Inspired by 500startup's unsexy conference, http://unsexy.co/, we want to bring all the unsexy startups together. Well, if you are building another Instagram or Facebook, this is probably not a right meet up for you. If you are interested in "making money" much more than a TechCrunch coverage, you find yourself a second home! "Unsexy startups" in SMB/Enterprise, financial services, communications, email, data, infrastructure, and more. Let's mingle. Format: We are thinking bring (1)two speakers …

London Lua is a friendly welcoming group for anyone who uses or wants to learn about the Lua programming language. Lua is perhaps best known for its use in games such as World of Warcraft and Angry Birds, but is also used for high performance web applications, mobile applications like Spotify, embedded systems, desktop applications like Adobe Lightroom, or embedded into systems like Redis or Nginx and in financial services. We arrange talks and informal chats, and welcome all people whatever the …

The Climbing in Heels Women's Network is aimed at bringing career focussed women in the City together, and helping up-and-coming professional women climb the career ladder with style and grace. The purpose of the group is to build a community of friends at a similar life and career stages who discuss our experiences in the working world, advise and motivate each other. The group is aimed at those working in corporate organisations who have made some headway in their careers and who want to prog …

The CWDNUG is a monthly meetup for .NET developers, with a focus on what's relevant (and what's about to be relevant) to developers in the wharf, on the first Wednesday of every month. Expect to see topics such as: WPF & Silverlight. F# & other alternative languages. High volume systems & complex event processing. Agile tools, methodologies and experiences. Open source systems that you can use (or that need your help!). Upcoming releases from Microsoft (WP7, VS2010, TPL). This meetup's …

This is the Meetup for the Brighton-based local group of Action for Happiness (www.actionforhappiness.org) - a global movement of people taking action to create a happier society. See here for more details about the Brighton group. We all want to live happy and fulfilling lives and we want the people we love to be happy too. So happiness matters to all of us. Happiness is about our lives as a whole: it includes the fluctuating feelings we experience everyday but also our overall satisfaction wit …

What's this group about? Financial Innovation is currently transforming our traditional finance industry, and consumers and corporates are demanding new innovative solutions for web and mobile. You will find this group valuable if you are interested or involved in any area of Financial Innovation, we have a broad membership that includes both new and existing finance companies, providers of capital, entrepreneurs, service providers, academics, technologists and those just interested in innovatio …

Joining We welcome people from all walks of life, you do not need to have any previous maritime experience or training. Any member can train at their own pace in the many nautical, engineering, operational and management skills required to operate the service whilst backed-up by practical experience ashore and afloat. For example: Seamanship One of your achievements as a member in the MVS could to train and become a seamanship Volunteer Officer; skippering one of our large vessels using skills s …

An established MeetUp group for people in the UK interested in various aspects of high performance computing (HPC). Including GPU, cloud, cluster and virtualization. From industries as broad as Broadcast, Gaming to scientific and financial. Novices to Experts welcome. Post new ideas for a meetup.

BCAA Club - ACA ACCA CFA CIMA CTA Meetup aims to build up a platform for all professionals and students in ACA ACCA CFA CIMA fields to share their experience for career building. BCAA is devoted to promoting the development of professionals and students within the accountancy, finance and economics field, and facilitating the practice and application of international accounting standards and taxation regulations with the aim to enhance the relationship between British and China. BCAA works with …

London Property Network Welcome and more about us London Property Network - “Bringing London property businesses together” London property network - property professionals and investors local networking www.london-property-network.com London Property Network is a networking group comprised  of local London property professionals and property owners and investors. We meet regularly in the evenings to build collaborative relationships, business friendships and pass leads and referrals. Meetups …

The Gold & Silver Club The Gold & Silver Club is a proprietary trading firm that offers financial education, training and investment services to private clients across the world. The company was founded by two professional traders – Nik Kalsi and Phil Carr. What Nik and Phil don’t know about Gold & Silver is not worth knowing – they are fast becoming recognised as one of the world’s leading authorities on Gold & Silver Trading and Investing. Together Nik and Phil have trained thousands of trader …

If you've always liked the idea sailing or have sailed in the past but don't know enough people to go, then  welcome to London Sailing Club. We were started for lack of finding other people to go sailing with in London. We bring people of all levels from the curious novice to very experienced sailors together in a great and exciting community. What do we do? We run lots of socials so that before you spend a weekend on a boat with someone you get to know them and skippers. The trips that we run …

We're about MATES not DATES! FOR PEOPLE WHO... GET UP, GET OUT AND JUST DO IT! FRESHMATES was created to put the balance right, so you can meet, connect and build long term, meaningful friendships with genuine, fun-loving, like-minded men and women who have a real zest for life. We host a fabulous range of activities and events so you can get out there with a great bunch of mates and try something new, something different and definitely exciting! Whether you’re single, married, divorced, widowed …

We are not financial or debt advisors but we help freelancers, sole-traders, small businesses in London included those struggling with debts by promoting their services and increasing their customer base. We promote services, language, dance, fitness workshops, classes, events and parties in London. We rely on a network of freelance teachers, event promoters and organisers to make it possible. There are always people attending our weekly multi-language chat events, dance, fitness classes, worksh …

This is a MeetUp group is a support group for those suffering with M.E/CFS, or their carers. Hi there, this is year 5, and I'm still punching (most of the time), Although I have a lot of great friends I would like to bring together people on MeetUp who are in a similar position to me, just to meet up, have an occasional coffee and social and meet other people who are in a similar situation to me. I plan to organise (roughly) quarterly meets, but I am throwing this open from the start. I would li …

SPANGLISH is a Spanish/English language exchange event taking place in bars in the heart of London. It will take place soon in Bogotá, Colombia as well. Participants come to practice a foreign language at the same time they make new friends in a warm, themed and friendly environment. How does it work? The event last two hours, during the first hour participants take part in a series of 1-to-1 conversations which last 12 min each: 6min in Spanish, then 6min in English before participants switch t …

"Our aim is to rouse citizens to an ethical understanding of the grave evils of our present political life; a return to definite ethical principles, to the Rule of Law, to mutual trust between people. This is not illegal; it is the re-establishment of Legality." We are quoting Prof. Kurt Huber of Munich University who was condemned to death with five of his students in 1943 for spreading sedition, as part of the White Rose movement. "Ironically", a current blogger described the fate of one mothe …