Let's connect on occasion to discuss Open Source CRM. This meetup is run by Zurmo, so that will be the Open Source Community we'll focus on the most. But anyone who is interested in what Zurmo stands for is welcome to attend. From a user perspective, we'll not just talk about Customer Relationship Management, but also motivating people through gamification, salesforce automation best practices and Social CRM. From a tech perspective, we'll address Test Driven Development, PHP coding best practic …

Meet others in your local area interested in PostgreSQL: The World's Most Advanced Open Source Database. Discuss this open source database and share the tips and tricks you've learned using it.

The Chicago Drupal community has a long and colorful history. It is one of the most vibrant around the country, and possibly the world. We have been long time attendees and members of the Chicago Drupal Meetup Group. We see a need in the Chicago community for an advanced Drupal meetup.  Somewhere we can get together and talk about solving the problems developers face.  In addition we wanted to help ramp people up to contribute to Drupal core using the Drupal Ladder program.  Finally, we wanted p …

NERP provides a place for learning, discussing, and experimenting with the Raspberry Pi. Although our main focus is on using the Pi, other relevant topics include embedded devices, Open Source Hardware and Software, interfacing to the real world, development tools, circuits, and so on. Topics can be of general interest or advanced and highly focused. The NERP wiki lists many resources for learning and using the Pi. NERP meets every other Monday at Pumping Station:One. The meeting is free and ope …

Nearparkers Family Workshop is the working title of a community tinkerer/maker/hacker/creator space being planned to be located near Oak Park and Forest Park. The goal is to have equipment and a family friendly space to share, and to feed off of each other’s creative juices. We are looking for people to follow along as progress updates come out and also looking for people to actively drive the creation of this cool space. The space will have members who pay a monthly fee to have 24 hour access, …

This group is for Magento users, developers and business owners all over the Midwest - from Chicago to Milwaukee and beyond. The goal is to meet and share insights, challenges, best practices and success stories. If you're interested in e-commerce using the open source Magento platform, this is the group for you!

Join other Perl programmers in Chicago for technical assistance, social and business networking, job opportunities, and more. You can be a complete beginner all the way to an expert, and open source zealot or not. We welcome people of all types. Most meetings have a structured component followed by dinner and drinks. You can participate as much or as little as you like.

Bugs suck, let's kill em! And along the way, lets learn something about the tools and frameworks that we use every day, meet some new people, and consume beer and pizza :) Experienced software developers from any background are welcome. Come with a development environment and a library whose issue list is just a little too long for your liking.

Pentaho BI provides a full spectrum of data integration and business intelligence (BI) capabilities including data extraction, transformation, and loading (ETL), interactive reporting, ad hoc analysis, rich visualizations, data mining, and predictive analysis. With a BI platform that has made it the world's most popular open source BI, Pentaho also provides broad enterprise data integration services for Big Data analytics and reporting. At our monthly user group we'll exchange knowledge and expe …

Meet other developers using Meteor. Share your knowledge, apps, and get feedback from others. Meteor is an open-source platform for building top-quality web apps in a fraction of the time, whether you're an expert developer or just getting started.

This group is intended to create a forum for web developers in the city of Chicago. In true open-source fashion I hope that PHP users and web developers of all kinds can come together in forums and in meet-ups to share ideas, thoughts and practice to advance the LAMP community as a whole. If you are a PHP developer, looking to get into PHP, part of a company using the LAMP stack or are just curious about new web development practices, you should join us and attend our meet-ups. We will have pres …

Meet other local Linux and Open Source enthusiasts to talk about the latest news and software. New users as well as gurus are welcome to attend!  Bring in your PC or laptop, yearning to be set free!

Lets start coding, we'll create open source projects and assign you a section to code.

For users of the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB.

The Chicago Clojure Group is open to anyone interested in discussing, learning, or using Clojure. The Chicago Clojure Group is not open to recruiters interested in spamming about lame J2EE jobs. If you have a Clojure opportunity please email the group organiser for permission to be added and post in our forums.

UniForum Chicago is a non-profit organization that holds monthly informative and technical discussions every fourth Tuesday from 7pm to 9pm. This provides a local forum in the Chicago area for open systems and UNIX discussion and allows us to meet with students and other professionals in the field. All meetings are free and open to members and non-members alike and are held at: IIT - Rice Campus Room 103 201 East Loop Road Wheaton, IL 60187-8489 For more information about UniForum Chicago or …

Meet with others in your local area interested in building and strengthening the Drupal Community. Discuss new and exciting Drupal-related news - or just socialize with like-minded people! Our Meetups are open to anyone interested in developing and operating sustainable websites and applications. Our focus will be to offer opportunities for our group members grow their understanding and appreciation of the Drupal framework and create a cooperative community in the far western suburbs of Chicago. …

When I created this meetup group there was no umbrella group for ChiPy events. Now that the ChiPyFans MeetUp group exists, I will be using it to organize workshops. Please join ChiPyFans if you'd like to attend future python workshops. Old description of the group: A group of python community members and enthusiasts who run workshops inspired by workshops run by Open Hatch, RailsBridge, PyStar, Boston Python User Group, and more. You can meet some of us on the 2nd Thursday of every month at chi …

The Chicago Mobile Security Group is an informal professional group focused on developing relationships, exchanging ideas, and fostering Mobile Security innovation. We provide an open, comfortable environment for Mobile security enthusiasts to meet and discuss related news, best practices, tips and anything else that might arise in this fundamental and evolving Mobile security niche. We welcome people from all backgrounds, not just IT, to come learn and network in the community. This group will …

We are a group dedicated to expanding our knowledge about the Qt platform and learning about the next great thing in Qt 5. We are open to C/++, Python, and .NET/Mono developers, or developers interested in learning more about these technologies.

A local group of Linux users and FOSS supporters who meet monthly for Linux talks, education and discussion. One of our main goals is to help new people learn the benefits fo Linux and how to use it, so please feel free to join us! Welcome!

Welcome to the Chicago JBoss User Group Meetup Page! We are a group of JBoss enthusiasts who like to meet and discuss the latest JBoss.org projects or other Java Open Source projects. All our meetings are open to the public without any restrictions. More information: http://community.jboss.org/groups/chicago-jbug

The Chicago Data Governance Users Group is a non-profit volunteer run organization with the objective of create a forum and exchange of information related to Data Governance.

Geekfest is a gathering of software development geeks every Tuesday at noon. It originally started at Obtiva back in 2007, and now it's at Groupon.

ChicagoRuby is a group of Ruby on Rails enthusiasts with events in downtown Chicago and in the suburbs. Monthly ChicagoRuby events are free, and the annual WindyCityRails conference attracts some of the brightest minds in software development. Did you miss a meeting? Our Ruby on Rails videos may prove helpful. The ChicagoRuby motto: When smart people challenge each other to grow, great things happen!

Welcome to the Chicago Woman Developers Meet-up Chicago Women Developers (CWDevs) is run by a group of women from a variety of background and technical expertise. We have one thing in common: we are passionate about coding and we are passionate about women in tech. We host a variety of classes and events for women at all technical skill levels, see you soon.

Tech In Motion is an event that originated during Chicago's 1st annual Tech Week. The event went so well we decided to continue to do more. The basic idea of the group is to explore how to create a company from an idea and what it takes to become a successful business. We will explore this process by focusing on three critical areas and inviting a panel of experts talk about each phase: Idea, Build and Go. We will be speaking about the full life cycle of an idea from inception to profitability. …

Aggrego hack night - for all the times you wished you could have hacked on something in the Chicago Sun-Times building. Now you can. Aggrego aims to use data collection, data analytics, visualization technology to create the next generation of digital media. Come hack with us!