I work for Chicago Apartment Finders, working on their interface incorporating jQuery. I am only an intern though, so no expert yet, although I am in charge of the jQuery and front end development for the most part. My boss really likes jQuery as well and would love to get more involved. He first asked me if there were any conferences here that we could go to and I didn't see anything upcoming in Chicago, but I told him about the group meetings. He proposed that we hold a meeting here, in our office, which could hold between 20-30 people. I really like the idea and we would love to see if we can get between 20-30 people to meet here in our office. My company would sponsor it.
Since I am no expert, I could not talk about anything too technical so I would need people that want/are able to talk. I can propose ideas but if we could get some people interested who are well versed in jQuery, we'd really appreciate it if those people could come and talk.
We aren't scheduling an exact date yet because first I have to see if people are interested and would come. If I can get enough people interested we'll throw the meeting here in our office (north side chicago, Edgewater, right off the bryn mawr red line stop) and my company will sponsor it. If people are willing to come, than we got the sponsor and place!
Thanks