This meetup group was created by the Boston Entrepreneurship Center (BEC) in order to connect the international population in Boston with local professional and academic initiatives.  For the past two years, BEC has been cultivating an international community concerned with socially impacting the world.  Boston is the premier source of incredible initiatives and opportunities for incoming international professionals and students. This network is ideal for people who want to learn more about the …

It's been said that "You are the sum of your 5 closest friends and acquaintances." That means that if you're trying to be successful, you should spend time with successful people. Connections are tough to make in Boston. It's a cold city where people keep to themselves. That's why networking is the most important things you can do to get somewhere in this town. It's all about who you know. You've heard it before because it's true. You create your own opportunities to move up in the world by util …

This group is for DSLR photographers to come together during a noon lunch break, take a photo jaunt, socialize and have fun. Location walks will be chosen to keep a loop as close to an hour as possible. It’s with hope that the group meetup members will help in the planning for future walks to keep momentum going. This group may expand to a brown bag lunch and learn session or to discuss techniques and provide photo critique. Members can be from amateur to Pro Photographer. Location ideas for Jau …

We're new (started on June 11th). Please come join us and play soon (don't forget to RSVP) Soccer at 12:00 to roughly 2:00 every weekday for people living and working near Boston or Cambridge. All skill levels welcome. Bring a white shirt and a darker shirt or shirt with a color so we can easily divide into teams. Cleats or turf shoes recommended, but not required; shin-guards optional. We play at different locations around Boston and Cambridge depending on day of the week and time of year.  Se …

Come join us!  We attend movies, live theater, opera, concerts, and other events together, without going into Boston. We may eat together (inexpensively) before or after to discuss. Possibilities include the Metropolitan Opera's live HD simulcasts in Rockport, or live theater at the Gloucester Stage Company, or movies at the Cabot Theater in Beverly. New ideas are welcome!  Our purpose is to build community around the performing arts on the North Shore, and to make like-minded friends.

Are you Looking for more friends and dates?? Do you want to meet more people fast? New to Town and wondering how to make new friends quickly? If you are, This is how!! Speed Friending Events are for you!! Come see what everyone is talking about. Speed Friending Events is a fast new, super fun, and very low pressure way to make lasting friendships around town. Our events are the quickest, safest, most effective low-pressure way to meet new people in town. This is the ONLY place in Boston wher …

This group holds a variety of events throughout the year to support women in engineering and to encourage young women to consider an engineering career. Our monthly meetings usually feature a speaker who is asked to address a topic of interest to women in diverse areas of engineering, at various stages of career advancement, and with different priorities for work/life balance. These programs are geared towards encouraging women to achieve their full potential in careers as engineers and leaders. …

Big Data Boston is for people with a passion for analytics & insights that are derived from the extreme information generated today. This group is for the small start up and the big company, the individual and the group, anyone in Boston that wants to make it the capital for Big Data!

This is a group for all those young professionals from all over the world who now live and work in Boston. People from all fields of work/study are welcome. We all know how busy our life can get with our work schedule, daily commute, and getting accustomed to a different place/culture from the one where we grew up. Due to this daily routine, sometimes we don't find the time or the opportunity to meet new people. This is a good way to connect with young professionals of different cultures, jobs, …

If yinz wanna go dahntahn 'n 'at to watch some Pittsburgh sports, join us! This group is for those who live in or visit Boston but still bleed Pittsburgh black and gold. We welcome Yinzers or Non-Yinzers, from the 'Burgh and not from the 'Burgh...as long as you're a fan, we call you "Friend".  :)

We scout Boston for the best night spots and the most exclusive deals. You will get the chance to meet new people, discover new places and build your network of friends.

Bringing together Boston-area health care technology and clinical professionals interested in the challenges facing health care IT professionals today. That would include discussions around electronic health care records, integrating systems from vendors to "really" make them work together, and other topics of related interest. An important goal is to have members feature and present, informally, on topics of interest defined by the group and to have some fun doing it. This is a new group as of …

Calling all adventure lovers! Experimental Travel is a way to explore a place by turning it into a game. That makes it a prime strategy for discovering things in your own city that you never knew existed (even though you probably pass them every day). Every other week, we'll try out a new theme. Past events have included a blindfolded tour of downtown Boston and a Fibonacci scavenger hunt in Cambridge. Join us on our adventures!

For people involved in developing Facebook Platform Applications in the Boston area. Meet with great speakers and engineers who are developing Facebook applications. Do a lightning demo of your Facebook product or idea!

The DWC-Boston North club is a local chapter of the Downtown Women's Club. This chapter is headed up by Lisa Christine Summerville, http://www.bateauventures.com who is your contact for any and all local events. Join this group for free to ensure that you get notices of local events in the area. Our goal is to bring professional women together to network, build relationships, encourage and support one another, help each other generate revenue and ideas, and have fun! Cheers, Lisa Christine

This group brings together Kinect users and developers in the Boston metro area. We'll share experiences, cool demos, and learn about developing with Microsoft's Kinect sensor and related products.

We get it. You love running. You love Boston. And, oh, you love that cute little RunKeeper app. Let's weave this together into a one-of-a-kind group for anyone interested in running, improving their fitness, and connecting with other cool-minded folk. Running with your audio cues might be helpful and all, but we're super excited about meeting in-person to hear all about your race accomplishments, training tips and challenges along the way.

Boston Badminton is about socializing, meeting new people, and having fun while playing badminton. From beginner to self considered pro, this club is open to everybody. We may even get a drink or two after we play.

The "Non-Scene" Gay 20-Somethings of Boston is just that, a resource for gay men and women in their twenties (Ages 20-29) to hang out, make friends, explore the city, and have fun doing a wide variety of activities typically separate from the gay bar "scene." We'd love for you to join the group and introduce yourself! About half of the group events will be during weeknights, and the other half during weekends. To give you a better idea of what we do, possible/upcoming meetups include: - Trip t …

Treffpunkt zum Quatschen, Kaffee trinken für die Mamas und Krabbeln für die Kleinen (0-24 Monate) im Großraum Boston und Cambridge.

Boston has an amazing group of people who not only create beautiful data visualization work, but also push the entire field forward with their contribution to the open source and academic communities. This meetup will aim to bring those people and anyone interested in data visualization together, fostering a community, creating a space for learning and enabling new partnerships. The meetup will host talks, hack days, workshops/tutorials and personal work showcases. If you would like to speak at …

FRIENDLY IN BOSTON - Be cool.  Be kind. Do you love living in Boston, but not the not-so-friendly Boston vibe? Well, you’ve come to the right place! Friendly in Boston is a newly founded community, whose goal is to funkafy Boston with a more friendly vibe, as well as explore the concept of kindness/friendliness. Who we are and what to expect. Do I need to be a “touch-feely happy person” to join? Simply put, no. While we may “do good”, we are not innately a group of “do-gooders”, but rather a gr …

Boston Biotech Brits is a group of Brits in the Boston area and collaborators in the UK with a shared interest in promoting ties both between Boston and the UK and within our own life sciences community. Boston Biotech Brits has objectives of providing networking events and opportunities between local Boston Biotech Brits, providing a forum for interaction between UK companies seeking business opportunities in Boston area by utilizing local ‘Boston Biotech Brit’ contacts, and to provide local co …

Here you'll find a co-op calendar for the Boston area, with our monthly assemblies, plus meetings, workshops, skillshares, gatherings, festivals, and more. Every second Saturday the Collective House Assembly meets at Encuentro 5 (33 Harrison Ave, 5th floor) to hash out ideas and work on projects to support collective living in the Boston area.  We encourage all Boston collective & cooperative houses to send a rep!  Interested folks who don't live in co-ops are welcome, too. Workshops & Skillshar …

Code for Boston is a Code for America Brigade - a volunteer civic innovation organization created by Boston-area developers, designers, urban planners, and data geeks with an interest in solving civic and social problems through the use of creative technology. We feel that Boston was the driving force in the creation of Government 1.0; we should be leading the way for Gov 2.0. We seek to leverage the revolutionary spirit of New England to help open, improve, and engage our local governments acro …

Single and ready to do something about it? Boston Singles is the only group in Boston and the burbs for singles of any age (21+), race and background. Why limit who you meet? If they aren't for you, maybe they know someone who is! There are social meet and greets, singles events, outings, webinars, workshops and seminars. Many events are free, some events have a small fee. If you're ready to meet the one, then come on out and get social with us! Check out the reviews members of Boston Singles ha …

MTG Boston is a Meetup group for causal players of the card game Magic: The Gathering in the Greater Boston area.  It was so popular in our gaming group, Boston Cards and Conversation, that we have created a new group just for M:tG players! Some of our members are tournament players, but for the most part, this is a group of casual players using fun, non-tournament decks. Whether you are a 15-year veteran or are just beginning how to play, you'll find MTG Boston to be the best place to get your …

The Ivy League Alumni Club of Boston Welcome, Boston Ivy Leaguers! We are a face-to-face social network of alumni from Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Upenn, and Yale. We host professional networking events and publish a weekly newsletter with job postings catered to alumni of these schools in the Boston area.  We also organize career enhancing professional events weekly and monthly in our city. In order to become an official member of this group, you must verify scho …