Nice start on a list. I added the directory links to the wiki page for new
coders. I bet there are more that could be added.

http://wiki.code4lib.org/index.php/One_recommended_tool/resource_for_n00bs#Meetups_and_User_Groups

On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Joe Hourcle
<[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> On Feb 15, 2013, at 9:00 AM, Lin, Kun wrote:
>
> > Wow, Interesting. But I am not fun of Perl. Is there other workshop?
>
> I don't know of any full workshops in the area, but there are plenty
> of monthly or semi-monthly meetings of different groups:
>
> Python:         http://dcpython.org/
>
> R :             http://www.meetup.com/R-users-DC/
>
> Groovy:         http://www.dcgroovy.org/
>
> Drupal:         http://groups.drupal.org/washington-dc-drupalers
>
> Hadoop:         http://www.meetup.com/Hadoop-DC/
>
> Ruby:           http://www.dcrug.org/
>
> ColdFusion:     http://www.cfug-md.org/
>
>
> For those not in this area, see:
>
>         http://www.pm.org/groups/
>         http://wiki.python.org/moin/LocalUserGroups
>         http://r-users-group.meetup.com/
>         http://groups.drupal.org/
>         http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/community/user-groups/
>         http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/User_groups
>         http://coldfusion.meetup.com/
>
> -Joe
>