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     
• 💀Architecture and Transformation Professionals

Cloud Computing

• 💀ACS Cloud SIG  
• Amazon Web Services Users Group 
• 💀AusCloud    

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)  
• Graph Database 
• 💀MongoDB  
• SQL PASS  
• SQL Server UG  

Entrepreneurs

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

Hardware and Electronics

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

How to Improve your IT Job Search

• 💀Young IT try one of their workshops

IT Pro Groups

• DevOps (on Hiatus)
• 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

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• Professional Societies
• Australian Computer Society 
• 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  
• 💀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 
• 💀Titanium 
• 
  
• Social Media and Networking
• 💀Bloggers 
• 💀Jelly coworking  
• 💀Social Melb
• Social Media Breakfast  
• Twitter User Group 
• 💀XING
• 
  
• Software Design, Graphics Design and User Experience
• Computer Human Interaction   (once a year in Nov / Dec)
• 💀Design Anthropology 
• 💀Dribbble  (Revived 2015 now back in limbo)
• 💀InDesign User Group 
• Pecha Kucha Nights   
• Service Design   (3rd Thurs of every month)
• Software Architecture and Project Design   
• (now called Tactical Coder Melbourne)
• UX Australia (once a year in August)
• UX Bookclub   (irregular meetings - last 9 Feb 2017)
• UX Design Group (On Hiatus)
• 💀 uX Designer and Developer Network  
• 💀Virtual Reality   
• 
  
• Software Development Platforms and Vendor Specific Technology
• 💀Clojure 
• CocoaHeads (2nd Thurs of every month)
• DB2 Users Group
• Delphi User Group (3rd Mon each Month)
• Django  (On Hiatus)
• 💀Ember JS (Revived Jan 2016 now  re-dead)
• Go Programming Language - Golang  (1st Tues of every month)
• Google Developer Group 
• 💀Haskell  
• Java and JVM User Group (On Hiatus)
• .Net and other Microsoft Technologies
• 💀Alt.Net  
• Biz Talk Group  
• Dot Net
• Dot Net Development SIG (Victoria.NET)   (on Hiatus)
• Office 365 Meetup  (on Hiatus)
• SQL PASS  
• SQL Server UG  
• xRm User Group
• 💀MongoDB  
• NodeJS  (on Hiatus)
• Perl Mongers (on Hiatus)
• Php User Group (11th Sep 2025)
• Python Users Group  (on Hiatus)
• Ruby User Group ( 2nd Wed of every month)
• SAS User Group  
• 💀Scala User Group 

• Software Development Non-Vendor Specific
• Agile Coaching  (on Hiatus)
• 💀Agile Alliance  
• Agile Business Analysts (2nd Tues every Month)
• Agile Project Managers (3rd Tues every Month)
• 💀Be Responsive  
• Business Agility
• Coding Dojo 
• Connected Community HackerSpace
• Cloud Computing
• Cynefin   (on Hiatus / dead)
• DevOps Group  (once every 2 Months)
• Developer Developer Developer! (once a year in August)
• Enterprise Application Development 
• 💀Functional User Group  
• 💀Hack Night 
• International Game Developers' Association, Melbourne Chapter
• LAST conference (once a year )
• Lean Coffee (every Tuesday morning)
• Lean Startup 
• Limited WIP Society (Kanban - Lean Software Development)  (irregular meetings)
• 💀OpenTechSchool  
• Open Source Developers' Club  
• Patterns Group   
• Scrum User Group  
• X User Group   
• Yow! Conference (once a year )
• Software Testing
• 💀Performance User Group  
• Software Testers (MAST)
• Software Testing SIG (ACS)

Web Design and Implementation

• 💀Computer Graphics on the Web  
• 💀Ember JS (Revived Jan 2016 now  re-dead)
• Open Web Application Security Project
• ReactJS (irregular meetings)
• 💀Responsive Web  
• Web Accessibility Inclusive Design  
• Web Analytics Wednesdays (3rd Wed of Month)
• Web Developers   (renamed Tech for FinTechs)
• Web - Port80  (irregular meetings)
• Web Standards Group
• Content Management Systems
• Drupal User Group (irregular meetings)
• 💀ExpressionEngine Meetup Group  
• 💀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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