This group offers an exchange of ideas, examples, support & answers regarding WordPress. Discussion will focus on: Using WordPress for blogging WordPress as a content management system Theme design and creation Plugin development Customization and implementations

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).  

The SharePoint Special Interest Group (SSIG) is focused on delivering the content the users want. While the SharePoint platform is extensive, we plan to deliver speakers able to address a wide variety of topics, including development, information architecture, user experience, governance and infrastructure. All these components come together to create the best SharePoint experience. Our meetings are held on the 4th Thursday of every month from 7 PM - 9 PM at the Navy League Building (1st Floor) …

You are invited to join us for networking conversations over lunch with local IT professionals,  webmasters and people of diverse professions and backgrounds to exchange experiences in programming, administration, hosting, development, design, and/or just to meet to chat and learn from non-webmasters to understand where clients are coming from for greater overall long term success. These events are great for practice skills required to build business ventures and develop mutually supportive and …

The nation capital's meetup group for ExpressionEngine enthusiasts, newbies, and experts

Love WordPress and live in the DC Metro Area? You’re not alone! WordPress has been taking over the DMV region with an incredible force. We have created local WordPress Responsive Design group where the MeetUps can be held in Alexandria, Fairfax and DC. Join our group and meet other fun and cool WordPress Designers as Developers! The group is a great way for local WP Gurus to stay in touch, share what they’re up to and learn from other like-minded people. Want to start on something new, but have …

Our second meetup group! As we continue to build a community of CQ5 users and developers in NYC we're reaching out to the Washington, DC area where we know there are a fair number of CQ5 installs as well. Would you like to meet others that have implemented CQ5? Share code or tricks, strategy or thoughts? Stay tuned!

Meet other local members of the IA community.

The purpose of this group is to provide educational sessions on the Drupal CMS by community members to help increase the size and quality of the Drupal knowledgeable market. It is intended to enhance, not replace or compete with, the current Drupal offerings in the DC metro area by focusing on training for ALL levels of Drupal experience. Since this is community driven, this is not for those that want a more fast paced or professional training environment. Check our DC community site for profess …

Xykon hosts hands-on workshops and get-togethers looking at Drupal, CiviCRM, and other open source applications. We want you to join us for some of them or give us your opinion on how these meetups can improve.

The mission of FEDSPUG is to establish a community for the Federal Government civilian agencies, military users and contractors to discuss and collaborate on SharePoint best practices and evolving technologies. Monthly meetings are held on the 1st Thursday of every month. For more information about our organization please visit www.fedspug.org. Women in SharePoint DC is a Special Interest Group of FEDSPUG dedicated to supporting IT women in the Metro DC area. Effective September 1, 2011 our t …

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 an …

NodeDC meets once a month to talk about node.js For updates, join this group and follow us on Twitter at @NodeDC.

dHealth is an organization and a venue that enables digital and mobile health enthusiasts from government, academia, industry and not for profit organizations to meet, learn from each other and hopefully develop some meaningful relationships. We regularly hold meetings in and around DC. The events are held in the evenings to accommodate as many people as possible  

We have created a local Drupal & Drupal Design group where the Meet-Ups in Alexandria, Fairfax and DC! Join our group and meet other fun and cool Drupal users, themers and Developers! The group is a great way for local Drupal Gurus to stay in touch, share what they’re up to and learn from other like minded people. Want to start on something new, but have no clue how to go about it with Drupal then join the team and find help? Our group is the perfect local spot to get help from other creative dr …

Local communities across the world organize Joomla!Day events to meet, share and learn with others from the Joomla! Community. the Northern Virginia Joomla! Users Group's events are open to anyone, regardless of their current level of knowledge, experience, or expertise. In October, 2010, we held a very successful JoomlaDayDC. We hope to do so again, but unfortunately were all too busy doing Joomla! projects to put one on in October 2011. Come out, learn, and share!