You're invited to be part of our live meetups every month to learn, discover and share Joomla! Joomla is open source content management software for business, non-profits, churches and government. JoomlaChicago is the largest user group in the USA. We meet monthly to share the latest on Joomla, and keep each other informed. No matter what your skill level, we've got folks who are here to help you get the most out of Joomla, and help grow your CMS Site with the #1 Open Source CMS software on the …

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 …

This is an interactive group of IT professionals who work with and/or are interested in learning more about Red Hat. The group meetings will include technical discussions led by Red Hat employees and other group members. These discussion will be geared toward solving problems that IT professionals commonly face today. The group provides an open and collaborative environment where ideas and questions can be shared with all members. People of all backgrounds and skills sets are welcome to join.

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.

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 …

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.

Founded in 2009, Joomla User Group Milwaukee is one of the best-attended JUGs in the country. JUG Milwaukee is perfect for anyone looking to learn more about building, maintaining and managing web sites built on Joomla, the open source content management system that runs 3% of all web sites. It's also a great place for web site developers, content providers, and designers to learn about this publishing platform and interact with world renowned Joomla experts like Victor Drover (Anything-Digital. …

This group is a place for developers and database administrators to learn more about the non-relational, open source, document-oriented database MongoDB, the leading NoSQL database. As this group is brand spanking new, please bear with us as we try to get this thing off the ground!

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

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!

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. …

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.

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 …

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 Soul Source, LLC is a quiet, comfortable place for people to stretch, connect and grow through mind/body classes, workshops and services. We are about 40 minutes north of Milwaukee nestled just outside the Kettle Moraine Blue Hills on approximately 28 acres of secluded fields and woods. We have a 550 SF yoga studio, a smaller meeting room and 1 treatment room. There is a common area, a kitchen, a large, outdoor space and a medicine wheel garden, plus mowed paths through the fields. I started …

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.