Welcome to the NOPC. Please come to our monthly general meetings on the first Wednesday of each month. Listen to our speakers who talk on computer topics. We don't get into advanced topics. We have had a private investigator and a lawyer speak about finding information about people. We have had, at the general meeting, Jerry Serigni, now of Fox 8, speak about hurricane preparedness for your home and office and yur computers. We have had someone from the Jefferson Parish library speak about findi …

Refresh Baton Rouge is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in Baton Rouge, LA. Promoting design, technology, usability, and standards. Let us know you're interested in getting together by joining the group!

User Experience is more than a buzzword. It's a design philosophy and process that has been proven to work (think Apple, Inc., Hewlett Packard, IBM). Join to meet others that have experience using User Experience techniques and standards. Also, gather to perform usability testing for your site or a client site. If you're familiar with User Experience you know it's all about testing and gathering data on the users for the product, and not assumptions or decisions from the client or developer. Thi …

Objective-Crunk is a monthly group for smartphone app enthusiasts, developers, and entrepreneurs to get together and talk shop over food and drinks. All levels of experience and interest are welcome.

Mantalk is a discussion group for same gender loving (gay) men in New Orleans and surrounding areas. The group addresses quality of life issues on a bi monthly basis. Topics include relationships, spirituality, and work related issues. The goal of the group is to affirm, acknowledge, appreciate and enlighten participants.  The group is guided by ground rules that promote respect, harmony and confidentiality The group can be considered an alternative or supplement to traditional meetings places ( …