Welcome to the The Bike and Social Club (Worcester, Marlborough, West Boylston, Shrewsbury & surrounding areas)! Meet other local cyclists while building a good group of friends to socialize with at and away from the trails. We want to have fun and enjoy our passion for cycling and making new friends. Not all is riding here!, some times we put together social meetings @ local restaurants, bars, lounges,etc. another way to meet riders in a non competitive environment. Lets have FUN! In order to …

The Geek Group of Western Mass is a group formed to get a physical space where members can get together to share, learn, create and collaborate with each other. Anyone can join, regardless of experience. In order to help us with bring this dream to reality, we are teaming up with "The Geek Group", to become come their very first Chapter. So if you're interested in making things, hacking, programming or just hanging out with like-minded individuals, come join us. We plan on having tiered member r …

CT Hackerspace 30 Echo Lake Road Watertown, CT CT Hackerspace is the name of a group located in the US State of Connecticut . Our Mission is to provide a physical location where community members interested in technology can gather to collaborate on projects both physical and conceptual. To provide infrastructure to the community in the form of education, tools and equipment that will allow members to transcend from being interested in technology to implementing technology in actual physical man …

First off, we have an official website! -> http://squidwrench.org/ Squidwrench's mission is to promote the interaction of creative and technical people in the Mid-Hudson Valley. Squidwrench is a home-grown community of creative people. Our modes of creation encompass painting, composing and performing music, building high-tech toys, building low-tech toys, and probably a lot of other stuff, too. There is no limit to the problems people can solve, given the resources, the inclination, the assista …

Our monthly events are not your typical software engineering events and will cover a wide range of software programming related topics, techniques, frameworks, and technologies from local companies and educational institutions.  Events will either consist of speakers, panels, or training sessions.  The focus is placed on emerging technologies alongside current technologies and techniques. We will provide information on application development, software engineering, HTML5, Hadoop, Python, Eclipse …

This group will be a haven for DIY and Open Source software/hardware enthusiasts to learn new things, make cool projects and share their skills/knowledge.  The only requirement to join the group is the ability to learn new things. Expect classes in  LAMP programming, Arduino, PCB Design (Eagle), lockpicking, beer brewing, soldering, painting, drawing, silkscreening and a whole lot more .

In the Boston area there are many meetups that cover a large range of engineering topics. However, none are about image processing or computer vision. The Boston Image Processing and Computer Vision Group (BIPCVG) meetup fills this gap by providing an opportunity for the image processing/computer vision community to network, socialize and learn. It covers the basics as well as advanced subjects, and the hottest and latest developments in areas such as biomedical and mobile applications. The meet …

Startup Weekend is a global grassroots movement of active and empowered entrepreneurs who are learning the basics of founding startups and launching successful ventures. It is the largest community of passionate entrepreneurs with over 400 past events in 100 countries around the world in 2011. All Startup Weekend events follow the same basic model: anyone is welcome to pitch their startup idea and receive feedback from their peers. Teams organically form around the top ideas (as determined by po …

COLLISIONcollective (aka Cc) was founded in 2002 as an offshoot of the MIT student art group, ATat (Arts and Technology at tech), whose charter was to host events showcasing art incorporating technology. Formed by artists and technologists, the COLLISIONcollective is premised on the sometimes abrupt intersection between art and technology. Its practitioners are drawn to this synthesis as the epicenter of forward-looking cultural adaptation. COLLISIONcollective was formed to address several vital …

Boston has a boatload of tech meetups and events for software companies, but where's all the hardware love? We want to bring together a strong community of folks eager to build businesses with physical products. Whether you're an engineer, designer, CEO, investor, or anyone interested in being a part of the hardware startup ecosystem, come join us and let's create an amazing addition to the tech scene in the Boston/Cambridge area.

This group holds a variety of events throughout the year to support women in engineering and to encourage young women to consider an engineering career. Our monthly meetings usually feature a speaker who is asked to address a topic of interest to women in diverse areas of engineering, at various stages of career advancement, and with different priorities for work/life balance. These programs are geared towards encouraging women to achieve their full potential in careers as engineers and leaders. …

If you want to make things, and make them with others, and are local to the South Coast of Massachusetts, look no further! We are a MakerSpace getting started on the South Coast of Massachusetts. We're still very much in the process of building our organization and are looking for new members. We're organized as an educational non-profit. Please stop by one of our meetings and check us out. For more information, visit our official web site at http://scilspace.com or our wiki at http://wiki.sci …

Get together with local experts, peers and friends to discuss programming in Ruby. Present on a topic that interests you, vent about your frustrations, or show off that new project you're creating. Discuss that latest Rails change or show off your beer-fetching robot that is controlled by mruby. We welcome people of any skill level! We try to meet on the third Wednesday of each month, and the location varies -- although the location is often in/around downtown Providence. Please sign up for the …

To make a Hartford MakerSpace ( http://makerfaire.com/ or http://makezine.com/ )  a HackerSpace ( http://hackerspaces.org ). Also - ArtSpace , CraftSpace, CodeSpace, some Co-WorkingSpace and some perhaps - StartupSpace. A workshop, meeting place, shared space to make, to learn, and to Co-Operate. Lets get out of our garages, studios, meetups at bars, and temporary spaces. A permanent place to share a drill press ( instead of each of us having separate tools and space) and much more. We want to f …

Calling all embedded systems engineers! Are you wanting to meet your colleagues, learn from one another, and broaden the range of your network? Then this group is for you! The purpose of this group will be to have monthly meetings with one or two formal presentations, plus time for socialization. We are here to share experiences and ideas as colleagues, in contrast to a vendor/client relationship. Whether you are designing robots, digital fitness gadgets or automotive controls, or just about any …

We're a community of artists, designers, engineers, programmers, and hackers interested in working with creative coding platforms like openFrameworks, Cinder, Processing, Unity3D. We enjoy things like real-time graphics rendering, physical computing, robots, projection maps, and interactive art installations. We do this professionally, academically, artistically, or just purely for the joy of making awesome stuff, every day. We meet regularly and casually to share tips, swap ideas and form colla …

The purpose of this group is to unite a strong community of doers eager to conceive of, design, make, test and clearly document open source hardware for the world-wide Maker Community. The group will share idea's, information, expertise and resources while developing open hardware in order to bring personal manufacturing to the masses or just for your own personal use. Whether you're an engineer, designer, tinkerer, inventor, programmer or someone interested in making the DIY world a better plac …

Interesting in makerspaces? Want to help create one? No experience is needed - only your curiosity and imagination. We're creating one for Lowell and the surrounding communities and want YOU to join us.

We are an association of Makers in lower Fairfield County Connecticut who come together to work on projects of mutual interest and share our knowledge within the group and also with the local community. Our short term goal is also acquire a space where tools and project materials may be stored and used by members and guests.