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Hello friends!

Come on out to the next HN DC meetup (location TBD), on Wednesday, January 18th at 6pm!

Meet other HN readers, talk startups and technology, connect with a cofounder, and (as always) you are encouraged to plug your own startup, give laptop demos, request feedback, recruit beta users, etc.
See you there!
Best,

Operating a great mobile startup requires being able to navigate the legal, financial and operational risks associated with even the most mundane decisions.

For our next meetup we'll have some fun with Mike Driscoll (fellow Data and R Geek, organizer of the Bay Area R meetup group, CTO of <a href="http://www.metamarkets.com">MetaMarkets</a>, <a href="http://www.oreilly.com">O'Reilly</a> Strata/OSCON speaker, and author of the <a...

Hello friends!
Come on out to the November HN DC meetup (location TBD), on Monday, November 14th at 6pm!
Meet other HN readers, talk startups and technology, connect with a cofounder, and (as always) you are encouraged to plug your own startup, give laptop demos, request feedback, recruit beta users, etc.
See you there!
Best,

Defrag is the first conference focused solely on the tools and technologies that are leveraging the "social" aspect of software to accelerate the "aha" moment. Defrag is not a version number. Rather it’s a gathering place for the growing community of implementers, users, builders and thinkers that are working on the next wave...

Registration is now open! The third annual Hadoop World will bring together the largest gathering of Hadoop practitioners, developers, business executives, industry luminaries and innovative companies in the Hadoop ecosystem. Hadoop World is the place to get the most comprehensive education, knowledge sharing, training and networking with experts...

This is the first official Apache Sqoop (incubating) Meetup. We will be meeting on the eve of <a href="http://www.hadoopworld.com/">Hadoop World 2011</a>, on November 7 at Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers. An agenda will be posted as we near the event. If you have a topic you would like to present or discuss, please contact...

A series of short talks followed by an unconference-style meetup scheduled right before the HadoopWorld NYC event. The evening will be divided into slots for short lightning talks (15 min including Q&A) followed by un-conference style breakouts and free networking time. An agenda will be posted as we near the event. If you have a topic...

Register at: http://www.sourcecon.com/2011sv

Glue is the only conference devoted solely to solving the web application integration problem-set. People that should attend Glue include the architects, developers, administrators and integrators that have moved past the initial step of seeing the web as a platform, and are facing the real-world challenges of what "stove-piped" web...

Thanks in large part to the Baltimore Rails Community who were such a great hosts in 2010, RailsConf is returning to Baltimore again in 2011. Happening May 16-19, 2011 at the Baltimore Convention Center, RailsConf is the official event for the Ruby on Rails community. If you're passionate about Rails and what it helps you achieve—or are...

recruitDC Spring 2011 is an action pack day filled with topic sharing, tool gathering and networking. Highlighting many of our local recruiting superstars plus a few out of the area luminaries, recruitDC will bring our DC area recruiting community together for networking and to support best practices.

The day will include keynote presentations as...

[7:00pm - 7:10pm] Welcome by Peter Corbett + Frank Gruber's "Update on What's Hot in DC Tech"
[7:10pm - 7:20pm] <a href="http://TileMill.com">TileMill.com</a> Demo by Will White (Developer, Development Seed)
[7:20pm - 7:50pm] Investor Q&A Panel: <a...

Watch local web tech startup entrepreneurs demo their concepts, and network with others in the community.

For those who have not been to a Startup Rockstars event, it is an opportunity to see local DC-area web start-ups present their concepts live, and to network & have conversations with people in the DC/MD/VA social web tech/creative...

Join us in NYC for the sourcing conference that started it all. Over three years ago, SourceCon began as an opportunity for the sourcing community to come together in one place to learn from one another, share best practices, and forge relationships that would span the globe. We know you want more, and we’re excited to bring it to you in the Big...

Content Management conference. Topics: web content management, enterprise search, social media, multilingual technology, globalization and localization

Join us for the 2nd annual Hadoop World conference taking place at the Hilton New York Hotel on October 12, 2010. Register today to join your colleagues and community for an engaging and educational day, plus terrific networking at the closing cocktail reception.

More information is available at...

http://bit.ly/9OXQsA - Save the date now for Oracle OpenWorld 2010, September 19 - 23, in San Francisco. With thousands of sessions and hundreds of exhibits and demos, there's no better place to learn how to optimize your existing systems, get an inside line on upcoming technology breakthroughs, and meet with the strategists and developers...