Member Benefits

Besides being part of a passionate community of software developers, the Chicago ALT.NET members also enjoy a few perks brought by the group's participation in larger user group associations and from our sponsors.

All our book publisher sponsors can offer review copies of their books under a few guidelines. The books copies are provided in exchange for a published review. Members can publish their reviews in any popular online bookstore or their blogs or contact the group organizers for publishing on this website. Contact the group organizers if you are interested in any book or if you have published a review of them.

Members are encouraged to engage in the selection of topics and also to present to the group on the topic of their interest.

Current Sponsors

Redpoint Technologies

Redpoint graciously lends its office space for our meetings and provides us with dinner every month.

If you are a developer that believes in Agile development and in continuous improvement, consider Redpoint next time you're thinking of a career move.

Microsoft / INETA

For being affiliated with INETA we have access to several Microsoft products like software, books, and hardware that we can use as door prizes for our meetings.

Microsoft, via its regional Developer Evangelism program is also always ready to help us by sposoring other events like the Chicago Code Camp and has offered to host some of our meetings inumerous times.

JetBrains

Every month we raffle one personal license for a JetBrains product. JetBrains products enjoy some of the best reviews among development tools.

The winner can choose ReSharper, InteliJ, RubyMine, TeamCity, or DotTrace.

O'Reilly User Group Program

Some of the most sought after prizes we give away in each meeting are O'Reilly books that we get via their user group support program.

Our group members can purchase O'Reilly books with 35% off printed books (and up to 45% on ebooks) using the discount code DSUG.

It's also possible for our group members to receive review copies of O'Reilly books.

Pearson Education User Group Program

Pearson Education provides books for prizes and review copies for our members.

Manning Publications

Manning provides books for prizes and review copies for our members.

Intertech

Intertech provides vouchers for technical training, gift certificates for books, and swag in general for our meetings.

TechSmith

TechSmith is famous for utility programs like Snagit, Jing and Camtasia. But they also produce software that assists analysis of user experience.