The Makers Alliance is Cleveland's Hackerspace. We exist to bring hands-on technology and art to members and the general public, through workshops, talks, and shop space. We are a collective of hobbyists, hackers, engineers, and students that desire to educate, innovate, and make some new friends while we are at it. Please join the Makers Alliance Discuss mailing list and introduce yourself!

The Detroit Lean Startup Circle is a group of smart and driven high-tech entrepreneurs that have learned how to discover customers and build products they want. Lean Startups (which can include for profit and not for profit organizations, new product/innovation organizations within larger companies and even government agencies) achieve success faster than most because they get out of the building to talk to customers, validate business model assumptions as quickly and cheaply as possible, use ag …

We're bringing the next wave of human-computer interactions to Cleveland. Augmented Reality, Wearable Computing, Google Glass & Location Based Services innovation discussions, designs, development, architecture, social networking. Investigating design, development and marketing of augmented reality and its interfaces.

It's time that Cleveland pulled together all the tech gurus playing around with JavaScript, ECMAScript, jQuery, Dojo, YUI, Sencha, CoffeeScript and much more, no matter whether on the server-side or in the browser. JavaScript is an extremely versatile (nicely put) language with some fantastic innovations happening. Backbone, Ember, NodeJS and many other new technologies are paving the way for very exciting things to come. Let's get together and teach each other about what is hip and happening!

This is a group for software testers in the Cleveland area. Information about meetings will come in the near future. Until then, we will use this page to share ideas about testing and technology and to discuss future meeting topics. We welcome all testers.

We decided to start this group because we realised there must be plenty of people in the Cleveland Area working with Liferay, but there's no real way of getting everyone together to talk just Liferay. The group aims to share and discuss all aspects of Liferay, not just development/techie things and supplement the often sparse documentation by getting people together to help each other learn how the system works, as well as to share ideas to feed back for the future of Liferay. Anyone who works w …

A group of Cleveland leaders from the Mexican, African American, Chinese, Jewish, Puerto Rican, Nigerian, Lebanese, Russian, Guatemalan, Israeli, French, Taiwanese, Palestinian, Bhutanese, Pakistani, Somali, Vietnamese, Ukrainian, Indian, Serbian and many other communities have joined together for monthly multicultural happy hour sessions. We intend to do this each month in 2013 to create a sense of community and commitment around support for national immigration law reform and local efforts to …

Meet other local Java developers to talk about code, architecture, and innovation. Both beginners and pros are welcome!