Hi. This group was established in 2009. Anyone interested in the Scala programming language is welcome. We meet at various locations in the Kendall Square neighborhood of Cambridge. Lately most meetings have been at MIT's Stata Center. Meetings usually start at 6:30, include one or two talks or sessions, and conclude by 8:00; there is usually pizza and soda provided by a sponsor; and some of us usually go out for drinks and further conversation afterwards. We'd love to hear from interested speak …

This is a group for parents, siblings and professionals catering to the complex world of autism! I started this group as a mother to a daughter with severe Autism and Founder of Hope 4 Autism, Inc. Like my organization, I strive to make autism less of a burden by offering events, programs, support and training that focuses on being a better you. In order to care for our children with autism, we MUST take care of ourselves. I look forward to connecting and building with you all because we are ALL …

Public tech talks hosted by Yieldbot. We'll go into detail about technology that we've used to build our platform, with invited guests to do the same. We've employed a broad range of technologies in developing our platform and want to give back to the community by sharing our real world experience working with them. Our talks will be strong on Javascript, Python, and Clojure, and delve into the technologies around "Big Data" analytics, distributed realtime ad matching, visualization of large dat …

Our focus is on how to make powerful and maintainable Javascript frontends. One of the areas of interest is "Big Data" analytics and the effective visualization of large data sets. The format will be conversational and based on a centering theme. Technologies that will be discussed: Client application organization (Require.js, Aura.js) Client visualization and data manipulation (D3.js, Crossfilter.js) Analytics (Cascalog) Databases (Redis, ElephantDB, HBase, MongoDB) Operations (Chef) Anything …

DOCMA is Chapter 3039 of USADance. Our mission is to promote and support ballroom dancing. We hold 8 dances a year, including 4 dinner dances and 4 social dances. All dances except the Winter and Spring Balls are held at Maironis Park in Shrewsbury. The Winter and Spring Balls are held at Lake Pearl Luciano's in Wrentham. Through our Outreach function, we entertain at nursing homes and assisted living facilities, and at several senior citizen events. We welcome all who are interested in ballroom …

Discussion of all things functional!

This group is for anyone interested in the F# programming language. We'll discuss a wide variety of topics related to programming with F#, and developers of all skill levels and backgrounds are welcome.

Open to any and all that have functional and logical tastes in programming languages and data models. Clojure, Scala, Erlang, Schemes, Prologs, F#, MLs, concatenative (e.g. Factor), and so on. Many of us have experience and interest in building distributed, large-scale systems. Many of us also happen to be independent contractors, solo/entrepreneurs, business owners, and otherwise interested in building killer businesses as well as awesome software. Depending on the week/month, expect a mix of f …