Meet others who use Plone (www.plone.org), an open source content management system that makes it easy to build full-featured websites. YouTube Video for the Plone NYC Users Group http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnttWju8BGw Plone adheres to web standards, is cross-platform, multi-lingual, and has a friendly, worldwide community of developers and users. Plone and its underlying technologies Zope & Python can also be used to create web applications, including mobile apps. Gather to share kno …

Who plays poker with us? NYC Poker Tour poker players, Social Poker Facebook Group, Action Finder members, and many more. Jeremy Martin, aka Fred123, organizes this poker meetup, tweets, and blogs on YouTube.  "I love poker.  It's my favorite sport.  I play. I compete.  I socialize.  And I wouldn't have it any other way." What no-limit tournaments can you play? $30 Sit-n-Go: RED Players start with 4000 chips.  If 10 people play, then 1st and 2nd place win money. NYC Poker Tour Main Event: GR …

We explore how social media has enabled new ways for organizations to connect both internally and externally. Our meetings will focus on practical applications of Social Media tools and platforms like Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Google plus, Flickr, blog and more. We will talk about Viral Marketing and Social Media in all kinds of business applications - Media Business, Technology, Finance, eCommerce, Customer Care; Social Media for independent musicians, event organizers and HR and internal com …

Paint Dancing is a new venue created solely for the purpose of openly expressing yourself for fun in 2 different mediums - AT ONCE! That's Right! PAINTING and DANCING (at the same time) in private art studios around the New York area while helping support your local food banks. Watch some of our crazy Paint Dancing videos on YouTube! http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=DF09B34FE51B3199 We will supply non-toxic paint, brushed and paper! All you need is your paint clothes (and shoes) and …

Brooklyn Futurist Meetup is designed as an authentic forum to discuss what the world might look like in ten years plus. Like the social and artistic Futurist movement of the past, we explore emerging trends that have the ability to transform our world. Our events take place in Brooklyn where most members work or live. Topics are not Brooklyn-focused. They are open to attendees and speakers from anywhere. Many people are concerned about our society's inability to think and plan more than a handfu …

After watching the Bucket List and the Yes Man I got motivated to create this group. I am not planning on leaving this Earth anytime soon, but I wanted to try many things in life before I go. I've always wanted to....but either I said no at the opportunity or was too afraid to do so. Partial bucket list: wall climbing, Judo, fencing, zip lines, kayaking, snorkeling, riding on a jet-ski, learning to swim, wall climbing, visiting India, Tibet, Malaysia, Japan, Thailand, and Burma. I've already tri …

Welcome to the Light & Shadow Workshop Group. Our mission is to share with the New York independent film community the knowledge and practical skills needed to excel in the art of lighting and cinematography. When it is your turn to make a movie, you must ask two questions: 1) "Where should I put the LIGHT?" A single strategically placed light can work the magic of four or five incorrectly placed lights. 2) "How to create SHADOW?" Anybody can switch on a light and flood a scene with light and ma …

Discover the exciting reels and jigs and the beautiful strathspeys of Scottish Country Dancing! You don't have to be Scottish to enjoy doing the dances from Scotland. Scottish Country Dancing is practiced on every continent (yes it even has been danced in Antarctica) and is a popular past time for people of many ages and backgrounds. Join to stay fit, make new friends locally or to become a part of the global Scottish Country Dancing scene which offers world-wide classes and events including dan …

NoteWorking is a New York City-based meetup for musicians and music-industry professionals using digital tools for promotion, marketing, sales and collaboration. Every month with experts give quick presentations, full of great advice you can take home and do yourself. You'll have a chance to network with other musicians and music professionals, and there's free pizza at every meetup! Our mission: The NoteWorking mission is to service a community of aspiring and professional recording artis …

New York Yoga Club is part of a national Yoga club that was created to offer people of all levels cost effective forms of healthy practices (yoga, tai chi etc) with local quality instructors in natural outdoor settings. We want you to come out & create community through YOGA around NYC.  It is through community that we feel connected, inspired and supported. "When you break up the individuals from a community into individual units, they become disempowered because it's the collective consciousne …

This is a free pick-up group for men and women interested in playing one of the fastest, safest and greatest games on earth. It's open to people of all levels - to experienced touch players, to veteran 15s and 7s players, and to complete beginners. If you play on a 15s team, this would be a great opportunity to get some extra practice in and to get fitter. And it's one of the best formats for practicing 7s. And if you're completely new to the game, come on out and give it a try. It's dead eas …

Hi Everyone! Thanks for coming to the Brooklyn Kickboxing, Boxing & Muay Thai Meetup Group home page. Our mission is to: Offer the public a complete Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) program with a full range of various striking and grappling arts, combined with a comprehensive strength and conditioning regimen. Nurture and develop great self confidence through the mastery of self defense. Empower others with the desire, ability and knowledge to sustain regular, lifelong physical activity as a founda …

The SEO and Social Media Marketing Academy is offering 3 levels of courses; Beginning, Intermediate and advanced course. Each course provides an introduction, step by step teaching guidelines and resource worksheets. Our courses are catered for people that are looking for new careers, Entrepreneurs, Extra income from home, employee skilled training, keeping up with the technology. Courses will cover Monetize & Optimize Internet Marketing Optimization of Search Engines (SEO) and Social Media …

Socialize with your peers in film, video and the arts! We've been having FREE meetings around NYC since 2005, looking at the creative process, often in conjunction with cutting edge technologies from Adobe, Apple, Autodesk and Avid, featuring Adobe Premiere Pro and elements from the Adobe Creative Suite, Avid Media Composer, Final Cut Pro, writer’s tools, DSLR and an assortment of third party applications. We're a social and media network, looking forward to having some fun, featuring guest spea …

Introduction This group is for anyone who likes producing electronic music using software, and/or wishes to learn new production skills, other software products, find out about various plug-ins, and take their mixes to the next level. There is no particular skill requirement to join the group. However if you are a beginner, we recommend you at least try a demo version of a popular DAW software package, and watch some free tutorials on youtube before coming to your first meeting. We mostly concen …

The goal of this meetup group is to become better filmmakers and actors. You can only learn so much about filmmaking from reading books (which is helpful in its own right), or going to film school (very expensive/time intensive)... but the best way is improve as a filmmaker and actor is to get involved in the whole process numerous times (Director Robert Rodriguez made thirty shorts before making his first full length feature, El Mariachi ). It is our hope that by repeatedly making good little f …

Startup Pitch Night provides the platform to practice and improve your pitch.  The event planning team of New York Startup Pitch Night is dedicated to providing the platform for startups to practice their pitch.  Our goal is make it fun to practice your pitch and to have it be within relaxed and supportive peer-driven environment.  Additionally, we provide targeted networking and learning opportunities in the New York City, New York region to meet, form partnerships, and launch or formulate new …

When's the last time you paid $5 for a really kool t-shirt? What about vacuums for just $14? Or DVD/VCR combos for $15? I kid you not, I've found these and oh so much more on my many hunts in and around NYCs cheapest thrift stores. My latest find was a fully working Xbox for just $12 - it even had a game in it that they didn't know about. It works just fine - too well in fact, as now I just wanna stay home and play Grand Theft Auto SanAndreas, which yes, I also bought for just $2.99. Where, as y …

We are a community of Emmy winners, Webby honorees, YouTube celebrities, special FX gurus, celebrity hair & makeup artists, and film & television personalities with the intent to equip the growing legions of internet content creators with the know-how, tools and resources necessary to transform their ideas into television quality productions. Hangar Underground is a creative content incubator that helps aspiring “Generation YouTube” content creators professionalize and popularize their media pro …

Flyy Girls NYC is a group for women (20s & 30's+) who simply want to get together with other girls to have fun, laugh, and of course...be Flyy. Our goal is for each young woman to join this group and make real honest friendships with others. I want this group to represent a type of sisterhood where we support one another in our lives, dreams and struggles We will enjoy night and day parties, brunches, dinners, museums, shopping adventures, networking, photoshoots, out of town trips, community se …

Meetups are held the third Tuesday of every month, with the goal of sharing AngularJS knowledge and best-practices and providing a space where people can meet up and chat with others working with Angular. Presenting We are always looking for speakers & presenters for future meet-ups, so if you are using or teaching AngularJS, please Contact Us if you have an interest in sharing your work with the group. Watch these and other AngularJS meetup talks at youtube.com/angularjs Lightning Talks Signu …

Mark and I are two NYC Vloggers who want to get out and meet more people in the YouTube community. Both of us are interested in doing awesome collaboration videos, parodies, and short comedy skits. We also want to plan events to just hang out and have a fun in NYC. -Mark and Milena

What is Quiet Clubbing? Each person receives a pair of wireless headphones. This allows you to adjust the volume and choose between up to three DJs by flicking a switch. Do you like listening to: Top40, Trance, Hip-Hop, Reggae, Latin, Salsa, merengue, Bachata, Rap, Electronic, Line Dancing, 80's, 90's, and everything else? Then Quiet Clubbing is for you... Don't worry about coming out alone, that's what most people do... Quiet Clubbing is very SOCIAL! You need to experience it to understand! …

This meetup event is for ANYONE who has a interest in game focused youtube, blogging or podcasting. It doesn't matter if you're a pro with thousands of followers or someone who just started a few days ago. We hope to bring gamers together to collaborate, network, and grow to do amazing things in the gaming community. There is no place better to do it than in NYC and we hope you join to do great things with us.

This group is for anyone who is involved in the World of QlikView or interested in learning about QlikView. QlikView is a new kind of Business Intelligence software and has experienced tremendous growth over the years. Goal of this group is to share best practices, promote QlikView and provide an opportunity to meet others in the QlikView world. Join us if you are interested in: * Discovering the QlikView Business Discovery platform * Discovering how QlikView can help you to better understand …

A group for lovers of and dancers to Tamla Motown, Northern Soul, TSOP and Mod Music. (please google/youtube those terms and Wigan Casino, Blackpool Mecca) Traditonally Connected to the "Scooter and British Mod scenes" think vintage Lambretta and Vespa. Having searched and not found any venues or groups for the above, here we go - I have started one! So, if you love any of the above or would like to experience or explore the culture and music please join this group and let me know it's FREE. (he …

We study, integrate and share Nassim Haramein's work and all related media. For more information, please check out: http://resonance.is/ https://www.facebook.com/TheResonanceProject Nassim's lectures on youtube: A great overall introduction: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zc0ICPoqlM Diving deeper into the science aspect: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dc4pi1PXb38 A cool bit on psychology/meditation: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pivthzX544 Enjoy!

Make Passive Income from your Art & Creativity Join us in the East Village in Manhattan to brainstorm and discuss new ways of making a living off your artwork & passions Harness the power of the internet to make a great living on your own terms. Space is limited to the first 10 people to RSVP. crowdsourcing, cloud computing, social networking and marketing, blogging, content creation on youtube, microstock, niche websites, ebay, google, adsense, art licensing, street art, toys & games, guerilla …