010, and other components of the Microsoft UC product group.

Welcome to New York City Visual Studio User Group. Your ALM connection. Do you work on or manage a team of software professionals? Do you want to better understand other roles on the team? Are you trying to get past the marketing hype to hear real-life stories about agile practices like Scrum or Test Driven Development? These are all components of Application Lifecycle Management (ALM), the art of coordinating business needs with all disciplines software development, including product managemen …

This group focuses on Office 365 and spectrum of services it provides including Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online and Microsoft Lync Online. Each month we will pick a topic area that suits (IT Pro / Dev / Power User) and help better understand and utilize Office 365. You feedback and suggestions are always welcome. Cheers, Razi Microsoft SharePoint Server MVP http://www.linkedin.com/in/razirais

SWUGNYC is operated completely by volunteers with the aim of promoting the sharing of skills and information related to the use of SolidWorks and to create a forum for networking within the SolidWorks community. SWUGNYC considers the specific needs of New York City area users, conducting quarterly meetings in easily accessible Manhattan locations. This group is open to anyone with an interest in expanding their knowledge of SolidWorks and related technologies utilized in design & engineering fie …

The New York SharePoint Life Sciences User group is created to focus on using SharePoint to solve business problems within health care and life sciences industries and to be an open forum were ideas can shared. Though the focus is on life Sciences and health care many of the topics are applicable to all. The group is founded by Nilesh Mehta, President of NGenious Solutions and co-founder of the NYC SPUG.

This MeetUp is a group for MicroStrategy users, professionals or those with an interest in learning more about MicroStrategy in the Greater NYC Area. Activities will include speakers, social events, demos and networking. We also have intro classes and webinars.

If you are a SAP user or professional in the New York metro Area and would like to share around SAP and address business challenges, join the group! We welcome Consultants, Independent Contractors, and Business Users. Technical, Functional, ECC, BW, SCM, etc, etc. Job seekers and posters, please feel free to join and post your information in the forum.

NY HTML5 is focused on next-generation web technologies, specifically HTML5, WebSocket, CSS3, JavaScript and other web tools. We're exploring ways to build next generation web applications that leverage a modern web infrastructure.