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.

We're a bunch of hackers, pirates, ninjas, thinkers, tinkerers, inventors, engineers, explorers, and makers. We're known for our thought-provoking beer and delicious content. We love security. Come at your risk.

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This is a group for information security professionals or anyone looking to become one. All skill levels welcome, but please try to bring something to share besides cookies and libations. Sharing knowledge and findings is our forte. If you are stuck on a problem and want help, we will attempt to help, but please do your research and be prepared to answer questions about the issue. All in all, a group of security geeks looking to have fun doing our thing and meeting new folks to learn from each o …

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.

This group is for builders of Rails apps, from independent devs, to small teams, to small business teams: just be actually building something. Get together with other builders, collaborate, pair program, discuss deployment platforms, and participate in hacking sessions. This group is not for tutorials, or people looking primarily for a "teach me Rails" group. This group is for builders, not simply people playing around with the framework, or evaluating Rails in a cursory manner. So do you have t …

Chicago Electronic Music Meetup Guidelines for members - updated 2013.05.25 MEETUPS for this group can now be categorized into TWO EVENT TYPES. EVENT HOSTS will classify each meetup so standard expectations can be met by both members and event hosts. TYPE 1 MEETUP: Those that RSVP will be given contact info to the host and will meetup on a case by case basis. No meetup beforehand is scheduled and it is up to the member and host to coordinate. TYPE 2 MEETUP: Those that RSVP will be given time …

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 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 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.

SSH:C is a newly formed hackerspace with the aim of bringing a collaborative environment to Chicago's Bridgeport neighborhood where anyone can feel free to think, create, explore, and learn.

This group is designed for people who work on projects outside of their career or job and have to choose between socializing and working on those personal projects. Whether they be creative, technical, short or long term, this group provides an audience to give you feedback and encouragement. Members will introduce their projects and pledge progress in small increments. Knowing that an audience is waiting at a specific time in a specific place to see that progress will hopefully help us stay on …

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.

This is a group of homeschoolers for all ages interested in getting together for fun interactive, hands on activities. I started this group to get together with other homeschoolers who are interested in playing games and bowling.  We will meet on Mondays for Homeschoolers Play and Learn with games. We also have a group called the Make, Hack, Craft Club. We will meet for lessons, demonstrations and all thing tinkering.  All members all welcome to suggest meet ups and plan activities.