This community gathers everyone interested in UX and users. We talk about UX and things related to it: interaction design, visual design, user research, sketching and prototyping. We also reveal the role of UX in the development process, marketing, business, everyday life. We share our experience, we present our actual projects, we analyze trends and more. How we do it: through a regular monthly meeting with an interesting presentation followed by a social. Feel free to come, whether you're a UX …

In this group we play games to learn UX principles. Want to know more about UX (User eXperience)? Want a feel for what we, 'ux people', do? In this group, we will learn the specific mindset and skillset of UX by playing games. We play games to learn UX principles and learn games to improve our UX work. You'll experience a hands-on, fun, creative workshop in which you will learn one of the many ux principles (Quality through Quantity, Everything lives in a context, Feedback is crucial, etc.). Eve …

The MarkLogic User Group Benelux is for users and/or fans of MarkLogic and those who are interested in learning more about MarkLogic Enterprise NoSQL database technology. We host informal events for users to meet, discuss, and share best practices regionally. This is an easy way to meet peers and learn how to get more out of MarkLogic Server.

This is a group for User Experience practitioners(*) in and around Amsterdam who would like to attend UX Cocktail Hours in the neighborhood. The goal of the cocktail hours is to get together informally, share news and ideas through short presentations, meet other UX practitioners, chat about work, the weather, "koetjes en kalfjes" (chit-chat), and have a drink (or two). Most Cocktail Hours these days are held at the offices of a local UX department and the drinks and some snacks are usually spon …

ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers working for (or wanting to work for) web companies in the Netherlands to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Management & Design, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, networking opportunities, and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to companies big and small. We also welcome …

The dutch Tableau software user group (NLTUG), for data maniacs, reporting heros and cool data visualisations fans

JBoss User Group Netherlands. Organizing events about JBoss community projects. Hands on workshops, talks about new cool stuff, ... See also: https://community.jboss.org/groups/jbug-netherlands

Do you want to build/ design products? How is it going? Want to stay smart and meet great people? We need more of those people in our lives. We are the Amsterdam flavoured Lean UX variety of peoples. We share our knowledge, experience and lessons learned when it comes to designing products in an iterative and rapidly moving environment. Product development team leaders, product managers, UX designers, engineers, marketers and researchers, just bring the whole team!

(Sroll naar beneden voor Nederlandse Versie) 3D Printing Amsterdam is for anyone interested in the revolutionary 3D technology. Whether you are: a novice and would love to see a 3D printer in action, owner of a 3D Printer and keen to show off your creations and share your experience, a designer or an artist using 3D printing in your work - or keen to, enthusiast user of Sketchup, Blender, SolidWorks or any other 3D drawing software, a developer interested in new 3D modeling techniques, curious …

Interested in the Yii PHP Framework? Then this is the group for you! Junior, Medior, Senior.. it does not matter. We will organize our first meeting somewhere in Q4 2012!

Cross Functional Amsterdam aims to bring together commercial users of functional programming. We want to support and promote functional technologies in the Dutch software industry. Topics for future meetings could include, Essentials of functional programming Real world experiences with functional styles Mixing functional code into existing imperative/OOP codebases Functional programming language specifics: Scala, Haskell, F#, Erlang, Ocaml, Clojure, Scheme. Functional idioms in non-functional …

Currently there are a multitude of companies offering Content Analytics and Social Internet Mining services for the purposes of Opinion Mining and Sentiment Analysis. Truly effective Sentiment Analysis is a complex NLP task in monolingual contexts alone. In multilingual contexts the complexity increase many-fold and also presents the challenge of comparison of opinion across languages and cultures. Named Entity Recognition and Classification is also key element to this challenge. As with is ofte …

Learning from and meeting with developers and testers that use Selenium to test their web applications. The Amsterdam Selenium Meetup is an open forum where Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, learn, network, or just have a good time. We plan to meet on a semi-regular basis and generally have speakers from major software and web companies in the Netherlands. Lively discussions or Q&A for hours afterwards. Our focus is in Selenium and topics extend through related areas of …

Welcome to the Amsterdam Motion Graphics Meetup Group! For users of After Effects, Motion, Maya, Cinema 4d, Smoke, FCP, Premiere and other motion graphics/editing programs. Let's meet up over beer and jaw about what we do, the industry, cool things we're learning, etc.

This is a group for anyone interested in Drupal

A english-speaking group for PHP Developers in and around Amsterdam. Our goal is to grow the local community, search for new developers and spread knowledge and resources. Amsterdam is a very active technology center for the Netherlands, many companies and people from various countries have chosen this area to settle down and start their companies. PHP has a big role in this and for that reason we created a User Group focused on this area and in doing activities in english to acommodate all of t …

The Magento Competence Center was started by Byte B.V. and SupportDesk. The aim is to share and spread knowledge on Magento in an open manner. Therefore the community plays an important role in the Competence Center. Since May 2013 the The Competence Center is situated at a new location, Byte Headquarters on the Ruyterkade 139 in Amsterdam. To access, please ring the doorbell and we will let you in, most probably ;-). The Competence Center is easily accessible by public transport. Many trains …

This is a group for WordPress developers, webmasters and users. The goal is to meet up and have talks on diverse topics about WordPress, such as development, design, to business and more. And of course meet great people and have fun. The aim is to meet at least once a month.

This group is for everybody who is interested in Golang (www.golang.org). The aim of this group is to organize meetups in (and around) Amsterdam.

This group is a place for developers to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB. MongoDB is the leading NoSQL database and many of the key committers are based right here in the Netherlands. So if you are facing challenges with MySQL or Postgres or Oracle and want to explore a more flexible, scalable alternative, please join us!

Join us to learn about Hadoop and related technologies. Hear about use cases in both industry and science, have a drink, and network with Hadoop professionals.

Open to all those interested in Apache Cassandra, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Hector, NoSQL, Pig, and high scalability. Let's get together and share what we know!

Everybody needs a place to discuss with his peers, to get inspired and share ideas....This will be the place for web performance, developers and web operators. Are you interested in making the web faster, create a better user experience and make more money online? Or great post-mortem and/or case studies? Join this group!....And get the chance to meet your peers, show them how awesome your work is or just to grab a beer once in a while with inspiring people.

A monthy get-together for anyone involved or interested in geospatial stuff. Your background does not matter one bit: software engineers, open data peeps, designers, users, researchers, urbanists, the power of the Geo Drinks is in diversity!

A Gamification Meetup Group here in Amsterdam? Splendid idea! But what will it be exactly? We envision the Gamification Meetup Group (GMG) to be a friendly get-together for all people involved with gamification. Whether you are working within the field of gamification or merely interested in how gamification can be used, all are welcome. This way we exchange information, inform people properly and propel gamification forward. So, are you designing gamification solutions? Are you searching for a …

ElasticSearch is the new kid on the block. A search engine built from the ground up to be distributed. Some say it goes beyond that and can (should?) replace your NoSQL stores all together. This meetup is for Dutch enthusiasts willing to share experiences, knowledge and war stories about it. If you use it, or want to learn about it - you're welcome.

The official Dutch Titanium user group organizes meet ups for those interested and working with the @Appcelerator #Titanium platform for creating apps. Titanium is an excellent tool for people using web development skills (HTML, CSS, JS) to build cross-platform 100% native (no webview) mobile apps for iOS, Android, BlackBerry 10, Windows 8 and the Mobile Web.