Startups don't fail because they can't get the product built, they fail because they can't acquire customers. This group is for startups and professionals who are actively acquiring customers. We meet to discuss strategies and tactics for taking your startup up and to the right.

Hacking code to meet our needs, the bits and bytes from whence it feeds, our mottos set, our mission right, we'll slack all day, and code all night.

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 …

The Chicago Application Security Group is here to discuss the what's going on in the appsec world. Let's enjoy food, drinks, and a few laughs while we learn from and network with folks interested in application security.

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Other OGC resources: Google Groups: http://groups.google.com/group/opengovchicago  ----- "government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth." We believe that citizens should consider government to be "us", not "them." This meetup is for citizens who are interested in seeing their federal, state, and local government function more efficiently and responsively. We are inspired by people who are actively building tools and experimenting with solutions along th …

This is a group for anyone interested in writing software to make your life easier. Perl hackers, devops-ers, sysadmins and hobbyists that want to get together and talk about Perl, CPAN modules or whatever. We plan to consistently meet on the third Thursday of each month.  Before each meeting we also want to offer a training session for beginners.  Typically the training session will begin at 6pm and then a presentation at 7pm. Several members of the group use the IRC channel #milwaukee-pm on th …

Aquaponic enthusiasts of all levels welcome to share knowledge and experiences.

Chicago needs a hardware meetup, so we are making it happen! Join us and bring anyone interested in startups and building businesses based on the manufacture of physical products: from company boards to organic soap. Chicago has a wealth of production-based companies and capabilities, hackers, makers, makerspaces and our goal is to promote a stronger hardware startup community around it by bringing these people and pieces together with experts in production, academics, engineers, and successful …

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.

PLAY GOLF AND TENNISBASEBALL GOLF CLUB! Join us for Baseball Golf express skills based golf clinics and fun, team Baseball Golf Challenges at Diversey Range. Baseball Games will be PUTTING, SHORT GAME (chip & pitch) and APPROACH GAME (Range Targeting).  We May have a harder challenge (PLAYING THE GAME), which will cover bad and uneven lies and sand play. Baseball Golf Clinics\Challenges are 2 for $49.95, and are good for 2 years. Bonus...free putting clinic\challenge. 3 in total with bonus. Can …