This Meetup is a place for citizens to discover, report and attend attend townhall meetings held by elected officials in the US Senate and House of Representatives concerning Senate Bill "Protect IP Act" or PIPA and the "Stop Online Piracy Act," or "SOPA." As the Senate will take action on the bill January 23rd and 24th, our priority is to connect Senators with their constituents.  If you want to attend a townhall, but we do not yet have any town-halls listed please contact us at pk @ public …

Welcome to Federal Cloud Enterprise Operations - FedCEO.  The FedCEO group focuses on forward looking trends, emerging techniques and best practices in cloud and related technology areas. Specific areas of interest include the following:  -- Application/Infrastructure including VMWare, Amazon Web Services, Eucalyptus, Joyent, OpenStack, CloudStack, OpenShift, Azure, Heroku, Azure, CloudFoundry.  -- Large Data Processing using Hadoop, Accumulo, In-memory, NoSQL, and related products and …

An OpenStack DC Group for the Washington, DC metro area. Technologists, entrepreneurs, investors, government, or corporate employees are encouraged to join in this exciting and very promising world of open source cloud computing called OpenStack (http://openstack.org/).  Let's OpenStack & learn together.  We will be known as the OpenStackers. Are you interested in deploying a Private, Community, Public and/or a Hybrid cloud in the Washington, DC metro area or do you just want to learn or teach? …

Creating a portlet.  Allowing your site to be found in search hits.  Optimizing your Lucene search queries.  Managing your web content.  The opportunities and challenges of implementing an open source portal server in the federal government and commercial spaces.  Covering Liferay and its related technologies (Lucene, jBPM, JackRabbit, SOLR, Alfresco, REST, Velocity).  

Thank You For Joining & Welcome To The Community! Drupal is widely used by many government agencies, hi-profile businesses, not-for-profit firms and community-based organizations to build their websites and applications. Internationally, Drupal powers millions of websites and applications in many countries and is built, used and supported by an active, passionate and growing world-wide community. The Drupal Technology Meetup is a resource for the growing community -- including professionals i …

Meet others from DC, MD, & VA interested in New Media, Web 2.0, Video 2.0, and Social Networks. Gather to discuss & learn: webcasting, internet video & video blogging, social media platform technology (Ning, Facebook, MySpace, openID, etc.), digital content, startups, funding & pitching, semantic web, new products & cool ideas & websites. We cover the following and more areas of web technology: * New media * Social web * Web 2.0 & 3.0 * Video 2.0 * Social apps/widgets * Microblogg …

The Metro DC Chapter of ASTD is an ASTD Chapter of Excellence, recognized as a regional association for workplace performance professionals. The chapter provides members with a forum for professional development opportunities and resources to improve the workplace learning and performance industry. Our events are open to all interested in the workplace learning profession. Members of the Metro DC ASTD chapter (not to be confused with being a member of this Meetup page) receive a discounted rate …

This group aims to provide a means for people in the state of Maryland to discuss and organize activity that is committed to the principles of liberty and limited government as set forth in the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution. It will specifically compare and evaluate candidates for elective office, based on their likely adherence to these fundamental principles. The purpose will include a robust and open debate of political issues in the state, on a non-partisan …

The Federal Big Data Meetup group is a community dedicated to promoting the technologies, practices and innovations needed for Federal Government agencies to get maximum value from massive amounts of data. With over 2.5 trillion bytes of data accumulating around the world every day, the Federal Government is at the epicenter of the Big Data revolution. Through an exchange of BIG ideas, education and fresh thinking from Government employees, contractors and technologists, Federal Big Data aims to …

JBoss is much more than an Application server.  With industry-leading frameworks such as Seam, Infinispan, and Hibernate, JBoss is raising the bar for enterprise Java. Our membership is comprised of industry practitioners, open source evangelists, and Java craftsmen.  Each month, we meet to highlight some key JBoss technologies.  We are also active supporters of the DC area Technology User Groups community and coordinate regularly with them to hold joint meetings and share our insights and ex …

… Admission is free and open to the public (self-pay for lunch or soda). This is a monthly opportunity to connect with people from this Asian American group and other community groups for enriched networking purposes on the 3rd Sundays of each month. These community events are held at the same time and same location each month for your scheduling convenience. Save 3rd Sundays to meet at Burma Restaurant at 740 6th St. NW, 2nd floor, Wash. D.C. 20001 (one block from Gallery Place/Chinatown Metro, r …

… This is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender people and straight allies who work in new media, Web 2.0 and 3.0 design and content, social networking, Adobe Creative Suite, graphic design, videography (YouTube, Vimeo), information technology, digital architecture, interactive, SEO strategy, open source, Drupal, computer networking and programming, telecom, and engineering. Gay and lesbian .com executives, LGBT bloggers, Obama administration IT infrastructure and Government 2.0 change-maker …

… There are government and private programs that provide opportunities for education and employment. Despite these programs, however, a significant number of the mothers remain unable to take positive action. The inability for them to move forward is due to a variety of reasons related to their environment, low self esteem, distrust, and being exploited without any benefit to themselves. OPPORTUNITY: Experts agree that the path to economic and social success begins within the young mother. She wil …

… .), begun openly assassinating U.S. citizens for the first time in U.S. history (Anwar al-Awlaki and his 16-year-old son in Yemen, etc.), has continued to expand U.S. government secrecy, doubled down on the Surveillance State, reauthorized the Patriot Act, failed to close Guantanamo (and doesn't even oppose 'indefinite detention'), didn't push to hold anyone accountable for torture under the Bush Administration, is continuing the federal crackdown on medical marijuana providers, etc. I'm pro leg …

… Speakers at previous meetings have also included officials from the US Patent & Trademark Office of Independent Inventor Programs and representatives of government small business assistance programs. Meetings are free and open to the public. We invite you to attend our next meeting to participate in networking over pizza, snacks, and drinks. See the Meetings page on our website for a schedule of upcoming meetings, directions, and more information. If you are interested in speaking at an upcoming …

NVCT, founded in 1994, is an award winning charity that saves nearby nature by helping local governments and private landowners voluntarily preserve natural areas, trails, streams and parks. NVCT is a non-profit, tax exempt 501 (c) 3 organization preserving natural and historic resources. Contributions are tax deductible. Presently, we have preserved over 5,370 acres of natural areas and open space in Northern Virginia. NVCT also hosts Explore + Restore, a series of local outdoor educational and …