New York, LA, London, France, San Francisco and Vancouver all have meetups for transmedia storytellers, including some of the most innovative figures in the industry. Let's add Seattle to that mix. This group is for anyone, be they curious media makers, practiced transmedia creators, documentary film producers, new media makers, web designer/developers, screenwriters, novelists, actors, and beyond. Transmedia is about collaboration, and media ideas that transcend borders. If we're lucky, by shar …

Please visit our ongoing project with The New Hive : Zeitgeist Seattle Resource 1: Compassionate Seattle Heart Map What does Zeitgeist Seattle do? We are part of a larger sustainability advocacy movement. Our mission embodies the principles of network weaving locally in the Seattle, Washington region through collaboration with local sustainable and community sharing organizations. We offer community outreach by promoting local Sustainable, Technological, Environmental, and Social Change projects …

Local filmmakers and Microsoft employees interested in the art of film looking to meet with local filmmakers, learn about and contribute to local projects.

From big, well-organized hackathons like Startup Weekend and AngelHack to small, ad hoc hackathons like a couple of friends in a coffee shop, we want to help increase the number of hackathons going on in Seattle, help support them, and help publicize them.

We will be meeting once a month to lay down the groundwork for creating new plug-ins that enhance the film making workflow between Microsoft Office 365 and Adobe CS6 technologies. This group is for Microsoft developers, Adobe developers, Adobe artists and serious film makers. It's a place where you can give your input on plug-in ideas that would enhance the film making process using Microsoft Office 365 and Adobe CS6 from script, through the artistic process, production scheduling, visual effect …

Since June of 2010, The West Seattle Tool Library has provided free access to over a 1,500 tools to any resident in our community who can show a couple forms of ID and sign their name.  Over 450 residents have taken The Tool Library up on that offer and formed a great community of DIYers, makers, and students.  We invite you to join the community as well. The Tool Library and its 500 square foot workshop are both member-run.  All are welcome. No tool, workshop, or DIY experience necessary.  What …

The Seattle Games Cooperative is a grass roots organization focused on helping game makers develop games, make connections, and advance their craft.  We meet monthly to discuss topics related to game development ranging from building a game in Flash to creating an awesome character in Blender.  We invite you to join us; Designers, artists and programmers are all welcome.

We are a distributed community of coworking & collaborative space owners, managers, members, and community catalysts who share a passion for coworking in and around the Seattle metro area. The mission of the Seattle Collaborative Space Alliance (SCSA) is to unify, support and promote the coworking and collaborative space movement.

This group has been created to share information, explore technology, provide solutions, promote learning and collaboration, assist fellow editors and artists, and encourage professional growth. This group is obviously geared towards users of Final Cut Pro 7 and FCPX, but will also incorporate other tools as well. Membership in the Seattle Final Cut Pro Users Group is open to all individuals at absolutely no cost. All you have to do to belong is participate!

The renaissance is here, and it brought ice-cream! So, here’s the idea: Ideas. Unfiltered, unencumbered, and unapologetically enthusiastic ideas. Ideas that lead to grease-smeared hands, lavender sorbet, things that go bang, clouds of steam, those goggle-marks you see on crazy chemistry geeks, and some guy (or girl) in the background juggling and swinging from a trapeze. We are a collective of intellectual eccentrics, passionate about learning and our various (and yes, I mean various) arts. Wal …

We're food makers, beer brewers, entrepreneurs, and artisans. We meet periodically to share ideas, seek advice, and learn what others are doing in Seattle's food startup community.

"As this planet journeys towards a higher consciousness, there is no door that cannot be opened – no past that cannot be read and learnt from, no future that cannot be seen and created towards. I am willing to give my life to help the human race evolve. I am willing to give my life to help our people grow." - Art Runningbear Vietnam Combat Veteran turned Apache Healer, Seer, Spiritual Mentor "When I was cycling/travelling around the world on a documentary project to collect, share and inspire …

Who Is TCAD Seattle?  On May 23, Muhammad Yunus spoke at Seattle Town Hall and showed a trailer for a inspirational documentary he's in, called "To Catch A Dollar," due out in September. Several attendees talked with Yunus, Gayle Ferraro, the film maker, and Kathleen Wells, the project director from Grameen Research.  When we asked if we could help, they said yes.  This volunteer group was formed in the days that followed, with a short term objective of building support for promotion of the movi …

Do you spend more time designing and building musical instruments than you do playing them? Does playing an instrument make you want to improve the instrument more than your chops? When you attend a concert are you more interested in the gear than the performance? If any of these apply to you, then you may be suffering from MInDS (Musical Instrument Design Syndrome). We can help. SMILE, the Seattle Musical Instrument Lutherie Encounter, is a local meet up of people involved in designing and buil …

A collective a freelancers, creatives and others interested in getting out of the coffee shop and into an inexpensive co-working situation in Ballard. A little bit about us.... we have a funky space in North Ballard located on 15th Avenue NW that is approximately 1100 square feet. The space is outfitted with high speed internet, communal work tables, a few desks, printers, beverage service and more. We love working in the presence of others and prior to having the space found ourselves working …

We meet Sunday afternoons every other week, alternatively in the Fremont and Capitol Hill neighborhoods, to share food and drink and chat about writing, publications, readings, and other projects on our plates. Note that we're not using Meetup to schedule these meetings, so if you'd like to be added to the invite, please sign up for the group and/or shoot me an e-mail. Also please note that this is not a critique group. The purpose of the group is to allow people who want to meet and make friend …

The goal of Pacific Northwest Cloud and Connected Systems User Group (PNWCCSUG) is to educate, evangelize and inform the community about distributed software technologies. The group will specifically focus on the Microsoft Cloud and Connected Systems product stack which includes: Windows Azure, BizTalk Server, WF, WCF and other related technologies. The PNWCCSUG seeks to connect developers, architects, and IT decision makers in the Pacific Northwest region with best practices, architectural conc …

Come join developers, designers, data geeks, leaders, and idea-makers who volunteer to help Seattle, WA government and civic orgs adopt open web technologies. Technology and civic activists fostering the community-authored and LocalWiki powered site, SeattleWiki.net, among other projects. Inspired by, and eager to contribute to, Code for America's http://brigade.codeforamerica.org/.

With 40 members and counting, would be such a shame for this Meet up to end. I know we all can't meet at the same time (because life gets in the way), but it only takes 2 or more ladies to get together and guess what?... that's a Meet up!  And it doesn't always have to be on Fridays but any day of the week. Whatever works best for you. :) Yeah, it is about meeting men (just being honest) , but it's also about making great friends and having LOTS of fun. Share what you know what's going on around …