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Week in DC Tech: May 13

Development Seed — 2013-05-13T00:00:00-07:00

There's a technology event for everyone this week in Washington, DC with a HacDC meetup on tech revamping, an Enyo.JS demo for developers, an outdoor Drone event, and more. Go out and take advantage of everything DC has to offer by being productive and learning something new. Check back weekly for our roundup of local technology events.

Tuesday, May 14

7:30 pm

HacDC: Join DC Hackers as they find new ways to tinker with technology. Help them improve the world by breaking down and rebuilding technology, all while in the pursuit of finding new uses for it. For more information visit them at hacdc.org.

Wednesday, May 15

6:30 pm

Introduction to Enyo.JS: This one is for the developers. Come and learn about Enyo.JS, a JavaScript framework that's new to the scene through a demo of Enyo.JS and a discussion around how it's simplifying cross-platform mobile and desktop app development. Learn how to create well-structured, maintainable apps at this CrossPlatformDev meetup.

8:30 pm - 1:30 am

DC Nightowls: The DC Nightowls move back to the AOL Fishbowl Labs for their productivity and coworking session. Satisfy your urge to work into the early hours of the morning in NoVa with your fellow Nightowls.

Saturday, May 18

2:00 pm

Drone User Group: Join the Drone User Group this week as artist and developer Terry Kilby leads an aerial photography demonstration using a drone. He'll discuss how to select the best equipment and how to compose your shots to capture the highest quality images. Come learn about Kilby's work and techniques, contribute your own knowledge, and have fun flying drones at this week's DC Drone User Group.

Week in DC Tech: May 6

Development Seed — 2013-05-06T00:00:00-07:00

There are some interesting technology events taking place in and around the District this week on topics like Perl, drones, and more. Check out a new meetup group or revisit one you know and learn something awesome this week.

Tuesday, May 7

9:00 am - 2:00 pm

DC Area Drone User Group: Drones are a hot button issue whether talking about their use in modern warfare to privacy concerns around recreational use. At this meetup, come learn more about drones, the controversy and concerns around their use, and the technology that powers them.

7:30 pm

DC Perl Mongers:

On the first Tuesday of the month, folks with a passion for Perl based programming and open source tech get together to discuss new tricks of the trade. This month they will be talking about contributing to The Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN).

Saturday, May 11

2:30 pm - 7:30 pm

DC Nightowls in Baltimore: The DC Nightowls are taking off to Baltimore this weekend and pairing up with Emerging Technology Center! Bring Your Own Project and be productive with your peers at the Beehive in Baltimore. This meetup is taking place outside of their usual hours of operation, so get there early and contribute often.

6:00 pm

Nerd Nite DC: Join your fellow nerds for a night of drinking and learning at DC9 in the U street corridor. This month's Nerd Night will feature talks about Material Science and how it's changing the way we eat chocolate, how art can be saved by science, and all you ever wanted to know about the "fat innkeeper worm". Join the party and learn something new this week.

Week in DC Tech: April 29

Development Seed — 2013-04-29T00:00:00-07:00

As we move into May, come out to learn about fun new wearable tech, talk "failure" with people who have been there and can find the humor in it, and stay informed about the great OpenStreetMap projects being innovated on right here in Washington, DC. Also this Friday we'll kickoff the Sunlight Foundation's sixth TransparencyCamp with a Open Government Happy Hour in the MapBox Garage. Have a great week and I hope to see you around!

Tuesday, April 30

6:00 pm

Tech4Dem FAILfaire and Happy Hour: This event attempts to take away the stigma of failing. The motto of FAILfaire is to learn from each others mistakes, so come and hear stories of tech projects for social change that haven't been major successes but are great learning experiences. If you're in the mood for a humorous, tongue-in-cheek look at the what does and does not work when starting a tech4dem project, check out FAILfaire 2013.

Wednesday, May 1

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Anticipating Google Glass: Get an up-close look at Google's newest (and dare I say coolest) piece of tech, the Glass, with fellow "wearable tech" enthusiasts. Google has just shipped out the first batch of the Glass, so go see and learn all about them for yourself, while also getting to !

7:00 pm

Geo DC: May's Geo DC meetup will look at OpenStreetMap with a quick introduction to it followed by three lightening talks on editing OpenStreetMap and great projects that are changing the way OpenStreetMap is being used. Come see MapBox's Tom MacWright and Ansis Brammanis demo iD Editor.

Friday, May 3

6:30 pm - 10:00 pm

Open Government Happy Hour: MapBox is hosting a happy hour to kick off this weekend's TransparencyCamp! Come join us for cold drinks, tasty eats, and good company in the MapBox garage the night before the conference.

Saturday, May 4 - Sunday, May 5

TransparencyCamp 2013: This weekend the Sunlight Foundation is hosting it's sixth TransparencyCamp, an "unconference" for open government that promotes the use of new technologies and policies that make government more efficient and transparent. The goal of this conference is to create an atmosphere where everyone feels like they can contribute equally and be heard among the group. Individuals are encouraged to take part in making the schedule, leading sessions, and actively contributing to the framework of the conference.

Week in DC Tech: April 22

Development Seed — 2013-04-22T00:00:00-07:00

Happy Earth Day DC! This week, there are several great meetups and events, on a wide range of topics including mobile user experience (UX) design, data visualization, business development and more. Tonight, Data Visualization DC kicks off the nationwide Big Data Week, with their meetup at iStrategyLabs.

And if you happen to be in the Chicago area this weekend, join MapBoxers Alex Barth and Tom MacWright at Chicago Hack Week, from Friday April 26th through Sunday April 28th.

Monday, April 22

6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Data Visualization DC: This month, Data Visualization DC in association with Big Data Week present Professor Ben Shneiderman for their Big Data Visualization meetup. Shneiderman will be giving a talk about "Information Visualization for Knowledge Discovery: Turning Messy BigData into Actionable SmallData".

6:30 pm - 9:30 pm

Startup Grind DC: This month, Startup Grind DC is featuring Dr. Magid Abraham, CEO and cofounder of Internet Market Intellegence company, comScore. Come learn about Abraham, and how he built comScore into one of the leading internet companies that provides insight for the digital world. The event will be held at 1776.

8:30 pm - 1:30 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session @ UberOffices: This week's Nightowl meetup is going to be held at UberOffices in DC. Ram Singh of 10.io will be running a Lean Canvas business development group during the meetup to assist local startups develop successful business models. As usual, Bring Your Own Project and be prepared to be productive.

Tuesday, April 23rd

6:00 pm

MapStoryDC: The April MapStoryDC meetup is focusing on building the local DC MapStory database. If you are interested in the power of mapping and data visualization - come and put your head together with likeminded individuals to develop some more useful and informative MapStories for the DC region. Some great DC focused MapStories: Commuting by Bike in DC & History of DC Metro Lines. Go to MapStory.org for more.

Wednesday April 24th

6:00 pm

MoDevDC: To prepare for next month's MoDevUX 2013 conference, MoDevDC will focus on mobile UX, design and interface. Samsung Developers will also be joining the meetup to provide a look at some of the latest SDKs available from Samsung. As an added bonus, they will be giving away a Samsung Galaxy device to one lucky attendee, you won't want to miss it!

Thursday, April 25

6:30 pm

OpenStackDC: Join the open-source, cloud software builders of OpenStack for their meetup at The Warehouse Theater. This month, there will be talks using OpenStack in several different capacities from Dr. Steve Crago of USC and the Information Sciences Institute, Drew Dimmick of HP Cloud Services, and more. There will also be an open floor discussion about scaling OpenStack.

Week in DC Tech: April 15

Development Seed — 2013-04-15T00:00:00-07:00

This week's meetups fall into two categories - the thriving startup and commercial tech communities in the city and the open data movement with this Saturday's OpenStreetMap Editathon. Read on for details on each of our event picks for the week, and check back every Monday for a weekly event roundup.

Monday, April 15

8:30 pm - 1:30 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: The DC Nightowls are holding their after hours productivity session this week at 1776. Bring your own project and plan to work alongside other entrepreneurs. This week's tip? RSVP and show up early, the new venue is drawing a crowd.

Tuesday, April 16

7:00 pm

NetSquared DC: April's NetSquared meetup is featuring the "Best of NTC & SXSW". The meetup will include discussions about this year's SXSW conference as well as the Nonprofit Technology Conference. If you missed the live shows, come and join for a recap of each event's highlights.

Thursday, April 18

6:30 - 8:00

.Gov to .Com - Working in Commercial Technology: This event will feature presentations about the often overlooked commercial software and startup technology sectors in DC. Come and learn about this growing community from talented engineers and developers from around the region.

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Tech in the City: Continuing the exploration of DC's growing startup scene, this event will feature private and public sector officials discussing smart growth and development, and the benefits of starting a tech company in DC. Come hear about how tech startups are making this city great!

Saturday April 20

12:00 pm - 5:00 pm

OpenStreetMap #Editathon : MapBox is hosting a mapping party as part of the OpenStreetMap US spring #editathon series. Come out to improve road coverage on the map, work with the new iD editor, or map your hometown. People of all skill levels are welcome.

Week in DC Tech: April 1

Development Seed — 2013-04-02T00:00:00-07:00

Happy April! It's a busy start to the month in the DC technology space with meetups from GeoDC, the DC Web API group, and others plus DC Startup Weekend. If you're interested in learning more about mapping and GIS, building mobile applications for iOS and Android platforms, and the latest advances in APIs, check out the meetups happening in and around the city this week.

For anyone in the Bay Area, tonight (Tuesday, April 2) John will be at the San Francisco Geo Meetup talking about iD, the new editor for OpenStreetMap.

Read on for our roundup of technology events in Washington, DC this week and check back weekly for the latest on local events.

Wednesday, April 3

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Geo DC Meetup: This month's meetup will feature lightning talks on legal and policy issues in the GIS community, public transportation mapping initiatives in Honduras, and mapping mobile phone calls around elections. Bobby from our team will talk about the location sharing iOS app MeatText.

7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

NoVA Web Development Meetup: This month's meeting will be all about mobile apps with Garrett talking about his experience building out MeatText to let people share their location in fun and interesting ways. Yep, that means two talks on MeatText just a few blocks away from each other.

8:30 pm - 1:30 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: For those in the community with barely a moment to spare during the day, DC Nightowls Coworking Sessions are made specifically for you! This late night meetup is BYOP - Bring Your Own Project - and a great way to connect with like minded (busy) people in the DC tech community.

Thursday, April 4

6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

DC Web API Meetup: Interested in APIs? This meetup will bring out speakers from the White House and its We The People API, Seabourne Consulting, and Chris from MapBox, who will talk about his experience retrieving bulk data from government geoportals. After short presentations, there will be a moderated panel on where APIs in the government and private sector should be headed.

Friday, April 5 to Sunday, April 7

DC Startup Weekend: Thinking of kicking off your own business or getting involved in a startup? This 54 hour event will bring together entrepreneurs to build a company in a weekend.

Week in DC Tech: February 4

Development Seed — 2013-02-04T00:00:00-08:00

As usual there is a lot going on in the technology space this week in Washington, DC, from lighting talks on big geodata to social co-working to nerdy drinking. Below is our roundup of events happening this week. Check back every week for a summary of the local technology events that caught our eye.

Tuesday, February 5

6:30 - 8:00 pm

Beers & Betas 3: Hinge: Like new apps, devices, ideas, and beer? Come out for this event to be pitched by a local startup, asked for your feedback on the tool, and given beer to loosen your lips.

Wednesday, February 6

7:00 - 9:00 pm

GeoDC Meetp: This month's GeoDC meetup is all about big geo data, with talks on data scaling, data styling, and data visualizing and analyzing. Come out to learn something new and meet folks interested in mapping, GIS, and geography.

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: Check out Canvas.co and nclud's co-working space while spending some time working on your latest idea with a group of other hard workers and entrepreneurs at this late night co-working session.

Saturday, February 9

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

ErlangDC: Come out to this one day conference all on Erlang that will intro you to the basics of the Erlang programming language or let you deep dive into hands on workshops and discussions for the more experienced.

6:30 pm

Nerd Nite DC: Like to kick off your Saturday night by learning something? This month's Nerd Nite will teach you about nerds in love, space dust, bilingualism on the brain, and the impending superbug of doom, with bursts of local music in between.

Week in DC Tech: January 28

Development Seed — 2013-01-28T00:00:00-08:00

Want to give coding in Python a try, meet other women working in geo, learn about linked data, or just work with some like-minded creators? These technology events and more are happening this week in Washington, DC. Read on for details, and check back weekly for our roundup of local technology events.

Monday, January 28

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: Want to pitch your latest idea to creators and entrepreneurs, and get some work done on it? Check out this co-working session to be held at Uber's offices.

Tuesday, January 29

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Women in GIS Happy Hour: This happy hour will bring together ladies working in mapping, geography, cartography, and related fields. Come out to share your experience and meet others in the space.

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Linked Data Meetup: Want to learn more about the linked data model and related best practices for publishing data online? Come out for this meetup for a practical talk about linked data and how and why you should use it.

Saturday, February 2

1:30 pm

DC PyLadies Hack Day: Want to dive into Python? Come out for this hack day to meet other female Python programmers, go through some tutorials, or share what you know with the group. All skill levels welcome.

Week in DC Tech: Inauguration Day Edition

Development Seed — 2013-01-22T00:00:00-08:00

While Washington, DC is calming down after a weekend of Inauguration festivities, the local tech scene is heating back up after the holidays. There are meetups this week on Node.js, jQuery, and international development technology, plus a full weekend of events with the OpenStreetMap editathon plus more hackathon and social coding gatherings. Below is our roundup of events happening this week in Washington, DC.

Wednesday, January 23

6:00 - 8:00 pm

DevCliches Happy Hour: We've all heard an elevator pitch or project idea that sounds, well familiar. This is your chance to have fun with the all too familiar practice, and learn what not to say to make yourself stand out from the crowd in the international development space.

7:00 pm

NodeDC Meetup: Interested in node.js and building fast applications in the server-side JavaScript environment? Come out for talks on how to get started using node in production, what's new in node streams, and to see some fun examples of it use.

Thursday, January 24

6:00 - 8:00 pm

DC jQuery Meetup: This month's jQuery meetup will look at how the Atlantic Wire's HTML5 iPad app was built. Expect a technical walk through on how the app was architected and developed, and the challenges and successes that developers ran into along the way.

Saturday, January 26

9:00 - 4:00 pm

Domestic Violence Hackathon: Interested in putting your technical and design skills to use building tools to help combat and help with the aftermath of domestic violence? Hackathon events will take place in six Latin American countries and Washington, DC this weekend.

10:00 am

DC Python Group Coding Session: Want to help the Python project while honing your coding skills with a group of other Python developers? Come out to this social coding session to get some work done while meeting new people.

Noon - 6:00 pm

OpenStreetMap Editathon: Communities all over the United States will be getting together to make map coverage on OpenStreetMap better this weekend. Come out to improve your town, enter road and directional data, and whatever else is needed while learning how to improve OpenStreetMap and how to use its free data. We'll be hosting the DC event at the MapBox office.

Week in DC Tech: January 14

Development Seed — 2013-01-14T00:00:00-08:00

Want to learn more about typography, behavior-based design and UX, or how agile thinking applies to life outside of software development? Then check out some of the technology events happening this week in Washington, DC for developers and non-developers alike. Our weekly roundup is below. Check back every Monday for our tech event picks of the week.

Monday, January 14

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Experiments in Typography: This Knowledge Commons DC class will look at how typography can improve written word's message, looking at examples from present day and back in history.

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls Co-working Session: It's BYOProject - bring your project and be ready to work on it into the night with a group of likeminded people. You'll have a chance to pitch your project to the group at 9:30 pm, and have short discussions then.

Tuesday, January 15

6:30 - 8:00 pm

Action Design DC: Living Social will present on their research into product development around people's daily behavior, and how they're crafting products and their user experience around it.

7:00 pm

DC Agile Software Testing Group: This month's presentation will look at agile from beyond a software development perspective, discussing why we build things the way we do and how agile plays into that. If you like to iterate, come out to this meetup.

Wednesday, January 16

6:30 pm

DC MongoDB Users Group: Want to learn how to enable data agility with Pig, Hadoop, mongoDB, and other tools, or just get a primer on these technologies? Come out for this meetup and to meet other MongoDB developers.

Week in DC Tech: January 7

Development Seed — 2013-01-07T00:00:00-08:00

The New Year kicks off with several interesting technology events happening in Washington, DC. Get back into the thick of things by getting out, learning something new, and meeting people in the local tech scene. Our weekly roundup of the week's events is below.

Tuesday, January 8

6:30 pm

ONA DC: Want to hear about the latest ways the Washington Post is using technology to improve its new coverage? Come out for this meetup to hear about their biggest successes from 2012 and what's to come this year.

7:00 - 9:00 pm

DC Tech Meetup: Come out to this meetup to see demos from five local tech startups, and then hear pitches from seven investors on what they're doing and why you should take their money.

Wednesday, January 9

7:00 - 9:00 pm

GeoDC Meetup: Want to learn about satellites and what sort of imagery is being collected and available? Come to GeoDC to hear talks from two satellite companies and one on the publicly available imagery and how you can use it in your maps.

Thursday, January 10

6:30 pm

R Meetup: We all know the government collects a lot of data, often times through surveys. Find out how this information is being processed and analyzed using R.

Check back next Monday for our weekly roundup of technology events happening in Washington, DC.

Week in DC Tech: December 17

Development Seed — 2012-12-17T00:00:00-08:00

Before officially kicking off your holiday celebrations, head out to a technology event to learn something interesting and meet new people. Below is our recap of technology events happening this week in Washington, DC. Our next post will highlight what's kicking off 2013 in the local tech scene. Happy holidays!

Tuesday, December 18

6:00 - 8:00 pm

NetSquared DC Happy Hour: NetSquared's happy hour will together people working in nonprofit technology to share experiences, knowledge, and some holiday cheer before the end of the year wraps out. Come out to say hi to friends and meet new people.

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Political Campaign Data Science Meetup: Four people involved in data in the 2012 presidential campaign - as campaign staff, political writers, and academics - will talk about how data was used and its values in campaigns at this meetup. Come for a lively discussion, followed by drinks.

Wednesday, December 19

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls: The last group late night co-working session of the year is this coming Wednesday at OPower. Join DC Nightowls to work on your own project, share ideas with other entrepreneurs, and get some work done before the holidays.

Thursday, December 20

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Digital Cultural Heritage DC Meetup: This event will feature presentations on neogeography, or mapping your personal history, and web archiving, using the Library of Congress and it's massive collection as a use case.

Week in DC Tech: December 10

Development Seed — 2012-12-10T00:00:00-08:00

In between holiday parties, squeeze in some technology events to learn more about topics like OpenStreetMap, jQuery, data analysis with R, and Ada Lovelace. Below is a roundup of technology events happening in Washington, DC this week. Check back weekly for news on the latest tech happenings in the city.

Monday, December 10

6:30 - 8:45 pm

R Users DC: Hadley Wickham, developer of more than 30 R packages to facilitate data munging, analysis and visualization, will present at this meetup, giving his take on best practices and the future of data analysis.

7:00 pm

Wikimedia DC: Wikimedia is throwing a birthday party for Ada Lovelace, the world's first computer programmer and first female open source developer. Celebrate with the group at Busboys & Poets tonight.

Tuesday, December 11

7:00 pm

Mappy Hour: Mappy Hours, gathering of contributors to OpenStreetMap to talk about recent projects over beers, are resuming in DC, with this one held at Capitol City Brewing Company. Specifically they'll talk about the recent mapping party to add details to the OSM map of Hyattsville, MD, its results, and plans for the next event.

Thursday, December 13

7:00 - 9:00 pm

DCjQ Meetup: This month the DC jQuery group is going back to the basics, giving the second part of a two-part series looking at the basics of jQuery for new users. Slides on part one are available here.

Saturday, December 15

7:00 pm

ONA's Holiday Party: Come out to celebrate the year, meet journalists publishing online, and talk about data driven journalism, data visualization and storytelling, and other ways technology is changing journalism. No presentations, just a party.

Week in DC Tech: December 3

Development Seed — 2012-12-03T00:00:00-08:00

Before the holiday party season gets completely underway, take advantage of your free time and check out some of the technology events happening in the city. This week there is a ton going on with meetups on everything from mapping personal data to productizing open datasets to analyzing design to improve the user experience, happy hours for ICT professionals, developer get togethers, and entrepreneur sessions. Below is a roundup of events happening this week. Check back weekly for our local technology roundup.

Monday, December 3

6:30 pm

Action Design DC: User behavior is crucial in almost any field, and a focal point for many people's work. This meetup will bring together people working in analyzing and improving user experience on the UX, data, and behavioral sides to share experiences and lessons learned.

Tuesday, December 4

7:00 pm

DC Python Meetup: Interested in learning more about Python, seeing examples of it in use, or talking with other developers? Then come out to this meetup held at the Science Club.

Wednesday, December 5

6:00 - 9:00 pm

ICT4Drinks: Come out for this happy hour with folks working in international development and technology, and this month specifically around the issue of mHealth - the use of cell phones in healthcare services.

6:30 pm

Data Business DC: For its second meetup, the group will look at how companies are taking open data around politics, health, and public transit and building for profits tools and services around them. A representative from the city of Baltimore will talk about how and why the city opens its data and the advantages of this secondary market.

Tech Cocktail Session: When you start a business, one of - if not the - most important piece is growing your team. This event will bring out several entrepreneurs who have successfully done this to share their tips around building a team, implementing team culture, and turning an idea into something backed by a workforce.

7:00 pm

GeoDC Meetup: This meetup will look at ways that people are mapping data collected in their day to day life and the tools they're using to do this. Come out to hear how people are mapping their training for a marathon, their travel, and votes of people in general. As usual, there will be lots of time after the presentations for conversations with the community.

Saturday, December 8

10:15 am - 4:30 pm

Fosterly's Open Study Hall: Open Study Hall is your chance to sit down with entrepreneurs at all levels in the product development cycle, pick their brains, share your ideas and experiences, and more than anything collaborate and feed of each others energy. Bring your laptop and your questions.

Week in DC Tech: November 26

Development Seed — 2012-11-26T00:00:00-08:00

Once you've gotten back into the swing of things after the Thanksgiving holiday, check out the two main events happening in Washington, DC this week. Tech@State, a two day event around technology for international development, is looking at how technology can be used around elections, while Rootscamp, a two day unconference, will bring together organizers to talk campaign strategy on the heels of the U.S. election. More details on both are below.

Friday, November 30

8:45 am - 4:30 pm

Tech@State:ElecTech: This Tech@State is focused entirely on elections and how technology can be used to improve executing, monitoring, fraud prevention, and more. We'll be there talking about building an open data infrastructure for elections, specifically in Afghanistan, and monitoring results and our recent maps of the U.S. election with USA TODAY.

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

RootsCamp: Campaigners and organizers will be gathering this Friday and Saturday to rehash lessons learned this election season. The unconference will cover strategies and approaches that worked and ones that bombed and technologies and infrastructures that were awesome or needed improvement. Chris will be there to talk about finding, analyzing, and publishing open data sets and how to visualize them with MapBox tools.

Saturday, December 1

9:00 am - 4:00 pm

Tech@State Unconference: This casual follow up to Friday's event will allow participants to sit down, have conversations around themes that emerged the day before, and do some hands on workshops and trainings around implementing technology for elections. It's a great opportunity to dive deeper into specific strategies and tools with others working around common problems.

Week in DC Tech: November 12

Development Seed — 2012-11-12T00:00:00-08:00

Want to learn how to tell stories through maps and design, learn from others mistakes, or find out more about technologies like Node.js, jQuery, and MongoDB? Then head out to these meetups happening this week in Washington, DC.

Monday, November 12

7:00 pm

DCjQuery: Back to the Basics: This month's jQuery meetup will take it back to the beginning, with a presentation around how to use jQuery and contribute to it for the novice. If you've been wanting to dive into jQuery programming, this will walk you through how to get started.

Tuesday, November 13

7:00 pm

NodeDC Meetup: Four speakers will talk about how they're using Node.js in their projects, like powering Social Tables and SpanishDict, Node Knockout projects, and more. Come out to learn more about node and meet developers working with it.

MapStorytelling & GeoNoVA Crossover: In this meetup, Liz Lyon will talk about MapStory and the project's goal of getting more people to share their stories through maps. The GeoNoVa crowd will also be out for the meetup.

Wednesday, November 14

6:30 pm

MongoDC Meetup: This month's MongoDB meetup will feature presentations on the product road map for MongoDB and the process of migrating from RDBMS to MongoDB and the tool it spawned.

ONA DC: Design is How It Works: This month's Online News Association meetup will have David Wright, the digital design director for NPR, talk about how design plays into the storytelling experience in a newsroom and how this translates both technologically and visually.

Friday, November 16

6:00 - 9:00 pm

Fail Faire DC: This event takes the unique approach of looking at - and even celebrating - failure, as a way for everyone to learn from a big mistake. 12 speakers will take the stage to talk about how they messed up big and how we can all learn from it. Tickets are sold out, but there are still spots available on the wait list.

Week in DC Tech: November 5

Development Seed — 2012-11-05T00:00:00-08:00

It's a big week here in Washington, DC. First, DC Week - our annual technology and arts celebration - is underway, with a full schedule of community events, conference sessions, and parties scattered around the city. Then, of course, tomorrow is Election Day! Remember to vote, and to head to your favorite bar to watch the results come in. Below is our roundup of recommended technology events happening this week, and we recommend you check out DC Week's full schedule.

Monday, November 5

6:45 pm

DT:DC: Designing DC Focused Design Challenges: This event from the DT:DC design thinking meetup group will look at the steps and tools needed to define a problem and create and refine a design challenge to meet it. If you're interested in design methodology and what goes into design challenges, check this event out.

Wednesday, November 7

6:30 pm

NoVa Node Meetup: After being postponed due to Sandy last week, NoVa Node will get together to look at a case study of deploying node.js in production.

7:00 - 9:00 pm

GeoDC Meetup on Election Mapping: Right on the heels of Election Day, the GeoDC group will look at how two major news sources - USA Today and the Washington Post - mapped election results and used maps and graphs in their overall coverage.

7:00 - 9:00 pm

DC Week Keynotes: Come out to hear some inspiring talks from people leading local start up companies like Uber, Buzzcar, and the Girl Effect on what they do, how they got there, and why they do it. DC Mayor Vincent Gray will kick off the talks, and hopefully talk a bit about what he's doing to foster the tech community here in town.

Thursday, November 8

6:00 pm

DC Week Tech Cocktail: Tech Cocktail brings together tech entrepreneurs, developers, designers, investors, and employers looking to mix and mingle over drinks. If this sounds like you, come out to meet some new people and get introduced to a handful a tech startups featured in their showcase.

Friday, November 9

8:00 pm

DC Week Closing Party: DC Week will come to a close this Friday and go out with a bang - and a big party. Come out to celebrate with tech folks, enjoy the open bar, rock out to live music, and check out an art show.

Week in DC Tech: Sandy Edition

Development Seed — 2012-10-29T00:00:00-07:00

While almost everything in Washington, DC is closed today and likely tomorrow, there are still some great technology (and other) events happening later this week to liven things up post-Sandy. Our roundup is below.

Tuesday, October 30

9:00 pm

High Heel Race: This annual tradition of queens dressing to the nines and racing down 17th Street is still on for this Tuesday, with a potential postponement until Thursday if the bad weather persists. There's no place in DC where you'll see better makeup and costumes.

6:30 pm

NoVA Node Meetup: The Northern Viriginia node.js group will look at deploying node in production through the case study of SpanishDict's new text-to-speech service. Check for updates tomorrow on whether this meetup is still happening or postponed.

Friday, November 2

8:00 pm - midnight

DCWEEK Opening Party: DC's week long technology and design festival kicks off with a party that will bring folks out to network and have fun over drinks and live music.

This Weekend

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

DCWEEK Hackathon: This hackathon brings together developers, designers, and the pitchers to come up with a project idea and execute a first iteration - all in the name of cash prices and a chance to bring it to the next level.

Week in DC Tech: October 22

Development Seed — 2012-10-22T00:00:00-07:00

There are some new technology events kicking off this week with the AWS and Data Business groups both holding their first get together, along with some long running groups like the Online News Association holding meetups. Check out our roundup below to help you plan your social calendar this week.

Tuesday, October 23

6:30 - 8:30 pm

ONA DC Meetup: This month's meetup will feature presentations from folks at the Knight Lab at Northwestern University, a group of people working on data experiments and tools that they hope will change the way the media tells its stories.

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Data Business DC Meetup: In its first meetup, this group will look at how local startups are using food-based data in their business - from tracking customers food preferences and orders to what they're saying on social media. Come out if you're interested in hearing how people are using data to form their startup.

Thursday, October 25

6:00 - 8:00 pm

AWS Meetup: This inaugural meetup for AWS will include presentations from GeoEye on how they serve up geospatial satellite imagery, and from Amazon Web Services on Dynamo DB. If you want to learn more about AWS and meet others working with it, check this meetup out.

Week in DC Tech: October 8

Development Seed — 2012-10-08T00:00:00-07:00

Interested in discussions around internet freedom or open source stacks? Or do you prefer to dive into code at hackathons or have your discussions over beers? Check out the technology events happening in town this week for your dose of startups, code, crisis mapping, and more.

Wednesday, October 10

5:30 pm

Science and Academic Freedom in the Digital Age: The American Association for the Advancement of Science is hosting this event on internet freedom to discuss what implications is has for the work of scientists and engineers. Come out for this discuss and for the reception to follow.

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: Want to put some spark into your project idea? Come to this after hours session to work alongside others trying to launch a new project or business idea and get fired up.

Thursday, October 11

6:00 - 9:00 pm

Crisis Mapping ICT4Drinks: This happy hour kicks of the International Crisis Mapping conference in town this weekend. Come out for drinks with people working in crisis mapping, data management, and related fields. We'll be there talking about using MapBox for disaster response.

6:30 pm

OpenStackDC Meetup #5: This month's meetup will include presentations on Juju, Puppet, and one on multinode deployment with Quantum from our friends at BlackMesh. Come out to hear presentations and meet others building with open source tools.

This Weekend

10:00 am - 6:00 pm

Random Hacks of Kindness at ICCM: The Random Hacks of Kindness hackathon is teaming up with the International Crisis Mapping conference to work on tools to solve problems faced during humanitarian crises and disaster response. Specifically they're looking for mappers, humanitarians, and developers to turn out some interesting new tools and projects.

Week in DC Tech: October 1

Development Seed — 2012-10-01T00:00:00-07:00

Whether you'd looking learn more about maps and data analysis or simply play some boisterous drinking games while watching the presidential debates, there's an event for you this week in Washington, DC. Check out our roundup below, and have a great week!term

Monday, October 1

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Data Science DC: This meetup will dive into the world of Bayesian data analysis, a skill for flexibly modelling and understanding complex (or, as we'll see, simple) data. Come out to learn more.

Tuesday, October 2

7:00 - 9:00 pm

DC Tech Meetup: Come out to hear what students are working on from their DC dorm rooms. This meetup will include 9 pitches or demos from students from local universities.

Wednesday, October 3

7:00 - 8:30 pm

GeoDC Meetup: Before you turn on the presidential debates, come out to see some hot maps. We'll have lightning talks on National Geographic's basemap, maps of Mars, and more.

8:00 pm

Presidential Debates with Redditors: Just one of the many debate watching parties happening around the city. Come out to a dive bar to join Redditors with watching and critiquing the debates.

Week in DC Tech: September 24

Development Seed — 2012-09-24T00:00:00-07:00

There are some great technology events lined up in Washington, DC this week, from Ignite DC talks that will quick teach you the meat of 12 different topics, to a discussion on the practice of getting news from games (aka TechRaking), to an unconference on building a modern office culture. Read on for our roundup, and have a great week!

Monday, September 24

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls: Have a new project you want to work on and share with others? Come out to jam with other folks working into the night and be ready to pitch your idea.

Wednesday, September 26

6:00 - 10:00 pm

Ignite DC All Stars: This ignite session features the cream of the crop, with 12 of the best ignite speakers including Alex Howard of O'Reilly Radar, Danny Harris of People's District, and Alex Priest from Uber all on the lineup.

Thursday, September 27

6:30 pm

ONA Meetup: TechRaking: Interested in TechRaking, known as the intersection of games and news and a growing way in which people are getting their news? Come out to learn more and share stories from last week's Online News Association conference.

Saturday, September 29

9:00 am - 5:00 pm

Culture Camp DC: This day long event will center on creating an agile, successful office culture and what it takes to get there. Come out to share your experiences and learn approaches from others.

Week in DC Tech: September 17

Development Seed — 2012-09-17T00:00:00-07:00

It's a busy week for folks interested in mapping and GIS, with meetups from Geo NoVA and DC Women in GIS, plus a mapping party to test out a new transit map and an OpenStreetMap workshop. See below for details on these and other events happening this week in Washington, DC.

Monday, September 17

7:45 pm

Power Wheels Racing Interest Meeting: Ever wanted to trick out your power wheels to impress your friends? HacDC is giving you that option, building out cars to race in the upcoming Power Racing Series.

Tuesday, September 18

7:00 pm

Geo NoVa Meetup: Have you been running into the wall trying to solve a spatial problem? This meetup will allow folks to throw out their spatial issues and questions to discuss and troubleshoot with the crowd.

Thursday, September 20

12:30 pm

MongoDB Meetup: MongoDB Version 2.2 has been released! This event will dial into the free online conference being put on by 10gen to introduce new features, discuss updates to the core server, and cover how to update your deployment.

6:00 - 8:00 pm

DC Women in GIS: Come out to meet women working in GIS, mapping, geography, and related fields! This meetup is always a great time to meet other women in an intimate and friendly environment.

Saturday, September 24

1:00 - 5:00 pm

OpenStreetMap Introductory Workshop: While in New York City, I thought it worth mentioning this hands on workshop being led by Alex introducing OpenStreetMap, walking through how to edit and contribute to it, and showing examples of what you can do with free, community map of the world.

Sunday, September 23

1:00 - 5:00 pm

Mobile Traffic Mapping Party: Come test out a mobile map designed to help transport agencies in developing countries cheaply and easily collect and analyze real-time traffic data from the World Bank and Open Plans. Before it goes abroad, you can test it out here while walking and biking around DC.

Week in DC Tech: September 10

Development Seed — 2012-09-10T00:00:00-07:00

Interested in picking up some tricks for programming in jQuery, seeing the latest tools being used in this year's campaign, or hacking on hunger and food security data? These are just a few of the technology events happening in Washington, DC this week. Read on for our roundup, and check out DC Tech Events for more event ideas.

Monday, September 10

7:00 pm

DC Tech Meetup: Politics, Advocacy & Government Edition: A timely topic with election season heating up, this month's DC Tech meetup will look at the technologies used in politics and government - featuring 11 short demos in all.

DC jQuery Meetup: Want to learn tricks to make you code less? This meetup will look at ways to work faster and smarter when programming in jQuery.

Wednesday, September 12

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: Find it helpful to soak up the energy of other folks working into the wee hours of the night? Come out to this late night co-working session to pound on your newest idea.

Friday, September 14 (and this weekend)

5:30 - 8:30 pm

Hacking for Hunger: USAID is hosting this hackathon, bringing together food security experts, data analysts, and developers to see what can be done to help food security through opening up and building tools around food security data.

Saturday, September 15

1:00 - 3:00 pm

Preparing for DARPA's Robotics Challenge: DARPA is holding a robotics challenge to develop tools to help with humanitarian and disaster relief. Have an idea you want to test or our just want to put your skills to work? Come to this meetup to find teammates, strategize, and pick up some skills.

Week in DC Tech: Labor Day Edition

Development Seed — 2012-09-04T00:00:00-07:00

After a long weekend celebrating the last days of summer, it's time to get back to you. What better way than with some fun technology events where you'll also learn something and meet some interesting people? Below is our roundup of technology events in Washington, DC this week including GeoDC, speed networking, a movie night, and a for good hackathon.

Wednesday, September 5

6:00 - 9:00 pm

Speed Networking Event: Want to meet a lot of web professionals really quickly? Come out to this networking event combining local groups around user experience, design, content, and technology.

7:00 - 9:00 pm

GeoDC Meetup: This month's meetup is all about mobile mapping with lightning talks on NPR's fire mapping app, Spatial Networks Fulcrum app, and the Mashup App, and Esri's new data collection app. Come out to see what you can do with all these apps and talk with other folks interested in mapping, GIS, and geo.

Thursday, September 6

All day (and Friday)

FCC's Developing with Accessibility: This FCC is organizing this event to get people using accessibility APIs and open data sets to build accessible apps and websites that are fully usable by people with disabilities. If you want to get some hands on experience building accessible tools, check this event out. There will also be a live webcast of the event.

5:00 - 6:30 pm

Global Development Matters Movie Night: Valley of Saints: Come for a viewing of this documentary on life in the Dal Lake, India, where the local community of fishermen and farmers increasingly rely on tourism to survive. A discussion will follow on the film and it's take on the community and environmental impact of urbanization.

This Weekend, September 7-9

Varies

Createathon DC: This hack weekend will bring together developers, designers, and strategists to improve the online presence of three local nonprofits, including the excellent Phoenix Bikes, which teaches kids to repair and rehab bikes after school, and DC Diaper Bank and Borromeo Housing, both serving low income families and mothers.

Week in DC Tech: August 27

Development Seed — 2012-08-27T00:00:00-07:00

It's the last week of August, which in this town tends to mean quiet, empty, and humid. Don't let the fact that everyone else is out of town keep you in this week - instead check out a technology event and learn something. Below is our roundup of events happening this week in Washington, DC.

Monday, August 27

6:30 pm

Data Science DC: This meetup on the "The Split Personalities of Data Scientists" will look at who data scientists are, what they do, and what skills they're lacking. If you're a data scientist or are curious about the community, come out for a statistical look at this group and meet others in it.

8:30 pm

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: Don't sit alone at your laptop working on your latest idea into the morning - instead join others doing the same at this co-working session. You'll be able to pull from the energy of others, bounce ideas off of them, and even share a little dessert.

Thursday, August 30

6:45 pm

So You Want to Build A Mobile App?: Are you considering building or mobile app or just curious as to what it takes? Come out for this discussion on the how to take an idea and design, develop, and deploy it as a mobile app.

7:00 pm

Strategies for Handling Missing Data in R: One issue in every data project is how to handle the data that is missing and its impact on your outcomes. This meetup will feature a presentation on how HelloWallet deals with this, as well as a short coding tutorial on R.

Saturday, September 1

11:00 am - 4:00 pm

DC Games Festival 2012: Want to play some games in the park over Labor Day weekend? Check out this festival where people will gather to play games ranging from interactive storytelling to variations of dodgeball-based strategy games - with the common factor being that they're played outside and without your gadgets.

Week in DC Tech: August 20

Development Seed — 2012-08-20T00:00:00-07:00

Rather than sit back in the quiet days of August, be productive and check out some of the technology events happening this week in Washington, DC. Below is our roundup for the week.

Monday, August 20

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: Sponge off the energy of other hardworking folks in this co-working session held at Bisnow. This session will bring together folks working on their own projects into the night, with a short break for introductions.

Tuesday, August 21

7:00 pm

NetSquared: Power of Open Source: Three speakers with backgrounds programming and implementing projects on open source will speak about the state of open source software generally and why open is usually a smart decision.

Wednesday, August 22

6:00 - 9:00 pm

Mobile Web Bootcamp: Come out for an intensive overview of mobile web, covering everything from creating a mobile web strategy to integrating it with your overall web strategy to adding a geo component.

7:00 - 11:00 pm

U Street Movie Series: The American President: Enjoy the tail end of the summer by watching a classic DC movie outside. The American President will be showing at sundown at the park in the Harrison Recreation Center off of U Street.

Thursday, August 23

6:30 - 9:00 pm

Tech Cocktail Mixer and Startup Showcase.: This event is just like what it sounds like - a happy hour where you can meet and talk with folks working in technology while seeing showcases of 16 different tech startups, presented by their creators. Come out to see some new ideas, meet new people, and get some insight into the DC startup scene.

Week in DC Tech: August 13

Development Seed — 2012-08-13T00:00:00-07:00

Interested in learning more about newer technologies like node.js and MongoDB, or want a new take on the age old question of whether to use a CMS or not? Check out some of the technology events happening in Washington, DC this week.

Monday, August 13

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: Want to work late into the night with some company other than your laptop? Join others doing the same at DC Nightowls held this week at the canvas.co co-working space.

Wednesday, August 15

6:30 pm

MongoDB Meetup: This month's meetup will include presentation on the MongoDC aggregation framework and the MongoDB schema design used at BusyConf. Come out for these talks and to meet people using MongoDB.

7:00 - 9:00 pm

NodeDC Meetup: Interested in node.js, the lightweight platform for building fast, scalable network applications? Come out to meet developers working with node and share your own needs and experiences.

7:00 pm

DC PHP Meetup: The topic of this meetup is "CMS, Framework, or DIY: How Do I Choose?", which coincides with our recent blog post on how we build CMS-free websites and why. Come hear the pros and cons of different approaches and learn what options are out there.

Friday, August 17 and Saturday, August 18

9:00 am - 6:00 pm

Code with me in DC: This two-day workshop will teach journalists the basics of programming in HTML, CSS and Javascript. If you're a journalist and want to pick up some beginner level coding skills to create a foundation to take back to your newsroom, check this out.

Week in DC Tech: July 30

Development Seed — 2012-07-30T00:00:00-07:00

Want to learn more about how organizations are using maps and graphs, or more interested in improving your skills administrating Linux from the command line? Meetups happening this week in Washington, DC will cover these topics and others. Read on for our full roundup.

Wednesday, August 1

5:30 pm

NTEN DC 501c3 Tech Club: This meetup will beg to answer the question can graph databases and other visualizations help nonprofits to improve their fundraising efforts. Come out for a discussion around this topic and to give your input.

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Global Development Meetup: This meetup will be a call to action to stand for Congo. Speakers will brief attendees on the current situation in the country and the need for assistance, and there will be a silent auction to help raise funds.

7:00 - 9:00 pm

Geo DC Meetup: Interested in maps, GIS, or geography? Then check out this meetup to meet folks with a similar interest and this month to hear lightning talks on what the Library of Congress is doing with geospatial data, the Red Cross' upcoming project to map two cities in Uganda in OpenStreetMap, and mobile mapping and the MapBox mobile SDK.

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: Here's your chance to work into the night with other folks working on new ideas, start ups, and other technology related projects. If you're looking for inspiration or just some help to keep your eyes open, check out this weekly meetup.

Saturday, August 4

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Linux Admin Study Group: Want to hone your skills in Linux administration? Come to this study group to work through the RedHat certification curriculum and get up to speed on Linux admin and working from the command line.

Week in DC Tech: July 23

Development Seed — 2012-07-23T00:00:00-07:00

As usual there are a lot of technology related events happening in Washington, DC, and this week there are several around start ups from co-working sessions to speakers to happy hours. If you're trying to get your project off the ground, read on for our roundup of local events happening this week.

Monday, July 23

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: Want to work late night with other people cranking away on a technology projects? Check out this gathering, and be sure to bring your laptop and caffeine.

Tuesday, July 24

6:30 - 9:00 pm

Tech Cocktail: This month's event will focus on "Getting From Idea to Product", with presentations from three individuals who transformed their ideas into the successful companies POPVOX.com, RideCharge/TaxiMagic, and Lemur IMS. Come get tips and meet others working toward this goal.

Wednesday, July 25

6:30 - 9:00 pm

DC Nightowls Happy Hour: Take a break from working late to meet and talk with other folks in the DC startup community or those who have ideas they're currently turning into projects at this happy hour.

6:30 pm

Introduction to NoSQL and MongoDB: If you're interested in NoSQL or MongoDB, you'll want to check out this meetup. It will cover the start of NoSQL and the curent space, the creation and system architecture of MongoDB, and case studies of each.

6:45 pm

Design Thinking DC: Move night! Come watch Design and Thinking, a documentary on design, design thinking methodology, and its impact on the world.

Week in DC Tech: July 16

Development Seed — 2012-07-16T00:00:00-07:00

Want to learn more about MongoDB or geo tools, or prefer to talk casually about the news or about how the news can better drive a valuable public conversation before the next election? What about a play about cavemen that's part of the Capital Fringe Festival? Check out our roundup below of the technology events happening this week in Washington, DC.

Tuesday, July 17

6:00 pm

Hacker News DC: Come out to talk to other readers and contributors to Hacker News, talk about the latest technology news, and share any dirt you may have.

6:30 - 8:00

Stone Age Recreation: An Operetta: The Capital Fringe Festival kicked off this weekend and I wanted to plug a show that has been practicing out of the Development Seed garage for the last month. If you have ever been curious about cavemen or musical theater, check out this play at the Studio Theater. We'll be there on opening night to show our support.

6:30 - 8:30 pm

Hacks + Hackers: Tools and technology to improve discourse on news sites: This meetup will look at how journalists can improve the conversation around central news themes - and specifically politics - by journalists and the public at large using online tools.

Wednesday, July 18

6:30 pm

MongoDC Meetup: Want to learn more about MongoDB, the open source document-oriented NoSQL database system? Then check this meetup out to meet folks working with it and to hear presentations on how it's being used.

7:00 pm

Geo NoVA: The second ever Geo NoVA meetup will bring together folks interested in mapping, GIS, geography, geo data, and all things geo to talk casually about their work and interests. Expect a few lightning talks and a round of introductions to kick things off.

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: This late night working session brings folks together to work on projects independently - yet together - and to pitch ideas, brainstorm, and chat with other folks working on startup and technology projects.

Let's Talk Data

Development Seed — 2012-07-11T00:00:00-07:00

Come hang out with members of the Development Seed team and Rufus Pollock, Co-Founder of the Open Knowledge Foundation and one of the lead developers behind Recline.js. This Saturday, we'll be hosting a day of coding and data wrangling to celebrate the launch of Open Knowledge Foundation's Recline Data Explorer.

We will also show and hack on data-related projects we've been building recently at Development Seed. Among them:

Our focus will be on whatever you are most interested in.

Image: DEC PDP by sofiastella84, on Flickr

Event Details

Where:

1714 14th Street NW Rear Entrance Washington, DC 20009

When

Saturday, July 14, 2012
1:00 - 6:00 pm

Week in DC Tech: July 9

Development Seed — 2012-07-09T00:00:00-07:00

Enjoy the slightly cooler temperatures by venturing outside (at least for a little while) to check out some of the technology events happening in Washington, DC this week. There are lots of hands on opportunities to learn this week, with a meetup on DIY mapping, an OpenStreetMap mapping party, and a jQuery hackathon. Read our roundup below.

Wednesday, July 11

7:00 - 9:00 pm

GeoDC Meetup: DIY Mapping: Want to add your house and favorite bar to the map, or create something crazy with aerial photography? Come out to hear about different ways to contribute to and make your own maps with tools like OpenStreetMap, foursquare, and balloons.

DC Tech Meetup #15: Demos, Demos, Demos: Want to see a range of tech tools in action? This month's DC Tech meetup will feature ten demos on different tools and apps, along with a panel discussion on how .gov incentives can encourage local technology innovation and startups.

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: Come co-work with others working to get their ideas off the ground. Plan to work on your project, pitch it to others, and have conversations around collaboration points or just shared tips and ideas.

Thursday, July 12

6:30 pm

DC jQuery Hackathon: Instead of talking, this month's jQuery meetup will focus on building! The group will split up into teams and dive into building something - anything - with jQuery.

Sunday, July 15

10:00 am - 3:00 pm

OpenStreetMap Mapping Party: Come out and add Congressional Cemetery - a currently unmapped historical landmark in Capitol Hill - to OpenStreetMap! It will be a great chance to work with GPS devices, QR codes, and more to add the cemetery, walkways and roads, monuments, and famous gravesite locations to OpenStreetMap.

Week in DC Tech: Independence Day

Development Seed — 2012-07-02T00:00:00-07:00

Between enjoying Independence Day barbecues and fireworks shows, catch a technology event or two this week. While it's a quiet week with the holiday, there are still several in the works. Here's our roundup for the week.

Monday, July 2

8:30 pm - 2:00 am

DC Nightowls Coworking Session: Get some work done before the holiday. Bring your laptop and get down to work with others doing the same. Introductions and cookies at 9:30 pm.

Tuesday, July 3

7:00 pm

DC Python meetup: Into python? Come out to this meetup to meet other python developers and to hear presentations on a resume-based content aware WSGI load balancer and service management with ZooKeeper.

Wednesday, July 4

9:15 pm

National Fireworks: Of course you can't miss the fireworks! Watch from the National Mall or any rooftop with a view of the Washington Monument.

Saturday, July 7

2:00 - 3:00 pm

Linux Admin Study Group: Want to learn Linux? Then head over to HacDC for this study group, where the group will be going through the RedHat certification curriculum together.

Week in DC Tech: June 25th

Development Seed — 2012-06-25T00:00:00-07:00

It's another week chockfull of technology events, with technical meetups like NodeDC and Big Data DC, summer BBQs and day drinking events, and even a local spinoff with the inaugural Geo NoVA meetup (spun from GeoDC). Below is our roundup of tech events for the week. Make it a good one!

Wednesday, June 27

7:00 pm

NodeDC: Are you a node.js developer or looking to hop into it to build fast, scalable, and flexible applications? Come out to meet other local developers and hear lightning talks on their experiences.

Geo NoVA: This is the first meetup of the VA spinoff group of GeoDC, meant to be a more convenient option to folks living and working outside of the city. Come out to chime in on what would be helpful to you for this group and to meet other mapping, geo, and GIS enthusiasts!

Big Data DC: Want to dive into the strategies of using big data? This month's meetup will feature talks on an open source stack for working with it that integrates many open source building blocks, and on load balancing techniques.

Friday, June 29

6:00 pm

Our Summer BBQ: Here at Development Seed and MapBox, we celebrating the official start of summer one week late with a summer BBQ. After work on Friday, we'll be grilling up half smokes, cracking open cold beers, and hanging out with other folks interested in the open source, mapping, international development, and local startup communities. Come on by!

Saturday, June 30

2:00 - 3:00 pm

HacDC's Linux Admin Study Group: Want to learn your way around Linux? Head over to HacDC for the first study session to explore Linux and start working through the RedHat certification curriculum.

2:00 - 5:00 pm

Mashable Social Media Day DC: Celebrate Social Media Day by meeting up with other technology oriented folks in real life, over afternoon cocktails at Barcode.

Week in DC Tech: June 18th

Development Seed — 2012-06-18T00:00:00-07:00

Interested in tools your startup should be using or how to get the government using your products? Prefer watching a documentary or doing some quiet coding with others speaking your language? Check out the technology events happening this week in Washington, DC in our roundup below.

Tuesday, June 19

5:30 - 7:30 pm

Startup Day on the Hill: This event will bring together two communities that aren't known for spending a lot of time together - startup companies and government agencies. We'll be there demoing MapBox and showing how government agencies like the FCC and the White House are already using these tools.

6:30 pm

DC Lean Startup Circle: This meetup will answer the questions "What's in Your Start-Up Toolbox?", with folks from several local startups talking about tools they need to run their company, from team portals to task trackers to analytics.

Wednesday, June 20

5:00 - 6:30 pm

Global Development Matters Movie Night: Check out this screening of the documentary When China Met Africa, looking at China's increased business involvement in Africa and specifically Zambia. Following the movie, there will be a discussion with the co-writer and co-producer.

6:30 pm

MongoDC Preview: Ahead of next week's MongoDC conference, a one day event around the open source, non-relational database MongoDB, this meetup will preview the conference and the conversations that will happen there.

Sunday, June 24

10:00 pm

DC PyLadies Coffee and Hacking: DC python developers will be gathering on Sunday for some collaborating coding. Come out to meet other women programmers, work on your own projects, and help someone advance theirs.

Week in DC Tech: June 11th

Development Seed — 2012-06-11T00:00:00-07:00

There a wide variety of technology events happening this week in Washington, DC from parties like the OSS BBQ and the FrontlineSMS launch party to hands on hacking events like the e-Gov Startup Weekend and HacDC's bike meetup. Check out our roundup below for more details on our picks for the week.

Tuesday, June 12

5:30 pm

FrontlineSMS Version 2 Launch Party: FrontlineSMS is hosting launch parties in three cities - Washington, DC, London, and Nairobi - to celebrate the launch of the latest version of the open source SMS-messaging platform. It will be interesting to see what they unveil!

6:00 - 8:45 pm

2nd Annual OSS BBQ: The DCjQuery, WordPressDC, DCPHP, and DC Droid meetup groups are joining together on Tuesday for a summer barbecue. Come out to talk open source, celebrate the start of summer, and enjoy some great food.

Wednesday, June 13

8:30 pm

DC Nightowls Co-working Session: Looking for some late night inspiration? Check out the DC Nightowls group, which comes together weekly to work into the night together on interesting solo projects. This week's session will be held at the Dupont Circle Business Incubator.

Thursday, June 14

7:30 pm

Bikes and Byzantium: HacDC is hosting a bike social, where people interested in hacking their bikes will attend to talk bike tires and other ways to tweak out their rides.

This Weekend

Friday night - Sunday afternoon

e-Government Startup Weekend: Want to work on a solution to help advance technology and openness in the government? Check out this hackathon, put on in part by Code for America, that's focused entirely on helping the government implement better technology. DJ will be there from our team training people on how to use TileMill to make interactive web maps using government and other open data.

Week in DC Tech: June 6th

Development Seed — 2012-06-04T00:00:00-07:00

As usual there are a lot of technology events happening in Washington, DC, ranging from web mapping demos at GeoDC to presentations on big data, R, and HTML5. See our roundup below for more details. Have a great week!

Wednesday, June 6

5:00 pm

DC HTML5 Meetup: Come out to hear the latest on HTML5 through presentations and meeting folks working closely with the technology. Bringing laptops and showing off your work is encouraged.

7:00 - 9:00 pm

GeoDC Meetup: Want to integrate interactive web maps into your site, or see what the possibilities include for visualizing geo data? Come out to this month's meetup for four demos on web mapping tools, including MapStory, OpenGeo, GeoIQ, and MapBox.

Thursday, June 7

6:30 pm

R in the Enterprise: This month's meetup will focus on methods to deploy R-based analytics in production environments, with three different presentations on the topic.

7:00 pm

District Big Data Meetup: If you work with big data or want to know why everyone is talking about it, head over to this meetup to hear a presentation on big data analytics and meet folks working in this space.

Week in DC Tech: Memorial Day

Development Seed — 2012-05-29T00:00:00-07:00

Hope you had a happy Memorial Day and put the long, hot weekend to good use. This week it's back to work here in Washington, DC, with lots of technology events happening as usual. This coming weekend is a particularly busy one, with hack days, workshops, and other ways for you to pick up some skills while meeting new people.

Tuesday, May 29

6:30 pm

ONA DC: Still in the partying mood after the long weekend? Come out to ONA's happy hour tonight to chat with other journalists using technology to better tell stories.

Friday, June 1

5:00 - 9:00 pm

DC Tech Meetup #14: Ever wanted to see the literal inside of the local tech community? Dupont startups are opening their doors on Friday to show off their offices and work. Check out the map and plan your startup tour.

This Weekend (June 2 and 3)

Friday at 7:00 pm and all day Saturday

DC Python Workshop: This ladies-only workshop will teach the basics of programming in python, from setting up your development environment to covering the basic concepts of the language to diving in and coding.

All weekend

Health 2.0 Code-a-thon: Have your own idea for a health and fitness app, or another technological tool that would help prevent obesity? Come out to this hack day to implement your idea and help others work on theirs.

All weekend

NoVA EDU Startup Weekend: This event will bring together teachers, developers, and entrepreneurs to develop educational businesses and apps that utilize existing data sets on the Virginia school system.

All weekend

Studyhall's DC Tech Hackathon: If you use the Studyhall platform and want to help make it better, check out their hackathon to lend a hand in building out the platform.

Week in DC Tech: May 21

Development Seed — 2012-05-21T00:00:00-07:00

Want to take a look at the data on access to financial resources in Kenya and other countries, get the scoop on how to best leverage networks in startups, or learn how to grow your own food? There are meetups on these topics and others happening this week in Washington, DC. Below is our roundup of the technology events happening in town.

Monday, May 21

6:30 pm

Urban Farming Workshop: This workshop will teach DCers how to grow their own food in the city, take advantage of community gardens and farmers markets, and eat local. Come out for tips or to learn more about urban farming.

Tuesday, May 22

3:30 - 5:00 pm

Tracking Progress Toward Financial Access: This event, hosted by the New America Foundation, will look at the data on financial inclusion in Kenya, covering everything from traditional banks to microfinance institutions to mobile money's impact on access. Our partners MIX Market will be there to talk about the latest microfinance data, including data visualizations like this one of South Africa.

6:00 pm

HackEDU Happy Hour: Do you work in education, or are you interested in bringing smarter technology to the space? Come out to this social event to meet other people working to improve education through better use of technology.

Wednesday, May 23

6:00 - 8:00 pm

Women Who Tech Cocktail Party: Come out for drinks and conversation with other ladies working in technology. This network spans across many technology fields and is a great resource for making new friends and connections between women working in technology.

6:30 pm

MongoDC Meetup: This month's meetup will feature presentations on running MongoDB and on Variety, a schema analyzer for MongoDB. There will also be an open Q&A on anything topical.

Thursday, May 24

6:30 - 9:00 pm

Tech Cocktail's Speaker Series: This event, the first in a series of presentations from entrepreneurs, will discuss how to best build and leverage a network to grow your startup.