"A civic hacker is an open source software developer who uses his or her skills to make their community and country a better place. ... A civic hacker will just do something, not asking for permission, ignoring government bureaucracy, in order to build tools and technologies with a civic-minded bent." -- Luigi Montanez Help transform Cleveland and Cuyahoga County using your design or development skills. Let's get together to clean up unstructured data, catalog public datasets, build apps, create …

For user experience professionals, students and those interested in learning more about: UX (User Experience), human-computer interaction, user-centered design, ethnography, usability testing, and related topics. This group is open to anyone in the Akron, Canton, and Kent areas of Northeastern Ohio and anyone who is visiting the area. The goal is to have a place for whatever the members are interested in (discussions, book clubs, informal training, presentations, etc.). We plan to complement …

We are a group of professionals that build stuff for the web and mobile devices. But we are interested in learning about more than one topic. DevToledo is about being platform and language agnostic. We are about learning new things regardless of what we work with on a daily basis. We meet on the third Thursday of the month @ 6:30 at Seed Coworking in Toledo Ohio.

HER Ideas in Motion relies on the support of professional women and men, who share a commitment to empowering the next generation through creative and technology training. The mentors in our programs come from a variety of technical and creative backgrounds ranging from IT, web technologies, filmmaking, gaming and design fields who volunteer to teach kids what they do. In addition, mentors have the opportunity to network with other technologist, designers filmmakers, artists, community leaders, …

Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a supportive environment. Our courses …

This group is for everyone interested in the MobiDevDay Detroit Software Development Conference.

Are you a woman in tech? Or perhaps you've mentored and helped women in tech navigate the industry? Whatever your role may be, this group is to help address issues common to women in tech and provide constructive criticism, feedback, share stories, and do what we can to promote the tech industry to get more women involved. Whether we want online forums or to share our stories in person, we can do both here with the help of Meetup!

I am a 67 y.o HIV- retired Gay Male in a relationship w/ a 42 y.o. HIV+ permanently disabled Gay Male. We are both very laid back and down to earth people, who will do anything for anybody. We have been together for 15 years, and want to meet other Gay and Gay friendly couples for coffee, fun, games, cards, dinner, movies, day trips, weekend trips, clubbing and dancing, conversation. We want to make new life long friends in NW PA & NE OH mainly (Mercer, Lawrence, & Crawford Counties in PA, & Ash …