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general geek tribes
| Group | Description | URL |
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| Ann Arbor MusicBizCamp | share knowledge, become a Digital Music Coach | http://www.meetup.com/AnnArborMusicBizCamp/ |
| Grex | venerable public access Unix and conferencing community (a brief history) |
http://www.grex.org/ |
| monkey.org | 200+ hackers, artists, scientists, musicians, academics, startup veterans and other primates around the world | http://monkey.org/ |
| OpenCoffee | entrepreneurs, inventors and investors network over Mighty Good coffee | http://entrepreneur.meetup.com/1415/ |
| Ann Arbor Craft Society | Knitters. Crocheters. Scrapbookers. Seamstresses. Jewelry-makers. Illustrators. Cross-stitchers. Artists of all kinds. | http://www.myspace.com/annarborcraftsociety |
| Culinary Historians of Ann Arbor | culinary history and gastronomy | http://culinaryhistoriansannarbor.org/ |
| AHA! (All Hands Active) | Ann Arbor's makerspace/hackerspace. Come make and learn in a collaborative space! |
http://allhandsactive.com |
| Ignite | 5 minutes, 20 slides, What would you say? | http://igniteannarbor.com |
tech geek tribes
groups with open membership and/or free public events. the rest of you can respectfully suck it.
| Group | Description | URL | |
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| a2b3 | emv's Thursday lunch group at Eastern Accents |
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/a2b3/ |
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| a2div | Ann Arbor web development meetup | http://a2div.com/ |
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| A2 Drupal | Drupal Users Group | http://groups.drupal.org/ann-arbor |
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| AHA! (All Hands Active) | Ann Arbor makerspace / hackerspace for DIY makers | http://groups.google.com/group/ahashop www.allhandsactive.com  |
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| Agile Groupies | agile software development enthusiasts | http://agilegroupies.ning.com/ |
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| Agile Summer Camp | like FooCamp, but without even computers? | http://agilesummercamp.com/ |
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| Ann Arbor Computer Society | meets First Wednesday | http://www.computersociety.org/ |
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| Ann Arbor Darwin Day | annual celebration of Darwin's birthday | http://www.annarbordarwinday.org/ |
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| AAJUG | Ann Arbor Java Users Group - meets Fourth Tuesday | http://aajug.org/ |
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| AnnArbor.pm | Ann Arbor Perl Mongers - actually still active, see the Calendar | [http://annarbor.pm.org/ ] |
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| AAVUG | Ann Arbor Virtualization Users group | http://www.aavug.org/ |
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| A3C3 | Ann Arbor Area Crappy Camera Club | http://www.crappycameraclub.org/ |
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| ArborWiki-Discuss | for folks involve in coordinating said website. Meets rarely in person. | http://arborwiki.org/index.php/Arborwiki-discuss |
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| ARROW | Ham Radio geeks in Ann Arbor, meet second Wednesday of every month | http://www.w8pgw.org/ |
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| Association for Women in Computing | local AWC chapter | http://www.awc-aa.org/ |
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| AADND | .Net developers group - meets Second Wednesday | http://www.aadnd.org/ |
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| Bricks For Brains | Educational Hands-on LEGO® Building Exhibits | http://www.bricksforbrains.org/ |
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| CIC | UM Community Information Corps | http://cic.si.umich.edu/events |
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| CITI | UM Center for Information Technology Integration - and Wednesday morning donuts | http://www.citi.umich.edu/ |
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| CocoaHeads | MacOS X and iPhone development | http://www.cocoaheads.org/us/AnnArborMichigan/ |
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| CoffeeHouseCoders | Wednesday night hack-tacular | http://coffeehousecoders.org |
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| CSCS | UM Center for the Study of Complex Systems talks | http://www.cscs.umich.edu/events/events.html |
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| DC734 | Local DEFCON (computer security) chapter | http://www.dc734.org/ |
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| Differential Book Club | reviewing different books | http://www.dbookclub.org/ |
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| Entity |
Defunct  UM digital arts group, but somebody is still organizing SYNCannually? |
http://entity.ummu.umich.edu/ |
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| FlashFocused | Adobe Flash users group | http://www.flashfocused.org/ |
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| GiveCamp |
Geeks giving back |
http://michigangivecamp.org/ |
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| GO Tech | hardware hackers / makers guild | http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/notbago/ |
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| GROCS | Grant Opportunities / Collaborative Spaces, Wednesday tea at 4PM in Design Lab 1 | http://mblog.lib.umich.edu/GROCS/ |
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| LA2M | Mehraban's Wednesday lunch group at Pizza Pino |
http://la2m.org/ |
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| i3 Detroit |
i3 Detroit is a collaborative environment for people to explore the balance between technology, art and culture. | http://www.i3detroit.com |
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| LSA Energy Futures | UM LSA theme semester on energy | http://www.lsa.umich.edu/energyfutures/ |
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| Michigan GTUG | Michigan Google Technology Users Group | http://groups.google.com/group/mi-gtug |
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| MichiPUG | Python Users Group - meets First Thursday | http://groups.google.com/group/michipug/ |
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| Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble |
Michigan Mobile Phone Ensemble plays, new, crazy, electronic, ensemble music with mobile phones! | [http://www.facebook.com/pages/Michigan-Mobile-Phone-Ensemble/177225121724 ] |
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| microcoworking wiki and calendar | for self-organized open work in public | http://microcoworking.org |
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| MiUPA | Michigan Usability Professionals Association | http://miupa.org/ |
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| M-Light | Michigan Photonics Cluster | http://www.m-light.org/ |
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| Mobile Monday | informal local chapter |
http://a2newtech.org/ for now |
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| MOCHI | Michigan Ohio Computer Human Interaction via ACM SIGCHI | http://michigan-ohio-chi.blogspot.com/ |
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| MUG | Michigan!/usr/group - Unix and Linux user group since 1986, meets in Farmington | http://www.mug.org |
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| Saturday Morning Physics | Saturday morning physics lectures for the public at UM | http://www.lsa.umich.edu/physics/seminars/smp/ |
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| SCSI | Social Computing at UM's School of Information | http://www.si.umich.edu/scsi/ |
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| Science Cafe | monthly science cafe at Conor O'Neill's sponsored by the UM Museum of Natural History | http://www.sciencecafes.org/event_pages/AnnArbor.html |
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| security-reading@umich.edu |
Security reading group at UM |
http://wiki.eecs.umich.edu/secrit/ |
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| SEMiSLUG | BOFH system and network admins | http://www.semislug.mi.org/ |
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| Social Media Club Detroit/A2 | social media folks | http://socialmediaclub.pbworks.com/Detroit-and-Ann-Arbor |
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| South East Michigan Ruby Users Group | sometimes also organizes Code-n-Beer bashes | http://www.rubymi.org/ |
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| SRT Solutions | software consultants with bi-weekly Friday afternoon lightning talks | http://srtsolutions.com/content/LightningTalks.aspx |
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| STIET | Incentive-centered design talks at UM | http://stiet.cms.si.umich.edu/calendar |
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| Stilyagi |
Ann Arbor Science Fiction Association | http://www.stilyagi.org/ |
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| STPP | UM Science, Technology, and Public Policy program seminars | http://www.stpp.fordschool.umich.edu/seminar.html |
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| TechBrewery | coworking for startups and entrepreneurs | http://techbrewery.org |
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| Ubuntu Michigan LoCo Team | Ubuntu enthusiasts | https://wiki.ubuntu.com/MichiganTeam |
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| Washtenaw Linux Users Group | Linux enthusiasts | http://www.lugwash.org/ |
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| Web Analytics Wednesday | happened at least once | ||
| Wiki Wednesday | wiki enthusiasts | http://arborwiki.org/city/Wiki_Wednesday |
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| Wolverine Soft |
UM game development club |
http://www.wolverinesoft.org/ |
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| Workantile Exchange | Project-based work and coworking guild. Members only; not an office share or incubator. | http://workantileexchange.com |
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| YAAARC | Ypsilanti-Ann Arbor Area Robotics Club - meets 7pm on the 4th Wed of Jan - Oct and the 2nd Wed in Dec (no meeting in Nov) | http://www.yaaarc.org/ |
