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• Nov 11

  Chicago NetSquared November Meetup

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  This month it's Environmental! [divider] Organizers: Kara Carrell currently works as an office manager for the Interfaith youth core, and as a Social Media Enthusiast, she moderates the NTEN 501 Tech Club of Chicago. Dave Chakrabarti is founding a startup! Nonprofitable.org builds Drupal / CiviCRM solutions for nonprofits. Prior to this, Dave built Drupal-based websites as a project manager for the Chicago Technology Cooperative and was an internet marketing consultant.

• Nov 20

  The Chicago-Area Scala Enthusiasts (CASE) November Meetup

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  Our 8th monthly meeting at ThoughtWorks. Meeting Topic: Lightnin' Talks We have two talks for the meeting. Bill Pollack is going to talk about two small projects he's done in Scala. One is a Sudoku solver using actors and the other is a tool he wrote at work to process XML files. Then, new member Josh Cough will tell us about using sbt (Simple Build Tool) and ScalaTest for projects. (Corrected: I mistyped "Scala Build Tool" previously.

• Nov 19

  Meetup202: Chicago Affiliate Marketing November Meetup

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  So we talked a bit at the end of the night about what to talk about at the next meetup. It seemed that people wanted to learn more about affiliate marketing. So we are going to have a more entry level learning event. But with the LFM network guys there you can still get in some advanced network questions. So with that in mind here is the topics I'm thinking about: I spoke with the affiliate managers at LFM networks (really cool guys running a network out of evanston

• Nov 21

  ChicagoRuby: Elmhurst - Make Your Own Plugin 101

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  Have you ever wanted to create your own Ruby on Rails plugin? Gabe Saravia has gone through the process and he will share his experiences with our group.

• Dec 2

  ChicagoRuby: Downtown - Growing Mad Mimi: Sharing Disruptive Techniques

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  Gary Levitt (of Mad Mimi) contacted Dave Hoover (of Obtiva) in early 2007 about building an email marketing web site in Ruby on Rails. In subsequent months and years, Gary and Dave collaborated almost daily in order to improve, scale, fix, and market Mad Mimi into one of the leading email marketing sites on the web. Dave will share his biggest lessons from this project. Most of the lessons are not technical, though Ruby and Rails certainly facilitated them.

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