• Wed. Nov 29th, 2006 @ 9:00am - 4:00pm
• SCORE
• Address: 500 W. Madison, Suite 1250, Chicago 60661
• Fee: $ 60 prepaid, $ 70 at door (both include lunch)
• RSVP website

Registration at 8:30 am.

Basic components of international trade are discussed by speakers active in the export and import industry. They cover legal issues, financial and banking, freight forwarding, customs, and sound techniques for exporting and importing products as well as U.S. government financial programs.

• Tue. Nov 28th, 2006 @ 9:00am - 12:30pm
• SCORE
• Address: 500 W. Madison, Suite 1250, Chicago 60661
• Fee: $ 35 prepaid, $ 45 at door
• RSVP website

Protect Your Assets and Keep the IRS At Bay
Registration 8:30 AM

Learn how to protect your business by insuring against losses due to asset damage, third party liability, workmen\’s compensation and business interruption. This workshop also covers the basics of federal, state and local taxes and the importance of good record-keeping.

• Mon. Nov 27th, 2006 @ 6:00pm - 7:30pm
• MobileMonday Chicago
• ThoughtWorks
• Address: 200 E Randolph (25th Floor)
• Fee: zero (0) USD
• Please join the mailing group - link on the website

To celebrate the year end and to regroup we’ve decided to have a MoMo Chicago Mixer. This will allow everyone in the community to get to know each other better and give us some more time to figure out what we would like to see in the upcoming MoMo Chicago events and generally hang out.

There will be an assortment of snacks and drinks for everyone to enjoy.

Please feel free to bring friends that you think will find this community of interest.

Thanks to ThoughtWorks for hosting the event in their spanking new office

Where:
The ThoughtWorks office:
25th Floor,
200 East Randolph, (The Aon Centre)
Chicago, IL

When:
27th of November, (Monday)
6pm

Please contact me in advance to let me know if you (/and friends) are going to be there so I can have an estimate for food and drinks - kiran [aT] momochicago [.] com

• 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.

• Thu. Nov 16th, 2006 @ 6:30pm - 8:30pm
• Chicago Area Ruby Group
• ThoughtWorks
• Address: 651 W. Washington Blvd. Suite 600 Chicago, IL 60661
• Fee: free
• RSVP for free food

What’s possible in a post Web 2.0 world? Innovation continues at a mind-bending pace, and this presentation will showcase some thought-provoking new directions that Web Services are headed in. The presentation will provide an overview of Amazon Web Services, including a Web service named Mechanical Turk that allows computers to make requests of people, an online object store, and more. You’ll also see a walk-thru showing how to set up virtual Linux servers.

Amazon spent ten years and over $ 2 billion developing a world-class technology and content platform that powers Amazon web sites for millions of customers. Most people think “Amazon.com” when they hear the word; however developers are excited to learn that there is a separate technology arm of the company, known as Amazon Web Services or AWS. Using AWS, developers can build software applications leveraging the same robust, scalable, and reliable technology that powers Amazon’s retail business. AWS has now launched eleven services with open APIs for developers to build applications, with the result that over 200,000 developers have registered on Amazon’s developer site to create applications based on these services.

Mike Culver, from Amazon.com, will be talking to us about AWS.

Editors Note: I’ve seen Mike’s talk before, and it is good. Say hi to me if you stop by. I’m the fast-moving redhead/blond -JAW

• November 10-12 Fri-Sun
• Crystal Lake, IL
• hackathon.info for details and to register
• Free, with hotel discounts available

The Chicago Perl Mongers and The Perl Foundation are proud to announce the Fall 2006 Chicago Hackathon. It will be a round-the-clock weekend of programming on Perl-related projects with your colleagues in the open source community. Dozens of programmers from the open source community in the midwest, as well as others from around the US, will be getting together to share ideas, work on code, and move their Perl-related projects forward.

The participants set the agenda for what we’ll be working on, but Perl 6 and Parrot are already on the roster of projects. Chip Salzenberg, pumpking for the Parrot project, will be on hand to help with Parrot and Perl 6. Andy Lester will also be driving some Parrot maintenance tasks, and other midwest programmers will be working on their own projects. There’s sure to be something interesting for everyone!

Participation in the hackathon costs nothing. The Perl Foundation is even providing hotel rooms at a special rate if you want to spend the night. Even if you’re in the area for just an hour, stop by, grab a snack or some pizza and talk with other people interested in Perl. You might contribute more than you think just by talking with other programmers.

To find out more, visit http://hackathon.info. If you’ll be attending, please sign in on the Attendees wiki page, and/or email rsvp@hackathon.info . You can also send questions to Andy Lester at andy@hackathon.info

• Thursday, November 9th, 6:30 - 10:00pm

• First Bank & Trust of Evanston 820 Church Street, Evanston, IL.
• RSVP Now, email gmunoz [at] theincubator.com
• TheIncubator website

Join us to celebrate The Incubator’s 20th Anniversary at our Annual Face to Face event hosted by First Bank & Trust of Evanston. See old friends and meet the young companies that are defining the future of innovation. Above all, just network and have a good time!!

• Thu. Nov 9th, 2006 @ 6:30 - 8:30pm
• ManhattanGMAT
• Address: 222 West Ontario St., Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60610
• Fee: FREE
• RSVP website

Starting the MBA application process? Essays, references, undergrad transcripts, your resume, and the GMAT? While it will not single-handedly get you into b-school, the GMAT is an important element and may demand 2-3 months worth of prep work. It WILL pay off to take ample time to study and to study well! Join the ManhattanGMAT team for a free two-hour orientation class about the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT) at our Chicago center. Learn test format and scoring, how the GMAT fits into the MBA admissions process, and ManhattanGMAT’s approach to adaptive testing (a major hurdle for most students). Attendees also walk away with four practical strategies to use as you proceed, plus a $ 100 discount off any ManhattanGMAT course.

Questions? Contact: danielle@manhattangmat.com

• Tue. Nov 7th, 2006 @ 6:00pm - 8:00pm
• Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council
• Gardner Carton & Douglas
• Address: 191 N. Wacker Drive, Ste. 3700
• Fee: FREE
• Jennifer Fortney, jfortney@cascadecomms.com, 773/529-7547

A networking event encouraging trade with India called Exclusive Buyer Seller Meet taking place in Chicago. CEOs from 20 of India’s fastest growing IT companies will be present on Nov. 7th from 6:00 - 8:00 pm at the law firm of Gardner Carton & Douglas, 191 N. Wacker Dr., Suite 3700, Chicago.

The participants are interested in meeting top managers and IT specialists from established Midwest companies in general, and from the banking, manufacturing, healthcare and education sectors in particular. If there are any firms or individuals you think will benefit from this meeting, please feel free to pass along the attached invitation to them.

The event is sponsored by the Electronics and Computer Software Export Promotion Council of India, and its intent is to provide participants with the opportunity to consider a variety of software and services from India, as well as to allow Chicago companies to offer their products and services to businesses looking to expand to the market.

Questions? Contact: Jennifer Fortney, jfortney@cascadecomms.com, 773/529-7547

• Sat. Nov 4th, 2006 @ 10:00am - 12:00pm
• IIT ACM
• MTCC McCloska Auditorium
• Address: 3201 S State St, Chicago, IL 60616
• Fee: free

Richard Stallman is the founder of the GNU Project, launched in 1984 to develop the free operating system, GNU. He is the principal author of the GNU C Compiler, the GNU symbolic debugger (GDB), GNU Emacs, and various other GNU programs. Stallman currently serves as resident of the Free Software Foundation.

This event is made possible by the IIT Student Chapter of the ACM, the CS Department, and the Chicago GNU/Linux Users Group.

• Thu. Nov 2nd, 2006 @ 7:00pm - 10:00pm
• Windy City Linux Users Group
• Letizia’s Natural Bakery
• Address: 2144 W Division, Chicago, IL
• Fee: 0
• None required

We are into all things Linux. We have been meeting on the first Thursday at Letizia’s since 1999.

Questions? Contact: m.mccune at comcast dot net

• Wed. Nov 1st, 2006 @ 8:00am - 4:00pm
• TiE
• Marriott Chicago Downtown
• Address: 540 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
• Fee: $ 295
• Register here

35 Regional Entrepreneurs Compete at the Midwest Venture Summit: Series A+, Seed/Angel and Business School Tracks

Midwest Venture Summit 2006, the only regional conference led by 21 venture capital firms, will showcase 35 of the most promising Midwest companies seeking Seed/Angel, Series A or later stage capital. To date, companies that participated at the last two summits have raised nearly $ 160 million in private equity investments. The last summit, held in May of 2005, attracted more than 360 institutional investors, angel investors, entrepreneurs, management teams, business leaders and media professionals. Investors interested in the region’s hottest companies as well as entrepreneurs looking for insights on how to present to investor audiences should attend the Midwest Venture Summit on November 1, 2006.

Tracks include:

• Series A or Later: Seventeen presenting companies
• Seed/Angel: Sixteen presenting companies
• Business School Plans: Six presenting companies with one winner to be awarded a $ 50,000 prize to establish a business in Illinois, sponsored by Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity

Prior participants have received nearly $ 160 million in equity funding. $ 50,000 prize to be awarded to the best business school plan sponsored by Illinois Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity.

Corporate Sponsors include: Bell Boyd & Lloyd, LLC, Winston & Strawn LLP, Grant Thornton, KPMG LLP, Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP, McGuireWoods LLP, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP

Organizers include Chicagoland Entrepreneurial Center, iBio, Illinois Business & Investor Forum, KPMG, Origin Ventures, TiE Midwest, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business

Hosted By: Illinois Venture Capital Association, www.illinoisvc.org

• November 1, 2006 8 am to 5 pm
• illinoisvc.org

Be a part of this exciting event that matches up some of the Midwest’s most exciting businesses with venture capital investors from around the country. This year’s event will include three separate tracks:

• Series A or later investment opportunities
• Seed/Angel investment opportunities
• Illinois business school business plan competition