The field of computing is new, complicated, and diverse enough that often times even an experienced IT professional can become frustrated by a problem, or set of problems, that someone in a related field can help rapidly clarify quickly and easily explain. My hope is to bring together a group of people with diverse skills and levels of understanding of various areas of information technology on a monthly or bi-monthly basis to better understand topics like: system administration, networking, UNI …

A meet-up for tech-enthusiasts and users of the BSD Unix Family of Operating Systems including Linux and Illumos. Discussions may include Project Ideas, Problems/Solutions, Implementations, &c. Based on interest, specific articles from the excellent BSD Magazine can be explored and speakers can also be scheduled to present. Ideas for location or program topics always welcome.

This is for anyone interested in learning new programming skills, meeting fellow Chicago-area programmers, and solving problems on the Project Euler website. No prior math/programming skills required, we can share skills as a group. I started this group because we did a "Project Euler Sprint" at another recent meetup and we all had a blast. Hoping to recreate it! http://projecteuler.net/

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.