A summary of local tech groups that were active in 2014 (handed out as a flyer/PDF at the 4th Annual TechToledo GeekDinner HolidayMixer) with updates for 2015 (see slides from 2015 mixer). Also: summaries for 2012 & 2013.
New in 2015:
- Northwest Ohio AWS and Big Data Mixologists
- Toledo ReactJS Meetup
- User Experience Design & Lean Product Development – NW Ohio
- CoderDojo Toledo
- Arduino meetup, Unmanned aircraft (Drone) meetup at BiG Fab Lab
- WordPress Toledo
- Findlay.dev
- Google Developer Group Toledo (meetup)
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| Toledo Web Professionals: Promote the web industry, education & employment resources, keep and attract talent |
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| The Nerd Summit: Breed creativity, learn about emerging technologies, solve problems |
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| Girl Develop It Toledo: Affordable programs for women, learn software development via mentorship, hands-on instruction |
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| CocoaHeads/iOS: iOS development |
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| NWNUG: Learning, enthusiasm, discussion re: Microsoft .NET |
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| FANUG: Education in Microsoft’s .NET technology |
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| NWSPUG: Knowledge of SharePoint products, technologies, architecture, tools & business applications |
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| SharePint: Share experiences, challenges with SharePoint (coming in 2015) |
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| Northwest Ohio SQL Server Users Group: Network, learn, trends in MS SQL Server technologies, for developers, DBAs, architects, analysts [Now known as Northwest Ohio SQL PASS (Professional Association for SQL Server)] |
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| ISACA Northwest Ohio: Information systems audit, control and security |
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| Toledo InfraGard: Issues, threats to private industry and government assets (newly discovered) |
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| Toledo VMUG: VMware user group: customers & partners, education & networking |
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| TALUG: Promoting awareness and use of GNU/Linux, other open source software |
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| NWOACM: Oldest, largest educational, scientific computing society |
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| UT ACM (Student chapter): Promote interdisciplinary computing & CS as profession, professional development on campus. Also: UT IEEE (Student chapter) & UT Maker Society. |
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| BGSU ACM (Student chapter): Promote study, understanding of computers, computer programming |
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| LRITA: Lima Regional Information Technology Alliance |
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| StartUp Toledo: Innovators, entrepreneurs, creatives; economic engine |
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| Tech Toledo: Connecting the Tech Community |
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Visit ToledoTechEvents.org regularly for events by these groups, and other events for the tech community