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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.

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 …

… We've got something for folks at an expert, advanced and "newbee" level, to help you learn, discover and share what can be done, and what IS being done using the #1 Open Source CMS on the planet: Joomla! Check our site out at http://joomlachicago.com.  

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!

This group is intended to create a forum for PHP developers in the city of Chicago. In true open-source fashion I hope that PHP Users 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 then you should definitely join and attend our meet-ups. We will have monthly presentations fr …

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

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 …

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.

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. …

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 …

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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

This meetup is to help bring together dev and ops folks in chicagoland area working with Hbase to exchange notes and discuss ideas for roadmap

Workshop 88 is a hackerspace (also know as a makerspace) located in Chicago’s western suburbs. Focused on science, technology, mechanics, culture and the digital arts we offer a space were people with diverse backgrounds can socialize, collaborate and learn. Through shared resources, knowledge and ideas we strive to create a space that promotes community and learning. Workshop 88 is located in 481 N Main St. Rear Building Unit B, in downtown Glen Ellyn, IL. If you are interested in learning mor …

For the education and enjoyment of all things Linux.