Meet other local Linux and Open Source enthusiasts to talk about the latest news and software. New users as well as gurus are welcome to attend!  Bring in your PC or laptop, yearning to be set free!

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 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.

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.

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 …