R is an open source software/programming language for data analysis, statistical modeling, visualization, data mining, predictive analytics, statistical computing, exploratory data analysis etc. This group is aimed to bring together practitioners (from industry and academia alike) in order to exchange knowledge and experience in solving data analysis/statistical problems by using R.

Startup Weekend recruits a highly motivated group of developers, business managers, startup enthusiasts, marketing gurus, graphic artists and more to a 54 hour event that builds communities, companies and projects. It is an amazing opportunity to connect with other passionate and skilled individuals, and perhaps even find a co-founder or two to transform your idea into reality. Check out our website  http://amsterdam.startupweekend.org/ for more info.

Holland hackers interested in startups. Are you building something? Is it awesome? Shiny enough to show to other people and possibly found a company on? Please come hangout with us. We need more of those people in our lives. Formed by fans of Hacker News (http://news.ycombinator.com), the original Hackers and Founders started in Silicon Valley almost 3 years ago. Hackers and Founders meetups have since been meeting in New York, Indianapolis, Wellington, New Zealand, Boston and Mumbai. We are the …

A monthy get-together for anyone involved or interested in geospatial stuff. Your background does not matter one bit: software engineers, open data peeps, designers, users, researchers, urbanists, the power of the Geo Drinks is in diversity!

The purpose of the Agile Amsterdam meetup group is to provide a place where the Agile community in Amsterdam can learn more about Agile and socialize with fellow enthusiasts! For now we aim to have bi-monthly events in which there will be room for a speaker followed by a discussion and drinks. However, every meetup we will learn how to have a better meetup next time and change things around a bit :-)

Do It Yourself Biology (DIY Bio) is a growing movement of citizen scientists working with biology. Meetings will be about the tools to do so, such as hardware, software, wetware and DIY protocols. Also invited speakers will present their projects and/or insights. Please feel free to join and learn.

De maand april zal in Amsterdam elk jaar in het teken van apps. Appril wil de wereld van apps inzichtelijker maken en wil de verschillende partijen die betrokken zijn bij deze groeiende markt met elkaar in contact brengen. Appril organiseert door de hele stad workshops, lezingen en bijeenkomsten op het gebied van creatie, educatie, ondernemerschap en techniek. Appril roept ontwikkelaars, ontwerpers, ondernemers en gebruikers op om mee te helpen van april een prachtig Appril te maken of hun (nu a …

ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers working for (or wanting to work for) web companies in the Netherlands to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Management & Design, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, networking opportunities, and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to companies big and small. We also welcome …

A english-speaking group for PHP Developers in and around Amsterdam. Our goal is to grow the local community, search for new developers and spread knowledge and resources. Amsterdam is a very active technology center for the Netherlands, many companies and people from various countries have chosen this area to settle down and start their companies. PHP has a big role in this and for that reason we created a User Group focused on this area and in doing activities in english to acommodate all of t …

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium to test their web applications. The Amsterdam 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 plan to meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the Netherlands. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related areas of …

ElasticSearch is the new kid on the block. A search engine built from the ground up to be distributed. Some say it goes beyond that and can (should?) replace your NoSQL stores all together. This meetup is for Dutch enthusiasts willing to share experiences, knowledge and war stories about it. If you use it, or want to learn about it - you're welcome.

Bringing together developers and operations people united in a common goal: destroy silos and remove obstacle to deploy and maintain awesome software and reliable infrastructures. Monitoring, continuous integration, packaging and automated deployment will all be covered. It's going to be fun too!

This Group will bring software people together to share ideas and experience in the domain of Continuous Delivery. Continuous Delivery addresses the entire software delivery pipeline - from CI to testing to deployment to release - and addresses technology, process and organization. Anything within that domain will be in scope for our Group. The Group shares concerns with other Groups - DevOps, Agile,Puppet/Chef, Cloud, Selenium, etc. - and will be complementary to them. But we'll talk about th …

Interested in the Yii PHP Framework? Then this is the group for you! Junior, Medior, Senior.. it does not matter. We will organize our first meeting somewhere in Q4 2012!

Onder het genot van een drankje, versnaperingen en goede discussie, leggen we de basis voor de nieuwe IT. Tomorrow's IT leaders is een groep professionals met een mening en met een passie voor de strategische kant van IT; uitdagingen die reiken tot boardroom niveau. Kan IT de helft goedkoper? Kun je dan blijven concurreren? Hoe zorg je voor toekomstbestendige software? Hier ontmoeten mensen elkaar die vinden dat IT veel effectiever kan en die ook ideeën hebben over hoe. De groepsbijeenkomsten bi …

JBoss User Group Netherlands. Organizing events about JBoss community projects. Hands on workshops, talks about new cool stuff, ... See also: https://community.jboss.org/groups/jbug-netherlands

This is a meetup group for developers and designers with a passion for Facebook in the Netherlands. Let's get together and develop fun and inspiring Facebook apps! A hackathon serves as the foundation for some great (and not so great) ideas. Join us and have the opportunity to try out new ideas, learn and collaborate with other people in a fun environment.

This is a user group for MySQL users. This is the place to meet other MySQL users. It's for DBA's, developers, architects and all other interested users. It's both for experienced users and user who are starting to learn about MySQL and databases in general. It's for users of Oracle MySQL (Community and Enterprise), Percona Server, MariaDB, Drizzle and all other branches and forks. Feel free to suggest locations for the meetups.

We like code. We like solving problems. We also happen to like beer (or rather, alcoholic beverages). Come to socialize, network, and meet up with programmer professionals over beer!

Networking event in Amsterdam for people interested in pool / beer / and general talk on cloudcomputing / high availability computing / low-latency switching / NFS / CEPH / chef / cloudstack / great food / single malt whisky (preferably cask strenght) / knife / cfengine / activeMQ / nagios / IPv6 / testing tools / selenium / jenkins / jmeter / etc. etc. The idea is to drink a fine glass of a spirit of your choice and have some conversation with your peers in the industry in and around Amsterdam. …

Cross Functional Amsterdam aims to bring together commercial users of functional programming. We want to support and promote functional technologies in the Dutch software industry. Topics for future meetings could include, Essentials of functional programming Real world experiences with functional styles Mixing functional code into existing imperative/OOP codebases Functional programming language specifics: Scala, Haskell, F#, Erlang, Ocaml, Clojure, Scheme. Functional idioms in non-functional …

GOTO Nights are free evening community events, driven by involvement from both speakers and participants. These events are organized in the runup toward the GOTO Conference in June and are designed for software developers, IT architects, agilists, product owners and project managers and everyone who is interested in the topics presented at one of the GOTO Nights. GOTO Amsterdam offers ideal opportunities for learning, networking and tracking innovation occurring in the Java, Mobile, Cloud, OpenS …

Hippo Meetup events are meetups organized by Hippo B.V. to facilitate for developers to meet face to face, discuss Hippo open source software and open source related activities, discuss open source software in general and to provide a chance for them to exchange ideas and learn from eachother

The dutch Tableau software user group (NLTUG), for data maniacs, reporting heros and cool data visualisations fans

(Sroll naar beneden voor Nederlandse Versie) 3D Printing Amsterdam is for anyone interested in the revolutionary 3D technology. Whether you are: a novice and would love to see a 3D printer in action, owner of a 3D Printer and keen to show off your creations and share your experience, a designer or an artist using 3D printing in your work - or keen to, enthusiast user of Sketchup, Blender, SolidWorks or any other 3D drawing software, a developer interested in new 3D modeling techniques, curious …

What is TechMeetups? TechMeetups has been setup to create a global network of Tech communities from San Francisco to Sydney. We believe that Tech communities are isolated and great things can be achieved if we connect within our cities and outside our borders. Our goal is to create a global Tech cluster of over 50 inter-connected Tech communities by 2013. Our global community started out with the launch of the London Silicon Roundabout Tech community in December 2010. Following it's success in …

The MarkLogic User Group Benelux is for users and/or fans of MarkLogic and those who are interested in learning more about MarkLogic Enterprise NoSQL database technology. We host informal events for users to meet, discuss, and share best practices regionally. This is an easy way to meet peers and learn how to get more out of MarkLogic Server.

This is a group for Software, Web & Mobile Design professionals in The Netherlands, who like to network, grab a drink and have a good time.