October 26, '09
Ongoing Compendium of Nashville User Groups
Nashville
There are a lot of programming language or web application user groups here in Nashville. I live and breath open-source, so a lot of the groups I am aware of tend to be OS-centric. There have been many complaints that there is no one-stop-shop for anyone looking for these groups (or an event calendar for the Nashville tech scene in general). NashvilleGeeks.org has been working on a calendar for the tech-scene in general, but it's still a work in progress.
Here's the list, last updated October 25, 2009.
Enterprise LAMP
Run by Marcus Whitney. Unfortunately the website has very little information on the monthly meetups, and I'm not sure there is a site with current information on it. The best way to find out about it is to follow enterpriselamp on Twitter. This group generally covers a wide range of topics in the open source world. It meets monthly and alternates between Emma in Nashville and Vaco Technology in Brentwood. There is also an email list, Nashville OSS, and and upcoming site (nashvilleoss.org) meant to help folks keep up with all of the local UGs.
Nashville Ruby on Rails Meetup
Run by the venerable Josh Crews. Meets once a month at centre{source}, I believe on the second-to-last Thursday of the month (odd date due to calendar conflicts with other CS events) at 5:30pm.
Nashville Ruby Group
Run by Will Bridges. Not sure what the regular meetup schedule is yet.
Nashville Drupalers
Not sure who is running this one (I'm not a Drupal guy), but they appear to have regularly scheduled meetings.
Nashville Symfony UG
Run by Travis Roberts and Brent Shaffer, both of Centresource. Meets at 6pm the first Tuesday of the month at Centresource.
Nashville Dynamic Languages
You'll have more luck with this group on IRC (#nashdl, Freenode). They meet weekly for hack sessions and socialization, but it's a pretty small group and seems to function as more of a social club than an actual user group.
Nashville Linux Users Group
Also on IRC (#nlug, Freenode). Meets at 6pm on the second Tuesday of every month on the Vanderbilt campus.
Groups That Appear Inactive
Nashville PHP UG
Run by Will Fitch. Appears to be somewhat dormant. (Same can be said for NPUG).
Am I missing anyone? Let me know in the comments or shoot me an email.
