Glasgow Tech Meetups - Outreach Contacts
Community over Code Glasgow 2026 - October 11-14, Hilton Glasgow
This page lists Glasgow-area tech meetups and developer communities. We’re inviting their members to attend Community over Code Glasgow (October 11-14, 2026) and participate in the hackathon.
Active Glasgow Tech Meetups
Python Glasgow
- Website: https://www.meetup.com/python-glasgow/
- Schedule: 1st Wednesday of every month
- About: Monthly meetup for sharing perspectives and insights about Python. Hosts speakers from across the city.
- Venue: The Gamer Club
- Relevance: Python is central to many Apache projects. High overlap with potential hackathon participants.
Open Source Glasgow
- Website: https://www.meetup.com/open-source-glasgow/
- About: Open source focused meetup. Meets at The Gamer Club.
- Relevance: DIRECTLY aligned - these are our people! High priority for outreach.
TechMeetup Glasgow
- Website: https://www.meetup.com/techmeetup/
- Schedule: Monthly
- About: Monthly excuse for the tech community around Scotland to network, learn, and share new ideas. Informative presentations from peers, exciting projects, and networking.
- Relevance: Broad tech audience, good for general awareness.
Glasgow Tech Social (The Glasgow Geeks)
- Website: https://www.meetup.com/the-glasgow-geeks/
- Schedule: First Friday of the month
- About: Casual social meetup - beer and tech chat. Open to all levels.
- Relevance: Informal channel to spread the word. Good for flyers or a quick pitch.
Scottish Technology Modernization (DevOps/SRE/IaC)
- Website: https://www.meetup.com/glasgow-technology-devops-sre-iac-aiops-mlops/
- About: Focused on DevOps, SRE, AIOps, IaC, MLOps. Modernizing business, operations, automation, next-gen development and scaling.
- Relevance: Infrastructure and operations engineers who’d benefit from contributing to Apache infrastructure projects.
Cloud Native Glasgow
- Website: https://www.meetup.com/cloudnativeglasgow/
- About: Presentations and workshops on building, deploying, and maintaining software in cloud environments. Focus on containers, micro-services, and automation.
- Relevance: Strong overlap with Apache projects (Kafka, Flink, Spark, etc.)
Ladies of Code (Glasgow)
- Website: https://www.meetup.com/ladies-of-code-glasgow/
- About: Supports women in tech with networking, knowledge sharing, and collaboration.
- Relevance: Diversity outreach (also listed on diversity page).
How to Use This Page
When reaching out to meetup organizers:
- Ask if you can give a 2-minute pitch at their next meetup before October
- Offer to leave flyers or share a link in their Slack/Discord
- Suggest a co-promotion: we mention their meetup at CoC, they mention CoC at their meetup
- If they meet at The Gamer Club (several do), ask if there’s a community board
- Emphasize the hackathon as a unique, in-person collaboration opportunity