Welcome old lispers and new schemers! Come to our next event to meet other programmers interested in the latest secret alien technology -- Clojure. We are building a community of people who want to learn from and teach others about Clojure. Talking with printed notes is encouraged, powerpoints are forbidden. Find us on Twitter @PghClojure and on Freenode IRC #PghClojure.

Code Craft is a space for software developers of all flavors to come together and practice their craft. We practice casually at Coding Dojos and occasionally present more formally what we have learned at MeetUps. We tend to enjoy things like Acceptance & Test Driven Development, Pair Programming, User-Driven Design and all things Agile & Lean.

Scala is a programming language with an advanced type system that compiles into bytecode for widely used virtual machines like the JVM. It integrates features of object-oriented and functional languages in a concise and easy-to-read syntax. Scala Pittsburgh Meetup is a local gathering of developers and other geeks interested in Scala, object oriented languages, functional languages, concurrency, and type-safety.

Pittsburgh Geek Out Days (PGODs) are semi-regular meetings of technologists to discuss software engineering, how to be rockstar programmers, trends in software, and anything else that people find interesting. We do this by following an Open Spaces (or unconference) format. We typically meet every other month on Saturday mornings. We don't have topics or speakers, though we will often have a word or two as "inspiration" (e.g. design). When we arrive, we will introduce the format, then anyone who …

A technology agnostic group of passionate software developers learning new things by being exposed to a wide array of software related topics.

The Cleveland Big Data and Hadoop User Group is for those interested in using and discussing all technologies in the Hadoop family (HBase, HDFS, MapReduce, etc.), as well as other technologies in the big data space