This is a book club that focuses on queer literature, from the trashy to the highbrow.  We read long tomes, graphic novels, short stories and even non-fiction, whatever takes our fancy. The aim of the group is to celebrate non-normative gender and sexuality, bring queer culture to life, learn about queer history and make new friends. You don’t have to identify as anything to join this group. We usually meet on the last Wednesday of every month. Each meetup we discuss the chosen book, have a fre …

Enterprise search meetups are an opportunity to get together with other people doing search. Grab a drink, be challenged by one or two search-related talks, and join in the discussion. Topics can cover everything from ranking algorithms, to working with Solr and the Google Search Appliance, to designing the user interface. It's also a great way to network and stay on top of the latest developments in search. Disclaimer: This meetup is NOT about SEO. Topics covered at this meetup include: Enter …

Where the Creative Types Go, is a social gathering of like minded creative types in London. If you are a professional, dabble here and there, or just simply want to meet new people...Where the Creative Types Go, is the place to be. There will be meet ups in London to creative events, exhibitions and shows, in design related disciplines. I.e. graphic design, technology, illustration, photography, art, fashion, new media, film and anything in-between. There will be opportunities to get to know …

Our group covers most of the products Adobe offers, focusing on products in the Creative Suite family. Whether your interest is in design, development or eLearning, we have something for you! A free monthly catch up and what’s more, we are going to throw in some training tips for free. Do you want free training? Well join the club The Creative Class Club in London in run by Academy Class the Adobe Authorised Training Centre and is available for both old friends and new friends We do hope you’ll …

The Hoxton Mix is a digital community in the heart of Shoreditch. We provide co-working desk space and virtual office address in London, Old Street, Shoreditch. The Mixer is the name for our social networking event whereby our tenants, their client and guests can share ideas. We're also going to throw in the odd guest speaker.

Are you making educational games and apps, thinking about making them or just interested in the application of new technology to education? The aim of this group is to link people involved in or interested in getting involved in making educational games and apps. Often people in this field have a particular skill (e.g. teaching, coding, subject-matter expertise, design) but need to find others with complimentary skills. This meetup group would help people get together and share knowledge and ide …

Wip Comics – Originally known as Graphic Novels and Comics, Critique and Collaboration Meetup was established by Michal Ingram in July 2011 who came up with the idea of bringing comic creators together for the purpose of collaborating and giving each other feedback. The intention for this group is for those attending to do any of the following: discuss an idea for a Graphic Novel/Comic story, whether from an artist or a writer's perspective (or if you are doing both). The overall aim is for yo …

Thanks for looking at the The London Photo Magic Group. If you know the basics of photoshop and want to do more with your pictures, then this is the group for you. Ever seen a really cool effect in a magazine or online and wanted to know to know how to do it, then I will show you how. Using your own images or ones supplied, I will help you do to stuff with your images that you might have thought was beyond your capability. It's really easy when you know how. A good start is that you at least hav …

Calling all Architects, Graphic Designers, Interior Designers, Photographers and anyone who is passionate about Design and lives in London

We're a group of like-minded developers and scientists interested in Machine Learning, Probabilistic Graphical Models and Natural Language Processing. In this meetup, we hope to bring together machine learning practitioners to listen to each other's work alongside running a study group focused on the Stanford courses (ml-class.org, pgm-class.org and nlp-class.org).

Enjoy a drink? Share a passion for the alternative stuff in life? Cult film? Comics and Graphic Novels? Alternative Music? Sci-fi? Or just the alternative scene? Whether you're a fan of any of that, an aspiring creative looking to network a little, or just sounds like your kind of people and you enjoy a drink, look no further: This is just a straightforward regular social drinks session to meet some likeminded folk and have a laugh. I've been running other nights for a good few years, but though …

The Long Distance Paths In this hiking group we concentrate exclusively on long-distance paths. We get as far as we can in a single day and then come back for more another time, joining up the sections until we've completed the entire route. This could take a couple of months or much longer, depending on the overall distance to cover and the frequency of the hikes. We completed the Vanguard Way in 6 hikes from May to August 2012. Now we are doing the Sussex Border Path, eleven hikes between Aug …

This group is for all the creative people in London. If you have a great idea or skill and want to meet people that can help you start or grow your business then this is the group for you. We want to help foster a group of people who have a passion for the creative arts. Be it culinary arts or fashion, graphic design or performing arts. We all have skills, knowledge or contacts that can help each other, so lets get together once a month over a drink and talk, share and advice. We will be running …

This group is designed to help build a community for Motion Graphic Designers, Animators, Modellers and Video Editors to discuss Design technique, principles and methods as well as career advice for people just starting out. This group supports the motion graphics and animation community in London and regularly holds talks and presentations at different studio's around London.

What is Converge? Converge+UK is a series of events to foster communication, collaboration and creation at the intersection of Design, Business & Technology. The concept was co-founded by a diverse group of London professionals working in lot’s of different disciplines with a common interest in entrepreneurship including Klaus Bravenboer, Peter Thomson, Tim McCready, David Mclaire, Sallie Bale, and Dan George. We had all separately been going to lots of events related to our respective industrie …

Welcome to comic book club the book club for people who like their books to have plenty of pictures. Each month we'll read a trade paperback and then get together and discuss it over a few friendly jars. Looking forward to meeting you!

Our Jellies are an opportunity for homeworkers, freelancers, part-timers, contractors, small business owners, entrepreneurs and anyone who wants to get out of the usual (often lonesome) settings of the home or cafe, to meet others, chat, collaborate or just simply work in a friendly welcoming environment. All for free.

The Nexus Project is an initiative to bring together the creative talent of different disciplines to share techniques, solve problems and build networks of collaboration. The events will happen every month inviting young designers, architects, engineers, programmers, game designers and visual artists. We will also have one guest connected online to keep the project open to international collaboration. You can also apply to present at the Nexus, making the Nexus an opportunity to showcase your wo …