The omnipotent big data group that is all things to do with dealing with, managing, handling and delivering big data, in the mild mild South West. Topics include MySQL, NoSQL, MongoDB, Cassandra, Node.js, scaling, engineering data, open-source, linkeddata, and beer. Discussion at http://groups.google.com/group/south-west-big-data.

Coming up in 2012, we've got our regular board games/origami/socialising nights, plus a range of socials planned heading to other fun things in Bristol (meetup and go to interesting events, pervasive/street games, community arts - whatever looks good!). The idea behind this meetup group was to enable like-minded, positive people to connect with each other - at our small-ish gatherings, when heading to larger-scale organised stuff and anything inbetween. All are welcome to join, and organise or s …

A semi-regular event for designers to get together to share knowledge and create cool stuff for Rusic. If you know HTML and CSS, this is for you. Food, beer and cash prizes on the day.

… For anybody else, come along and get stuck into a decent conversation over a coffee or beer.

Join us for awesomeness! Are you a Web developer or a Web designer? Do you have some pet projects you want to make happen? Or maybe you just want to have a casual evening chatting and coding with other developers/designers? Do you want free beers and free tea? Well, you'll be please to learn that we'll offer all of that, and maybe more! Every Thursday evening, we'll provide you with an office space to hack on your favourite project, no client work allowed here, only fun stuff! Please bring with …

… Usually over a beer. Join this group if you're a PHP developer of any level, want to learn more and/or share your knowledge.