Join Other Entrepreneurs Who Eat Problems For Breakfast. * Compare Notes * Exchange Ideas * Learn from Others’ Mistakes * Brainstorm with Peers * Find Partners * Small Group Atmosphere * Serious Conversation Bootstrappers Breakfasts® are for founders of early stage technology startups. It is a chance to compare notes on operational, development, and business issues with peers. These breakfasts were designed for entrepreneurs to share ideas and leverage thoughts with other folks who are serious a …

To help support the needs of underpriveleged youth, through the support of our members and followers, living in the Chicagoland Western Suburbs. Our mission is to provide scholarship opportunities to aid recipients in following their passion in life, whether it is an educational, artistic or athletic pursuit. Members are those alumni and "friends of the program" that are willing to give back to those of their community by congregating socially and professionally to become a cornerstone in our lo …

I started this group because the closest LUG to me is over half an hour away. I'd like to provide a closer option for people out in the far west suburbs.

Are you a home-school parent looking for other families to share educational trips with? Let's get together and visit museums, cultural tours, along with parent led educational hands on adventures! How about putting on a theatrical play! Bring your ideas and children for some awesome ways to have fun and learn new things!

We exist to begin the process of creating a Hackerspace in Bloomington, IL. The Central Illinois Hackerspace will provide the place, tools, and community where people can explore ideas; create new things; and share knowledge with each other.

Join us once a month to learn more about WordPress and websites in general. It doesn't matter if you are an expert developer or if you just learned what WordPress is, you are welcome to come and learn!

Are you new to the wonderful world of Apple ? Got yourself an iPhone or iPad, and all you do is text , email and take pictures? Want to learn how to use iPhoto, or how to navigate around your iMac or MacBook? These are the kinds of topics we will be discussing together. Each month will be a new topic, but geared mostly to beginners. Seniors and retirees are most welcome! Topic requests are encouraged - better to be talking about an issue at hand!

Bring your ideas for creative collaboration in the area of digital design whether you are beginner, advanced or just have some great ideas. I work in Adobe products and know that utilizing the resources available we could create some projects that would awe and inspire. We could design for print, web, video, epub, apps, machinima, 3D, animation, digital music, etc. There are events around the country that we could travel to together. Together we can blend our strengths to realize productions rar …

A group to meet about making and creating, for those of us that don't live in Chicago.

If you are someone who is looking to experience a more peaceful and meaningful life through ancient technology of Kundalini Yoga and Meditation, you are at the right place. You are not required to be in perfect physical shape, all you need is to breathe and move your body. "Anyone who makes even the smallest effort to heal himself is taking an enormous step towards becoming alive."

This is a group for any ISU/HCC/IWU/Lincoln College student who has an idea, has that spark, wants to create their own career, or for anyone in the Bloomington-Normal, Illinois area who wants to help ISU/HCC/IWU/Lincoln College student turn their ideas into reality, and pursue their passion. If you want to change your world or somebody else's world, join us. We'll meet every other week at or near Illinois State University. Let's make change happen!

This is a regular show and tell inspired by The Bay Area Quantified Self Meetup.  It's for people taking advantage of various kinds of personal tracking - health/fitness monitoring, geotracking, life-logging, DNA sequencing, etc. - to gain more knowledge about themselves. Come share what you're up to, and learn from others. Meetup format: an informal monthly gathering to discuss new developments in this rapidly expanding field, and a quarterly 'Show and Tell' style meeting, where people can give …

Do you love to write code? Have a pet project that you've been itching to work on? Want to meet other programmers outside your normal environment? So do we! Whether you are a seasoned developer looking for a place to work on side projects, or diving into your first app, it doesn't matter. Bring your laptop, an open mind, and come have fun.

Attend our meetings to talk tech. Inform others or learn something yourself. The talks will be aimed at System Administrators, Developers, Designers, Power Users but all are welcome including Geeks, Nerds, and other Cool People. Let us know what your interests are, what you'd like to share with others, and what new things you'd like to learn more about.

Startup Peoria exists to develop, encourage and promote the tech startup community in the Central Illinois region. Building an industry is hard work. Sometimes you have to sit back, have a drink, connect, and enjoy. The conversation starts here.

We are a group of web professionals and students aspiring to be web professionals. We meet monthly and discuss a variety of topics related to web technologies and Adobe products (those with a focus on web design and development). Topics range from introductory to advanced at most meetings. If you are passionate about how these technologies can be used effectively, you are invited to our meetings. We look forward to meeting you soon.

A group for people in the Springfield, IL area to meet, talk, and learn from each other in the area of web design, development and business.

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

This group is for telecom professionals interested in unified communications and collaboration technologies. This group was started to bring together entrepreneurs, consultants and other business professionals to share experiences with unified communications technologies. Also to provide professional networking opportunities.