Astoria Multiculture Meetup Group is a group of friends from different nationalities and diverse ethnic background. We meet usually once a week at a local restaurant. (We speak basically English.) We love to talk about our culture, food, politics, dance, religion, art, movie, history, etc. We welcome you to join our group and be our new friend!

Meet other other Asian professionals just like you from the NY metro area. Our members are Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Vietnamese, Taiwanese, Thai, Filipino, and other Asian single professionals . We organize the most talked-about speed dating events in NYC for Asian single men and women.

Meet other local Genealogists/historians and people who are interested in black Genealogy related to slaves, slave owners,roots,family history, in the US, and abroad. Gather to share tips, exchange information, talk shop, research,complete any family history projects,etc.!

ABOUT THE NY CITY MOVIE WATCHERS & MUCH MORE MEETUP GROUP Join our group to meet other local movie fans! Get together to plan movie outings and discuss hot movies of the month. We will go to local movie theaters to watch movies, and head to local restaurant, bars and coffee houses afterwards to meet, mingle and discuss. We are a fun and exciting group of people that love movies. We discuss the films we watch over drinks or a nice meal.  We love to meet and socialize with new and old friends. You …

Meet other New York Groovy / Grails developers to talk about code, architecture, and innovation. Both beginners and pros are welcome! We'll spend the next few weeks contacting local Java and other user groups to get a few members to join, and then start scheduling meetups.

Our mission is to keep the Spanish language alive within our children by meeting up for playdates and other activities conducted in Spanish. Our written communications on the meetup pages are in English, but our meetups are held in Spanish. It is a place to meet bilingual and bicultural (Spanish/English speaking) families. Raising a bilingual child has its challenges: use our message boards to talk to one another about whatever comes up.  Members can also suggest meetups.  If you would like to h …

This is a social networking group with several purposes: The primary purpose is Exploring New York City. Each exploration event is prepared to be as informative as possible so that it is not only a superficial visit. We intend to explore: 1. Some of the most city's trendy, scenic and historically sites. 2. Museums: What is the difference between a Monet and a Picasso painting? 3. Ethnically diverse restaurants (keep up to date on the latest, coolest (and most important affordable restaurants) Ha …

Gathering of people interested in search, discovery, analytics, and the related fields -- information gathering, extraction, and retrieval, natural language processing, text analytics, data mining, sentiment detection, named entity recognition, visualizations. Talks about Apache Solr, ElasticSearch, Lucene, and other search tools.

A group to discuss machine learning, information retrieval, natural language processing, knowledge representation, and artificial intelligence. Meetings will cover research papers and algorithms in the field. We'll also try to occasionally bring in a speaker to talk about their work.

The Brooklyn iOS Developer meetup group is geared primarily towards iOS Developers but anyone is welcome to join. This is not a training event but we occasionally we have some technical talks. Use this group to find your iOS coding buddy, learn some tricks, watch super awesome demos and presentations, and network with other developers. -- Group photo from: http://photodelusions.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/brooklyn-bridge/

Welcome engineers and technologists in the New York area. Whether you are a hands on software engineer, quality engineer, or a person just interested in advanced technologies, you will enjoy these meetups. Hosted monthly at Google's NYC offices, these talks will cover a variety of topics of strong interest to the NYC technology community. Speakers will be enlisted from the local community (including, but not limited to, Google engineers). Topics will range across the spectrum of computer science …

About Us: NY Cultural Tech has expanded its focus as of March 2013 to more broadly delve into the innovative intersection of tech and culture.  It started out as a cross-disciplinary group for practicing technologists (coders, info architects, developers) focused on the advancement of emerging tech from within the domains of public knowledge.  Our participatory group is a new-media catalyst for those involved with museums, libraries, educational institutions, government, non-profits, and outwar …

Hello, CJK Experts! Don’t you feel it's hard to fill the gap between your level and native-speakers’ level? Are you looking for partners to practice your Chinese, Japanese or Korean (CJK) in an immerse environment? This meetup group is the right fit for you!! We practice Chinese, Japanese and Korean through interpretation methods such as quick response, shadowing, reproduction, retention, sight translation, summarization, etc. These methods enable you highly concentrate on listening, understandi …

In this cultural melting pot called New York City, isn't it surprising that there's no meetup group for bengali culture and literature enthusiasts? And we are talking of an ethnic group whose identity is cast in its culture and literature. This group attempts to fill that void. This is for you, if - you can read and write bengali - you think bengali culture is deeper and broader than durga pujo, or any pujo for that matter - you do not believe in caste, class and religious divides - you are not …

We are lovers of French culture, customs, traditions as well as its history and diversity. We meet at least once a week, with an average of 7 meetups per month. We promote writers, artists, philosophers and food lovers. We also love people who want to talk about areas with strong cultural roots, like Bretagne, Auvergne, Alsace Lorraine to name a few. Although the official language is French, you do NOT need to speak French to be a member, we will just ask you to be patient with our accent if we …

This group is for anyone looking to do fun things with great people! We do SO MANY types of activities, you will certainly find something you enjoy: dinners, bars, picnics, museums, trips, volunteering... even down to the most obscure things. The purpose of this group is to introduce foreigners to Americans, so we can all learn about each other and one another's culture. MONTHLY DUES: $2/month (to cover organizational expenses) WARNING You will be removed from the group for any of the followi …

This is a group for Romanian moms who live in NYC to connect, organize playdates, talk about parenting issues.

The purpose of this group is to bring together the small-but-growing community of Go Language users. The meetups will include talks by invited guests, networking events and possibly other sessions. The initial goal of the meetup is to let engineers share how they have managed to make incremental transition to Go in pre-existing and production systems.

We want to get together to talk in English...in French...in Spanish...in Chinese...in many more languages! Come join us!!! ---------------------- We provide a friendly relaxed environment where people who are learning foreign languages can practice with other learners and native speakers. At every event, there will be smaller practice groups concentrating on French, Italian, German, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, Japanese, Chinese, etc. where you can either practice your skills, or help o …

"The events I've attended with the meetup group have been fabuloso! Great personable people with diverse ethnic backgrounds and professions. Absolutely beautiful to have a Latino melting pot in a group of professionals." “A congenial, sophisticated and intelligent group of Latina(o)s meetup to talk about all sorts of topics not just the conventional career stuff...refreshing to discuss/share multidimensional life experiences.” Welcome to the Metro NY Latino Professionals 40+ Meetup! The Metro …

Muslim-ish: searching for truth, rejecting false idols, and fighting for freedom Who are we? We are a group of Ex-Muslims and Muslims of varying degrees of religiosity. What do we want? We want to find the truth, no matter what it is, and fight for our right to follow it. We want to create a safe place for people to exchange thoughts and ideas that we were taught not to talk about. We want to support each other and help each other deal with family questions and formulate answers. We want to gi …

You speak French, a little or a lot, but you lose the knack because you have no one to talk to here in the city. You're also interested in expanding your circle of gay friends. All ages/genders welcome!

Have you ever just been in awe when reading words that felt so real, so alive that hit you right in the gut? Have you ever wondered where a word came from, how somebody could use them so poetically? I want to have good times, sitting around a table with some good food, good wine and great conversation, talking about words, phrases, old adages, idioms, argots and vernaculars.

The NY Haskell Users Group is for all programmers either interested in or experienced with the Haskell programming language. We want to build a community of Haskell developers in the New York area that can share knowledge, projects, and experience, and to generally foster and encourage strongly typed functional programming, in all languages, all settings, and all industries. Our events will center around talks, but we intend to have other sorts of activities, including social hours, code worksho …

Всем привет! Если Вас интересует полноценное общение или Вы хотите попрактиковаться в Русском языке, приглашаем Вас в нашу группу. Также если вы желаете систематического обучения, мы будем рады помочь This is an opportunity to practice Russian conversation, and discuss and study the grammar. The topic may vary according to what people are interested in talking about. Members of all levels are welcome, from absolute beginners on up. Remeber: Practice is the most important part of language learn …

WHAT IT'S FOR: Intermediate/advanced French speakers seeking regular, fun opportunities to enjoy la plus belle langue du monde :) WHAT WE DO: Each meetup will be an event - museum, walk in a park, etc. - so we will be DOING something and there will always be plenty to talk about. Come on out, shy francophones! Feel free to post suggested events (that don't conflict with existing ones)! The more ideas, the merrier. HOW WE DO IT: We speak FRENCH ONLY, from the first greeting to the parting bisous …

Watch movies, Talk about it, Understand American culture, and Practice English face to face. We are MSLers. (Movie as second language)

Thought Machine is a group that's interested in building and discussing tools that help make working programmers more efficient and more effective. We're interested in languages, frameworks, utilities, philosophies, methodologies, and wild ideas of all kinds. What does programming look like in the future? Let's all get together and talk about it.