Welcome to our Hertfordshire based PASS Chapter. We are a community of people who work with Microsoft SQL Server. The Hertfordshire User Group for SQL Server (HUGSS) is dedicated to learn, share, and build knowledge sharing community for SQL Server and the ecosystem of technologies that touch it. Every two months, we will be holding free learning presentations on a range of topics, including Business Intelligence, SQL Server Architecture, Data Visualisation and Database Administration.

BRUM is a group for R users at all levels and from all backgrounds based in and around Birmingham (UK) and the West Midlands, to meet and discuss R-related topics and to promote the use of R. R is a free/open source project and is a leading software package for data analysis, statistics and data visualisation. Anyone with a background or interest in R is welcome! Sponsorship for this event is kindly provided by The Data Mine Ltd. and Revolution Analytics.

Group of people interested in CouchDB and the associated ecosystem (e.g. rich html5 applications, MVC & asynchronous javascript, big data, data visualisation). More information can be found on http://bristol.couchdb.org/

Satellite Applications Catapult will be a base for space related hackathons at the newly refurbished HQ in Didcot. We will be hosting events lasting 2 days, in which a large number of people meet to engage in collaborative computer programming: This 48-hour hackathon is to build new web and mobile services revolving around satellite data. Solutions can range from predicting natural disasters, Climate change, anything you can think of to tantalize the judges, using a wealth of satellite data. Cat …

This is a group for anyone interested in scale-out storage and IT infrastructure in general. Designed to pull together like minded people from all types of organisations to share their experiences, pain and successes in building out their IT infrastructures in times of ever changing technology choices and supporting the rapid increase in the amount of data being produced. Please use this as a forum to discuss issues online, but there will also be the opportunity to meet up regularly. Watch this …

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The Reading Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Reading to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.

The local user group for people interested in sql server and related technologies - there's usually pizza!

To join this forum please just answer two questions below and send us your profile picture. This social group is for TV, online and mobile media professionals located in the UK and Ireland. Vizrt UK is a team committed to helping fellow TV and digital platform professionals like you to enhance your brand with real-time graphics, to get the most out of your digital media assets and to publish integrated digital online and mobile content in the most attractive and cost-efficient way. If you would …