We are a bunch of software developers who share the following in common: Live or work in this fine city of Melbourne Deal with Java, the JVM, and its associated frameworks and languages on a regular basis. The traditional home of the message boards is the AJUG-VIC (Australian Java Users Group, Victorian Chapter) on yahoo-groups

The Enterprise Application Development Group is an informal special interest meet up group designed to bring like minded individuals together to learn about and discuss new application development, network, develop relationships - both professional and personal.

Melbourne Web Developers is a bi-monthly meetup that brings together Melbourne's awesomely talented web development community to exchange ideas, have a beer and talk about all things interwebs related! We cover web development topics including high scalability, user experience (UX), web frameworks and languages, social media, harnessing cloud tools and SaaS and anything else that makes web applications tick!

UX, Designer & Developer network. Promoting good practices on Microsoft UI platforms. Currently in Melbourne, Sydney & Perth.

The primary purpose of the Melbourne Selenium Meetup Group is to provide an open forum where local Selenium users of all skill levels can come to communicate, network and learn by engaging with like minded test professionals. Presentations and discussions are based on a wide variety of topics including (but not limited to) Selenium, Agile Testing, Test Driven Development, Behaviour Driven Development and Continuous Integration.

We are a group of people interested in functional programming. This ranges from academic discussions around type systems right through to demonstrations of software we've developed using practical functional languages. At our meetups we usually have two or three talks and some pizzas before heading out to a local pub for some drinks and more conversation. People of all experience levels are welcome. If you've never done FP before and are curious to see what it's about, or looking to figure out w …

If you love programming Ruby and use the Ruby on Rails (RoR) framework, or would like to learn, then this group is for you. If you don't care for Ruby or Rails but love programming and web development in general, are involved in a startup and have an entrepreneurial spirit, then this group may be for you too. :) Oh yeah, and you must live in the world's most livable city to join. If you don't know which city that is, then you probably don't. :)

This group is a monthly gathering of Python users and developers in the Melbourne area. We discuss Python and related open source technologies. It is a networking forum for meeting other locals interested in Python and exchanging news and ideas. I decided to start the group because the venerable Melbourne Python User Group has stalled since May, lacking a venue. We're negotiating for a great regular venue for this meetup. If you do any kind of Python development, or have done, join the group! We …

There is a blossoming of Apache Solr/Lucene usage in Melbourne, but a definite lack of an unofficial, relaxed gathering to allow some fruitful information and experience exchange. This is a meetup for developers who are currently using Apache Lucene/Solr or would like to learn more about it. Join us for pizza, beer, and a discussion about Solr. Please feel free to suggest quick (15 minute) presentations - whether a problem you've solved, a problem you need help solving or a general interesting e …

The Melbourne dynamic-agenda-talking-with-smart-people-is-fun-even-with-nothing-to-preach-about-and-you-don't-actually-even-need-to-drink-coffee group. It's likely we'll talk about things like Lean, Kanban, Agile, TPS, Personal Kanban and more!   Group photo from: http://www.flickr.com/photos/omarmk/2095984769/

We run monthly "speed dating" style networking events to connect business and tech founders who want to work on web/mobile startups. If you've got an idea for a startup and need someone to help you get it off the ground, or you've got some great skills and want to dip your toes in the exciting startup world, this is the event for you!   www.cofounderspeeddate.com.au   Please note: This is a ticketed event, and tickets are ONLY available from www.cofounderspeeddate.com.au   Here's what some past …

This group is a community of business analysts in Melbourne that operate or want to operate in agile projects.  Analysts and people interested in becoming or working with analysts are welcome. We meet on the second Tuesday of each month at various locations in the CBD. If you are an author or speaker we'd love to hear from you.   

Startups are rapidly becoming a boom industry in Australia, but unless you're lucky enough to get into one of the few incubators in Australia (like Startmate, Pushstart or Angelcube) it can be an real challenge even knowing where to start. HeadStart is a monthly meetup designed to give budding entrepreneurs the right information they need to get their business started. With guest speakers every month and access to a growing mentor network, HeadStart is like a hackathon for starting a business. S …

The Girl Geek Dinners were founded on the 16th August 2005 as a result of one girl geek who got annoyed and frustrated about being one of the only females attending technical events. She was tired of being assumed to be marketing, tired of constantly having to prove herself and decided that she just wanted a change and to be treated just the same as any other geek out there, gender and age aside. After all to be geeky is to be intelligent, have passion for a subject and to know that subject in …

A gathering of like minds about whats happening within the collaborative consumption space. We're just starting, but hoping this meet up will lead to more actual sharing and leveraging within the community. We're gunna try a few cool things...