You may have heard that we are planning our 2nd USA Science & Engineering Festival for April 28-29th, 2012! We plan to expand our festival activities to include a Book Fair, Career Pavilion, and even more great exhibits and performers! We are starting work on our school outreach activities such as the Kavli Video competition and songwriting competition now! If you are interested in being part of our Volunteer Outreach Team for the 2nd Festival, then please check out our Volunteer Information Ses …

Join for FREE expand your professional circle. You'll be invited to attend fabulous lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) professional networking events at trendy gay-friendly lounges in Washington, DC. The purpose of the group is to build a stronger base of professional contacts. Share ideas and job possibilities, tap expertise, or meet potential clients or business partners. Benefit by making new connections and adding to your knowledge base.  This is for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and …

Executive Leadership and Career Management are the responsibilities of each of us in our lifetime. "Leaders are not born" and skills and competencies can be learned and take you from good to great. The group was started to encourage creativity, innovation, and inspiration for professionals and executives who want to make an impact on their lives and on the lives of people in their communities. Workshops and seminars can be provided on a number of topics, can be customized for the group, and are …

This group is created for those who: Need to develop marketable IT skill Need to enhance existing IT skills Consider changing careers into the IT industry I am Ihar Irkho, an IT engineer, manager and marketer. I have also been teaching for companies, colleges and universities since 1998. I created this group because I have a dream. My dream is that everyone, who is willing to learn, will have an opportunity to get high-quality hands-on training and professional experience. There is no dollar …

Welcome to DC Smart Grid Professionals User Group! This group is for professionals such as engineer, academician, technician etc.  in Smart Grid who care about the quality of their work and improve their skills, share what they know and learn new things from others. 

Rockville SEO Experts is a local networking group specifically for online marketing, analytics and SEO professionals in the Rockville, MD area to share industry information, job opportunities and best practices.

This group originated around search engine optimization and search marketing. However, it has grown beyond this to online marketing, in general, covering SEO, SEM, Social Media, eMail Marketing, and online/offline strategies. Join our informal and diverse group to learn about online marketing strategies for your business or organization. Attendees include professional search marketing and optimization practitioners, entrepreneurs, non-profit/commercial/government staff, startups, executives, …

A group of women involved in all aspects of land development. From planning, engineering, architecture, real estate (sales and management), leasing, law, you name it.

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 …

Casual Encounters - The hottest new GLAM meetup group in Washington DC!!!! Dont miss out!!! Plan on attending our dazzling, celebrated, soon to be famous (or INFAMOUS) MCCXXIII event every month!!!! http://www.1223dc.com/ Grad Students, Shoe Clerks, Administrative Aids, Athletes, Scientists, Engineers, Librarians, Artists, Music Producers, Lawyers, Doctors, Nurses, and everyone in between. Let's make small talk, debate current events, make new friends, network with new and old membe …

… New and seasoned professionals are encouraged to join. Topics covered: Penetration Testing, Exploitation, Password Cracking, Buffer Overflows, Shellcode, Vulnerability Assessment, Rootkits, Website/Web App Testing – XSS, CSRF, SQL Injection, Browser Exploitation,   Information Assurance, OSINT, Certification & Accreditation – DIACAP, NIST, Tools of the trade – Metasploit, Nessus, Nmap, Burp Suite, Wireshark, Malware Analysis,  Certification Study – CISSP, CEH, ECSA, Security+, Digital Forensics, …

Thank You For Joining & Welcome To The Community! Drupal is widely used by many government agencies, hi-profile businesses, not-for-profit firms and community-based organizations to build their websites and applications. Internationally, Drupal powers millions of websites and applications in many countries and is built, used and supported by an active, passionate and growing world-wide community. The Drupal Technology Meetup is a resource for the growing community -- including professionals i …

The purpose of this group is to enrich our businesses, share ideas, discuss strategies, and talk to people whose eyes don't glaze over when we talk about internet marketing. We get together once monthly to discuss various issues that we rarely get to talk about in the "real world". We are a mastermind group that discusses: * Internet Marketing * SEO (Search Engine Optimization) * Ecommerce * Affiliate Marketing * Social Networking * Working from home * Internet trends We'll discu …

Network Engineers of the world, this is a place to come together and learn about Cisco technologies.

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!

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).