• Sat. Aug 9th, 2008 @ 8:30am - 6:00pm
• SocialDevCampChicago
• Illinois Institute of Technology McCormick Tribune Center
• Address: 3201 South State Street, Chicago, IL 60616
• Fee: Free
• Add Name to Wiki

SocialDevCamp Chicago is an unconference for individuals passionate about social networks, web applications, platform development, new media, and any of the exciting (but messy) topics between.

Join some of the brightest minds in the Midwest for a day of fun, learning, and coding. Discussions will surround topics including Google App Engine, Data Portability, Online Trust, and mobile application development.

Please sign up and contribute to the topics list on the official BarCamp Wiki.

To add your name and contact info to the wiki, use the password \\\”c4mp\\\”

Also feel free to help us SPREAD the word by blogging, tweeting, forced coercion, word-of-mouth marketing, fortune cookie inserts, etc. Link to either this event page or the official Wiki.

BLOG, BLOG, TWEET, POWNCE, BLOG, TUMBLE, SHARE THIS…enter your social media buzzword of choice and help spread the message!

Finally, thanks to Nik Rokop and the Illinois Institute of Technology staff for helping to secure the amazing McCormick Tribune Campus Center. Don\\\’t forget to look up from your computer to enjoy the Mies van der Rohe and Rem Koolhaas designs.

(A successful SocialDevCamp East already occurred in Baltimore on May 10. The next East installment is tentatively scheduled for Fall 08).

Questions? Contact: Tim Courtney - tim at timcourtney , net

• Fri. Apr 4th, 2008 @ 12:00am - Sat. Apr 5th, 2008 @ 12:00am
• UIC LUG/UIC ACM
• UIC
• Address: 842 west taylor st, chicago,il
• Fee: 0
• http://www.flourishconf.com/register.php

To everyone interested,

The University of Illinois at Chicago Linux Users Group (UIC-LUG) and the University of Illinois at Chicago Association for Computing
Machinery (UIC-ACM) are hosting their second annual Flourish Conference promoting the adoption and use of Free, Libre and Open Source Software (FLOSS). The UIC-LUG and UIC-ACM would like to invite you to attend this glorious event. The entire conference is free

with registration (or $ 5 at the door), but please do register if you plant to
attend please lets us know how many people we should expect. http://www.flourishconf.com/register.php.

Some of our featured speakers will include: Bruce Perens from Source Labs, Jon “maddog” Hall from Linux International, Brian Fitzpatrick (and Ben Collins-Sussman) from Google, Dru Lavigne from Open Source Business Resource and BSD Certification Group Inc., among many others.

We will be hosting a variety of events which include but are not limited to: BarCamp Mini, Flourish Mini-expo, WAFD (Web Application Framework Development) Rumble, Networking Events, and Hack-a-Thon, BSDA Examination. For more information please visit: http://www.flourishconf.com/flourish2008/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13&Itemid=30

Flourish 2008 will be held on Friday, April 4th and Saturday, April 5th. We expect the conference attendance to be between 300 and 400 people. Please reply and let me know whether or not you will be attending Flourish 2008.

Organizations/Developers: We still have open tables in the expo space, if you’d like to use one of the tables to advertise your said organization or promote an event. We are also still looking for developers to represent the various Web frameworks. If anyone is interested in participating, please feel free to contact me.

Thank you,

Samir Faci

Flourish Public Relations

Questions? Contact: samir at esamir dot com

• Wed. Oct 24th, 2007 @ 12:00pm - 1:30pm
• Business Network Chicago
• Weber Grill
• Address: 539 N State Street in Chicago
• Fee: $ 20
• Online sign-up

Join us at the October BNC IT Speed Networking Event. You don’t have to be a member to attend. You just have to possess a desire to meet IT and IT related professionals who can help you with your career or IT needs.

Questions? Contact: jpic333@hotmail.com

• Wed. Sep 26th, 2007 @ 1:00am - 5:30pm
• The Technology Executives Club
• Union League Club
• Address: 65 W. Jackson Blvd.
• Fee: $ 125 - $ 150
• Call Celine Seabck 847-837-3900 x4

In this seminar we’ll explore how project managers and top IT executives budget and track key IT projects and assets. Starting with the original budget process and ending with the year end ROI and review. We’ll explore top strategies and techniques in the major processes of Budgeting, Portfolio Management, Asset Management, Balanced Scorecards & Project Tracking. Here’s what you’ll learn at this event:

Learn from a Keynote Panel of CIO’s and Senior Project Managers how they budget & track their IT investment using budgeting & portfolio management processes.
Top Trends in the Budget Process.
How IT executives use Portfolio Management to balance investments in their overall portfolio of projects.
The increasing importance of Asset Management and why top IT executives are increasing their investments in this process.
Using the Balanced Scorecard Framework for project tracking & measurement.
Best Practices in IT departments tracking their projects and measuring their ROI.

Questions? Contact: Celine Seaback 847-837-3900 x4

• Tue. Sep 25th, 2007 @ 5:30pm - 7:30pm
• Business Network Chicago
• Midtown Kitchen & Bar
• Address: 203 N. LaSalle (in the loop, just North of State of IL building)
• Fee: 17.00
• register online

Please join us for the next gathering of the BNC IT Group. This month Robert Harney will be our guest speaker. Robert is the president of RHS Telecom (www.rhstelecom.com). The presentation is called ‘Pay Close Attention to What is Behind the Curtain’. Robert will be talking about all the things you need to consider when choosing a telecommunications service for your company.

You will notice that with this event there are some differences: 1) it is an early evening/after work event, 2) it is scheduled to last 2 hours, 3) the first 30 minutes will be used for mingling and 4) there will be a cash bar. At 6:00 pm, we will have the 15 minute presentation from Robert Harney and then we will begin our speed networking table rotations.

All attendees will be charged a fee of $ 17.00 which covers the cost of some appetizers and the room. Because we will have a cash bar, you will be responsible for paying for your own drinks. The registration fee will be collected on line at http://sept07bncitgroup.eventbrite.com. Once you have paid the registration fee, you will receive an email confirming your RSVP.

RSVPs will be required in order to attend the event. Midtown Kitchen & Bar requires a guaranteed head count by Friday, Sept 21, at noon. Therefore, no reservations will be accepted after Friday, Sept 21st at 11:00am CST.

Space is limited so make your reservation early. Once all seats are filled, you must send me an email to have your name put on the wait list. If space opens up, you will be sent an email or I will call you to tell you how to submit your registration fee and receive your RSVP confirmation.

Please bring your business cards and/or hand bills which you can share with the other attendees when you move from table to table. An attendee list will be included in the handouts packet which is distributed to all attendees.

To contact me:
Call: 312-431-8335
Email: jpic333@hotmail.com

We actually had to turn people away at our last event. Our group is growing. I am starting out with 36 spaces this time. However, I expect that the space will be filled quickly so don’t wait until the last minute. Sign-up early to make sure you can attend our first evening networking event.

See you there,
Jean Pickering President The Tektite Group, LLC

• Thu. Jun 7th, 2007 @ 1:00pm - 5:45pm
• The Technology Executives Club
• Union League Club
• Address: 65 W. Jackson Blvd
• Fee: $95-$150
• Call Celine Seaback at 847-837-3900 x 4

As outsourcing becomes more accepted within an enterprise, the company perspective of its own boundaries begin to change. Companies are now transforming themselves into an extended enterprise model, whereby many of the functions of the companies are performed outside the company itself. In this seminar we’ll explore how top CIO’s and IT executives support the extended enterprise model while maintaining control over their projects, budgets, compliance risks, & corporate objectives. Following are the sessions you’ll experience as a participant in the event:

Learn from a keynote panel of top CIO’s and IT executives how they successfully support the concept of the Extended Enterprise.

Receive an executive briefing on the top trends facing the Extended Enterprise today
Learn how companies manage the risk and complexity of compliant sourcing in an era where suppliers are willing to accept responsibility.

In a Framework for the Outsourcing Decision process, you’ll learn how to identify your companies core competencies and determine which areas to outsource.

In Making Global Work, Work you’ll learn how to take advantage of the opportunities of global outsourcing, while minimizing the risk

Questions? Contact: Celine Seaback at 847-837-3900 x4

• Mon. May 7, 6-8pm
• Chicago Central ColdFusion and Flex User Group
• International Academy of Design and Technology
• Address: One North State Street between Madison & Washington
• Fee: Free, Prizes & Pizza will be provided. win a copy of CF Server Professional
• For security reasons, you MUST rsvp on our web site and bring ID.

Ever wonder why some companies pay good money to develop apps on the ColdFusion platform when there are free robust options available? Well, Adobe’s Senior Technical Evangelist is coming to Chicago to tell you why his company charges $ 1K-$ 6K for a single server license (and developers are still buying them like hotcakes). We will also get a sneak peek into the next release of CF, codenamed Scorpio.

Think CF is lame, too expensive, uncool, unscaleable? We invite you to attend this free event to grill the CF masters, and defend your platform of choice. Perhaps you will influence the future direction of CF, or even find new supporters for your platform.

Even before the release of CFMX 7 two years ago, the ColdFusion team was already hard at work planning the 8th major ColdFusion edition. Building on top of the powerful platform introduced in ColdFusion MX, and the solid feature set of ColdFusion MX 7, “Scorpio” piles on new features and technologies for developers, administrators, technical decision makers, and more. The official “Scorpio” release is scheduled for mid-2007, but you don’t have to wait until then to see it for yourself. Ben Forta will be demoing lots of Scorpio throughout a user group tour, where attendees will get to see “Scorpio” in action, as well as gain access to the pre-release beta, and get the chance to win Adobe software. And since our user group is part of the Scorpio tour, plan on coming out for this special event!!

Ben Forta is Adobe Inc.’s Senior Technical Evangelist, and has over two decades of experience in the computer industry in product development, support, training, and marketing. Ben is the author of the best-selling ColdFusion Web Application Construction Kit and its sequel Advanced ColdFusion Application Development, as well as books on SQL, Regular Expressions, JavaServer Pages, WAP, Windows development, and more. Over 1/2 million Ben Forta books have been printed in a dozen languages worldwide. Ben co-authored the official ColdFusion training material, as well as the certification tests and official study guides for those tests, writes regular columns on ColdFusion and Internet development, and now spends a considerable amount of time lecturing and speaking on application development worldwide.

Questions? Contact: Igor Ilyinsky - manager {AT} cccfug [DOT] org

• Mon. Feb 26th, 2007 @ 3:30pm - Wed. Jan 31st, 2007 @ 8:00pm
• by many sponsoring organizations
• Gleacher Center
• Address: 450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago
• Fee: $ 25 ($ 15 for students)

Entrepreneurs are invited to tryout their best pitches at the Chicagoland FAST PITCH Competition on Monday, February 26, 2007. At the competition, entrepreneurs will deliver pitches of three minutes or less for a chance to win a prize of $ 5,000. A panel of judges will offer feedback to the entrepreneur, and select a winner in each of 5 categories: Information Technology, Business Products and Services, Life Sciences, Retail and Consumer Products, and Open Competition. The five finalists will then present to the general audience, and the champion will be chosen by audience vote. Find more information and register for the competition here.

This competition kicks off Chicago’s celebration of Entrepreneurship Week 2007, a national event sponsored by the Kauffman Foundation. FAST PITCH is co-sponsored by DePaul University, the Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, Northwestern University, University of Chicago, Illinois Institute of Technology, the Illinois Business & Investors Forum, the Chicagoland Chamber of Commerce, and the Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

For more Entrepreneurship Week 2007 activities, visit: www.chicagoeweek.com

• Tue. Jan 16th, 2007 @ 6:30pm - 9:00pm
• Chicago Java Users Group
• DePaul University, Loop Campus CTI Building, Room #436A
• Address: 243 S. Wabash, Chicago, IL
• Fee: first time free
• Please rsvp so the right amount of food is ordered

Ari Zilka, Founder and CTO of Terracotta, Inc will be giving this talk.

Need to make your Java applications scalable and highly available? Learn how to make your Java applications “Enterprise-class” Java applications. By clustering the JVM, instead of the application, deploying clustered applications no longer requires rewriting code or creating new, complex custom code. Learn how to take several popular open source frameworks and cluster them without rewriting the code.

This is very developer focused.

• Fri. Dec 22nd, 2006 @ 7:00am - 9:00am
• TECHcoffee
• Caribou Coffee at LaSalle & Lake.
• Fee: Buy something to drink and get 1 hour free wifi, $ 1.50 purchases /additional hours

TechCoffee is an idea that’s part running club, part knitting bee, and part hackathon.

Get up early like a running club and work on fun, independent, non-work-related projects. Open source is great, but everyone is invited. Spend a few hours with some of Chicago’s most dedicated software developers.

What languages are allowed?
Whatever floats your Blub. Season One saw Python, Perl, Lisp, Ruby, Javascript, and Java (at least). Oh, and some OCaml. Work on what you’re working on. Everyone’s welcome.

• Fri. Nov 17th, 2006 @ 7:00am - 9:00am
• TECHcoffee
• Caribou Coffee on LaSalle and Lake
• Fee: just buy some coffee

TechCoffee is an idea that’s part running club, part knitting bee, and part hackathon.

Get up early — like a running club — and work on fun, independent, non-work-related projects. Open source is great, but everyone is invited. Spend a few hours with some of Chicago’s most dedicated software developers.

• Tue. Oct 17th, 2006 @ 6:00pm - 8:30pm
• Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG)
• Orbitz Building (Olgilvie Metra Stn), 8th floor break room
• Address: 500 West Madison, Chicago, IL 60661
• Fee: Free for first timers, membership is cheap
• RSVP to get through security and for food

Determining how your application will respond to real-world situations is not an easy task. What happens when the disk fills up, the network becomes unavailable or its latency increases, or a system administrator inadvertently removes a necessary file? Writing repeatable tests that create these scenarios can be tedious and error prone at best.

This presentation introduces fault injection as a very powerful technique for any developer to have in their toolkit. A brief introduction to Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) and other similar technologies such as Javassist is provided.

About the Speaker: Rob Grzywinski is an accomplished chief architect and senior developer with expertise in leading projects with short development cycles and limited resources. His focus is on producing quality software that incurs minimal maintenance costs and grows to meet future needs. Rob has run the gamut from content management with the Tribune Company to security with RSA and from rich clients from to embedded devices.

Enter at the Visitor desk - the third floor just one level up the escalators above the train level.

This is a special event, as it is out of Chicago, but many of us Chicagoans will be travelling to Sunnyvale, CA for this sweet-action event. Be sure to RSVP here, and if you’re a Chicagoan, leave a comment below on this post.

• Friday - Sunday Sept 29 - Oct. 1st in Sunnyvale, CA
• Free to participate, just RSVP here, on Upcoming’s site (Also leave a comment below).
• www.hackday.org

From Yahoo’s announcement:

We’ll kick things off on Friday, September 29th with a free all-day developer workshop. Then we’ll launch a 24-hour Hack Day with an outdoor party into the wee hours, with special guests providing the soundtrack. (Details to come later, but we guarantee this won’t be your usual corporate-wedding-band leading the crowd through 2am group sing-alongs of “Brick House.”) We’ll hack through the night, keep going through Saturday morning, and wind it all up that evening with hacker demos, judging from a panel of luminaries. and special awards for the coolest hacks. We’ll have special guest speakers all weekend, with Michael Arrington of TechCrunch presiding over the festivities. After nightfall we’ll close things out with another round of entertainment that you would be happy to pay for, except that you won’t have to.

Update:

Most of us are taking a Southwest flight (only $110 each way) out on Thursday night and and leaving Sunday morning. Book a flight with us, or leave a post below to split up the hotel room!
Southwest flight details follow:

• Hibernate/jMatter Framework by Eitan Suez (a NFJS speaker)
• Tuesday, August 15 6:00 pm - 8:30 pm
• Orbitz Building, 500 West Madison, Chicago, IL 60661 (Olgilvie Metra Station)
• www.cjug.org
• You must RSVP, or security will not let you in
• Free to first time guests

Come discover jMatter in a hands-on presentation where we’ll be developing a live application and hold discussions about this new empowering style of producing business applications.

Here is the link for all of Eitan’s talks and bio.

Visitor’s desk - the third floor just one level up the escalators above the train level. The location of the meeting is the 8th floor break room. NOTE: UNLESS YOU RSVP, YOU CANNOT ATTEND THE MEETING (BUILDING SECURITY RULES)

About the Speaker:Â Â Â Eitan Suez is a programmer living and working in Austin, Texas. He has been programming in Java since 1995 and is a certified Java Programmer. Eitan is the author of an open source Java documentation system named “ashkelon” (see http://ashkelon.sourceforge.net/ ), and more recently, the jMatter framework for extremely agile software construction for workgroups. Eitan speaks on the “No Fluff Just Stuff” series of programming Symposia on a variety of topics including Java Documentation Systems, Cascading Style Sheets, jMatter, Hibernate. Eitan is active with his local Austin? Java Users Group, and maintains weblogs at java.net, u2d.com, and jmatter.org/

The jMatter framework is a modern implementation of the Naked Objects Architectural Pattern using Swing, Hibernate, and deployed with Java WebStart. This open-source framework produces 2-tier workgroup apps (Swing front-ends that talk to rdbms back-ends) intended to be used in a LAN or VPN environment. Developers using a Naked Objects style framework focus on building a behaviourally complete domain model and leave everything else (UI, persistence, etc) to the framework. By focusing on the domain model only, jMatter claims to offer 10x productivity for building Swing workgroup apps.

The Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG) is dedicated to promoting Java related technologies in a network world. It is an arena where you can exchange information, problems, ideas, experiences, resources, and questions related to the Java language.

• July 24th, 6-8pm
• ThoughtWorks office
• Suite 600 (6th floor) 651 W Washington Blvd, Chicago, IL
• momochicago.com
• Free with pizza and pop

Christy Wyatt, VP of Ecosystem Development Motorola Mobile Devices will discuss Motorola’s support of Eclipse and Linux for Mobile Development.

Whatever happened to J2ME and all the talk about Java on small form factor devices? A few important industry trends make this a topic of increased interest - The J2ME stack has matured and Linux has made a push as a reliable OS for mobile devices and it is evident that people are thinking about how to create an effective IDE for developers to build Java products on Linux based devices.
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Chicagoland Java User Group (CJUG)

• Tues. July 18, 6:15 - 8:30 PM
• DePaul University, Loop Campus, CTI Building, Room 436A, 243 S Wabash (just north of Jackson), Chicago,IL
• FREE to current CJUG members, Friends of CJUG; DePaul Students & Alumni and their guests. Other students are $2 (with student id) All others are $10

website: www.cjug.org contact: cjug@cjug.org

The Chicago Java Users Group (CJUG) is dedicated to promoting Java related technologies in a network world. It is an arena where you can exchange information, problems, ideas, experiences, resources, and questions related to the Java language. We provide Java users with meetings, discussion groups, forums, panels, lectures, and other similar programs concerned with the development and exchange of research data relevant to the Java language. We help coordinate workshops, training, and special interest groups to further the purpose of the group.

Business cards optional.

• Mon. July 17, 6-8am at Caribou Coffee at Lake/LaSalle.
• Location: Caribou Coffee (Northwest corner Lake/La Salle)
• Read more and RSVP at: http://TechCoffee.com

Every Monday morning this summer, open source hackers meet somewhere in downtown Chicago and work on the projects that interest them. It can reduce your temptation to just loaf around and read Slashdot.

All developers and technologists are welcome: Pythonizers, Rubyists, Perl Mongers, PHPimps, and Javanauts are welcome. Even Lispers, Schemers, OCamlists, Haskellians, Eiffelers, HyperTalkers, and Stegosauruses (COBOL programmers), too.

We will start July 15th and running through Sunday July 16th. (48 hours of pure tech party, camping on site in the location, creating spontaneous talks, innovation, and code) http://barcampchicago.com/
BarCamp is an ad hoc un-conference born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from attendees.
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It’s an informal party/conference about technology innovation and collaboration where participants can pitch ideas, present their work, or brainstorm on new developments.
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Read the Wired article: BAR camp press
Venue Found! Date Set July 15 (noon) to 16 (8pm with an afterparty following)
648 W. Randolph, 3rd Floor, right next to the 90/94 junction, a short walk from trains.