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

We discuss mobile app development issues and strategies. The group shares among ourselves and brings in outside experts to help educate and advance our knowledge. We offer the opportunity for developers to share their projects and get feedback from group members and have live demonstrations of new apps that our members are launching. Our conversations will include marketing and advertising so we can help get apps in the hands of our target audience and fund the work we are doing. Join us in shap …

The Fox Valley PhoneGap Meetup group is proud to be hosting PhoneGap related meetups in the area. We will be doing presentations on various PhoneGap, HTML5, and mobile development related topics that the group shows interest in. Meet other local fans of PhoneGap, the best tool for quickly building mobile applications for iPhone, Android, BlackBerry, Palm, iPad, and Symbian. If you’re an entrepreneur looking to build a mobile application, or a web developer who wants to build mobile applications …

Mobile Monday Milwaukee is the latest expansion of Mobile Monday. Mobile Monday is an international organization that works with local, regional, national and global mobile industry visionaries and developers fostering cooperation and cross-company business development through virtual and live networking events to facilitate idea sharing, best practices development, trends identification, and Mobile Industry growth locally, regionally, nationally, and internationally. All Mobile Monday Chapters …

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.

Chicago HTML5 shares emerging web technologies through presentations on real world implementations and live tutorials on game, websites, and application building. We also host roundtables and speaker presentations on various topics such as new web standards, frameworks, process and methodology.

The folks at Promet Source get together regularly to discuss new technologies, new developments in Drupal and mobile development. The purpose of this meetup is to publish our topics and invite anyone who is interested in participating into the office. Anyone who is a mobile or a Drupal developer should join the group.

MobileMKE is an organization dedicated to the passion for Mobile Technology. Our goal is to connect and nurture Mobile enthusiasts and technologists in the Milwaukee area. This will happen through meetups and other events that will raise awareness of what is going on in the Milwaukee Mobile Market as well as help nurture new fruitful ideas in Mobile Technology space that yet to exist.

Expert, novice, guru, all are welcome. Get together to discuss HTML5 technologies, applications, and frameworks. Meetings will take place monthly and are hosted at Bucketworks

NSCoder Night is a very informal night where you can get together with other Mac & iOS Developers in the area and socialize, get help with your Mac OS X & iOS projects and more. NSCoder Night meets on every Tuesday Night.

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 …

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 …

Membership is comprised of Women either in the Information Security field or wanting to enter the field. The purpose of this group is to advance women in Information Security by promoting networking, education, mentoring, resource-sharing, and opportunities. Regular workshops will be offered to bridge the gap of theory and/or minimal hands-on labs from a course you took or self-studying. You will get to learn and practice in an environment of like-minded women. Workshops will be led by SME's in …

Everything about Cross Platform Application Development Techniques using Xamarin Monotouch, Mono for Android, Visual Studio and HTML5. We discuss the pros and cons of using a tool like MonoTouch and MonoDroid vs using HTML5 and Native Development Software Development kits.  Speakers will present solutions they have implemented, show code samples, and talk about real life experiences on choosing a specific development path.

Calling all Smart phone photographers! Have you made the switch to only shooting photos with your smart phone (iphone or droid)? If you have....or if you are thinking about it, or if you just want to expand your mind...join us. Join us for some really cool shoots and photo challenges that will open up your creativity and allow you to let loose on the city to discover some hidden treasures. We are all about the fun. No pressure here.

The Chicago .NET Developers group is focused on educating and assisting downtown Chicago developers with the latest Microsoft Technologies. Topics will include all aspects of development, including web, desktop and cloud, as well as architectural design and application development frameworks. We will generally meet the first Wednesday or Thursday of the Month. Meetings and membership are FREE, so please join us!

On the last Friday of the month, we get together for an all-night hacking session. Stay as long or as short as you'd like. This group is for anyone who wants to catch up on that nagging side project at a late night, caffeinated coding session with like-minded individuals. All skill levels and languages are welcome!  This is a mobile centric group, but it's not a problem if you have another project you want to work on too.  Designers and entrepreneurs welcome too, come get some work done!

The Fusion Development User Group (FDUG) is an independent community of professionals collaborating to be more productive and effective, and ultimately driving value for organizations that deploy Oracle Fusion technologies.

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 …

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.

Smart TV - Digital Signage is a group for designers, software developers and resellers of media and software applications deployed to Smart TV and Digital Signage devices. Our primary focus will be software development, product and service vendors, device platforms (including kiosk form factors), matters pertaining to content creation, encoding, formatting of media and last but not least matters pertaining to the advocacy and support of local businesses interested in using or already using Smart …