MadLUG is the Madison area Linux Users Group. Our goals are Linux advocacy, education, helping others with Linux, community-building, sharing ideas, and outreach. Our users come from a variety of backgrounds. Some are academics and students; others are system administrators, web designers and other IT professionals; and others simply enjoy computers. We have a diverse set of interests and ideas. There's always lots of great discussion on all things Linux, software, and technology.

This is a group of professionals (and hackers), managers, engineers (both dev and ops) and entrepreneurs coming together to learn about and share information on DevOps practices.

Chefs getting together to cook the whole infrastructure. No chefs will be eliminated during the cook-offs.

With the help of the good folks at Puppet Labs, we're trying to get a user group started for Chicago users of Puppet to get together and ... well, that's up to you! We'll start off with presentations about interesting things people are doing with Puppet, but it's up to the community to decide what's worthwhile.

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 …

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.

This is a group targeted to engineers (both dev and ops), tech professionals, managers, leads, architects and entrepreneurs coming together to learn about and share information on DevOps processes, tools, practices and benefits.