The KEGS Digital Imaging Special Interest Group explores the use of computers and technology in producing and manipulating digital photographs and images. We discuss picture taking, scanning, editing and printing techniques that produce the best digital images. We also, talk about the hardware and software needed for Digital Imaging. We have knowledgeable members who can help with the most basic tasks as well as more complicated tasks such as HDR.

Event announcements for HP Cloud Users and Enthusiasts

WA is the home to the two biggest cloud service platforms (Amazon Web Services and Windows Azure). However, a platform is as good as what you do with it. This is a hands-on group for anybody, who wants to do something useful with popular IaaS, PaaS or SaaS cloud platforms (Amazon Web Services, Windows Azure, Rackspace cloud/OpenStack, Google AppEngine, Cloud Foundry, Joyent, Heroku, Force.com, and others). The definition of "useful" is limited only by your imagination :-) The format of the meetu …

You are invited to join VMC Consulting for this panel discussion which will address these issues plus case study examples of real world migrations to the cloud and how companies have benefited through their cloud adoptions. There will be panel speakers from the host companies that will identify best practices for enterprise users, and answer your questions. This is a thought leadership forum focused on presenting best in class Cloud based solutions.

A group for the application of cutting-edge HPC & GPU supercomputing technology to cutting-edge business problems. With an emphasis on the useful application of supercomputing by practitioners, for practitioners.  Note: We have several sister groups that meet in other cities: New York, "HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group of New York", Boston, Chicago, Silicon Valley, and Tokyo...   We will try and have an invited speaker for a short talk. You are more than welcome to volunteer and present your wor …

We meet up to learn about and discuss new web technologies, network, develop business relationships, and just hang out. If you're interested in web or software technology, whether you're a .NET or PHP dev, entrepreneur or information architect, Silverlight or flex wiz, or anything in between, this is the group for you. We try to meet every other week to discuss the latest trends in web technologies, web applications, software development, standards, graphic and icon design, databases, flex, java …

Interested in Distributed Databases, Hadoop, Cassandra, MongoDB, Riak, CouchDB, Neo4j? Predictive or Realtime analytics? Data/text mining? Join us! Everyone loves use cases. If you would like to present one to the group, send me a note at lynn@lynnbender.com. Lightning talks are welcome too.

Open to all those interested in Apache Cassandra, Big Data, Hadoop, Hive, Hector, NoSQL, Pig, and high scalability. Let's get together and share what we know.

Coming Soon

This group is meant to keep the community updated on where Amazon Web Services (AWS) will give talks/organize events in the nearby future. We want to keep in touch with you and get feedback on past events, so that we can deliver better ones in the future. Who Should Join: Anyone interested in Amazon Web Services, anyone contemplating the use of AWS, customers of AWS, IT professionals, start-ups, developers (in particular Ruby, PHP, MySQL, NoSQL, Java, .NET, and more).

This is a meetup group for Opscode Chef users.  

A monthly gathering for Seattle area tech junkies. More specifically, those focused on storage, HPC, and general IT. Industry guys, IT guys, nerds, geeks, tech philosoraptors, whatever.... Whether 3 or 30 this should be good times to get together talk shop, learn from peers, or just have some beers and a good time. Only a couple of rules: 1. No management, No selling, No recruiting 2. BYOA (bring your own AMEX) Industry guys or those with P-Cards will typically be covering festivities but this i …

Seattle area OpenStack Developer meet-up. We are a group of free software developers who are interested in working together to make the OpenStack project a success. Similiar groups exist in the Bay Area, London, and New York.

Join us for an evening of discussion and beers about Puppet and DevOps. If you are using or want to learn about Puppet, configuration management, DevOps practices, etc, please stop by.

Why join this group? In this group you will learn about Indian languages (primarily hindi), and the diversity of different Indian cultures. Members are people eager to learn (or teach!) an Indian language, share some secrets on how to make the perfect biryani, break out into a bollywood dance, philosophize upon the meaning of dharma, and much much more. Spirited discussions about India on topics such as Cricket, Hinduism, Indian ethnic dress, and your favorite Bollywood Khan etc are also highly …

This group is for members looking to connect around Devops Culture, Continous Integration, Automation, metrics testing, continuous deployment and all things Operations & Development.