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.
- Agile Product Owners and Business Analysts (2nd Tues every Month)
- Business Analysts Social Gathering - defunct
- Architecture and Transformation Professionals
- 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
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- Young IT try one of their workshops
- 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)
- 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)
- 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)
- 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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