Meet fellow web designers near you! Come to a Web Design Meetup to compare tools, languages, and templates; trade advice on careers, rates, and freelancing; and share cool websites. Make valuable contacts as you mingle with new friends.

Meet with others in the Vancouver region interested in building and strengthening the Drupal Community. We meet on the 4th Thursday of the month at the Jibe offices in Vancouver, BC. Come out for monthly Drupal training sessions, discuss new and exciting Drupal-related news, or just socialize with like-minded people from the area! The focus of our group is various Drupal related topics from theming, configuration, module development to how to run a successful Drupal business. Our official Twitt …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter …

This is a group open to all in Bellingham and the surrounding area on both sides of the border. It is a real life counterpart to http://groups.drupal.org/bellingham/. We meet once a month, eat pizza, and talk Drupal. We often have informal talks, especially if someone steps up with a topic they're excited about. Mostly a low-key get together.

Our Twitter Hashtag: #IACSVan These are meant to be working definitions to help us keep the meetup group on track. Information Architecture From the IAInstitute (http://iainstitute.org/en/learn/resources/what_is_ia.php) Information architecture is defined as: The structural design of shared information environments. The art and science of organizing and labeling web sites, intranets, online communities and software to support usability and findability. An emerging community of practice focused …

We talk about content under the hood: strategy, copy, taxonomy, organic search, systems, requirements, the intersection of CS and UX, and more, depending on who is in the house on a particular day.

VanMoodle User Group is a community website dedicated to connecting Moodle users locally by helping organize local gatherings, known as 'VanMoodle user groups'. This group is being formed to get Moodlers together to discuss how they use it, what their issues are and see if we can help each other solve these issues - and hopefully have fun while doing it! Come and meet other users of the Moodle Learning Management System. Share your problems and solutions, frustrations and successes, with …

The CS Computer Tech Meetup is a networking group for people who are in the computer technology industry, or simply have an interest in the industry. Our goal is to present members with opportunities to learn, network, and develop their professional skills amongst like-minded individuals. To do so, we invite tech industry leaders to present topics related to computer technology. Speaker topics include web technologies, database development, computer office skills, and related issues. Whether you …