Moikka! Welcome to the Helsinki Social Life Meetup group. The aim of the group is to help Finns and expats alike create and expand their social life in the Helsinki area. All suggestions and comments are welcome and can be directed to myself or one of our assistant organisers. Can we keep all discussion in English if possible as that would be the most suitable for all nationalities I think. As this is a new group it may take some time to get the membership up to a workable level - so please be p …

Lean Startup is a method for launching new products and services more successfully. It transforms the way we teach and practice entrepreneurship and innovation through validated customer learning. Stop building and start learning!

Educate MySQL users and provide social connections.

The Helsinki Quantified Self meetup (#QSelfFIN) is modeled on the Bay Area Quantified Self Show & Tell meetings started in 2008 by Gary Wolf and Kevin Kelly in the Bay Area. Your host for the Helsinki meetup are a team composed of Jari Råglund, MSc/CEO and Tommi Opas, PhD/CTO. Write us with your recommendations, tips, and observations. This is a regular show and tell for people who take advantage of various personal self-tracking tools and methods to gain more knowledge about themselves, others …

The worlds of hackers and journalists are coming together as reporting goes digital and Internet companies become media empires. Journalists call themselves "hacks," someone who can churn out words in any situation. Hackers use the digital equivalent of duct tape to whip out code. Hacker-journalists try and bridge the two worlds. This group is to bring all these people together -- those who are working to help people make sense of their world. It's for hackers exploring technologies to filter an …

Helsinki 2.0 is a bridge between the technology innovation communities of Finland and Silicon Valley. Our mission is to spotlight innovation from Finland, connect entrepreneurs and professionals, and showcase our top tech companies to Silicon Valley and the international tech community. Started by a group of San Franciscoans moving between SF and Helsinki, this meetup group will start the conversation between two innovation communities. And drink a lot of wine/beer/lonkero! Kippis!

Python afficionados and other programmers meet regularly in Helsinki. See mailing list, Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

gsummitX - Gamification in Helsinki is a meetup for anyone involved in and/or interested in the topic of gamification, engagement and/or loyalty. A few times each year, we'll ask the community to come together to hear a speaker from the gamification space, 1-2 demos from companies using gamification in their business model, and our unique workshop-like game called "Play for a Cause." We'll have some grub and beverages for everyone as well. This meetup is run by the Team at Gamification.co and th …

This is for anyone using Scala - or interested in its benefits or deficiencies. It's not a fanboy club, but expects pragmatic "what works is good" approach, and welcomes people from multiple backgrounds and preferences. Other JVM languages are not excluded, but the main focus would be in Scala and its frameworks in practical, everyday programming life. The reason for starting the meetup is that it doesn't already exist. If meeting places incur some cost, that will be shared by the participants. …

The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable second-generation distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data model. The Helsinki Apache Cassandra User Group is a highly awesome meetup group, bringing together cool people distributed across Helsinki to talk about our favorite NoSQL implementation, Apache Cassandra.

Get ready to feel better, look better and enjoy a lifetime of well-being! Join a fun nutrition and weight loss management group which helps you to reach your goals. This group advices for proper nutrition, food choices, and encourages exercise. We will meet once a week in Helsinki city area.

Inspired by Ruby? But living in the freezing north? Come and join us to thaw (defrost), meet, talk, share and mostly spend time with other people who are interested and inspired by Ruby. Topics will include anything related to Ruby, which off course includes a lot of Rails, but also, in no specific order, language features, virtual machines, testing frameworks, development methodologies, application servers, deployment, any interesting gems and anything else you want to talk about. So just come …