This group is for enthusiasts of lisp and lisp related programming. I'm particularly interested in how to bring the advantages of lisp into the predominantly non-lisp world of today.

Join us for an evening of NLP! Newcomers to NLP are welcome and more advanced NLPers will also find insights and surprises. You'll actually practice NLP skills and patterns and learn how to use NLP to better accomplish your goals and dreams. The meetup will begin with a brief overview of NLP and why it's so effective. That is followed by a 1-hour workshop on one of the main skills of NLP - Reframing, Anchoring States, Ecology, Hypnotic Language, Strategies, Future Pacing, Sensory Acuity and more …

Like the early pioneers of the west, Frontier Developers explore the vast untamed regions of software development, pushing the boundaries of what is possible in a never-ending quest to find better ways of doing things. Twice a month, we host a presentation and get-together open to all software developers interested in continuous self-improvement. Topics might include: Functional programming; Introduction to new programming languages; Distributed data storage; Extreme testing; Web scalability; L …

Curious about clojure? Already a fan? Either way, you're welcome to join us. Clojure is about a lot of things: functional programming, lisp, the JVM, concurrency, data structures, etc. So is this group. Our aim is to have a monthly meetup, with a topic that's announced ahead of time, and either a presentation, a discussion, or a lab. While there doesn't need to be a presentation, before we decide to do a topic, we should have one or more people volunteer to lead the topic. Leading a topic could …

Welcome to CocoaHeads Colorado Springs, the meetup group for iOS and Mac developers in Colorado Springs, CO. We welcome developers of all experience levels. Whether you're just getting started or have years of experience, you're welcome to join us, meet the local developer community, and learn from or just chat with other iOS and Mac developers. We've been meeting in Colorado Springs continuously since 2005 and we're still going strong. The Colorado Springs CocoaHeads group meets one a month on …

While there are some great groups in town that discuss a bunch of cool languages, there wasn't one that focused specifically on the language that you and I both love, JavaScript. Until now. These are fascinating times for JavaScript development, and this group will attempt to explore topics including, but by no means limited to: * the power of raw JavaScript; * Ajax; * libraries like jQuery and Prototype; * techniques for building your own library; * server-side JavaScript with Node.js; * opt …

Every software engineer needs to practice. Born from the attendees of Code Retreat Boulder 2011, we meet bimonthly to hone our skills working on interesting problems. The Code Retreat format was developed by Corey Haines and others. The essence of the format is that people pair-program on a problem for 45 minutes then throw away their code, take a short break, switch partners and repeat the process. Classically, these are full-day events including 6 programming sessions, a long lunch, and beer …

This is a group for beginning and experienced hypnotists to practice their craft using each other as subjects. This is a hands-on practice group. Our motto is "You do the drills... you get the skills!" No previous experience is necessary. All you need is curiosity, an open mind and a desire to learn. Our focus is on practicing techniques such as hypnotic inductions with many partners so you get competent very quickly. We cover a range of hypnotic phenomena and topics drawing from Classical Hypno …

Denver Java Users Group is a free, informal, all-volunteer, group of Denver Java enthusiasts that has been meeting since November 1995. We rely on community participation. We need your involvement, ideas, thoughts, and help if we are to continue to provide quality technical education and events now and into the future! Denver Java Users Group brings you leaders and specialists in Java technologies for first hand exposure to code, best practices, tools, methodologies, and cutting-edge solutions. …

The Zero to Programmer MeetUp Are you ready to become a part of the Ruby On Rails Revolution? This meetup is designed to encourage people with a mild to medium awareness of the Ruby on Rails programming platform to be able to meet and interact with like-minded individuals who see the opportunity that knowledge of Ruby On Rails and related computer programming knowledge offers. Why Ruby on Rails? Simply put, programming tasks that took 10 hours to code in older languages can now be accomplished i …

The Gist Open source software is making a tremendous contribution to our advancement as a society. We believe that more people are willing to make a contribution to open source software. We are here to lower that barrier of entry and help you get started on your next open source contribution. If you aren't immediately sold on the idea, here are a few great reasons to get involved: It's good practice It's good for your resume It's good for your portfolio It's good for society as a whole See? Th …

Hello and Welcome to Wilderness Awareness and Survival Skills in Denver! My name is Andrew. My goal for this group is to help people understand and find relationships with nature. I like to teach how to build habits of awareness that reveal the complex relationships of our environment. I also teach classes on primitive skills such as fire-by-friction, stone tools, tracking, finding shelter, finding and cleaning water, wild edibles, containers, hunting weapons, traps, bird language and much more …

Are you an active parent in the Denver Metro area? Bring your little ones and your energy to ¡Vívalo Kids!. This is a program that allows children and their parents to explore the wonders of the Spanish language through music, movement and expression. Children will utilize their energy and curiosity, while expanding brain function and capacity. With song, dance and exercise children, along with their parents active participation, will learn many cultural expressions in addition to an abundance o …

We are a community of fellow adventurers who believe that everyone’s special, that every life is meaningful, and that we’re all here to learn that dreams really do come true. We also believe that “thoughts become things,” and that imagination is the gift that can bring love, health, abundance, and happiness into our lives. We will be offering a program created based on his New York Times Bestseller, Infinite Possibilities: The Art of Living Your Dreams, which is now printed in 12 languages! Mike …

We are a group of technically savvy women in Boulder who are, or hope to become, serious programmers and leaders in our field. The main focus of the group is on software/web development, but we are open to programmers from other fields as well (science, medical, IT, etc). As women developers, we've all probably gotten used to holding our own in large groups of men. We aren't afraid to ask questions, take leadership positions, and for the most part we are treated equally and with respect. However …

Full Stack Meetup is a place for developers to learn and teach about emerging technologies. Although we're primarily interested in HTML, CSS, JavaScript and Ruby, we're excited for vivid discussions around technology across the stack in any language (designers welcome too). Plenty of food and drinks to go around. SendGrid is based in Boulder, Denver and Orange County. We’ve revolutionized the cloud-based transactional email space by efficiently powering the infrastructure for tens of thousands …

This is a group for anyone interested in in the Python computer language, from absolute beginners to experts. We're enthusiastic, polite and beginner-friendly. The group exists to share ideas and expertise, facilitate discussion and share the fun of Python in southern Colorado. We generally have a project night on the second Tuesday of the month and presentations on the fourth Tueday.

Global Day of Code Retreat is a world-wide event celebrating passion and software craftsmanship. Last year, over 1800 software developers in 94 cities around the world spent the day practicing the craft of software development using the coderetreat format. What is a Code Retreat? Boulder will participate in this event alongside our international colleagues.This is a language-agnostic event. Each session, the pair chooses what language they want to work in. So, regardless of your language of choi …

This is a group for anyone that is interested in learning more about the Go programming language. We invite novice developers to experienced developers to attend. We will make sure we have appropriate topics and presentations for all groups. Our focus will be on how GO compares to other languages, paths for moving from Rails to Go, Go Concurrency Examples, and many many more real world examples and tech talks.

Scala is a fascinating alternative to Java on the JVM. The intent of this group is to find if there is enough interest in the Denver area to hold monthly, after work, meetings to network and share knowledge on Scala.

A group that meets monthly to discuss software/programming related books and open source software projects.

(This is a clone of the original NYC meetup) 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 …