What is crisismapping? Crisismappers are online teams of people who gather and provide data online to people responding to and people caught up in disasters. Crisismapping has been around for a while, but for most people it started with the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, where all the government and NGO information needed to respond to the earthquake was lost in the earthquake. We created online maps from satelllite images, put SMS and media reports onto an Ushahidi map, got documents into Sahana, …

Discover what's happening at the intersection of Jewish life and technology at this monthly gathering of Jewish technology professionals. The NYC Jewish Tech Meetup offers guest speakers, networking opportunities, and seasonal hackathons. Connect with your peers, hear the latest from the field, and explore opportunities for collaboration.

Node.js is event-driven server-side JavaScript running on V8. Come to LocalResponse's Node.js Meetups to learn more about how Node.js can work for your organization or just to learn another skill. We do a combination of lectures, workshops and hackathons. New York, this is your Meetup group, so your suggestions and recommendations do matter. Come to the Meetups to trade coding stories or best practices. Come to show off the cool things you're doing with Node.js. Come to learn from others about h …

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 …

Get together with fellow hackers, tech Meetups from across NYC, and the best APIs around for the first ever cross-language hackathon tournament. Every programming language and platform has its strengths and weaknesses, its devoted fans and its bitter detractors. To celebrate the techno-diversity that makes software programming such a fascinating sport, we're hosting a series of hackathons at Meetup HQ... JavaScript in June PHP in July Python and Ruby in August FINAL BATTLE OF THE BRACES in Sept …

"Hacking" is creating solutions to problems in complex systems. As it turns out, "Health" is an unbelievably complex system (the body), tangled up with an unfathomably real abstraction (the mind) and wrapped in a morass of business, government, and good intentions so labyrinthine in nature that it would make Kafka cry. If you love exploring elegant fixes to problems of mind-shattering difficulty in a collaborative environment then HealthHackingNYC is the group for you. So: Come ask questions tha …

The Entrepreneurship & Innovation Association (EIA) is dedicated to four goals: educating students with concepts of entrepreneurship building a support system for new and existing student entrepreneurs providing an outlet for entrepreneurial activity connecting students to resources We have events often, including guest speakers, demo days, competitions and hackathons. http://nyupolyeia.org/

The NY Haskell Users Group is for all programmers either interested in or experienced with the Haskell programming language. We want to build a community of Haskell developers in the New York area that can share knowledge, projects, and experience, and to generally foster and encourage strongly typed functional programming, in all languages, all settings, and all industries. Our events will center around talks, but we intend to have other sorts of activities, including social hours, code worksho …

How is technology, entrepreneurship and innovation making Philadelphia better? The Technically Philly Meetup is a fast-paced evening presentation and demo event that explores how the local tech community is impacting job growth/retention, digital access/education and government/policy reform in Philadelphia. The events will range from pre-hackathon receptions, civic app demos, digital access discussions and cross-city, cross-community and other partnered meetups. Organized by local technology ne …

We have monthly hackathons in the Philly area for people working on or interested in startups (primarily Internet related). A hackathon is an event with no specific agenda--everyone comes and "hacks" on their projects. It is a great place to meet other local hackers and get feedback/help on your projects. Every month we have the meetup at a local Philly company where cool hacking is going on. We have pizza for dinner, hang out and talk about our startup experiences, and hack on our projects toge …

The FinTech Hackathon | www.fintechhack.com The goal of the FinTech Hackathon is to promote the development of financial technology for institutional customers and consumers. The Hackathon brings together FinTech developers and designers to develop financial products and discover new technologies. Example applications include innovations in risk management, trading, big data, retail banking, regulatory compliance, mobile payments and enterprise social. APIs and platforms from technology partners …

The only way to get better at presenting is simply .... to practice, practice, practice! Why was this group formed We liked the idea of creating a friendly environment, where software developers could practice and get feedback on their presentation skills. Yes, there are already groups out there to practice general public speaking. But we are in the tech space, and we liked the idea of being able to present more technical material without alienating non-techies. Also, presenting to fellow develo …

Our goal is to support the design community by offering critiques, portfolio reviews, hackathons, and more. Well Crafted is the portfolio that gives back. Pay what you can, and 10% of your contribution will fund projects by designers just like you. Critique Format We think it's essential for designers to get feedback during the design and ideation process, but sometimes that can be hard to get. So don't get stuck or frustrated with your designs, instead come join us for positive and constructiv …

#Cleanweb is about applying tech solutions to resource problems-- in energy, water, waste, transit, food, air, and other areas-- by taking advantage of the powerful trends in cheap computing power, mobility, data availability, and social graphs. Learn more at Cleanweb.co Anyone active in technology, design, entrepreneurship, and/or resource issues should join! We are organizing a project-based Cleanweb meetup and events in NYC, connecting to other Cleanweb communities around the globe. We meet e …

Near field communication will rule the world. New York City needs a NFC group to exchange ideas and technologies.

We create events that bring entrepreneurs together to help them share valuable experiences and learn best practices.