… The goal of the organizers is to create a vendor neutral environment for open discussion and provide the membership with a valuable resource of information on industry trends and ongoing research. We will work on behalf of the membership to coordinate regular meetings with respected speakers from industry, government and acedemia.  Commercial software companies will also be invited to keep members up to date on available tools and the adoption trends they are seeing in the broader markets.

Membership is comprised of women either in the Information Security field or wanting to enter the field. The purpose of this group is to advance women in Information Security by promoting networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing, and opportunities. Regular workshops will be offered to bridge the gap of theory and/or minimal hands-on labs from a course you took or self-studying. You will get to learn and practice in an environment of like-minded women. Workshops will be led by SME's in …

R is an open source programming language for statistical computing, data analysis, and graphical visualization. R has an estimated one million users worldwide, and its user base is growing. While most commonly used within academia, in fields such as computational biology and applied statistics, it is gaining currency in commercial areas such as quantitative finance and business intelligence. Among R's strengths as a language are its powerful built-in tools for inferential statistics, its compact …

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Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers to meet, network, and show their work in public. But as we all know, give a mike to a designer (especially an architect) and you’ll be trapped for hours. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding this fate. Each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds each – giving 6 minutes 40 seconds of fame before the next presen …

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 …

… We will also present topics on the "hardware" of sustainability such as Low Impact Development, green architecture and design, rain gardens, green roofs, and much more! Some of these Meet UPs will be organized by Cohousing Collaborative. AND we are inviting YOU to organize a topic you are interested in. If you want to organize a discussion through this Meet Up one of our Meet Up organizers will assist you. We want this site to be a two-way (actually -- a multi-way) conversation for advancing com …

… 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 …

We are the DC Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery.  We help advance computing as a science and a profession.  We do this offline through lectures, workshops, discussion panels, and professional development seminars.  We partner with ACM HQ, ACM Public Policy, ACM special interest groups (SIGs), DC area technical user groups, and area university Comp Sci and Info Tech departments. Join us if you like any of the following categories: http://acm.org/sigs Suggest a topic or speaker, w …

Deploying and supporting mobile capabilities for an enterprise is easier when you know what works (and what doesn't). The goal for this meetup is to share notes, ideas and insight regarding deploying mobile capabilities for enterprises.