Melbourne User Groups

here is a lot going on in Melbourne at the moment with as many as seven different completing ICT related events on some nights.

A few years ago I started keeping a list of IT related events that I regularly attended on my team wiki as a way of encouraging coworkers to do more professional development.

Eventually I moved the list to my Google Calendar and this blog. People started emailing me details of events and groups, and the list rapidly expanded. You will find upcoming events and a list of user groups on the right hand side of the blog. The list of groups has become unwieldy, therefore I have sorted them into rough categories below.

Business Analysts

• Agile Product Owners and Business Analysts   (2nd Tues every Month)
• Business Analysts Social Gathering     -    defunct
• Architecture and Transformation Professionals

Cloud Computing

• ACS Cloud SIG  
• Amazon Web Services Users Group 
• AusCloud   (defunct)

Computer Clubs for Specific Platforms

• Amiga User Group
• Apple User Group - Ausom
• internet macintosh user group
• Linux Users Group (MLUG)
• Linux Users Vic (LUV)
• Novell User Group
• Open Solaris User Group
• Raspberry Jam
• XO Club

Database User Groups

• ACS Business Intelligence SIG
• DB2 Users Group
• Geographical Information Systems (Open-GIS) (on Hiatus)
• MongoDB (on Hiatus)
• SQL PASS (3rd Tues of the month)
• SQL Server UG (on Hiatus)

Entrepreneurs

• ASP.NET Startups (on hiatus)
• Churchill Club  (once a Month)
• Disruptive Startups (defunct)
• HeadStart (defunct)
• Lean Startup (defunct)
• Pitch Club (defunct)
• Silicon Beach
• Startup Grind  (4th Wed of every month)
• The Entrepreneur Club (once a Month)
• TiE (frequent meetings)

Hardware and Electronics

• Footscray Maker Lab (3rd Tues of every month)
• Hackduino (on Hiatus)
• HackerSpace
• Hack and Tell  (defunct)
• Microcontroller Group 
• NodeBots (1st Wed of every month)
• Raspberry Jam (on Hiatus)

How to Improve your IT Job Search

• Young IT try one of their workshops

IT Pro Groups

• DevOps (once every 2 Months)
• Infrastructure Administrators Group
• Infrastructure Coders (2nd Tue of every month)
• Puppet User Group (Once most Months)
• System Administrators (SAGE-AU)
• System Center, Security, and Infrastructure Group

• Professional Societies
• Australian Computer Society (Victoria)
• Australian Institute of Project Management
• Infrastructure Administrators Group
• IT Teachers (VITTA)
• Media and Tech (The Fed)
• PMI Melbourne
• System Administrators (SAGE-AU)
• Telecommunications Society
• Misc
• Bitcoin (3rd Wed of every month)
• Teahouse ToastMasters
• Tech Events (Australian) Calendar
• Tech Events (Australian) Twitter
• TechEvents in Australia
• Mobile Computing
• Android Australia   (once a Month)
• CocoaHeads  (2nd Thurs every Month)
• Melbourne Mobile   (1st Wed of every month)
• Mobile Application Development
• Mobile Monday (on Hiatus)
• Titanium (on Hiatus)
• Social Media and Networking
• Bloggers (on Hiatus)
• Jelly coworking  (on Hiatus)
• Social Melb
• Social Media Breakfast 
• Social Media Breakfast (Twitter)
• Twitter User Group (defunct)
• XING
• Software Design, Graphics Design and User Experience
• Computer Human Interaction   (once a year in Nov / Dec)
• Design Anthropology (irregular meetings - next 23 Mar 2017)
• Dribbble  (Revived 2015 now back on Hiatus)
• InDesign User Group  (on Hiatus)
• Pecha Kucha Nights   (defunct)
• Service Design   (3rd Thurs of every month)
• Software Architecture and Project Design   (once a year irregular meetings)
• UX Australia (once a year in August)
• UX Bookclub   (irregular meetings - last 9 Feb 2017)
• UX Design Group (1st Tues of every month)
•  uX Designer and Developer Network  (On Hiatus)
• Virtual Reality  (irregular meetings - next 26 Apr 2017)
• Software Development Platforms and Vendor Specific Technology
• Clojure (2nd Thurs of every month)
• CocoaHeads (2nd Thurs of every month)
• DB2 Users Group (on Hiatus)
• Delphi User Group (3rd Mon each Month)
• Django  (3rd Thurs of every month)
• Ember JS (Revived Jan 2016 now back on Hiatus)
• Go Programming Language - Golang  (1st Tues of every month)
• Google Developer Group (defunct)
• Haskell (last Thurs of every month)
• Java and JVM User Group (1st Wed of every month)
• .Net and other Microsoft Technologies
• Alt.Net  (last Tues every Month)
• Biz Talk Group (on Hiatus)
• Dot Net Development SIG (Victoria.NET)   (on Hiatus)
• Office 365 Meetup  (3rd Wed every Month)
• SQL PASS (3rd Tues of the month)
• SQL Server UG  (on Hiatus)
• xRm User Group
• MongoDB  (on Hiatus)
• NodeJS (3 times a year - next 22 Mar 2017)
• Perl Mongers (on Hiatus)
• Php User Group (3rd Tue of every month)
• Python Users Group (1st Mon of every month)
• Ruby User Group ( 2nd Wed of every month)
• SAS User Group (irregular meetings)
• Scala User Group (once most Months)

• Software Development Non-Vendor Specific
• Agile Coaching (irregular meetings - next 14 Mar 2017)
• Agile Alliance (once every 6 months - last Sep 2016)
• Agile Business Analysts (2nd Tues every Month)
• Agile Project Managers (3rd Tues every Month)
• Be Responsive (on Hiatus)
• Coding Dojo  (defunct)
• Connected Community HackerSpace
• Cloud Computing
• Cynefin (once every Month) 
• DevOps Group  (once every 2 Months)
• Developer Developer Developer! (once a year in August)
• Enterprise Application Development  (defunct)
• Functional User Group (1st Thurs of every month)
• Hack Night (defunct)
• International Game Developers' Association, Melbourne Chapter
• LAST conference (once a year - next 29 Jun 2017)
• Lean Coffee (every Tuesday morning)
• Lean Startup (defunct)
• Limited WIP Society (Kanban - Lean Software Development)  (irregular meetings)
• OpenTechSchool (on Hiatus)
• Open Source Developers' Club (defunct)
• Patterns Group  (forum)  (on Hiatus)
• Scrum User Group  (last Wednesday of every month)
• X User Group  (Defunct)
• Yow! Conference (once a year - next 21 Sep 2017)
• Software Testing
• Performance User Group  (Defunct)
• Software Testers (MAST)
• Software Testing SIG (ACS)

Web Design and Implementation

• Computer Graphics on the Web (irregular meetings)
• Ember JS (on Hiatus)
• Open Web Application Security Project
• ReactJS (irregular meetings)
• Responsive Web (2nd Wed of Month)
• Web Accessibility Inclusive Design (on Hiatus)
• Web Analytics Wednesdays (3rd Wed of Month)
• Web Developers   (irregular meetings)
• Web - Port80  (irregular meetings)
• Web Standards Group
• Content Management Systems
• Drupal User Group (irregular meetings)
• ExpressionEngine Meetup Group (4th Thurs of every month)
• Joomla User Group (irregular meetings)
• SilverStripe  (irregular meetings)
• WordPress (2nd Wed of every month)
• Frameworks and Scripting Languages
• Django  (3rd Thurs of every month)

Women in IT

• ACS Women
• Females in IT and Telecommunications
• Girl Geek Coffee (Monash)
• Girl Geek Coffee Club
• Girl Geek Dinners (irregular meetings)
• Rails Girls (irregular meetings)
• Vic ICT for Women

For more information about IT and entrepreneurial events in Melbourne subscribe to the Melbourne Edition of the Startup Digest curated by yours truly.

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