Utah Technology Community Groups

Last Saturday I was fortunate to be able to host, and present at, the Global Azure Bootcamp. Look for a post in the near future where I review the event. But todays post is to answer a question that several of the attendees had. The question was, what technical groups, or events, occur in the local area.

After I shared some of the groups that I know about with the attendees I decided that it would be worthwhile to share the list with others.

Quick disclaimer - while I have attended meetings of several of these groups I have not been able to attend nearly as often for the past few years. I am providing information that is available online, trying to pull it together into one place. But I cannot confirm how active the groups are or how valuable their content or meetings are at this time - that leaves a wide open opportunity for each of you to join them and help make these groups great!

Here is what I've come up with - PLEASE let me know what other groups or events you know about so we can build up or local technology communities! Also, please let me know if you have any experience with any of the groups, I'd like to be better informed to share the information with others in the future.

The SLC .NET User Group
https://www.meetup.com/The-SLC-NET-User-Group/

The Northern Utah .NET User Group
This is the group that I have been able to attend the most over the past couple of years. They meet very consistently and have an especially fun meeting every October when they use microcontrollers to make some fun Halloween gadgets.
https://www.meetup.com/nunug-org/
http://nunug.org/

The Utah Valley .NET User Group
https://www.meetup.com/Utah-County-NET-User-Group/

Utah Geek Events
This organization puts on the annual Utah Code Camp and other events. They also share information about other independent events that happen in the state. This is a good site to keep an eye on. They also have a Slack Channel that you can join.
https://www.utahgeekevents.com/

Utah Azure Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/Utah-Microsoft-Azure-Meetup/

Utah AWS Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/Utah-AWS/

Utah Java Users Group
http://ujug.org/

JavaScript Engineers of Utah
https://utahjs.com/
https://www.meetup.com/UtahJS/

Utah Node.js Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/utahnodejs/

ReactJS Utah Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/ReactJS-Utah/

Salt Lake Valley Angular Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/AngularJS-Utah/

Salt Lake City Data Science Meetup
https://www.meetup.com/Salt-Lake-City-Data-Science/

Girl Develop It SLC/Provo
https://www.meetup.com/Girl-Develop-It-Salt-Lake-City/