This is a networking group for Auckland's tech startup founders and high-growth-potential entrepreneurs. We provide a regular opportunity for entrepreneurs and other upstarts to get out of the building, connect with like-minded people, and get some advice over informal networking drinks sessions. Each month we try to get one of the members to host the drinks session at their offices to network, share tips and problem solving techniques, get advice on profitability and staff, and discuss mentori …

Connect with SilverStripe developers, designers and users in the Auckland region. Each month we will profile exciting SilverStripe projects, discuss features, hold tutorials and organise other community events. This is a social meetup - be prepared to be involved! Please note: this meetup is a community run event and is not affiliated with SilverStripe Ltd. SilverStripe is an award winning Open Source CMS platform. Originally developed in New Zealand, it is highly rated for it's usability and ex …

Drupal is a free & open source Content Management System (CMS) written in PHP. Drupal's popularity is growing rapidly. Over 70 well-known brand names and not-for-profit organizations now use Drupal. This group aims to promote Drupal throughout Auckland and New Zealand by providing a regular monthly meetup to help foster the Drupal community, exchange ideas, and learn collectively. We are aiming to have one or two meetups a month, one with a more structured presentation, training style form …

Join us for some good company and conversation on the last Tuesday of every month (well, usually;-). Once a month, we'll get together to have drinks, chat, network, and geek out with fellow information architects, librarians, usability experts, user experience designers, interaction designers, and other like-minded people. It's open to anyone, so bring a friend -- especially those in other local organisations! The UX Auckland group is not currently affiliated with any particular professiona …

A user group for developers who are keen to share their knowledge of Google technology, with a focus on the Android mobile platform.

Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP. It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster. Choosing symfony allows you to release your applications earlier, host and scale them without problem, and maintain them over time with no surprise. The Auckland Symfony Meetup Group aims to promote symfony throughout Auckland and New Zealand.  We plan on holding semi-regular meetups that will allow members to …

More Notworking than Networking. For designers, creatives, clients and friends. Glug is for us, for everyone we know and everyone they know... Tired of boring networking events in London, we set this up to meet people and have a few beers at the same time. Now the successful event comes to Auckland with the same great mix of beers and creatives.

The Auckland Unitarian Church is an open, progressive and welcoming faith community. We walk diverse spiritual paths to find purpose and meaning in our lives, but we are united in our belief in the inherent worth and dignity of every person. Whatever your spiritual journey, you are welcome here. Sunday Service 10 AM to 11 AM EXCEPT the last Sunday of each month when we have an evening Service at 5 PM (please check the calendar, we sometimes have alternate meeting times for special events).  Choi …

Auckland Web Dev Nights aims to bring together Auckland's web developer community to gain knowledge, impart knowledge, have a few beers and chat about the great tools available to us today. Topics will be targeted at the technical minded, featuring concepts such as deployment, testing & scalability through to UX, front-end tools & optimization. As much as possible, topics will be language agnostic. View past presentations & talks at webdevnights.github.com

We're newbies to the NetSquared community but ready to make an impression. Keen to have social innovators, entrepreneurs, marketers, communications and the like join us for some comradery, tech/social good talk and (always) good food. Cheers. NetSquared Auckland is a free monthly event for people in and around the Auckland area interested in using web or mobile technology for social good. Whether you are a nonprofit organization in the traditional sense, a venture capitalist, a programmer, an in …

Focus on developing the business of eLearning

FOR "Appreneurs". Leverage your passion with a group of like minded individuals who have the same desire as you. The goal of the group is simple, to create a group individuals who desire to develop a sustainable business in the app market. Meetings will consist of individual sharing resources and discoveries that are essential to succeed in this space.

Weekly morning before work casual coffee sessions for anyone in Auckland interested in design, all welcome. We'll meet at a pre-selected cafe at 7:30 with no agenda other than to caffeinate and get some design related chit chat in before work. No link too design to tenuous, outside perspectives highly valued! Follow us on Twitter @AKLDesignCoffee or through the hash tag #aklDCM

Zend Framework (ZF) is an open source, object-oriented web application framework implemented in PHP 5. Extending the art & spirit of PHP, Zend Framework is based on simplicity, object-oriented best practices, corporate friendly licensing, and a rigorously tested agile codebase. Zend Framework is focused on building more secure, reliable, and modern Web 2.0 applications & web services.

A group of users who love Adobe InDesign. We discuss, share and present cool stuff around Adobe InDesign!

What is a Lean Coffee? Essentially, a Lean Coffee is a group of people working together to learn about lean in an informal setting. It's like a mini-unconference where the participants decide on the schedule. The timeframe is typically one to two hours. The number of people is best between 6-8 but 4-10 works fine. Here's how it works. One person facilitates these actions. Step 1: Everybody writes down topics they'd like to discuss on stickies placing them in a column in the center of …

Doing code retreat, Corey-Haines-style, right here in Aotearoa.

Auckland .NET devs unite.

Web project management is a specialisation that isn't often covered at web conferences and meetups. It also isn't something you can go on a course to learn! Yet, it is an integral part of the web development process. I'm sure there are a number of us in Auckland that can meet up to share ideas and learnings, and to network.

Want to learn (or help teach us) how to program a web-application using Ruby on Rails?  Got a web-business idea and need to code it? This group is ideal if you: - Want to connect with others wanting to learn how to code/start a business - Want to learn the Ruby on Rails programming language (ideal for web-apps e.g. Twitter, Air BnB, Basecamp) - Want to build a web-app and test your big idea. Why this meetup group? This about building stuff 'cause it's hard to learn or to build stuff by yourself. …

This is a group for anyone interested in the new frontier that is Bitcoin! Whether you are a merchant, monetary exchange dealer, developer or a consumer. Come along and meet others in a social environment who are just like you :) and want to talk about Bitcoin. If you haven't heard of Bitcoin before, take a look here.

Do you regularly use WordPress for your business, school or community? Want fresh ideas around plugins, themes, content and traffic-building? Perhaps upgrade a simple blog site, to a full WordPress CMS version, with shopping cart. This meetup is here to help out business users, teachers and bloggers. We aim to keep it practical - Not get into the coding side.

This is a group for people who are using Sitecore (http://www.sitecore.net) or considering moving to the platform. It's a chance for Developers, Marketers and Technology Enthusiasts to come together and share notes. At each meet up we will show case studies of recent Sitecore projects from a range of different industries across New Zealand. If you are creating awesome projects powered by Sitecore this is the meet up for you.

This group is for people interested in developing RESTful API's using a variety of server side languages and databases.

Quote>"What's that you say - perpetual motion is impossible? My, you're a difficult one to please. The electrons in the molecules of rock formations have been spinning steadily for millions of years without stopping - at what point will you agree that they are in perpetual motion? So, why don't electrons run out of energy and just slow down to a standstill?   Quantum Mechanics has shown that the universe is a seething cauldron of energy with particles popping into existence and then dropping out …

This is a meetup group for the New Zealand chapter of the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP). We have several chapter meetings a year in Auckland and Wellington, as well as an annual OWASP New Zealand Day conference in Auckland.

This free meetup is for people looking to start their own business website and want to ask questions and share experiences with each other. Who? We are the 'starting a business website' meetup. Boring name but empowering evening I promise. Why? Because starting a business website whether it's selling a service, product or yourself can be daunting. Let’s get together, share our collective knowledge, ask questions and enjoy the process together. What? Daniel Walter Scott will facilitate the be …

This is the meet-up group for PIFT (Pacific Islanders in Film and TV). Also check our Facebook - @Piftnz. PIFT has been formed to provide for a network of Pasifika practitioners in the New Zealand scene. But it is not just about networking. PIFT is also about being practical - allowing for information to circulate, giving practical guides, training/capacity building and development.