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Melbourne is located in the south-eastern corner of mainland Australia. It is Australia's second largest city (after Sydney) with a population of approximately 3.8 million in the Melbourne metropolitan area and 69,670 in the City of Melbourne (which covers only the central city area).

Upcoming events in Melbourne:

Contents 1 User Groups 1.1 User Groups - Software Development 1.2 User Groups - Operating Systems 1.3 User Groups - Database Servers 1.4 User Groups - Other

User Groups

Melbourne is home to a large number of Information Technology user groups covering almost everything and was therefore host to the first three Open Source Developers Conferences. Local user groups include:

User Groups - Software Development

Group name	Description	Interests	Meeting Time
Melbourne.pm	Melbourne Perl Mongers	All things Perl	Second Wednesday each month, 6:30pm
phpMelb	Melbourne PHP Users Group	PHP	Second Thursday each month, 7pm
Drupal Melbourne Meetup	Drupal Users and Developers	All things drupally	2nd Tuesday each month, 6pm, Hosted by Emspace
MelbournePUG	Melbourne Python Users Group	Python
Oz Zope	Oz Zope	Zope, Python
OSDClub	Open Source Developers' Club	Technologies common to Perl, Python, PHP ...	Hosted every other month alternately by Melbourne Perl Mongers and phpMelb
MXPEG	Melbourne XP Enthusiasts Group	Extreme Programming development methods
Melbourne Scrum User Group	Melbourne Scrum User Group on Meetup	Scrum agile development
Web Standards Group	Melbourne Web Standards Group	All things web	3rd Wednesday
Port80	Melbourne Port 80	All things web.
ADUG	Australian Delphi User Group	Delphi and related products
Victoria.NET	Victoria.NET	Microsoft .NET
VFP UG	Melbourne Visual FoxPro User Group	Microsoft Visual Fox Pro
MelBiz	Melbourne BizTalk User Group	Microsoft BizTalk and related products
Sharepoint	Melbourne Sharepoint User Group	Microsoft Sharepoint and related products
Melbourne Patterns Group	Melbourne Patterns Group	Software Design Patterns
Melbourne Ruby Group	Melbourne Ruby Group	Ruby Programming Language
Melbourne Ruby User Group	Melbourne Ruby User Group on Google Groups	Ruby Programming Language
Melbourne Groovy User Group	Melbourne Groovy User Group on Yahoo Groups	Groovy Programming Language
Melbourne Cocoa Heads	Melbourne Cocoa Programmers' Group	Anyone with a Mac who writes code
victorianjug	Victorian Java User Group	All Melbourne and Victorian Java programmers	Last Thursday of the month, 6:30pm
Melbourne Rational User Group	Melbourne Rational User Group	Rational Software tools and methods users
Melbourne X User Group	Melbourne X User Group	where X is something technical that can be used - general technical obsession group	3rd Wednesday of the month?
Facebook Developers Melbourne	Facebook Developers Melbourne, Australia	Group for Facebook Developers based in Melbourne Australia

User Groups - Operating Systems

Group name	Description	Interests	Meeting Time
LUV	Linux Users Victoria	Linux, Open source	First Tuesday each month, 6:45pm. Beginners workshops 3rd Saturday 12-4pm
BLUG	Ballarat Linux Users Group	Linux etc	2nd Tuesday
LinuxChix	Australian LinuxChix	Linux, Open source, Women in IT	6pm, 1st tues (before LUV)
MLUG	Melbourne Linux Users Group	Linux,	Last Friday of the month
AUSOM	Apple Mac Users Society of Melbourne	Apple Macintosh computers
iMUG	internet Macintosh User Group	Apple Macintosh computers
VicFUG	Victorian FreeBSD Users Group	FreeBSD
MNUG	Melbourne Novell Users Group	Novell NetWare and related products	2nd Thursday of the month
MSOSUG	Melbourne OpenSolaris User Group	Solaris and OpenSolaris in Melbourne

User Groups - Database Servers

Group name	Description	Interests	Meeting Time
ASSUG	Australian SQL Server User Group	Microsoft SQL Server
MDUG	Melbourne DB2 Users Group	DB2
MySQL Meetup	Melbourne MySQL User Group	MySQL	3rd wed

User Groups - Other

Group name	Description	Interests	Meeting Time
SAGE-Vic	Victorian Chapter of SAGE-AU	System Administration
AUUG Inc	Victorian Chapter of AUUG	Unix, Linux and Open Systems
Melb Wireless	Melbourne Wireless	Free community broadband networks
Melb PC	Melbourne PC User Group	Shared computer assistance
VOUG	Victorian Osborne User Group, Inc	Shared computer assistance
APICUG	Australian Post-Tel Institute Computer Users' Group	Shared computer assistance
CM Pros	Content Management Professionals	Meets in Sydney and Melbourne
PMI	Project Management Institute	Melbourne Chapter
OSIA	Open Source Industry Australia	FLOSS relevant business issues	Third Thursday of even numbered months
Pub Standards	Pub Standards Melbourne	Social meetup for geek types	Third Wednesday each month