The Graduate Developer Community (GDC) is a community for undergraduates & recent graduates interested in Software Development. It is run by a leadership team comprising members of top technical consultancies, investment banks and the director of RecWorks Ltd, to help bridge the gap between the Academic, Open Source and Commercial worlds of the Software Development community. FAQ What is the GDC? Why was it founded? What goes on in the GDC? Who can join? Is there a fee to Join, is there a fee …

A meetup for London / UK-based Kohana (a PHP 5 framework) developers to meet, talk and show Kohana bits and bobs

Come and share your experiences with Magento with other users and developers. Meet local developers, potential clients, network, trade stories, hints and tips.

Come and join us to chat and learn about PHP 5.3, Lithium, CakePHP and other PHP-based MVC frameworks. Lithium, started by several CakePHP core alumnus, is built from the ground-up to cater to people who hate frameworks, it attempts to reduce edge cases, and expose an intelligent public interface that sucks less.

Are you interested in making your website faster aka Web Performance Optimisation (WPO) then this is the group for you! Meet with other web site system administrators, developers, designers and business people who're interested in making their sites work fast to get better user experience, lower abandonment rates and make more money. If you've read Steve Souder's books and you use ySlow & PageSpeed and you want learn more or share your knowledge please please sign up!

For like minded, local developers who wish to push their skills to the next level. All levels welcome from beginners to experts. Typical technologies include: Linux (Ubuntu, RedHat, CentOS etc), Shell/Bash, Apache, MySQL, PHP, PHPUnit, Zend Framework, CakePHP, Doctrine, caching, memcache, html, xhtml, css, javascript (js), jQuery (ajax, animation), xml, W3C, SVN, Git, Hudson CI, Bamboo, Ant, Selenium, Design patterns, Best practices, TDD, Open meetings, nagios... Most groups are in London, so …

As someone who spends a lot of time working with SugarCRM, I want to build a community where users and experts can get together and share ideas and best practice. The group is for everyone interested in SugarCRM such as users, entreupeneurs, developers, consultants, freelancers and those merely interested or confused.

The Cofounders Network aims to tackle the current challenge of disconnected early stage networks and aims to connect crucial startup founders and partners together. There's always that one key person we all want for our game-changing idea or venture. That added skill set we currently don't have. Well, CoFounders Network is the space where we hope to connect each of us with that partner, stakeholder or cofounder we so greatly require. We plan to organise events where tech guys will be able to fin …

The world is going Digital and so is Business! The Digital Pond is a meetup community welcoming all those from a digital discipline and those wanting to learn more or build networks with those within the industry. So whether you are an entrepreneur, business owner, website designer, UX (user-experience) designer, online marketer, web developer or social media guru: enter the pond and meet like-minded professionals.

Behat Behat is a Behavior Driven Development (BDD) tool for the PHP applications developed by Konstantin Kudryashov who is known as @everzet on Twitter. Behat is a BDD framework for PHP. There are some tools available for BDD like Cucumber for Ruby, SpecFlow for .NET and Lettuce for Python. Behat is the first BDD tool for PHP applications.Behat can be used for API testing, functional testing and data-driven testing. London Behat users is a group of people following BDD practices using Behat in t …

Innovation Warehouse is a high growth startup community located in central London. This group is a forum to find and share information on any aspect of the Innovation Warehouse, such as collaborative business model, co-working space, events, activities, participation, programs, investment, mentoring, microlending.

Thanks for joining! We plan to get together in London to discuss projects, challenges, opportunities and new technologies related to tackling web-site and app scalability. Developers, newcomers, entrepreneurs and people with ideas are all welcome. You can expect to meet and enjoy presentations from investors, developers, entrepreneurs and experts in all sorts of relevant topics. We look forward to meeting you. Colin

A local group where WordPress users commune and share knowledge about WordPress, Blogging and Social Media. More experienced users can also offer training to newbies. Please let me know if you are interested either as a trainer or trainee.

StartupMonthly is a seed fund and an on-going startup accelerator in San Francisco providing a global ecosystem of resources, tools and mentors for early-stage startups. Startups accepted to the accelerator will get up to $300K initial investment. During our on-going mentorship program in our offices in San Francisco we will work with you to quickly build and release the right minimum viable product, analyze customer engagement and metrics, and then react and iterate accordingly. We will become …

StreamUK uses the Kaltura Community Edition software for its online video proposition. We're interested in hosting a meetup to meet with fellow developers and hack through the code issues.

wp-hooked is a forum/meetup for WordPress theme and/or plugin developers in London to get together and share issues, ideas and tips about WordPress. Our aim to create a developer led meet-up that helps encourage ideas and facilitate problem solving. The format will be a developer surgery, where people can bring ideas and problems for the group to talk about and/or work through. Members of the group can choose what we talk about and other members of the group can vote for so there is a democrat …

This meetup is for software developers, recruiters and employers seeking work/workers in either web or desktop technologies from C#/VB to Node.js, from Scala to Ruby. There are hundreds of great jobs in London and hundreds of fantastic candidates. Currently the system of getting employers and candidates together is inefficient, labour intensive and time consuming. So lets have the recruiters, employers and candidates all meetup together in central London (working on the venue, any suggestions pl …

Are you a Zend Framework enthusiast / coder / hacker / rainmaker / entrepreneur? This group is for all those in the London area who want to meet others involved in Zend Framework projects and development. We're plugged into both Silicon Roundabout and Silicon Hill and will hold regular drinks / discussions / workshops / hackathons... specifically tailored to the needs of Zenders. So whether you're a Zend expert, someone who wants to get into it, or a non-techie looking to work with Zenders, this …

Jenkins Jenkins is a Continuous Integration tool developed by Kohsuke Kawaguchi who is currenly working with Cloudbees. Jenkins has boomimg in the market and most of the companies using Jenkins as CI server. Agile software development won't be complete without effective & visible CI and Jenkins fits perfectly into it. London JenkinsCI Users Group London JenkinsCI Users group is a group of IT professionals using Jenkins as a CI server, people want to use/learn Jenkins and people want to share thi …

Are you a technology startup based in and around South and South West London, Or, a great developer looking to work for one? We're hoping to arrange monthly meetups to get the startup community going in SW London, discuss issues, meet like-minded individuals and talk tech - all over a few beverages. We're aiming squarely at those who have existing startups and those who want to work for them so if you fit the bill please join up and come along.

This group aims to encourage the exchange of ideas around the PHP based Yii Framework for people in London or surrounding areas.

This group is for people who want to develop fundamental programming skills for teaching ICT to at prirmary and secondary level. This is an informal gathering.  Just bring a laptop, books and knowledge to share. Most sessions are organised with the first section dedicated to one programme and then the remainder of the session given over to discussion and freestyle programming.

So we've managed to get the very kind people at London Southbank University to donate a great space for one evening per month. It's the 8th floor of their conference building and has space for about 40 and also multiple breakout rooms with views over London... Free Drupal training - we'll pick a basic book for a crutch to run intros to Drupal. Might be good for PHP people thinking about transitioning, Uni students thinking about getting a job after graduating etc. Intro to contributing to core t …