Had a bad day at work / got the Monday blues / getting in the mood for the weekend or simply just want a beer after work ? You know the feeling when all your friends have plans and at the last minute you find yourself without any but am desperate to have a beer/wine one particular evening - well this is a group being set up for all those of you who nodded yes to that question. It's primarily being set up for people living around the Islington area but non-Islington folk are welcome to join but t …

Free beer to meet us at a pub. Turn up, drink and leave, or turn up talk to us about our Open Source Software and see if it's any good. If you like it then please join our Alpha community. SoftwareFM is an Free Open Source project, at Alpha release, that brings a combination of a wiki and a social network for Java developers using the Eclipse IDE, that shows the relevant wiki page for the code you are working on, and shows which of your friends uses that software. This group aim is to create an …

American sports enthusiasts in London. I am a big college football fan and watch some NFL as well. Off season I am down with some NBA/MLB action. Goal: Watch sports and drink some beer. Either at a bar or one of our homes.

Join us and a crowd of singles for a Friday night drinks tasting party! We organise weekly events in London for singles to meet up, mingle, taste drinks, learn a little and have a great time! Meet up to 40 people (20 girls, 20 guys) and tast 6 different drinks to start off your weekend. Events are always held on a Friday night, so you can let your hair down and not worry about work the next day. WHAT WE DO We began running these events after trying a few speed dating nights, and wanting a more i …

This group is for anyone who likes going to decent pubs and meeting up with other sociable people. We will be visiting some of the best real ale pubs in the London area but you don't have to drink beer!

Are you starting up or working in a business, or looking to equip yourself with career or life skills? Do you often hear about books that could really help and which you really want to read but lack the time? Then welcome. Please do come along and get involved! The Problem: Too many books to read, too little time! Which are great and which are grotty? The Solution: Monthly meet-ups 5 volunteers read and review 1 book each between meet-ups Each volunteer then presents a 5 minute talk & 1 side …

If you love Pizza, love beer and love everything Apple, why not come and spend an evening with our talented family to talk about everything we do, how we only take on the most exceptionally creative people and how you can work with us on some amazing new products!

Live in North London, near Finsbury Park / Harringay / Camden, Islington, or prepared to travel a bit? Feel like getting a good few beers (or your preferred tipple) down your neck of the woods with some like minded people? Then join up here - just looking for some down to earth types, who are looking for a good drink in good company for a good laugh - Mostly in pubs, possibly a few late ones (with optional boogie on occasion, and in North (occasionally Central) London in the areas mentioned. Gen …

Just a few pints and a chat. This is mainly for blokes, but girls are welcome to join too :)

Right, we all like a good moan, don't we? Sure we do it's part of our nature! Yup some of us for sure moan more than others, some folks just seem born to moan. Whilst I can hardly claim to be a heavyweight, top level moaner I do like a good moan. I'm mainly moaning about the UN's inability to do anything other than nothing right now. The high cost of living here in London is a particular favorite, unlike the Syrian crisis the cost of living in London moan seems set for a very long lifespan. The …

Weekly 5-a-side football game for SEO's in London - come along, play a bit of football and enjoy a beer afterwards. SEO, football and beer - surely this is the best networking event ever!

The London Traders’ Network was started by Paul Wallace as a means of keeping in touch with other trading buddies in a social environment. Over the last three and half years the group has grown from 5 or 6 friends to now over 700 members. What started out as a few friends meeting for a beer and a curry whilst discussing their present trading experiences has now grown into a group of whereby 60-100 people attend our events. The London Traders' Network run a series of free social events whereby tr …

MiniBar - London Your Monthly Face To Face You think about creating the next Last.fm, flickr, or Web 3.0 start up? You think London lacks opportunities to meet up and discuss those ideas? Then come to MiniBar. MiniBar is a social evening in Shoreditch, which offers people a chance to snaffle some free beer while discussing mobile web, web applications, start ups, social networking, investment and general Web 2.0 mayhem & fandango. There is usually a brilliant mix of around 300 web entrepreneurs, …

Data Science London, the #datascience community We are a non-profit professional organisation dedicated to the free, open, dissemination of data science. We are a community of data scientists that meets regularly to discuss the tools, methods and technologies used by many startups and enterprises to analyse large scale data (big data), obtain predictive insight, and exploit business opportunities from data products. Follow us on twitter @ds_ldn Read our blog www.datasciencelondon.com We'll have …

The Big Data Debate is a meetup group where like-minded professionals can get together and discuss relevant and timely topics in big data. We facilitate discussion by bringing you highly regarded speakers across a range of disciplines and allowing you the chance to become an interactive part of the discussion. Members of this group include a range of professionals working across all areas of big data in and around London. Meetups are held once a month at a central London location and include sp …

A regular meetup for people working with the clean, green, web. Energy, sustainability, technology and (normally) a few beers. Part of the wider Cleanweb UK movement.

Welcome to the html5 Codeshow! We are a group of hackers/developers/tech enthusiasts who are ecstatic about what the future of the web and mobile apps will bring. For years we've seen what the future might look like via sexy sci-fi films--well now the future is here and it's our turn to make that vision a reality! Join us in sharing our coding knowledge and let's develop ideas together over pizza and beer! Are you working on a website, mobile web app, or designing a game? What are some of the ch …

The London Umbraco Meetup is a networking group aimed at spreading the Umbraco love to all. Come along, have a chat and a beer with other fellow Umbracians. Find out what's happening in the community and maybe we can get some special guests along occasionally. Open to all and sundry who have an interest in Umbraco and/or CMS's in general.

Calling all Creative Technologists! You have just stepped into the home of the first official meetup for Creative Technologists in London to meet each other. This group has been made on the back of high demand by the Creative Technology community for a place for you to share work, share a beer and listen to key speakers across the community talk about everything innovative within technology. The aim is to grow this meetup and have events across London over the course of the year. This can only …

This is a group for people doing serious stuff with JavaScript. If you are building rich Internet applications, working with libraries or crafting cool code, you'll find people to share your experiences with. If you are just starting out, come and meet others who have been there. This is a place to share knowledge, ask questions, learn and grumble. We meet monthly in central London for some informal talks, live coding, show-and-tell, questions and of course beer. Sign up and join us!

Greed is not good. Capitalism is in crisis. The icecaps are melting. Western democracies are backing war and torture around the world. Women earn less than men. Racism is still everywhere. You all know this...you probably joined groups to do something about it (if not, get on with it, what are you thinking about?!)...but this group is not about the doing, it is more about the anti-capitalist's day off! Beer - certainly! Moaning about the system - absolutely! But also getting out the house so y …

Every two months (on the Last Tuesday), we hold a networking evening with drinks. We also have a guest speaker in attendance to inspire and educate over some free beer. All our Last Tuesdays take place in Shoreditch. The event is run by the brew which has several co-working spaces in Shoreditch. The spaces caters for people in the digital, media, tech and creative industries. It's perfect for freelancers , sole traders, start-ups and small businesses. It's the new cost-effective and flexible way …

Mobile Backends – Apps & APIs – is about server side development for mobile. Topics that will be covered include – new APIs including messaging, billing and other server API call functions, case studies with backend integrations, new companies doing interesting server stuff using multiple APIs, integrating website and app backends together, advantages and disadvantages in design – where to use client-side /where to use server-side functions. Why a Mobile Backend meetup? 1. Have experts teach us …

Paper Take Flight is a meetup group about digital magazines, and it provides an opportunity for journalists, designers, developers and product managers to talk about what happens when the habits, content and design from paper and print migrate to the screen. It's a group for exchanging ideas and experiences of creating digital magazines for phones, tablets and computers, and to talk about things we all want to know and improve. This is a new meetup group, the plan is for meetups to be monthly, a …

A monthly meet up in a central London venue to swap, give away, recommend and talk about business books. The kind of books that have taught you, motivated you, inspired you, improved your understanding of psychology, sociology or other ologys. Is your hero Seth Godin or Richard Templar? Freakonomics or Wikinomics? Richard Branson or Felix Dennis? Discuss this, and other things (with beer). We'll be having an author speaker at each event. We've been chatting to lots of writers, publishers and …

ProductTank provides an opportunity for Product Managers in London to exchange ideas and experiences about Product Design, Development and Management, Business Modelling, Metrics, User Experience and all the other things that get us excited. Events include talks from guest speakers on topics around product management, networking opportunities, and a good old-fashioned chin-wag over a beer or two. We're open to companies big and small. We also welcome early-stage technology businesses looking to …

Have you ever wondered how to interpret a dream, snap out of a bad mood, set a goal and actually achieve it, or make you relationships work? Our weekly drop-in workshops provide an opportunity to explore the matters of the mind, psychology and personal development in an informal and friendly atmosphere. What can be more fun but learning and discussing the issues that really matter in our lives over a glass of wine/beer/juice?! The workshops are facilitated by highly experienced professionals, wh …

Welcome to London Gothic, the London Goth Meetup Group. What are we? We are a friendly and welcoming bunch of people with the primary aim to help goths meet and socialise with other goths in the London area. Our main interest is music and we often go to gigs and clubs. We run a range of different events such as walks, picnics and RPG nights. We attend festivals, go to the theatre, the cinema and art galleries, as well as organising the occasional pub social. We even have the odd trip to the sea …