Shoot someone you love! or volunteer to get shot. We don't discriminate. We just love shooting beautiful people, places, and things. The Lakeland Shooters are a group of Polk County photography and art enthusiasts, models, graphic designers, beautiful people, etc... who enjoy meeting and interacting with others of their kind. The club holds regular photo shoots and outings, workshops, and critiques in a friendly, supportive environment. Professional or novice, if you have an open eye and an ope …

Whoops! Looks like I got busted without a description... So, I had planned on announcing this at the conference but I am starting a monthly meetup for anyone interested in Front-End Design. I won't have the location for the first event set until after the conference, but the goal will be to get together once a month to make something. I'm thinking that we will begin by approaching some HTML5 and CSS3 items, do some tutorials together and eventually start knocking out our own. I'm hoping to mak …

WHAT IS A FAB LAB? Fab labs provide widespread access to modern means for invention. They began as an outreach project from MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms (CBA). CBA assembled millions of dollars in machines for research in digital fabrication, ultimately aiming at developing programmable molecular assemblers that will be able to make almost anything. Equipped with state-of-the-art machines and materials, the Faulhaber Fab Lab can be used to fabricate your own inventions with the support of kn …

Being self-employed has it's perks, but trying to build a business on your own is tough. This informal and fun meetup will be a place where you can bounce ideas off of other like-minded solo entrepreneurs, build a network of referral partners, and get actionable advice on how to grow your business so that you can stay self-employed full-time and LOVE it! Over the course of our meetups we'll talk about things like leveraging your resources to scale your one person show, how to use online marketin …

Did you know according to the San Francisco WordCamp 22% of all new websites in the world are now built using WordPress. Learn & discuss everything to do with WordPress - latest plugins, designs, themes, coding, SEO, graphics etc. No companies selling web services, just simple open source discussion and networking. The next meeting is always based on the votes of the previous meeting. This meetup is all about "The Press", from beginning blogger through to hardcore coder. Need a WordPress user gr …

Miss the comraderie, spontaneous conversation, and dynamic energy of working in the same room with other creative people? Welcome to The CoWork Lab. We take the best elements of a coffee shop (social, energetic, creative) and the best elements of a workspace (productive, functional) and combine them to give independent workers bricks and mortar to call their own. The CoWork Lab was built on coworking philosophy. Our members (aka "Scientists) are: software engineers, real estate brokers, web deve …

Treehouse is the best way to learn how to design and develop for the web and iOS. At Treehouse, our goal is to teach Web Design, Web Development and iOS, to everyone in the World who wants to learn. Millions of people can't afford a quality technical education, or if they can, it's out of date immediately when they graduate. We aim to change that. Treehouse MeetUps are networking events hosted at casual restaurant/bars where we'll chat with the Treehouse team, fellow treehouse members, and other …

the Orlando Illustrators is a great writers group for writers from all walks of life. from the 1st to the 3rd Tuesday of the night is our drawing sessions: free write as long as you can keep it up. its usually for one hour. and is designed to exercise your illustrators muscle at the end of the month is show and tell: 15 min: icebreakers. where we all introduce ourselves. 45 min: show and tell. feel free to show your art and and to tell us what made you decide to create it. we also have a single …

WordPress Mount Dora is a MeetUp group for people that want to connect with other WordPress users and developers. It doesn't matter if you're a seasoned WordPress user, new to web development, or looking for someone to build a website for you, there's something for everyone. We cover topics that are of interest to all levels from beginner to expert. Our purpose is to offer support and share information, best practices, techniques, tools and resources. The learning and sharing of information will …