Previous events

Here is a list of our recent meetings and topics:

	2024
December 2024:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($25 charge for non-members)
Sept 2024:	Common Myths about Intellectual Property - Jordan Becker
Mar 2024:	Integrating AI Into Your Content Creation and Optimization - Brian Piper
Feb 2024:	Learning to Love systemd - David Both
	2023
December 2023:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($25 charge for non-members)
Nov 2023:	Search Engine Optimization: Challenges & Opportunities - Joe Vangsness
Sept 2023:	Bash Configuration and Usage - David Both
July 2023:	Automatic Machine Learning with Auto^{n}ML - Piggy Yarroll
May 2023:	My View on the Future of Leadership Computing - William Allcock
February 2023:	Quantum Computing - Martin Laforest
	2022
December 2022:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($25 charge for non-members)
May 2022:	Interesting & Handy Raspberry Pi Projects - Scott Winterroth
February 2022:	Search Engine Optimization: Get Better Results from the Web - Joe Vangsness
	2021
November 2021:	Everything You Need To Know About Electric Vehicles (EVs) - Jim Weichel
October 2021:	The Future of Programming (aka The Scribe's Oath) - Robert C. Martin
April 2021:	Introducing the Sonic Pi (Code-based music creation and performance tool) - Jonathan Hadley
March 2021:	No General Meeting in March 2021
February 2021:	Launch a WordPress Website (and pick the right theme) - Scott Winterroth
January 2021:	Introduction to Kubernetes - Janne Pelkonen
	2020
December 2020:	No Annual Pizza Party due to Covid-19 Illinois group limitations for inside meetings
November 2020:	No General Meeting in November 2020
October 2020:	Search Engine Optimization (SEO) for 2021: What You Should Know - Nancy Burgess
September 2020:	No General Meeting in September 2020
August 2020:	Tawking AWK - Kent Archie
July 2020:	Building and Promoting a Website with (Almost) No Budget - Sally Gradle
June 2020:	Computer Security Super Session with Dr. Eugene Spafford
May 2020:	No General Meeting in May 2020
April 2020:	Working from Home, and the State/Technology of Video Conferencing - Mike Andrews
March 2020:	Seat Belts and Airbags for bash (Virtual presentation) - Michael Potter
February 2020:	Planning a Powerful WordPress Website - Scott Winterroth
January 2020:	Pi-hole, Windows Subsystem for Linux and CircuitPython - Dave Putz & Connie Sieh
	2019
December 2019:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($20 charge for non-members)
November 2019:	Solving the Regular Expressions Puzzle - Jonathan Hadley
October 2019:	(Re)Introducing Aurora: Becoming Exascale Reality - Ti Leggett
September 2019:	Open Mic - Lightning Talks
August 2019:	Privacy in a Digital Age - Howard Fosdick
July 2019:	Ethereum 101 - Conrad Barski
June 2019:	Write Once, Run Several Places: Cross platform development on the desktop and mobile - Kent Archie
May 2019:	Open Discussion
April 2019:	How To Start Podcasting - Pat Helmers
March 2019:	3D Printing Redux - Peter Fales
February 2019:	Teaching Web Skills - Scott Winterroth
January 2019:	Hands-on with IPv6 - Peter Fales
	2018
December 2018:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($20 charge for non-members)
November 2018:	The Adventure of Building a Hackintosh- A Maze...Of Twisty Little Passages...All Different... - Mike Andrews
October 2018:	Using Jquery and Bootstrap to Build Websites - Jeff Jirsa
September 2018:	How to Make an Old Computer Useful Again - Howard Fosdick
August 2018:	Edge Computing and its Applications in Scientific Research - Rajesh Sankaran
July 2018:	UniForum Chicago Game Show 2018 - David J. Young
June 2018:	No Meeting in June.
May 2018:	DIY IoT (Do It Yourself Internet of Things) - Dave Putz / Connie Sieh
April 2018:	Setup and Administration of CentOS 7 - Charles Buege
March 2018:	Hands-on With Docker Containers - Peter Fales
February 2018:	The SIP stack: A look under the hood of Voice over IP - Dr. Vijay K. Gurbani
January 2018:	Get Ready for Parallel Programming, Featuring Parallella - Raymond Hightower
	2017
December 2017:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($20 charge for non-members)
November 2017:	General meeting: Advanced Home Networking, Security, Windows Server setup, VLANS, Firewalls - Charles Buege
October 2017:	General meeting: What is the Plum Geek Ringo Robot? - Kent Archie ...plus some lightning talks - Peter Fales
September 2017:	General meeting: Home Automation with 'Internet of Things' Part 2 - Mike Andrews
August 2017:	General meeting: Open Discussion
July 2017:	General meeting: Zero to 26,000: My Journey into Open Source with GitHub - Steven Maguire
June 2017:	General meeting: The Inner Source Revolution: How corporations create commercial software using open source methodologies - Dr. Vijay Gurbani
May 2017:	General meeting: Stronger Than Fear: Mental Health in the Developer Community - Ed Finkler
April 2017:	General meeting: Understanding and Using systemd - Erik Johnson
March 2017:	General meeting: Intro to 3-D Printing - Peter Fales
February 2017:	General meeting: Home Automation with 'Internet of Things' Part 1 - Mike Andrews
January 2017:	General meeting: Fail2Ban: Failure is delay, not defeat - David J. Young
	2016
December 2016:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($20 charge for non-members)
November 2016:	General meeting: Open Discussion
October 2016:	General meeting: Fermilab Tour
September 2016:	General meeting: Development of an Autonomous Movement Framework for Drones - Theo Rivere & Jeremy Hajek
August 2016:	General meeting: Tweeting, Trending and Hashtagging: An Overview of Twitter and its Uses - Dr. Kelly Quinn
July 2016:	General meeting: Argonne Is On The Road To Exascale - Dr. Michael Papka
June 2016:	General meeting: Airborne Weather and Traffic Info using Raspberry Pi - Grant Prellwitz
May 2016:	General meeting: Inversion Of Control and Node.JS - Kent Archie and Daryl Monge
April 2016:	General meeting: Hacking Internet-Enabled WiFi Thermostats - Peter Fales
March 2016:	General meeting: Open Discussion
February 2016:	General meeting: Introduction to Perl 6 - Rob Hoelz
January 2016:	General meeting: Programming the Pebble Time and Apple Watches - Daryl Monge & Kent Archie
	2015
December 2015:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($20 charge for non-members)
November 2015:	General meeting: Deep Learning with Caffe & DIGITS for Robotic Coin Collecting - Paul Krush
October 2015:	General meeting: Open Source Drone Development - Mark Milhouse
September 2015:	General meeting: Benefits of 2-factor Authentication to Privileged Accounts - Douglas O'Leary
August 2015:	General meeting: Open Discussion
July 2015:	General meeting: Open Discussion
June 2015:	General meeting: Recipe for the Perfect Supercomputer - William Allcock
May 2015:	General meeting: How to Hire and Get Hired: Proven Strategies - Tom Nosal
April 2015:	General meeting: Open Discusion
March 2015:	General meeting: Open Discusion
February 2015:	General meeting: Open Discusion
January 2015:	General meeting: Column Store Databases - Daryl Monge
	2014
December 2014:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($20 charge for non-members)
November 2014:	General meeting: Some Practical Uses for the Raspberry PI - John Spizzirri
October 2014:	General meeting: What's new in computing today at Fermi - Sharan Kalwani
September 2014:	General meeting: Open Discussion
August 2014:	General meeting: Creating a remote backup appliance with BitTorrent Sync and Raspberry Pi - Tom Purl
July 2014:	General meeting: Volume Encryption using Linux Unified Key Setup (LUKS) - Erik Johnson
June 2014:	General meeting: Open Discussion
May 2014:	General meeting: Resume's & Job Interviews for Technical Jobs - Andy Lester
April 2014:	General meeting: Supercomputing and You - Sharan Kalwani
March 2014:	General meeting: Open Discussion
February 2014:	General meeting: Conrad's Bitcoin Super Crash Course - Conrad Barski
January 2014:	General meeting: Real or Fake? - David Young
	2013
December 2013:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($15 charge for non-members)
November 2013:	General meeting: CAcert.org - Open Technology PKI - Ken Schumacher
October 2013:	General meeting: Introduction to ITIL V3 - Ron Young
September 2013:	General meeting: Negotiate Like a Pro! - Lauren Milligan
August 2013:	General meeting: Open Discussion
July 2013:	General meeting: Open Discussion
June 2013:	General meeting: Network Attached Storage (NAS): Building Your Own - Paul Rak
May 2013:	General meeting: Canceled
April 2013:	General meeting: Getting Started with Salt Stack - Erik Johnson
March 2013:	General meeting: Open Discussion
February 2013:	General meeting: Mojolicious - Jeff Jirsa
January 2013:	General meeting: Open Discussion
	2012
December 2012:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($15 charge for non-members)
November 2012:	General meeting: Open Discussion
November 2012:	SIG meeting: Career Opportunties for Chicagoland C++ Developers in 2012-2013 - Gene Panov and Brennan Hughes
October 2012:	General meeting: Open Discussion
October 2012:	SIG meeting: Steganography over the Covert Channels of TCP/IP - Hal Wigoda
September 2012:	General meeting: Open Discussion
September 2012:	SIG meeting: Bring Your Ideas (Short Mtg then Cozymel's)
August 2012:	General meeting: Bring Your Ideas (Short Mtg then Cozymel's)
August 2012:	SIG meeting: Linux for Dessert: Experimenting with Raspberry Pi - Jeff Jirsa
July 2012:	General meeting: Bring Your Ideas (Short Mtg then Cozymel's)
July 2012:	SIG meeting: Building Cross Platform Apps Using Qt and Qyoto - Jeff Alstadt
June 2012:	General Meeting: Implementing vSphere
June 2012:	SIG meeting: Fermilab Tour
May 2012:	General meeting: Short 'Bring Your Own Topic' Meeting, then Go To Cozymel's
May 2012:	SIG meeting: 29 Ways to Get Started in Open Source Today - Andy Lester
April 2012:	General meeting: No Presention, Just Talked
April 2012:	SIG meeting: Argonne National Lab Tour
March 2012:	General meeting: Open Meeting - Bring Your Own Topics or What You Want to Share
March 2012:	SIG meeting: Using Virtual Linux to Support a 911 Phone System - Jason Shy
February 2012:	General meeting: Two Extremes: Grid Computing and Globus vs. Massively Parallel Computing for Big Science - William Allcock
February 2012:	SIG meeting: Creating Android Applications - John Mahady
January 2012:	General meeting: LinkedIn to Your Job Search - Becky Brillon, MS-HRM
January 2012:	SIG meeting: Using Parted Magic OS - John Spizzirri
	2011
December 2011:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($15 charge for non-members)
November 2011:	General meeting: Secrets to Start Earning Money Quickly by Landing Great Freelance and Consulting Clients - Diana Schniedman
November 2011:	SIG meeting: Insider Secrets to Conducting an Effective Online Job Search - Lauren Milligan
October 2011:	General meeting: General Get-Together
October 2011:	SIG meeting: No meeting held
September 2011:	General meeting: Bring Your Favorite
September 2011:	SIG meeting: No meeting held
August 2011:	General meeting: MooseFS - Zachary Wagner & Jeremy Hajek, IIT-Rice
August 2011:	SIG meeting: Overview on Cloud Development Options - Jeremy Hajek
July 2011:	General meeting: Amateur Radio and the Internet - Dean Holste
July 2011:	SIG meeting: No meeting held
June 2011:	General meeting: Physical Security for Cyborgs - Roger G. Johnston
June 2011:	SIG meeting: Technology Share Night
May 2011:	General meeting: Staging up Computer Electronics Apps with Open Source Arduino - Pete DuMelle
May 2011:	SIG meeting: Google Sites - David Young
April 2011:	General meeting: What Is Cloud Computing Really? - Scott C. Clark
April 2011:	SIG meeting: Google Picasa - David Young
March 2011:	General meeting: Making Drupal Run Faster - Andrew Kucharski
March 2011:	SIG meeting: Google Books - David Young
February 2011:	General meeting: Putting Your Websites Into Hyperdrive With Google Optimizer and Google Analytics - Pete DuMelle
February 2011:	SIG meeting: Google Earth - John Spizzirri
January 2011:	General meeting: UniForum Chicago Game Show
January 2011:	SIG meeting: Google Talk - David Young
	2010
December 2010:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($20 charge for non-members)
November 2010:	General meeting: IPv6 ...The Next Generation of Internet Protocols - Jon Evans
November 2010:	SIG meeting: Google Maps - David Young
October 2010:	General Meeting: An Introduction to Android App Design - Anthony Hand
September 2010:	General Meeting: Kernel Level Virtualization in Linux with OpenVZ - Steven McGrath
September 2010:	SIG meeting: Gmail - David Young
August 2010:	General meeting: A Geek's Guide to Getting Hired in Today's Job Market - Dave Ross
August 2010:	SIG meeting: Git - Andy Lester
July 2010:	General meeting: Communication Soft Skills for the Hard Core Geek - Paul Rak
July 2010:	SIG meeting: Perl 5.12 - Andy Lester
June 2010:	General meeting: OpenNMS - Kevin Breit
June 2010:	SIG meeting: No meeting held
May 2010:	General meeting: Google Apps - Rachel Baker
May 2010:	SIG meeting: No meeting held
April 2010:	General meeting: A Zabbix Believer's Story... - Jayesh Thakrar
April 2010:	SIG meeting: No meeting held
March 2010:	General meeting: Overview of Drupal - Doug Vann
March 2010:	SIG meeting: iPopping iPhone Apps - Daryl Monge
February 2010:	General meeting: The Open Source Community - Getting Started and Staying Involved - Rich Johnson
February 2010:	SIG meeting: No meeting held
January 2010:	General meeting: Separating Yourself from the Crowd in a Tight Job Market
January 2010:	SIG meeting: No meeting held
	2009
December 2009:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($10 charge for non-members)
November 2009:	General meeting: Snow Leopard: the latest Mac OS upgrade - Jonathan "Wolf" Rentzsch
November 2009:	SIG meeting: Advanced MySQL Topics - John Mahady
October 2009:	General meeting: This Old PHP Website: Lessons learned rehabbing an *AMP application
October 2009:	Polyglot programmer's meeting: No Meeting held
September 2009:	General meeting: Career Camp (2 speakers) - Perfecting Your Job Search: The Story Behind the Story - Lauren Milligan - Effective Job Interviewing from Both Sides of the Desk - Andy Lester - professional photographer Rich Cullen was available before the meeting to take digital head shots
September 2009:	Polyglot programmer's meeting: Introduction to JavascriptMVC 2.0 - Brian Moschel
August 2009:	General meeting: So, Why Do Projects Slip? - Ron Holohan
August 2009:	Polyglot programmer's meeting: Implementing a Java Persistance Layer with Hibernate, Spring, and DBUnit - David Lucek
July 2009:	General meeting: Google App Engine - Jeff Norris
July 2009:	SIG meeting: Introduction to Android - Roberto C. Serrano
June 2009:	General meeting: Get on the Stick - John Chapman
June 2009:	Polyglot Programmers meeting: No Meeting held
May 2009:	General meeting: Business Linux Routers - Joe Flasch
May 2009:	SIG meeting: CSS comes after HTML - David J. Young
April 2009:	General meeting: Eclipse Rich Client Platform - Patrick Paulin
April 2009:	Polyglot Programmers meeting: HAML, SASS & Tenplate - Dan Nawara
March 2009:	General meeting: E-Discovery and Computer Forensics - David Knutson
March 2009:	Apple SIG meeting: iPhone SDK - Java Developers Perspective - Rakesh Vidyadharan
February 2009:	General meeting: Building DSLs with Groovy: A Real-World Case Study - Sten Anderson
February 2009:	Polyglot Programmers meeting: ...was Canceled
January 2009:	General meeting: Solaris Virtualization - Asim Zuberi
January 2009:	Polyglot Programmers meeting: ...was Canceled
	2008
December 2008:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($10 charge for non-members)
November 2008:	General meeting: Cisco Aggregation Services Routers - William Wolfe
November 2008:	Polyglot Programmers meeting: Eclipse Plug-in Development - Kevin P. Taylor
October 2008:	General meeting: Linux on the IBM Mainframe: zLinux - Scott O. Lundell
October 2008:	Polyglot Programmers meeting: ...was Canceled
September 2008:	General meeting: VMWare in Public Computing/Deploy - Steven McGrath
September 2008:	Polyglot Programmers meeting: Erlang Functional Programming Workshop - Martin Logan
August 2008:	General meeting: Bacula (an enterprise class open source backup tool) - Hemant Shah
August 2008:	Polyglot Programmers meeting: Ruby Driven Java Development - Renzo Borgatti
July 2008:	General meeting: SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) - Michael Potter
July 2008:	Polyglot Programmers meeting: Just Enough C for Open Source Programmers - Andy Lester
June 2008:	General meeting: ...was Canceled
June 2008:	Polyglot Programmers meeting: Strangling a Java Webapp with Rails - Tyler Jennings
May 2008:	General meeting: WaveMaker - Wendy Schott
May 2008:	Polyglot Programmers meeting: The JavaScript Renaissance - Part III: Modern Javascript Libraries - Frederick Polgardy
April 2008:	General meeting: Computer Security at Fermilab - Tim Rupp
April 2008:	Polyglot Programmers meeting: Introduction to Ruby and Desktop Application Development with Glimmer - Andy Maleh
March 2008:	General meeting: AthenaVerify Wireless Best Practices - Felix Mathew & Siddhaarth Rajkumar
March 2008:	Chi Perl Mongers meeting: Robust Shell Scripting using Bash 3.x - Michael Potter
February 2008:	General meeting: Service Oriented Architecture with JBoss - Jim Tyrrell
February 2008:	Chi Perl Mongers meeting: The JavaScript Renaissance Part II: The Browser - Frederick Polgardy
January 2008:	General meeting: A Talk about VMware 6 - Bill Call
January 2008:	Chi Perl Mongers meeting: The JavaScript Renaissance Part I: The Core Language - Frederick Polgardy
	2007
December 2007:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($10 charge for non-members)
November 2007:	General meeting: Sudo - Secure and Convenient / TiddlyWiki - Michael Potter / David Young
November 2007:	Simple Photo Processing and Web Display with Perl - Kent Cowgill
October 2007:	General meeting: How to Revive an Old Pentium
October 2007:	Chi Perl Mongers meeting: Chicago Perl Mongers Tool Expo
September 2007:	General meeting: Share Your Favorite Websites - Everyone
September 2007:	Chi Perl Mongers meeting: Development Process Lessons from Open Source - Andy Lester
August 2007:	General meeting: XML: one step past introduction - Michael Potter
August 2007:	Chi Perl Mongers meeting: Perl Unit and Functional Testing - Kent Cowgill
July 2007:	General meeting: TiddlyWiki - David J. Young
July 2007:	Chi Perl Mongers meeting: WWW::Mechanize - Andy Lester
June 2007:	General meeting: SSH: the Secure Shell - Hemant Shah
June 2007:	Chi Perl Mongers meeting: Perl Program Repair Shop - Andy Lester
May 2007:	General meeting: Podcasting: Upfront and Backstage, High Altitude and Low - Mike Andrews
May 2007:	Chi Perl Mongers meeting: Introduction to Unicode - Clyde Forrester
April 2007:	General meeting: $100 Laptop Project - Ian Bicking
April 2007:	Chi Perl Mongers meeting: 101 Things Every Perl Programmer Should Know - Andy Lester / Pete Krawczyk
March 2007:	General meeting: Developing Scalable Web Applications with PHP5 and Symfony - Jeff Jirsa
March 2007:	Chi Perl Mongers meeting: Dynamic Language Hootenanny - Chris McAvoy
February 2007:	General Mtg: Introducing Ruby and Ruby on Rails - Tyler Jennings
February 2007:	ChiPerlMongers Mtg: [topic postponed to March because of snowstorm]
January 2007:	General Mtg: Extracting the Ham from Spam - David J. Young
January 2007:	ChiPerlMongers Mtg: New Modules for the New Year - Pete Krawczyk / Andy Lester / Josh McAdams
	2006
December 2006:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($10 charge for non-members)
November 2006:	General Mtg: Google Hacking Basics - Steven McGrath
November 2006:	SIG Mtg: Ajax and Perl - Mike Stemle
October 2006:	General Mtg: Advanced Shell Scripting Using bash 3.x - Michael Potter
October 2006:	SIG Mtg: I18N using Catalyst and Petal - Andrew Rodland
September 2006:	General Mtg: VOIP, Satellite Dish's on a Car, and What to Add to Our Website - Open Discussion
September 2006:	SIG Mtg: POE and Perl - Joshua McAdams
August 2006:	General Mtg: How to make Windows Secure -- with Free Software - Howard Fosdick
August 2006:	SIG Mtg: Perl, Sports, Politics, and the fine points of Exist - open discussion
July 2006:	General Mtg: sudo - secure and convenient - Mike Potter / Introduction to XML - Scott J. Nemec
July 2006:	SIG Mtg: PITA - Large Scale Testing Made Easier/Perl 6 Update - Pete Krawczyk/Andy Lester
June 2006:	General Mtg: RD-CD: An Open Source Rootkit Detection CD - Deborah Kimnach
June 2006:	SIG Mtg: Get out of technical debt now! - Andy Lester
May 2006:	General Mtg: IPv6 Address Architecture - Earl McCoy
May 2006:	SIG Mtg: WebGUI, Not Just Another Web Development Framework - J T Smith
Apr 2006:	General Mtg: Subversion: building a better CVS - Brian W. Fitzpatrick
Apr 2006:	SIG Mtg: Perl::Critic - Joshua McAdams
Mar 2006:	General Mtg: Nessus Basics - Steven McGrath
Mar 2006:	SIG Mtg: Perl Benchmarking - brian d foy
Feb 2006:	General Mtg: Computer Veterans' War Stories: a panel discussion
Feb 2006:	SIG Mtg: Perl Program Repair Shop and Red Flags - Mark Jason Dominus
Jan 2006:	General Mtg: Core Data: Easy & Fast Data Persistence on Mac OS X - Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch
Jan 2006:	SIG Mtg: Iterators and inside-out objects: Perl closures at work - Andy Lester
	2005
Dec 2005:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($10 charge for non-members)
Nov 2005:	General Mtg: VPN's: an update - Fred Baker
Nov 2005:	SIG Mtg: Web Development With Ruby and Rails - John Long
Oct 2005:	General Mtg: MySQL: The Technology and the Company - John Bradford
Oct 2005:	PerlSIG Mtg: The A-Z Guide To Becoming a CPAN Author - Andy Lester
Sept 2005:	General Mtg: Hardening Linux - Gregory D. Rosenberg and Lee Leahu
Sept 2005:	PerlSIG Mtg: References in Perl - John Gallagher and Rick Hoselton
Aug 2005:	General Mtg: JiBX - Dave Lucek
Aug 2005:	PerlSIG Mtg: Testing Perl Software - brian d foy
July 2005:	General Mtg: Rexx - Howard Fosdick
July 2005:	SIG Mtg: Canceled - no speaker
June 2005:	General Mtg: Novell-SUSE Desktop Linux - Tim Kresler
June 2005:	PerlSIG Mtg: Mambo: CMS made Easy - Ricardo Lopez
May 2005:	General Meeting: Administrative Password Menace - Philip Lavoie
May 2005:	JavaSIG Meeting: Implementing a Continuous Integration Environment with Open Source - Scott Wheeler & Quinn McCallum
Apr 2005:	General Meeting: Developing Web Applications with PHP 5 - Jeff Jirsa
Apr 2005	PerlSIG Meeting: Perl Data Structures - Sam McGee
Mar 2005:	General Meeting: Preventing Crisis: How to go from scapegoat to rock star
Mar 2005:	JavaSIG Meeting: -- Meeting cancelled --
Feb 2005:	General Meeting: Open Source Web Content Management - JT Smith
Feb 2005	PerlSIG Meeting: Factoring 101 - Rick Hoselton & Burke Gallagher
Jan 2005:	General Meeting: Using Linux in the Enterprise - Jim Moyta
Jan 2005:	JavaSIG Meeting: Java Object/Relational Persistence with Hibernate - Dave Lucek
	2004
Dec 2004:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($10 charge for non-members)
Nov 2004:	General Meeting: Rescheduled to Jan - Using Linux in the Enterprise - Jim Moyta
Nov 2004:	JavaSIG Meeting: -- Meeting cancelled --
Oct 2004:	General Meeting: Wireless Communications - Bill Latura
Oct 2004:	PerlSIG Meeting: References & Data Structures for Perl - Burke Gallagher
Sep 2004:	General Meeting: Cellular Simulation on a Linux Supercluster - Michael J. North
Sep 2004:	SIG Meeting: Advice for Open Source Job Seekers - Andy Lester
Aug 2004:	General Meeting: MPLS VPN's - Fred Baker
Aug 2004:	PerlSIG Meeting: Perl Tainting - Andy Lester
July 2004:	General Meeting: - Agent-Based Modeling for Homeland Security and National Defense - Michael J. North
July 2004:	JavaSIG Meeting: - Repast: A Free and Open Source Java Agent-Based Modeling Toolkit - Michael J. North
June 2004:	General Meeting: Law, Technology, and the Fight Against Spam - Matthew Prince
June 2004:	PerlSIG Meeting: Camelbones 101 - Jim Thomason
May 2004:	General Meeting: World's Largest Databases / Certifications - Howard Fosdick
Apr 2004:	General Meeting: Programming Mac OS X: Objective-C and Cocoa - Jonathan Rentzsch
Apr 2004:	PerlSIG Meeting: Confessions of a ytpist or A short summary of the Perl Debugger - Steven Lembark
Mar 2004:	General Meeting: Installing & Running VMWare on Linux - Steven Lembark
Mar 2004:	JavaSIG Meeting: Introduction to Java Struts: an MVC Framework for Java Web Applications - Dave Lucek
Feb 2004:	General Meeting: Emacs: The Ultimate Text Editor - David Young
Feb 2004:	PerlSIG Meeting: Perl Wizardry From The Command-Line - Andy Lester
Jan 2004:	General Meeting: Embedding Perl into your applications - Geoff Woodcock
	2003
Dec 2003:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($10 charge for non-members)
Nov 2003:	General Meeting: Principles, Patterns, & Practices -- A decade of progress - Robert Martin
Oct 2003:	General Meeting: Storage Area Networks: Why we built them, How they perform - Michael F. Lavelle
Oct 2003:	PerlSIG Meeting: Blogging with Perl - Jason Scott Gessner
Sep 2003:	General Meeting: Computer Jobs Survival Guide: An Independent Contractor Approach - Howard Fosdick
Sep 2003:	JavaSIG Meeting: Java Security for Applications and Mobile Code - Gary Roediger
Aug 2003:	General Meeting: Test Driven Development and Acceptance Testing with Fitnesse - James Grenning
Aug 2003:	PerlSIG Meeting: Automated Testing of Large Projects with Perl - Andy Lester
Jul 2003:	General Meeting: Today's Modern Network Killing Robot - Viki Navratilova
Jul 2003:	JavaSIG Meeting: Log4J & Log4Cocoa - Jonathan Rentzsch & Bob Frank
Jun 2003:	General Meeting: Essential SQL - Jeff Jirsa
Jun 2003:	PerlSIG Meeting: Making Web Applications with CGI::Application - Mike Fragassi
May 2003:	General Meeting: Managing your resume with Perl - Brian Katzung
May 2003:	JavaSIG Meeting: Creating Java Servlet/JSP applications using the Tomcat Servlet/JSP Container - David Lucek
Apr 2003:	General Meeting: Developing Web Applications with PHP - Jeff Jirsa
Apr 2003:	PerlSIG Meeting: Perl Potluck - Steven Lembark
Mar 2003:	General Meeting: Samba in the SOHO/SMB Environment - Arun Khan
Mar 2003:	JavaSIG Meeting: Continuous Integration - Cedrick Johnson
Feb 2003:	General Meeting: Virtual Private Networks - Fred Baker
Feb 2003:	PerlSIG Meeting: Test:Tutorial - Andy Lester
Jan 2003:	General Meeting: Firewalls - Fred Baker
Jan 2003:	JavaSIG Meeting: Open Source Developer's Kit - Scott Wheeler
	2002
Dec 2002:	Annual Pizza Party: Free to Members ($10 charge for non-members)
Nov 2002:	General Meeting: Industrial Process Control Networks - William D. Latura
Nov 2002:	PerlSIG Meeting: Job Scheduling with Perl - Steven Lembark
Oct 2002:	General Meeting: Open source, Closed data: using Encryption - Blair Hicks
Oct 2002:	JavaSIG Meeting: Beginner's Guide to EJB Technology - Cedric Johnson
Sep 2002:	General Meeting: Linux Development using Kylix - Leland Brode
Sep 2002:	PerlSIG Meeting: Perl/TK Text Widgets - Sam McGee
Aug 2002:	General Meeting: Extreme Programming - La Monte Yarroll
Aug 2002:	PerlSIG Meeting: Making Perl/DBI Easy - Jay Strauss
Jul 2002:	General Meeting: Concurrent Versions System - Michael H. Buselli
Jul 2002:	JavaSIG Meeting: What Your Teacher did not tell you in the Intro to Java class (a Java Class Primer) - Michael Potter
Jun 2002:	General Meeting: Firewalls Using Linux - Blair Hicks
Jun 2002:	PerlSIG Meeting: Ruby vs. Perl - Michael Buselli
May 2002:	General Meeting: WebObjects: WO is Me - Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch
May 2002:	PerlSIG Meeting: Perl In The Workplace Today (Using Perl/Tk) - Sam McGee
Apr 2002:	General Meeting: Linux and Embedded Operating Systems - Bill Latura
Apr 2002:	Special Meeting: The Open Source Revolution - Eric S. Raymond
Apr 2002:	PerlSIG: Perl for the Web - Burke Gallagher
Mar 2002:	General Meeting: Internet Routing - Fred P. Baker
Mar 2002:	PerlSIG: Reusable Perl Modules - Geoffrey Rommel
Feb 2002:	General Meeting: Writing Technical Documentation with DocBook - Kevin Conder
Feb 2002:	PerlSIG: The Once and Future Perl6 - Randal L. Schwartz
Jan 2002:	General Meeting (Annual Elections): IP Telephony
Jan 2002:	PerlSIG: Using Perl for System Administration Tasks - Glenn Stafford
	2001
Dec 2001:	Annual Pizza Party
Nov 2001:	General Meeting: What's TRECC and What Can It Do For You? - Jack Curley
Nov 2001:	PerlSIG: Perl Genealogy Application - Burke Gallagher
Oct 2001:	General Meeting: Under the Hood: The Architecture of Mac OS X - Jonathan 'Wolf' Rentzsch
Oct 2001:	PerlSIG: Perl Potluck - Steven Lembark
Sep 2001:	General Meeting: SCipTiPpy, SCipTiPpy, SCipTiP-teree: An introduction to SCTP - La Monte H.P. Yarroll
Sep 2001:	PerlSIG: meeting not held due to events of the day
Aug 2001:	General Meeting: Advanced Pthreads - Richard K. Wolf
Aug 2001:	PerlSIG: Perl and the Web - Burke Gallagher
Jul 2001:	General Meeting: Brief Overview of UNIX/Linux Security- Simon Epsteyn
Jul 2001:	PerlSIG: Regular Expressions - Glenn Stafford
Jun 2001:	General Meeting: How to be a Independent Consultant - Howard Fosdick
Jun 2001:	PerlSIG: The Basic Requirements of Perl - Steven Lembark
May 2001:	General Meeting: WSDL: An XML-Based Web Site Description Language - Burke Gallagher
May 2001:	PerlSIG: The Building Blocks of OO Perl - Steven Lembark
Apr 2001:	General Meeting: Pthread Bootcamp - Richard Wolf
Apr 2001:	PerlSIG: Using DBI and DBD:: to Access Databases - Steven Lembark
Mar 2001:	General Meeting: Emerging Trends for High Availability - Asim Zuberi & Ayaz Mudarris
Mar 2001:	PerlSIG: Setting Up Your First Apache/Mod Perl/Oracle Web Page - Jay Strauss
Mar 2001:	Special Meeting: Inside the Linux Kernel - Daniel Bovet
Feb 2001:	General Meeting: Using VMware - Joe Kaplenk
Feb 2001:	PerlSIG: Using Perl in an Object Oriented Way - Steven Lembark
Jan 2001:	General Meeting: Oracle for System Administrators - Mark E. Dawson, Jr.
	2000
Dec 2000:	Annual Pizza Party
Nov 2000:	Computer Simulation Tools - Prof. Barry L. Nelson
Oct 2000:	Glenn Stafford's Unix Top Gun (Workshop)
Oct 2000:	Metadirectories with LDAP - Matt Coffey & Vinod Kutty
Sep 2000:	The Why's and What's of 1 through N-Tier Application Architectures - Scott J. Nemec
Sep 2000:	Glenn Stafford's Unix Boot Camp (Workshop)
Aug 2000:	A Brief History of Denial of Service Attacks - Viki Navratilova
Jul 2000:	DNS Administration - Mike Beirne
Jun 2000:	Mod Perl - Matt Coffey
May 2000:	Internet Security Threats (Including the ILOVEYOU email worm)- Mike Andrews
Apr 2000:	Unix Power Tools Revisited - Glenn Stafford
Apr 2000:	Glenn Stafford's Unix Boot Camp (Workshop)
Mar 2000:	SANs (Storage Area Networks)-A to Reality - W. Curtis Preston
Feb 2000:	E-Commerce - Sunil Khandwala
Jan 2000:	Web Development: CGI programming with Perl - David Young
	1999
Dec 1999:	Annual Pizza Party
Nov 1999:	Open Collaboration Protocols, Rich Straka
Oct 1999:	Linux Desktops, Bill Latura
Oct 1999:	Glenn Stafford's Unix Boot Camp (Workshop)
Sep 1999:	An Introduction to CORBA, Paul Jonusaitis
Aug 1999:	Clout: a history and future, La Monte Yarroll
Jul 1999:	Editor Wars: Emacs strikes back, David J. Young
Jun 1999:	Editor Wars: vi, Glenn Stafford
May 1999:	The Software Maturity Model: A Case Study, Mike Potter
Apr 1999:	Distributed Computing Using Java RMI, Venkat
Mar 1999:	Squid, a caching web proxy, Chris Wichura
Feb 1999:	Internet Security Workshop
Feb 1999:	Perl Scripting, Glenn Stafford
Jan 1999:	Linux Grows Up?, Bill Latura
	1998
Dec 1998:	Annual Pizza Party
Nov 1998:	Fibre Channel and SCSI: Compare and Contrast, Greg Schulz
Oct 1998:	LDAP: Lightweight Directory Access Protocol, Clayton Donley
Sep 1998:	Getting the LAN Details Right -- Configuring TCP/IP and DNS, Mike Andrews
Aug 1998:	Introduction to ATM, David Young
Jul 1998:	RAID Storage / SCSI and Fibre Channel, Greg Schulz
Jun 1998:	IP Masquerading on Linux, Brian Vargyas
May 1998:	Linux Flavors, Richard Hinton
Apr 1998:	Routers and Switches and Hubs, Oh My!, Mike Andrews
Mar 1998:	Inferno (Joint Meeting IEEE/SWE), Dr. Olivier Clarisse
Feb 1998:	Advanced Shell Programming, Glenn Stafford
Jan 1998:	How to Stop Spam, Karl Denninger, Greg Gulik, Matt Hucke, Clifton Sharp
	1997
Dec 1997:	Annual Pizza Party
Dec 1997:	Web Client Programming with Perl, Clinton Wong
Nov 1997:	How to choose a commercial backup product, W. Curtis Preston
Oct 1997:	Using Version Control for System Administration, Glenn Stafford
Sep 1997:	The Contact Architecture: A Case Study of Perl as an Integration Language, La Monte Yarroll and Doug Blair
Aug 1997:	NUMA: The Future of Large Unix Computers?, Bob Loeb and Barry Krasner
Jul 1997:	Junk E-mail and Spamming, David Sorkin
Jun 1997:	NC: Network Computers II (with IEEE & ACM), Eric Thiele
May 1997:	Remote Network Server Access, Mike Andrews
Apr 1997:	Network Computers, Eric Thiele
Mar 1997:	Java Beans, Steven Jones
Feb 1997:	Using Regular Expressions, Glenn Stafford
Jan 1997:	ADSL Overview, Gary Hoyne
	1996
Dec 1996:	Pizza Party
Nov 1996:	VRML, Gavin Bell
Oct 22nd 1996:	World Wide Web Standards, Harold Driscoll
Oct 1st 1996:	Firewalls, Brent Chapman
Sep 1996:	Have You Had Your Java Today? Rich Miller and Joe Godsil
Aug 1996:	OpenNT, Stephe Walli
Jul 1996:	Making POSIX C Work for you, Mike Potter
Jun 1996:	Benchmarking ISPs
May 1996:	Translating Power Tools to Perl, Glenn Stafford
Apr 1996:	Java, David Hilbish
Mar 1996:	Walls, Fences and Sieves: An Overview of Internet Firewalls, Doug Price
Feb 1996:	Integration of Applications with Web Servers, Jim Seidman
Jan 1996:	Chicago Area Internet Infrastructure (Chicago NAP and MAE-Chicago), Mark Knopper and John Hardie
	1995
Dec 1995:	A Beginners Guide to Cracking, Doug Price, Randy Herber, Bob Radvanovski
Nov 1995:	Reversing Entropy -- Making order from chaos in a computing environment, Dave Ihnat
Oct 1995:	UNIX SVR4 Operating System Internals, Bill Rowley
Sep 1995:	PERL, Glenn Stafford
Aug 1995:	Linux, with Bob Salita and the Chicagoland Linux Assoc. of Professionals
Jul 1995:	ISDN -- Configuring and Ordering ISDN Services, Jim Lowery
Jun 1995:	Fermi Lab tour
May 1995:	ATM - Asynchronous Transfer Mode, David Beering
Apr 1995:	Ed Krol's Thoughts on the Internet, Ed Krol
Mar 1995:	Automatic Speech Recognition, Ed Bronson