About Us: NY Cultural Tech has expanded its focus as of March 2013 to more broadly delve into the innovative intersection of tech and culture.  It started out as a cross-disciplinary group for practicing technologists (coders, info architects, developers) focused on the advancement of emerging tech from within the domains of public knowledge.  Our participatory group is a new-media catalyst for those involved with museums, libraries, educational institutions, government, non-profits, and outwar …

After three years of reading Hemingway and his peers, the Hemingway Book Club is changing. Starting in 2013, the group will choose books from the Modern Library's list of top 100 20th Century English language novels. Please join us as we discover and reread some of the best works of the modern age. http://www.modernlibrary.com/top-100/100-best-novels/

Do You Want to Learn How to Look Better, Feel Better, Increase Your Energy, Lose Body Fat, and Improve Your Health? WEIGHT LOSS AND WELLNESS WORKSHOPS at the New York City Public Library Riverside Bi-Monthly on Wednesdays from 4:00 – 5:00 Topics Covering the Key Elements to Permanent Weight Loss Weight Loss and Wellness Workshops Presented by: Coach Lisa Lea Farley CHC, RYT 200 - Lisa Lea Farley is a Certified Health Coach and Yoga Instructor.  She received her training from the Institute for I …

Kinding Sindaw (www.kindingsindaw.org) is a cultural performance troupe that has been in existence for over 20 years and is currently a resident artist group at La Mama E.T.C. Our mission is to educate and enlighten communities about the complex history and cultures of the indigenous peoples of the Philippines. Through the use of an artistic medium, which preserves the cultural heritage of the indigenous peoples from these regions, we seek to explore universal issues of the value of oral history …

If you've ever visited Hacker News, you've almost certainly seen the "Show HN" or "Ask HN" posts. Well, it's time to get off the Internet and tell us about it face to face. We'll provide you with our honest feedback, you provide us with a great hack, or idea. We'll give you 5 minutes to show off your tool, hack, library (did you just write a library to access the Meetup API in Go!?), whatever. We're language and software/hardware agnostic, so it's all fair game. After you present, it's an open f …

It's Tech@NYU's monthly party! At each DemoDay, Tech@NYU members and other NYC students will demo what they've been working on for the last month in the areas of programming and design. It's a monthly celebration, where Tech@NYU opens it doors to show off what we've been doing. NYC students - if you'd like to demo your latest hack, project, or pre-funding startup, please contact one of the organizers. Past demos have included: A Javascript library for calculus and statistics A remote control fo …

Digital Asset Management draws from various areas of expertise including archiving and library sciences, metadata, taxonomies, searchability, even trafficking. As the field grows to include a wide range of online DAM systems, it requires sensitivity to user experience, asset security, and workflow development. Join us to share experiences, discuss the intersections of these disciplines, and the challenges unique to all manner of file types. NYC DAM Meetup videos File Acceleration

The New York Pluralsight Study Group was started for the express purpose of gathering developers together on a weekly basis to watch, discuss and learn from Pluralsight's vast library of training.   We are supported by Pluralsight in our efforts and sponsored by Microsoft who is generously providing our meeting facilities. We meet at the Microsoft offices in mid-town Manhattan once a week to study.   The general format is to spend approximately one hour watching a pluralsight training video foll …

Scala Days 2013 will bring together developers from all corners of the world to share their experiences and new ideas around creating applications with Scala and Scala-based libraries and frameworks. Scala Days provides a unique opportunity for Scala users to interact with the key contributors to the language and related technologies. Martin Odersky will give this year's keynote, with a guest keynote from Rod Johnson! Featured speakers include influencers and Scala community members from EPFL, C …

Advanced discussions and analysis of equity and index option strategies and tools. This is intended for experienced option traders and not as an educational environment for beginners. Meetings take place at a New York Public Library community room in midtown Manhattan, once a month, in the evening, on the 2nd Monday of the month.

The purpose of this group is to create an informal setting to discuss, share and learn about mediation and its relevance in our lives today. We engage in a wide range of topics like role of meditation in our life and community, balancing our life from within, creating a harmonious peaceful community. We organize free meet-ups, workshops and training sessions for members of the community. Most of our venues are local cafes, libraries and universities. Natural Path Meditation (also known as Sahaj …

Pop Up Yoga NYC takes yoga out of the studio and into urban spaces. We hold classes anywhere from gyms, parks, libraries, coffee shops, stores, juvenile detention centers, and anywhere else yoga is needed. Classes are open level, donation based or free, and are accompanied by live DJs or musicians. We also partner with awesome local businesses and food vendors to make yoga fun and accessible for urban dwellers. Check out our website to learn more about upcoming events at www.popupyoga-nyc.com.

Meet other friendly Mandarin learning families to set up playdates, explore the neighborhood and have fun! We share experiences, get advice and make new friends. All families and friends are welcome! We have meetups every week for different ages. For example, we are planning to have lots of events including music classes; baby sign classes; gym events; soccer classes; photoshoots; trips to museums and the Bronx zoo and book clubs where everyone is welcome and get togethers at local libraries, Wh …

I should start by saying about a year ago a woman started a group with the same name. It has since been disbanded, I do not know why. I want to start the group again. I am in Hudson County, New Jersey, but the meetings can be held anywhere. Probably in NYC is best. Or if it takes off, we can alternate meetups: one time in New Jersey and another in New York. The meetings are free. We can meet in cafes, libraries, suggestions are welcomed. The terms Fatherless Daughters/Fatherless Women is a syndr …

Moms & Dad of  North Jersey with kids 7 & under and expecting moms expecting too, welcome!  Some of the communities in which we meet in and around are located in Hudson County such as Weehawken and North Bergen in Bergen County Cliffside Park, Edgewater, Fort Lee, Englewood, Paramus, Fair Lawn, Westwood, Tenafly, Secaucus, and Rutherford and in Passaic County Clifton and Ringwood. We have between 8-12 events a week on average. Together we’ve enjoyed events such as play dates at homes and parks, …

Welcome to UWS New Moms of Infants and Toddlers. You are in the perfect place to meet other moms living on the Upper West Side, to have playdates, check out the neighborhood or just chat and have fun. I have had a wonderful time going to new places and meeting new moms and making friends for my daughter. She has also benefited tremendously from all the children she meets each week. And often the meetups repeat and she is lucky enough to see the same group of friends and children each week. Mee …

Are you curious about yoga but intimidated by studios or gyms? Do you want to deepen your yoga practice and meet other like-minded folks?  Yoga NYC Meetup offers free or donation-based open level classes taught by certified yoga instructors.  With almost 1000 members, we are one of the largest yoga meetups and offer classes in the park in the warm weather as well as indoor classes and private sessions. We have partnered with Compass Yoga, www.compassyoga.com, to offer free classes in libraries t …

Meet other friendly First (and Second and even Third time!) Upper West Side moms and dads to set up playdates, explore the neighborhood and have fun!  Our members share experiences, get advice and make new friends.  All parents are welcome and maternity wear is considered completely acceptable attire!  While the vast majority of our members are moms, dads are also welcome. Dues are only $10.00 year, which is a fraction of the average cost of a mom/child class.  We have meetups every week for dif …

NYLUG.org is New York's Linux Users Group supporting all things Linux and Open Source in the greater New York area. Members are Linux enthusiasts who come to the meetings and installfests, subscribe to a mailing list, and/or participate in keysignings and other NYLUG events. Meetings are free and open to the public (RSVP usually required). Meetings will usually (but not always) take place the second Thursday of the month starting at 6:30pm. Meetings are announced on the NYLUG-Announce mailing li …

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 …

Social networking for greater NYC librarians and library students. All sectors and backgrounds accepted. Come discuss developments in the field, explore professional opportunities, examine emerging technologies, and engage in good old-fashioned librarianship! Social media: Please follow us on our meetup BLOG. We're also on  Twitter.  Delicious, Digg, Facebook, Flickr, LibraryThing, LinkedIn, Goodreads & YouTube. What social media sites are you on? NEW:  Meet our Mentors! Click HERE to learn more …

A meetup for graduates of General Assembly's front end development courses to continue practicing the skills they've learned in class. If you have or are taking one of our courses, request to join and we'll set you up right away.

We're a group of New York based front end developers passionate about the technologies we work with on a daily basis. We are hoping to create a community of people to explore ideas, learn, teach and share information around user experience, design, and new emerging techniques and technologies. This group will host talks and workshops to discuss best practices, HTML5, CSS, cross-browser support and testing, mobile, optimization techniques and more.

Semi-regular tutorials/discussions about OCaml language features and libraries. A meetup should ideally center around a topic which (1) contains some interesting core idea, (2) helps us get stuff done, (3) is reasonably accessible to people without a ton of OCaml experience (but who might be familiar with other MLs, Haskell, Scheme, etc...)

Women in Motion! This group's mission is to: 1) encourage women of all ages, and backgrounds to run and walk their way to better health and fitness. "If you run, you are a runner. It doesn't matter how fast or how far. It doesn't matter if today is your first day or if you've been running for twenty years. There is no test to pass, no license to earn, no membership card to get. You just run." - John Bingham Now shall I walk or shall I ride? "Ride," Pleasure said. "Walk," Joy replied. - W. Davi …

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.” ~Dr. Seuss I've tried joining a few book clubs that were genre specific (chick lit), gender specific (chicks only), and author specific (Stephen King) but as none seemed to satisfy my palate, I thought I'd try to see if there were others like me, i.e. those who can equally enjoy the likes of Jane Austen, Stephen King, Shakespeare,Neil Gaiman, Dean Koontz as well as nonfiction books (The …

NYC.JS is a 'by developer, for developer' format where an engaged group of technologists come together to discuss and debate best practices (and frustrations) building apps with JavaScript/HTML5 frameworks. With an initial focus on Sencha Touch and Ext JS, the group has broadened to "all things JS" and more recently has focused on the engineering behind HTML5 apps for digital media and publishing industry. Developers, designers and Product people are all welcome.  Our only 'rule' is no head hunt …

Is your child learning Japanese at home? Are you a bilingual family? Let's make opportunities for our children to interact in Japanese with people outside our own families and experience Japanese as a living language. This is also a chance to meet other parents in your neighborhood! All members can plan a playdate or meetup that is convenient for your area, schedule, and age group. Meetups can be for mothers just simply having fun & good time with other moms. My family is in Ditmars, Astoria.  M …