This is the group to join if you like to watch films in London and meet new people. There is always an opportunity to socialise with the other members before and after the films. We go to see a wide variety of films, including both the new releases and classic films. There are events on weekdays evenings and also at weekends. We use various cinemas, usually in central London. Please contact Mark if you are interested in organising film events for this group. We host a lot of events at Cinewor …

Welcome to the London Life Coaching and NLP group. This group is run by Christopher Paul Jones, NLP Trainer and Master NLP Coach.  This group is particularly useful for anyone who is either looking to become a life coach, is an existing coach or is interested in using NLP techniques to enhance their coaching practice. This group will have meetups covering Integrated NLP skills from various schools of NLP like New Code, Classic Code NLP, DHE, Time Line and other change technologies such as Hypnos …

Come and meet other software developers interested in the Scala programming language in the London area. Talks are normally held at Skills Matters on the 2nd Wednesday of the months. We also have a Coding Dojo every 3rd Thursday of the month, the current source code is: https://www.assembla.com/wiki/show/lsug-dojo twitter: @LondonScala and we use the hashtag #lsug We have a chart group at: http://groups.google.com/group/scala-london finally, if you're interested in Scala Jobs then https://grou …

The original London fine dining group on Meetup! We are an vibrant, active and exclusive group of gourmet lovers and bon vivants who enjoy dining at Michelin Starred restaurants and other sophisticated venues and events, mostly in London but we have been known to venture outside of London to the Waterside Inn and the Fat Duck in Bray, the Royal Enclosure at Ascot, Henley Royal Regatta private parties etc. We also have plans to visit the top 10 restaurants in the world, so yes we do love our food …

Hoodlums is a group for experienced software developers interested in the programming language Haskell. Members range in experience from those just reading about the language to those working with it daily. The purpose of the group is to help members learn from each other, to share experience, provide a forum for questions and to get a chance to hack some code. We meet monthly on the second Thursday of the month in Canary Wharf. It is a "Coding Dojo" format where we pick some interesting proble …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

This is an informal meet-up group for anyone who owns - or plans to buy - a boat and is based in London. Whether yours is a small RIB, a sailing yacht or a 72' Sunseeker, this could be a great group for you. Think of it as a small informal yacht club to meet like minded boating enthusiasts. We will be able to share experiences of owning boats, how to get into boating or how to advance your boating to the next level. We will aim to meet on a relatively regular basis but a lot of this also depends …

We love sailing is a club that gets like minded people to go sailing and socialise together. We organize regularly sailing weekends, courses and week holidays in the Mediterranean sea. In our trips you will learn to sail, make new friends, visit beautiful places, eat healthy and delicious food, and enjoy an overall wonderful experience. Join our sailing club If you are already a sailor and love sailing in the sun and meet new friends, or if you are one of those people interested in sailing, but …

Are you a code ninja searching for a similar bunch of ladies to drink coffee and discuss code with? You’ve come to the right place. We meet bi-monthly to talk about one specific problem or topic. Using the powers of our collective minds, we toss around ideas and examine them together. We continue to develop our code-fu in the process. Everybody gets input on the question, and we vote beforehand. Think of it as a book club for coders. Yes, there will be tasty treats of the baked variety with coff …

We're a bunch of software developers that love to code, play, learn, improve and eat pizza! Every month we meet up in order to practice code katas, clean code, software craftsmanship, pair programming, Test-Driven Development and learn from each other for an hour or two. As it's after work, food and drinks are provided :) If you'd like to learn more about Software Craftsmanship, the best place to start is What Is Software Design? by Jack Reeves. If you'd like more in-depth material, Pete McBreen …

Beermat Monday London is a monthly networking event for entrepreneurs, sole traders, small businesses and start-ups. Organised by Mike Southon (Ambassador for the Federation of Small Businesses, co-author of best-selling book 'The Beermat Entrepreneur' and Financial Mail columnist in the Mail On Sunday) and Simon Graham. The events are free, have no dress code and are open to anyone. The purpose of the evenings is to mix, network, do business, share ideas and have some fun! We also run regular s …

Welcome to the Spring of Code group! The project is based on the ethics of open data, free software, open source and creative commons. So join up, and shout out what's missing from the online tools already out there and how we can make them work better. What happens in a meeting? People meet people, projects get put on socially useful tracks, focus. What happens between meetings? People buddy up on projects, hack, design, get creative and update on site their progress. Where do I ask for help o …

This is a group for people who want to go and watch some good movies with good company, on Wednesdays! Why Wednesday? Well, because its a nice way to break up the working week, and also because of the added benefit that Orange subscribers get two for one tickets on Wednesday, making it half price for us. Please note you do NOT have to be an Orange subscriber to join this group or to attend meetups with us. Where possible all members will be teamed up with an Orange subscriber to get us all half …

Welcome to the html5 Codeshow! We are a group of hackers/developers/tech enthusiasts who are ecstatic about what the future of the web and mobile apps will bring. For years we've seen what the future might look like via sexy sci-fi films--well now the future is here and it's our turn to make that vision a reality! Join us in sharing our coding knowledge and let's develop ideas together over pizza and beer! Are you working on a website, mobile web app, or designing a game? What are some of the ch …

Do you live in North London and are tired of commuting to go out? London is a great city, including from a geographical standpoint, and this can make things difficult for those who have friends scattered in all the boroughs. This group aims to bring together people who live in North London (N and NW post codes) to make the most of the opportunities offered by our great neighborhood. We are aiming to have regular meetups (once every 2 weeks) and to keep the group relatively small, in order to giv …

A London-based group for everyone implementing or considering Continuous Delivery as a set of software delivery good practices. We're at londoncd.org.uk and #londoncd on Twitter

Welcome to the London Big-O Meetup! This is London's first meetup focusing on data structures and algorithms, regardless of programming language. I started this meetup for a few reasons. There's a general lack of similar events for people interested in the theory or maths behind the tools we use every day—dictionaries, sets, lists and regular expressions are things we all take for granted, but when you reach a large enough scale, the differences between implementations begin to show. It's import …

We're a London study group on Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP). SICP is a classic programming text (even if you don't program in lisp) and the breadth and depth of the ideas in the book will certainly improve your craft. But don't take my word for it. Peter Norvig gave a review of it: ".... The book doesn't directly tell you how to design and write an object-oriented program using the subset of object-oriented principles that show up in the syntax of Java or C++. Rather, …

This is a weekly meetup where we get together and work on Django projects. Bring your own projects, and issues you've been dealing with. We'll provide a highly collaborative coding environment and help each other become better Django developers and make progress on our projects. Django Developers of all levels are welcome! Location: Conversocial (Second Floor), Epworth House, 25 City Road, EC1Y1AA

AngelHack Hackathon Workshops are a place for industry leaders, hackers, and entrepreneurs to come together in a relaxed atmosphere to talk about API's, SDK's, and how to use new and creative ideas to empower a new generation of developers.

Free beer to meet us at a pub. Turn up, drink and leave, or turn up talk to us about our Open Source Software and see if it's any good. If you like it then please join our Alpha community. SoftwareFM is an Free Open Source project, at Alpha release, that brings a combination of a wiki and a social network for Java developers using the Eclipse IDE, that shows the relevant wiki page for the code you are working on, and shows which of your friends uses that software. This group aim is to create an …

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 …

This is a group for tech start-up entrepreneurs who are interested in becoming a more attractive proposition to a Technical Co-founder by way of learning basic coding skills (such as html, css and javascript), learning coding lingo and making fantastic visualisations that communicate your ideas really effectively. Alternatively, you might just want to meetup with other people learning to write software so as to form study groups at around the same level.

This group has been formed to explore and discuss the practice of Live Cinema and its related technology, approaches and possibilities. Its goal is to bring this diverse collection of artists together to share knowledge with the aim of forming a new legal entity under the title "Live Cinema Foundation". This new organisation will to support the presentation, development and publication of new forms of analogue and digital culture that exist at the intersection between film, music and the perform …

Meet the Stripe team and members of the Stripe community in London.

This group is for newbies interested in programming world specifically in Java. Whether you are completely new to programming, just started learning or done a bit of programming before this group will help you to learn coding in Java. Study groups are arranged and led by an experienced programmer who will assist you throughout the session. It is practical and easy to follow hands-on introduction to Java. Java Programming requires the use of JDK and an editor. It is necessary for members to bring …

Android LiveCodes are conferences during wich a speaker codes an app live in a 1-hour show and interacts with attendees while coding. The aim is to show all the strengths and the power of a given technology and have developers discover brand new and innovative ways of coding.

Here at 7digital we're getting all excited about DevOps. We like to think we've always had the open and collaborative culture that is intrinsic to the DevOps approach, and lately we've been spending quite a lot of time experimenting with various ways of working, team organisation, and technical tools. The DevOps community is a lively place, and we thought it'd be great to host a regular event where we could hear a short presentation and then have a good chat about whatever comes up over some dri …