Join your fellow web designers for: Presentations on topics of interest Q&A about web design Networking Every month, we look at various aspects of web design and development, including: Adobe Creative Suite CSS HTML Content Management System (CMS) Workflow Content Management UI Javascript Flash Video ...and much more.

Refresh Chicago is a community of designers and developers working to refresh the creative, technical, and professional culture of New Media endeavors in and around the Chicagoland area. Promoting design, technology, usability, and standards. Do you feel like the web needs a new look? Interested in the latest web technologies? Care about design, but feel it must be usable? Want to meet informally with other designers and developers around town? Currently we meet every fourth Wednesday of the mon …

This group is for Chicago Area developers and designers of all makes and models to get together and drink alcohol (or some other poison), showcase their work, share tips and techniques, and find full time and contract work opportunities. We invite group members to submit ideas to talk about.  Bring a laptop or a tablet, a sketchpad or an etch-a-sketch.  We don't care. We are technology agnostic and just want to have drinks and meet other folk who know our woes.

A group to discuss Node.js, its frameworks, and best practices.

We are a group of Sencha developers in the greater Chicago area. Our meetups have free beer and food... and we talk about cool stuff, so why don't you join us?

We are a group software developers, web developers, DBAs, and technology enthusiasts. Some of us make our living writing code, some of us just do it for fun! Some are working on side projects and want to learn more about technology that we don't use on our day jobs. Whatever the case, we like to get together talk about different ways to enhance our knowledge and hopefully our careers. After all of that learning... we also like to socialize over some beers! If this sounds like fun to you com …

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 …

This Dev Meet Up is a social gathering for developers to discuss geospatial technologies, complementary third-party tools, and development platforms (e.g., Silverlight, Java, Flex, JavaScript) that are supported by Esri. Presentations run the gamut of our community: from Web development to mobile location development for iOS, Android and Windows Phone 7 to automating tasks with Python. Developers of all levels of expertise are welcome, from seasoned GIS professionals to those new to geospatial d …

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'll be exploring Ruby web application development, mostly through the Ruby on Rails framework, but we'll cover other topics like setting up your system for Rails dev, testing and behavior driven development, JavaScript programming (backbone.js, node.js, etc), amongst other code related things. We don't require that you know Ruby to join, but it's going to be a technical group, so it's probably only a good fit for actual or aspiring web application developers. That being said, if you want to c …

Madison professionals, enthusiasts, and hobbyists who share a passion for great JavaScript, and making JavaScript work for them and their users through terrific, engaging, and intuitive apps. Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/madjs

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.

To spread knowledge about EPiServer in the Chicago area.

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

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!

Chicago's Ember.js group is committed to creating a robust community built around the philosophy of building beautifully crafted web applications with the help of ember.js.  Meetups should be fun and engaging to promote a wealth of knowledge among your peers, we will always keep this as a core concept.  Naturally we will also never let the coolers run low on beer.

We are a meet-up group aiming to provide a forum that combines all the people involved in the fast pace world of digital advertising. The groups' goal is provide discussions and topics where individuals involved on either side of the equation, Technology or Creative, can come together to learn more or contribute to the next wave of advertising. **Please no 3rd Party Recruiters**

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 …

A group for JavaScript enthusiasts and those looking to learn JavaScript in the Milwaukee area.

The Chicagoland ColdFusion User Group is a local group of web professionals and enthusiasts who are dedicated to expanding and sharing their knowledge of CFML and related web technologies. Most developers reside in the Greater Chicagoland area of IL which includes Cook County, DuPage County, Will County, Kane County, and more. All skill levels are welcome to attend our meetings. Come early for some socializing, networking, and enjoy some food and drink. This group was started in September 2012.

AngularJS meetup group in Chicago, IL discussing how to leverage and evolve the 'Superheroic JavaScript MVW Framework'.

Geekfest is a gathering of software development geeks every Tuesday at noon. It originally started at Obtiva back in 2007, and now it's at Groupon.

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.

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 …

A place for Chicago's Coffeescript users to learn, discuss and explore Coffeescript.

This is a group for software developers and coders that enjoy coding competitions. Competitions will happen once every quarter. Past competitions we've had include writing a bot that competes at the board game Clue, and mini-puzzles solved in C# and JavaScript. We aim to have some competitions that are language agnostic.

Code together, on anything...in Naperville! Flying under the OpenHack banner, like a boss.

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!