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This is a group for anyone interested in Mobile Technology. We help promote and connect mobile entrepreneurs, developers, creative designers and deal-makers. Come be part of the action! Mobile Visionary has  hosted several events in the city of Chicago for 150+ people and we would like to meet more folks who are unable to attend events in downtown Chicago. Thank you for your support. Mobile Visionary Facilitators -- One of Many Check back soon... iPhone, iPad, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobi …

This group was created to bring together the various software development groups in Chicago. Going to other communities has been very rewarding in the past, and now let us drop all the boundaries between communities. What can we talk about? Positivember writing good code writing bad code duct tape programming client challenges co-worker challenges sdlc patterns trolls, and what they mean to you. motivating/encouraging news discouraging/unmotivating news tools & tech gadgets

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.

We will meet up and discuss Corona SDK, Lua programming, our apps we have made with Corona SDK, how to go about learning to use Corona SDK, and whatever else the group wants to discuss. If you have a topic that you would like to talk about, please let us know and come as prepared as you can to talk about the topic or if you want to know more about something give us a heads up so we can try to be prepared.

We are a community of passionate experience designers interested in getting together to share stories, tools, project experiences and events! We explore human-computer interaction, agile design, user experience, frontend development, information architecture, interaction design, usability testing among other topics that help us deliver engaging customer experiences.

This group will meet to learn about the new crowd funding laws passed in the recent JOBS act and help prepare small businesses and entrepreneurs for raising capital through selling equity in their businesses using approved intermediaries. A couple of great articles to learn more about crowd funding, the JOBS act and more can be read here http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/223290 http://www.fridayfirm.com/news/449-alert040612

Calling all mobile rockstars and wannabes! The Chicago Mobile Web Meetup is dedicated to expanding the collective knowledge of mobile Web designers and developers through speaking events, software demos, hackathons, and other hands-on learning such as proposal submissions to the Zend Framework. In short, you should leave every meeting knowing more than when you arrived. This group will meet once per month at Punchkick Interactive's headquarters in downtown Chicago. As a bit of background, Punchk …

Creative Chicago is a relaxed ecosystem of designers, strategists, architects and developers for web, mobile and desktop platforms, connecting great people and helping to build valuable industry relationships. Our events will vary, but we will always focus on creating a casual and friendly environment for people to build great relationships without the added hassle of on-the-spot recruiters and unwanted services. Whether it's a night out for drinks or a networking event with speakers, we're out …

The purpose of this group is to bring governments, developers, and communities together in a common mission to use public data to create digital tools that serve civic needs and promote economic development. Go to http://illinoisopentech.org/ for the latest updates on the Illinois Open Technology (ILOpenTech). The first set of meetups will be held in our four pilot communities: Belleville, Champaign, Rockford and South Suburbs centered around the ILOpenTech Challenge, a multi-month initiative th …

We are the technical folks at 1871. We're here to share ideas, code, questions, disaster porn and strong drinks. All 1871 members who touch code or infrastructure are welcome to join. Our startups live and die by our ability to build solutions quickly across a large surface area of problems. When you find yourself outside familiar territory, you want a trusted group of colleagues to turn to. When things blow up, you want someone to tell you how they blew up worse and survived. Let's build that.

Join this group to stay informed of all of the awesome entrepreneurship and tech events, classes, arts and innovation and workshops that are happening at Cíbola incubator in Pilsen!

A curated set of events that we encourage everyone to attend!

Are you a ScrumMaster or Agile Ninja, or interested in honing skills to become one? Are you a professional in software, web, or mobile development, or in an industry that would benefit from Agile philosophies and Scrum methodologies? Would you like to share and discuss best practices with others? Are you interested in meeting up with others with similar interests? If you answered yes to any of these questions then join our group! We hold monthly networking meetings in downtown Chicago to discuss …

Women Developers and Programmers! Want to learn how to code? Have a great idea? Don't be shy. Develop it. It can be intimidating for women to learn and ask questions when they are in an extreme minority. While open and welcoming, today's budding developer community is up to 91% male. There isn't a comfortable place where women can learn at their own pace and not be afraid to ask "stupid questions." We decided it was time to provide a place where all questions are OK and everyone can learn in a s …

The Chicago JavaFX User’s Group is here to help developers and others learn about JavaFX and related tools, as well as really cool applications that are built with JavaFX!  Occasionally, we will also have presentations of hardware and devices that can benefit from JavaFX technology. JavaFX is the next step in the evolution of Java as a rich client platform, shortening development time and easing deployment of data-driven business and enterprise client applications. We generally meet monthly in p …

This group will be focused on discussing and learning about UX Strategies. This group is distinct in the sense that it will discuss bigger picture UX involvement as opposed to day to day UX activities that may be project related. Since UX is starting to take more influential roles and earlier in the development life cycle, I think it would be valuable to discuss different strategic outlooks and experiences.

The official Embassy Facebook page for Appsterdam Chicago. The best place in the world to be an app maker. Our goal is to bring app makers together, and our mission is to support their interests worldwide. We established Amsterdam as the capital of Appsterdam - the world capital of apps - to establish a centre of gravity for our industry, to provide a place where all app makers can gather, and to create a framework for people to give back and support the community. Stichting Appsterdam is a non- …

The Chicago Mobile App Testing Meetup Group is an informal professional group focused on what else but "Mobile App Testing". This group is a forum to share experiences - success stories and challenges alike, explore best practices - what worked for you and your organization, explore the available tools that cover this technology segment, and anything that would be related to testing Mobile applications.

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!

Calling all selenium enthusiasts! Whether you are interested in learning and/or currently using selenium/web-driver project, this is a group to meet and talk to other users, know about latest-trends in web automation, discuss challenges faced and just to network. We will be meeting on Thursday evenings.