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Tues Hazelwood LUG Newbies welcome but its also great for someone with experience to share, discuss, &
reinforce.
Tues GAMUG iOS5 -the OS for the iPhone & iPad
Wed Mathematics & Music
Thurs Geographical / Geospacial Info Systems
Sat MC-Clinic - Home Networking
Sun CWElug Central West End
- - and for-credit classes
M-Tue UMSl teaching 2 day classes on Sed, AWK,
Wed " " day long class Intro Linux SysAdmin
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8:30am
UMSL - Advanced UNIX Scripting: SED and AWK - Day 1
Mon, September 26, 8:30am – 4:00pm
12837 Flushing Meadows Dr., St. Louis, MO 63131 (map)
See http://www.cetc.umsl.edu/catalog/unix.html Linux was developed as a version of UNIX, for use on personal
computers. Its syntax, kernel compilation, and environment are very similar to other versions of UNIX.
Students interested in Linux can take the UNIX series of classes to learn the basics of the operating system.
Advanced UNIX Scripting: SED and AWK (Prerequisites: Advanced UNIX/Linux: Scripting or programming experience
using Bourne, C shell, or Korn shell.) This course is designed for anyone managing such services as Apache
Web, DNS, print, mail, or database. If you are concerned with system-wide, network, or firewall performance,
or need to learn more about log file evaluations, this course will guide you through the programming you need.
Learn to create complex programs for automating functions used in managing a UNIX system. You will have
hands-on experience with the AWK programming language in gathering system statistics and generating reports;
the Stream editor (SED) for multiple editing changes on a variety of files, including colon-delimited and
Web-based; and the advanced features of Korn and C shells for using functions. You will generate programs to
control, monitor, and report on multiple-system services and applications. Fee: $399 Two-Day Class Meets
8:30am-4:00pm (13 hours)
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1:00pm
SCORCC Works - Word SIG
Mon, September 26, 1pm – 3pm
VENUE: Tesson Ferry Branch Library
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5:30pm
stlDOTNET - St. L. .NET User Grp &
stlDNNug - StL DotNetNuke User Grp
Mon, September 26, 6:00pm – 7:30pm
City Place Three, Creve Coeur, MO (map)
This meeting will be in the ever-popular Case Study format. These are group favorites as they really provide
some hands-on, practical information about how to leverage the power and flexibility of the DNN platform. This
case study will feature a very exciting project from Steady Rain. They built a new website for the Missouri
Botanical Gardens using DNN Pro and will be sharing the highlights with us. Please visit
http://stlouis.dnnug.com for more information. NO LONGER AT Venue: TricorBruan 10330 Old Olive Street Rd, St
Louis, MO 63141 NO LONGER ON 3rd MONDAY of MONTH. From now on jointly mtng with StL .NET ug on last Monday of
Month. New location for combined mtng = Three City Place Drive - Creve Coeur, MO 63141
See http://stlouis.dnnug.com/
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Tuesday, September 27
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8:30am
UMSL - Advanced UNIX Scripting: SED and AWK - Day 2
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6:30pm
HZWLUG - Hazelwood Linux Users Group
Tue, September 27, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
915 Utz Ln, Hazelwood, MO 63042 (map)
See http://hzwlug.sluug.org/ for current information.
VENUE: Prairie Commons Branch Library.
A Linux Users Group for beginners, the newcomers to Linux.
BUT EXPERIENCED users are welcomed and encouraged!!!
Its a great opportunity toi recall and talk about basics while
helping others and surprisingly, we usually learn something niw as well!
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7:00pm
GAMUG-SP iOS5
Tue, September 27, 7pm – 9pm
11097 Saint Charles Rock Rd, St. Ann, MO 63074-1509 (map)
http://www.supportpros.org/
We'll (hopefully!) be discussing Apple's iOS 5. Find out what new and exciting features are being built
into the mobile operating system for iPads, iPhones and iPod Touches. We'll also discuss how the
organizations and companies we support are using these devices, and what new features, and challenges. The
Pattonville Learning Center is by Northwest Plaza, i.e. N. Lindbergh Blvd @ 11097 Saint Charles Rock Rd, St.
Ann, MO 63074-1509 .
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7:00pm
Gateway Older Adults PC Club
Tue, September 27, 7pm – 9pm
12863 Willowyck Dr, St. Louis, MO 63146 (map)
Gateway Older Adults Personal Computer Club
Thornhill Branch Library
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7:00pm
LUCI General
Tue, September 27, 7pm – 9pm
1011 E. Ash Street, Springfield, IL (map)
See http://www.luci.org/ for current information.
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7:30pm
ARCH - Arch Reactor
Tue, September 27, 7:30pm – 10:00pm
2400 South Jefferson Avenue St. Louis, MO 63104 (map)
General meeting monthly on 2nd and 4th Tuesday. See http://www.archreactor.org/
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8:30am
UMSL - Introduction to Linux Administration
Wed, September 28, 8:30am – 4:30pm
12837 Flushing Meadows Dr., St. Louis, MO 63131 (map)
See http://www.cetc.umsl.edu/catalog/linux.html Learn the essentials of system administration of the Linux
operating system by attending an instructor-led class at the Computer Education & Training Center at UMSL. You
will have hands-on practice in installation, administration, and trouble-shooting a Linux system as well as
installation and configuration of the Apache web server. Introduction to Linux Administration (Prerequisite:
Intermediate Commands of UNIX/Linux and Introduction to TCP/IP or equivalent experience. Students will use the
following UNIX commands: ls, cat, cd, pico, cp, rm, mv, pwd, telnet, login, touch, more, mkdir, rmdir, and
ping.) Practice installing the Linux operating system. Understand the steps necessary to plan for a successful
installation, learn techniques for troubleshooting installations, and create file systems for the Linux
platform. Additional topics include understanding the background of Linux, its potential, and its various
distributions; mounting file systems; and creating users and passwords. Fee: $249 One-Day Class Meets
8:30am-4:00pm (6.5 hours)
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VIM Geeks
Wed, September 28, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
3720 Green Mount Crossing Drive Shiloh, IL 62269 (map)
VENUE: Comptuer Room
See http://www.vimgeeks.org
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7:00pm
StL ALT.NET
Wed, September 28, 7pm – 9pm
International Taphouse 1711 S. 9th Street, Saint Louis, MO (map)
STL ALT.NET started off the right way: a bunch of smart people talking tech and drinking beer on a sunny
Wednesday in September. That was one year ago. Our group has grown significantly since then. This month we
will forego our normal format for something a little more laid back, and give members a chance to get to know
each other better,... Learn more Remember that we will still be raffling swag in September as well, including
one annual TekPub license, valued at $279.00! So save the date, make the drive, drink the beer, meet awesome
devs, and win some prizes! NOT the usual Venue: of Professional Employment Group
See http://www.meetup.com/stlaltdotnet/ Developers should not align themselves with platforms and languages,
but with principles and ideas. An "alternative" view of the Microsoft development universe--a view that
challenged the "Microsoft-only" approach to software development. He distilled his thoughts into four key
developer characteristics which form the basis of the ALT.NET philosophy: 1. You're the type of developer who
uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. 2. You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the
best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc. ,,,
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TAP - Science on Tap
Mathematics and Music.
Wed, September 28, 7:00pm – 8:30pm
7260 Southwest Ave., Maplewood, MO 63143 (map)
Crown Room at the Schlafly Bottleworks
See http://scienceontap.wustl.edu/
This is a free event, but seating is limited and there are no reservations. We meet on the last Wednesday of
the month during the academic year, usually from 7:00 - 8:30 PM..
We begin this year with David Wright, PhD, Professor and Chair of Mathematics at Washington University
speaking on Mathematics and Music. Professor Wright is the Associate Director of the Ambassadors of Harmony,
the International Champion a cappella chorus based in St Louis. As a composer, arranger and historian, he has
been featured on radio and TV broadcasts at home and abroad, and has authored several articles on barbershop
harmony and its role in the world of vocal harmony.
For ten years, Professor Wright has taught a popular course at WU entitled Mathematics and Music. He wrote
the textbook for the class. He will include highlights and demonstrations from this course when he presents
on Wednesday evening.
Many people intuitively sense that there is a connection between mathematics and music. If nothing else,
both involve counting. There is actually much more to the association. Mathematics has been observed to be the
most abstract of the sciences, music the most abstract of the arts. Mathematics attempts to understand
conceptual and logical truth and appreciates the intrinsic beauty of such. Music evokes mood and emotion by
the audio medium of tones and rhythms without appealing to circumstantial means of eliciting such innate human
reactions. It is therefore not surprising that the symbiosis of the two disciplines is an age old story.
The Greek mathematician Pythagoras noted the integral relationships between frequencies of musical tones in a
consonant interval; the 18th century musician J. S. Bach studied the mathematical problem of finding a
practical way to tune keyboard instruments. In today’s world it is not at all unusual to encounter individuals
who have significant interest in both subjects. In this talk, several musical and mathematical notions will be
brought together, such as scales/modular arithmetic, octave identification/equivalence relation,
intervals/logarithms, equal temperament/exponents, overtones/integers, tone/trigonometry, timbre/harmonic
analysis, tuning/rationality. Music concepts to be discussed include scales, intervals, rhythm, meter, melody,
chords, progressions, note classes, overtones, timbre, formants,equal temperament, and just intonation.
Mathematical concepts covered include integers,rational and real numbers, equivalence relations, geometric
transformations, modular arithmetic, logarithms, exponentials, and periodic functions.
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UMSL - Intermediate Linux Administration
Thu, September 29, 8:30am – 4:00pm
12837 Flushing Meadows Dr., St. Louis, MO 63131 (map)
See http://www.cetc.umsl.edu/catalog/linux.html Learn the essentials of system administration of the Linux
operating system by attending an instructor-led class at the Computer Education & Training Center at UMSL. You
will have hands-on practice in installation, administration, and trouble-shooting a Linux system as well as
installation and configuration of the Apache web server. Intermediate Linux Administration (Prerequisite:
Introduction to Linux Administration or equivalent experience.) This hands-on course teaches you how to
configure the Linux operating system. Learn how to do a basic configuration of the Apache Web Server.
Understand how to install SAMBA and do Linux-to-Windows communication. Additional topics include system
maintenance, setting up user accounts and groups, configuring firewalls, and understanding runlevels. Fee:
$249 One-Day Class Meets 8:30am-4:00pm (6.5 hours)
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WCORCC Workshop
Thu, September 29, 10am – 12pm
Daniel Boone Branch, St. Louis County Library, 300 Clarkson Road in Ellisville (map)
http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ Not held every month.
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stlGIS GeoSpatial InfoSys UG
Thu, September 29, 1:30pm – 3:30pm
3950 Forest Park Ave St Louis, MO 63108 (map)
Laclede Gas Company 3950 Forest Park Ave St Louis, MO 63108 Time 1:30 to 3:30 pm Agenda 1:30 – 1:45 Welcome
and Introductions 1:45 – 2:15 Mark Vlaich and Michael Bartlett, Laclede Gas Company, will discuss/present
their new Flex Web Viewer for internal applications, caching improvements @ 10, and using analysis tools for
taxing. 2:15 – 2:45 Julia Cole, Metropolitan St Louis Sewer District, will discuss/present an MSD
implementation of GIS that demonstrates the power of GIS (in this case through impervious surfaces) in
responding to customer service w/financial accountability. 2:45 – 3:15 Aster Xiang, St Louis University, will
discuss/present master’s thesis work on using two different models to analyze land change over time. 3:15 –
3:30 Round Robin & Wrap up Social to follow at the Scottish Arms – is within walking distance.
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Wash U Physics for the public
Big G: The constant that controls the universe, and why
it's so hard to measure
Prof. Clifford Will, Department of Physics, Washi U
201 Crow Hall 10-11:30am
The constant that controls the universe, and why it's so hard to measure Newton's constant of gravitation, G,
determines the gravitational attraction between two given masses a given distance apart. It controls the
strength of gravity we feel on Earth, the formation and evolution of the Sun, the size of black holes and the
history and fate of the universe. Yet gravity is by far the weakest of the four fundamental forces of
nature. As a result, it is devilishly hard to measure G with any precision. In this talk we will describe
the history of "G", discuss how it is measured and show why it plays such a dominant cosmic role. We will
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2:00pm
MC-Clinic - Home Networking
Sat, October 1, 2pm – 3pm
87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 (map)
Venue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic, see
http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html to sign up.
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CWElug Central West End Linux Users' Group
Sun, October 2, 1pm – 4pm
1610 S. Big Bend Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63117 (map)
Venue: Scott's Office
http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug/ (which may not actually be current).
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MC-Clinic - Home Networking
Sun, October 2, 2pm – 3pm
87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 (map)
Venue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic, see
http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html to sign up.
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Monday, October 3
7:00pm stlGD - StL Game Developers
Tuesday, October 4
6:00pm FLEX - STL Adobe Users Group, Flex and Fuse the Arch
6:00pm GJUG - Gateway Java Users Group
6:30pm MOSLUG - MO Open Source Linux Users Group
7:00pm ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri
7:30pm GGUG - Gateway Groovy Users Group
Wednesday, October 5
6:30pm SteerCom - St. Louis Unix Users' Grp - Steering Committee
7:00pm SILUG-ME Southern Illinois Linux Users Group
Thursday, October 6
10:00am WCORCC-BI - Beginners SIG Internet SIG
1:00pm STLBIUG St Louis Business User Group
6:00pm SLACC - StL Area Computer Club
6:00pm stlLL -StL Lambda Lounge
7:00pm MTM - Midwest Tech Meetup -iPhone vs Android
Friday, October 7
12:00pm NCORCC - North County Older Residents Computer Club
5:00pm STL 2600 Meeting
Saturday, October 8
8:30am Hiatus - T3 Techies Teaching Techies
12:00pm DBUG - Data Bytes Users Group
2:00pm MC-Clinic - Networking with Windows 7
6:00pm ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri
Sunday, October 9
2:00pm MC-Clinic - Networking with Windows 7
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Descriptionhttp://www.softwarefreedomday.org
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STLISSA - Information Systems Security Association
4:00pm
stlHDI - Help Desk Institute -date & time CHANGE
6:00pm
HIATUS - STLOSUG - St. Louis OpenSolaris Users Group
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StL Hadoop Users Grp
WhenTue, September 20, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
WhereInciteRetail 225 South Meramec, Clayton, MO (map)
Description http://www.stlhadoop.org/ NOTICE -location CHANGE!!
Temporary. 1yr anniversary.
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WhenTue, September 20, 7pm – 10pm
WhereWeldon Spring Interpretive Center (map)
DescriptionDigital Special Interest Group ( Digital SIG) meeting on
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WhenWed, September 21, 11:30am – 12:45pm
Where9500 Manchester Rd, Rockhill, MO 63119 (map)
Description http://snug.sluug.org/
A lunch time meeting about SuSE Linux, every 3rd Wednesday at
Bandana's Bar-BQ (corner of Rock Hill and Manchester Rds)
Seating is limited so please RSVP Gary Hollingsworth by mailto:garyh@itinet.com
This month = A round table discussion... How does SuSE compare to
Red hat, Ubuntu, and other distros? What are the important differences
for personal/home users compared to the sysadmins and users of large
organizations/companies/schools, etc...?
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STLISACA - StL InfoSys Audit & Ctrl Assn
6:00pm
GCC - Gateway Computer Club
WhenWed, September 21, 6pm – 8pm
Where10001 Bunkum Rd. Fairview Heights, IL 62208 (map)
DescriptionVenue: Caseyville Township Bldg.
See http://gcc.signalhill.net/
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stlPM - StL Perl Mongers Grp
WhenWed, September 21, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
Where6665 Delmar Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544 (map)
DescriptionVenue is Announce Media, LLC
Meetings are on every 3rd Wednesday of the month
See http://stlouis.pm.org/
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Editor's Picks =
Our biggest anticipation is Wed's FBI agents discussing "Economic Cyber-Espionage"
and also Thurs' "Computer vision & Face Recognition".
Day by day its:
Mon & Tues
UMSL's 2 day class Advanced UNIX Scripting
Tues GaMUG Streaming TV
Wed SLUUG StL UNIX general mtng
FBI agents discuss Cyber-crime
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Computer Vision & Face Recognition
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The details of our picks
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gaMUG
STREAMING TV :
Possible alternatives to cable and satellite TV. What are the advantages
of and is there a downside to cutting that cable cord? Don Benne will
demonstrate how to turn a Mac into a DVR. He will bring several pieces
of equipment and show us ways to set up our own system.
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Economic Cyber-espionage.
This presentation is an overview of what we are seeing now regarding
countries stealing our intellectual property and proprietary information.
It will cover internet security, personal security, travel security,
social engineering, etc.
(And this the week after the Congress works on the new Intellectual
Property/Patent Law!)
Joseph J. Papes, is the Strategic Partnership Coordinator in the St. Louis
Division. His background is that I am a retired FBI Supervisory Special
Agent with over 33 years experience working in the Counterintelligence
and Cyber fields. He now works for the FBI as a consultant/contractor.
His job, as the Strategic Partnership is to conduct outreach/liaison
activities to the general business and academic communities of St. Louis
to help them protect their proprietary/intellectual property.
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Computer Vision with OpenCV & Face Recognition
OpenCV - Open Source Computer vision - is a library of c/c++ functions for
real time compute vision. OpenCV was originally developed by Intel and
is now supported by Willow Garage. OpenCV can run on Linux/Windows/Mac
platforms. One of the many built in features of OpenCV is face
detection. OpenCV also provides algorithms for facial recognition.
This presentation will briefly cover some OpenCV basics, then I'll show
how face detection and recognition can be performed using OpenCV's built
in functions.
My examples run on Ubuntu and are written in c. Knowledge of image
processing is not necessary but some c/c++ experience will be helpful
to follow the examples.
The face detection algorithm that comes with OpenCV uses
Haar-like features. Haar-like features can be used for object
recognition. More information on Haar-like features can be
found here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haar-like_featureshttp://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/FaceDetection
The Face Recognition algorithm I will show is called Eigenface with
Principal Component Analysis. Principal Component Analysis is a
technique used to remove noise from an image and extract values
representing the variance in a set of images. These values can
be used to compute the distance between images. Eigenface with
PCA is not the most accurate facial recognition approach, but it
is a good place to start since many Machine vision algorithms are
based on this technique. More information on this topic can be
found here: http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/FaceRecognitionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface
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Monday, September 12
8:30am UMSL - Advanced UNIX: Script Files - Day 1
6:00pm BDPA - Black Data Processing Associates
6:30pm stlRUBY - STL Ruby Users' Grp
7:00pm MWG - MidWest Geeks
7:00pm stlGD - StL Game Developers
Tuesday, September 13
SecureWorld Expo
Patch Tuesday
8:30am UMSL - Advanced UNIX: Script Files - Day 2
8:30am STLSUG - St. Louis Sharepoint Users Group
10:00am SCORCC MEETNIK - Minnie Ha Ha Park
1:00pm stlSSUG -St. Louis SQL Server User Grp
5:30pm gaMUG - Gateway Area MacIntosh Users Grp - "STREAMING TV"
6:00pm CCSL - Computer Consultants of St. Louis
7:00pm LUCI-NB - Linux Users Central Illinois (Newbie Mtg)
7:30pm ARCH - Arch Reactor
Wednesday, September 14
SecureWorld Expo
8:00am St. Louis ACT! Users Group
1:00pm SCORCC-G Genealogy SIG
6:00pm JCMS - Joomla CMS
6:30pm SLUUG StL Unix Users Grp = "Economic Cyber-espionage".
Thursday, September 15
7:30am IT Advancement Council
1:00pm WCORCC - General Mtg
6:00pm stlMD - St. Louis Mobile Dev
6:30pm stlLUG -Linux Users' Grp = "Computer Vision with OpenCV & Face Detection"
6:30pm STLJS - Saint Louis JavaScript Meetup
7:00pm PHP - St Louis PHP Users Group
7:30pm SLRCFA - St. Louis Radio Control Flying Association
7:30pm STL Wordpress Users Group
Friday, September 16
1:00pm NCORCC - North County Older Residents Computer Club
7:00pm Balloon Glow before the 39th annual Great Forest Park Balloon Race
7:00pm SLARC - St. Louis Area Radio Club
7:30pm SLAS - St. Louis Astronomical Society
Saturday, September 17
10:00am ROBOMO - StL Area Robotics Grp
12:00pm Great Forest Park Balloon Race
2:00pm MC-Clinic - MS Windows Live(TM) Essentials
4:00pm SILUG-ME - Southern Illinois Linux Users Group
Sunday, September 18
StrangeLoop 2011 Conference
12:00pm Great Forest Park Balloon Race
2:00pm MC-Clinic - MS Windows Live(TM) Essentials
Monday, September 19
Talk Like A Pirate Day
1:00pm SCORCC-WK - MS Works & MS Word SIG
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Monday, September 12, 2011
8:30am UMSL - Advanced UNIX: Script Files - Day 1
6:00pm BDPA - Black Data Processing Associates When Mon, September 12, 6pm – 8pm
5 N. Jackson Ave., Clayton, MO 63130
Washington University West Campus The Center for the Application of
Information Technology CAIT - Room 24 5 N. Jackson Ave. at Forsyth
Boulevard Clayton, MO 63130
See http://www.bdpa-stlouis.org/ for current information.
6:30pm
stlRUBY - STL Ruby Users' Grp When Mon, September 12, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
VENUE: The Able Few offices (above Foam) 3359 S. Jefferson Ave 63118
Best practices in managing over weight models — Amos King
http://stlruby.org
7:00pm MWG - MidWest Geeks When Mon, September 12, 7pm – 9pm
VENUE: The World Cafe 5001 Mardel Ave, St Louis, MO
Description Venue: The World Cafe 5001 Mardel Ave, St Louis, MO
http://www.meetup.com/MWGeeks/
7:00pm stlGD - StL Game Developers When Mon, September 12, 7pm – 9pm
VENUE: WorldKi Office
218-C Millwell Drive, Maryland Heights, MO 63043
See http://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-Game-Developers/
Where: Simutronics Corp. 218-C Millwell Drive Maryland
Heights, MO 63043
Tuesday, September 13, 2011
SecureWorld Expo When Sep 13 – 14, 2011 Where 701
VENUE: Americas Center
Convention Plaza St Louis, MO 63101
See http://www.secureworldexpo.com/ for details
and registration. Fee required.
Patch Tuesday When Tuesday, Sep 13, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday more
8:30am UMSL - Advanced UNIX: Script Files -
Day 2 When Tue, September 13, 8:30am – 4:00pm
12837 Flushing Meadows Dr., St. Louis, MO 63131
http://www.cetc.umsl.edu/catalog/unix.html
Linux was developed as a version of UNIX, for
use on personal computers. Its syntax, kernel
compilation, and environment are very similar
to other versions of UNIX. Students interested
in Linux can take the UNIX series of classes
to learn the basics of the operating system.
Advanced UNIX: Script Files (Prerequisite:
Intermediate Commands of UNIX/Linux or
equivalent experience.) This course covers the
design and use of UNIX script files for custom
applications. Topics include the consideration
of the Bourne shell and C shell as programming
languages, user-defined variables (including
arrays), numeric variables, operators,
assignment statements, and input/output
operations. Learn the standard programming
concepts, such as conditional statements,
loop statements, and recursion, in the context
of shell programming. Sample programs will be
discussed to demonstrate techniques of using
UNIX commands. Fee: $399
Two-Day Class Meets 8:30am-4:00pm (13 hours)
8:30am STLSUG - St. Louis Sharepoint Users Group When
Tue, September 13, 8:30am – 11:30am
3 Cityplace Drive, Suite 1100, Creve Coeur,
MO 63141
Session: 8:30 am - 9:30 am Description:
Introduction to User Experience Research
Methods A brief overview of six User Experience
research techniques, from lab-based testing
to surveys. What they are, when to use them,
and advantages and disadvantages of each.
Presenter: Danielle Cooley
Session: 9:45 am - 10:45 am
Office 365 Public Facing Internet - Fast
Start Microsoft Office 365 now includes
an out-of-the-box public facing internet
site. This session will focus on steps to
configure the environment to move beyond the
standard baseline capabilities. Additionally,
we will walk through the customization steps
to add non-standard features to improve the
overall user experience.
VENUE: Microsoft Corporation, 11th Floor, MPR2
http://www.stlsug.org/
10:00am SCORCC MEETNIK - Minnie Ha Ha Park When Tue, September 13, 10am – 3pm
801 Old Gravois Rd, Sunset Hills MO
Description VENUE: Minnie Ha Ha Park more
1:00pm stlSSUG -St. Louis SQL Server User Grp When Tue, September 13, 1pm – 4pm
Three City Place Drive, St. Louis, MO 63141
http://www.stlssug.org/
Topic: Seven Different Bad Parameter Sniffing Solutions
Topic: Tales from the Trenches:
Considerations when Virtualizing Your SQL Server Environment
5:30pm gaMUG - Gateway Area MacIntosh Users Grp - When Tue, September 13, 5:30pm – 9:00pm
VENUE: Parkway Central High School
TOPIC: "STREAMING TV"
http://www.gamug.org/
Beginner SIG - 5:30 PM
Intermediate SIG - 5:30 PM
General Meeting - 7:00 PM
STREAMING TV : Possible alternatives to cable and satellite TV. What
are the advantages of and is there a downside to cutting that cable
cord? Don Benne will demonstrate how to turn a Mac into a DVR. He
will bring several pieces of equipment and show us ways to
set up our own system.
6:00pm CCSL - Computer Consultants of St. Louis When Tue,
September 13, 6pm – 7pm Where 6630 Delmar Blvd,
VENUE: St. Louis Bread Co.
University City, MO 63128
See http://www.ccsl.org/
Dinner reservations and cancellations 314-995-4652
7:00pm LUCI-NB - Linux Users Central Illinois (Newbie Mtg) When Tue, September 13, 7pm – 9pm
VENUE: Illinois State Museum Research and Collections Center
1011 E. Ash Street Springfield, IL
See http://www.luci.org/
7:30pm ARCH - Arch Reactor When Tue, September 13, 7:30pm – 10:00pm
2400 S. Jefferson Avenue, Saint Louis, MO 63104
General meeting monthly on 2nd and 4th Tuesday
See http://www.archreactor.org/
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
SecureWorld Expo When Sep 13 – 14, 2011 Where
VENUE: Americas Center
701 Convention Plaza St Louis, MO 63101
See http://www.secureworldexpo.com/
for details and registration. Fee required.
8:00am St. Louis ACT! Users Group When Wed, September 14, 8am – 9am
3 CityPlace - Microsoft Building Creve Coeur, MO
See http://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-ACT-Software-Users-Group/
1:00pm SCORCC-G Genealogy SIG When Wed, September 14, 1pm – 2pm
Tesson Ferry Library Branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123
See http://www.scorcc.org/
6:00pm JCMS - Joomla CMS When Wed, September 14, 6pm – 8pm
Venue: Above Web Media
10425 Old Olive LL3 St Louis, MO 63141
See http://www.meetup.com/Joomla-CMS-and-Graphics-Design/
6:30pm SLUUG StL Unix Users Grp When Wed, September 14, 6:30pm – 9:00pm
TOPIC: "Economic Cyber-espionage".
VENUE: Graybar Electric Co, Inc.
11885 Lackland Road, Maryland Heights, MO 63146
This presentation is an overview of what we are seeing now regarding
countries stealing our intellectual property and proprietary information.
It will cover internet security, personal security, travel security,
social engineering, etc. (And this the week after the Congress works
on the new Intellectual Property/Patent Law!)
Joseph J. Papes, is the Strategic Partnership Coordinator in the St. Louis
Division. His background is that of a retired FBI Supervisory Special Agent
with over 33 years experience working in the Counterintelligence and Cyber fields.
He now works for the FBI as a consultant/contractor. His job, as the Strategic
Partnership is to conduct outreach/liaison activities to the general business
and academic communities of St. Louis to help them protect their
proprietary/intellectual property.
See http://www.sluug.org/ Your forum for exchanging information about open
standards, open systems, open source, products, services and architectures.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
7:30am IT Advancement Council When Thu, September 15, 7:30am – 9:00am
Venue: Charter Communications
12405 PowersCourt Dr., St. Louis, MO 63131
See http://www.itac-stl.org/
1:00pm WCORCC - General Mtg When Thu, September 15, 1pm – 3pm
Daniel Boone Branch, St. Louis County Library,
300 Clarkson Road in Ellisville
West County Older Residents Computer Club
Contact Mary Ann (6363918123) or Gordon(6363916469)
See http://wcorcc.tripod.com/
6:00pm stlMD - St. Louis Mobile Dev When Thu, September 15, 6:00pm – 8:30pm
Where 1701 Washington Ave, St Louis, MO 63103
************** MOVED- THIS MONTH ONLY!!
Android In-App Purchases
...and also...
iOS Testing
https://sites.google.com/site/stlmobiledev/
STL Mobile Dev is a software development group for the St. Louis area
focused on mobile platforms (iPhone, Android, webOS, etc). We meet on
the 4th Thursday of the month at the downtown offices of Asynchrony
Solutions, Inc.
6:30pm stlLUG -Linux Users' Group -- Thu, September 15, 6:30pm – 9:30pm
TOPIC: "Computer Vision with OpenCV & Face Detection"
Venue: IT Enterprises, 4633 World Pkwy Cir, Berkeley, MO 63134
http://www.stllinux.org/
Computer Vision with OpenCV OpenCV - Open Source Computer vision is a
library of c/c++ functions for real time compute vision. OpenCV was
originally developed by Intel and is now supported by Willow Garage.
OpenCV can run on Linux/Windows/Mac platforms. One of the many built in
features of OpenCV is face detection. OpenCV also provides algorithms
for facial recognition. This presentation will briefly cover some OpenCV
basics, then we will show how face detection and recognition can be
performed using OpenCV's built in functions. Our examples run on Ubuntu
and are written in c. Knowledge of image processing is not necessary
but some c/c++ experience will be helpful to follow the examples.
The face detection algorithm that comes with OpenCV uses Haar-like features.
Haar-like features can be used for object recognition. More information
on Haar-like features can be found here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haar-like_featureshttp://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/FaceDetection
The Face Recognition algorithm we will show is called Eigenface with
Principal Component Analysis. Principal Component Analysis is a technique
used to remove noise from an image and extract values representing the
variance in a set of images. These values can be used to compute the distance
between images. Eigenface with PCA is not the most accurate facial recognition
approach, but it is a good place to start since many Machine vision algorithms
are based on this technique. More information on this topic can be found here:
http://opencv.willowgarage.com/wiki/FaceRecognitionhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eigenface
Chris Leighton is a Software Engineer at ThomsonReuters and a graduate student
studying image processing at UMSL.
6:30pm STLJS - Saint Louis JavaScript Meetup When Thu, September 15, 6:30pm – 8:30pm
VENUE: May change every month.
See http://www.stljs.org/
7:00pm PHP - St Louis PHP Users Group When Thu, September 15, 7pm – 9pm
See http://www.meetup.com/php-425/
Only members of this Group can view the location for this Meetup (Which is really STUPID!)
7:30pm SLRCFA - St. Louis Radio Control Flying Association When Thu, September 15, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
13045 Tesson Ferry, St. Louis, MO
http://www.slrcfa.com/
7:30pm STL Wordpress Users Group When Thu, September 15, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
7220 Lindbergh Blvd., Hazelwood, MO 63032
Venue: Lift Office See http://www.meetup.com/stlwordpress/
Friday, September 16, 2011
1:00pm NCORCC - North County Older Residents Computer Club When Fri, September 16, 1pm – 3pm
915 Utz Lane Hazelwood, MO 63042
VENUE: Prairie Commons Branch (between Howdershell and Dunn)
See https://sites.google.com/site/corccstl/
7:00pm Balloon Glow before the 39th annual Great Forest Park Balloon Race When Fri, September 16, 7:00pm – 9:15pm
Central Field, Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri
http://www.greatforestparkballoonrace.com/
A breathtaking view of inflated balloons lighted by their burners from 7 until 8:30.
Get up close and walk around the balloons. This year will be a walk through event ONLY
-- not a drive through event. Refreshments and Food are available. The event will conclude
with the PNC Bank fireworks finale display beginning at approximately 9pm. Tomorrow the
39th annual Great Forest Park Balloon Race (& 20th anniversary of the Energizer Bunny Balloon)
is scheduled for Saturday, September 17, 2011 at Central Field in Forest Park in St. Louis, Missouri.
All events are free to the public --no admittance or parking charges.
7:00pm SLARC - St. Louis Area Radio Club When Fri, September 16, 7pm – 8pm
Buder Park, Valley Park, MO 63088
7:30pm SLAS - St. Louis Astronomical Society When Fri, September 16, 7:30pm – 9:00pm
Washington University, McDonnell Hall Room 162, St. Louis, MO
http://www.slasonline.org/
Cosmology, Thermodynamics, and the Scientific Method by Dr. Robert Criss, Wash U. Cosmology
is the study of the nature, structure, and evolution of the Universe at large. Thermodynamics
is the study of heat and its effects on matter and other forms of energy. The Scientific Method
is the basic problem-solving approach that underlies the amazing delivered by science in the
past four hundred years.
Dr. Criss will use these three tools to pose and explore some of the great questions of science
and philosophy. Some examples: What is time, and how is the Universe evolving? Is the Universe
large but finite, or does it go on without limit? What was the beginning of all things, and
what might be the ending? Robert Criss is a Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Washington
University. He uses precise measurements of stable atomic isotopes to probe the origin of rocks and
natural waters. His primary research interests include the study of contaminated substances through
groundwater flows, the behavior of flood waters in the Meramec, Missouri, and Mississippi basins,
the effects of human construction on river flows, and the circulation of water in deep hydrothermal
systems.
Saturday, September 17, 2011
10:00am ROBOMO - StL Area Robotics Grp When Sat, September 17, 10am – 1pm
10267 Saint Charles Rock Road, St. Ann, MO
topic: Getting started with the Arduino microcontroller.
NEW LOCATION! StL County Library Rock Road Branch
(314) 429-5116 http://www.robomo.com/
12:00pm Great Forest Park Balloon Race When Sat, September 17, 12pm – 7pm
Central Field, Forest Park, St. Louis, Missouri
http://www.greatforestparkballoonrace.com/
39th annual BALLOON RACE -- 20th Birthday of the Energizer Bunny. Spend your day in beautiful
Forest Park and help celebrate the 20th Birthday of the Energizer Bunny. The Purina Children's
Entertainment area is filled with pony rides, games, and other activities for kids. The
Entertainment Stage features a variety of local talent. During the Photo contest the public
can enter the balloon field and take pictures of their favorite balloons. Prizes will be awarded
for the best photographs. The Skydiving Team performs and lands in the center of the launch field.
The race begins when the Energizer Bunny Balloon takes off ahead of the pack. 70 "hound" balloons
then launch in pursuit. The balloon dropping a birdseed baggie closest to the Energizer Bunny
Balloon will be declared the winner.
12:00pm: Festivities begin! Purina Children's Entertainment Area & Incredible Dogs..
Food Courts... Pony Rides... Farmers Insurance Kids ID... Huge human chess board...
Stages... Energizer Bunny ears...More.
1:00pm: AT&T Entertainment Stage Opens 2:00pm: Wehrenberg/Suburban Journals Photo Contest
3:00pm: Skydivers
3:30pm: Opening Ceremonies
4:30pm: Energizer Hot "Hare" Balloon Launch
4:45pm: "Hound" Balloon Launch begins
Sunday, September 18, 2011
WEATHER DATE- In case the race is weathered out on Saturday, All events are free to the public
--no admittance or parking charges.
2:00pm MC-Clinic - MS Windows Live(TM) Essentials When Sat, September 17, 2pm – 3pm
87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144
Venue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic,
see http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html to sign up.
4:00pm SILUG-ME - Southern Illinois Linux Users Group When Sat, September 17, 4pm – 6pm
3720 Green Mount Crossing Dr., O Fallon, IL 62269
See http://www.silug.org/
Sunday, September 18, 2011
StrangeLoop Conference When Sep 18 – 20, 2011
1 South Broadway, Saint Louis, Missouri 63102
VENUE: the Hilton St. Louis at the Ballpark
See http://thestrangeloop.com
Strange Loop mixes together bleeding edge technology, enterprise systems, and academic research
into a high octane knowledge cocktail! Unicorns and rainbows included at no extra cost.
Registration and Fee required.
Talks on...
Clojure Part 1: Introduction to Clojure
Erlang: Language Essentials
Machine Learning
Node.js Bootcamp
Learn Scala interactively with the Scala Koans
Intermediate Android
Git Foundations
HTML 5
Clojure Part 2: Building Analytics with Clojure
Erlang: Production Grade
Haskell: Functional Programming, Solid Code, Big Data
Cascalog
Intro to Django
Getting Cozy with Emacs
Git Advanced
jQuery
Category Theory, Monads, and Duality in (Big) Data
Functional Thinking
Wrap Your SQL Head Around Riak MapReduce
On Distributed Failures (and handling them with Doozer)
Ratpack: Classy and Compact Groovy Web Apps
Testing, Testing, iOS
CSS3 and Sass
Glu-ing The Last Mile
Storm: Twitter's scalable realtime computation system
Concurrent Caching at Google
Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala
An Introduction to Doctor Who (and Neo4j)
JVM dynamic languages interoperability framework
Building Applications with jQuery UI
fog or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cloud
A Tale of Three Trees
Airplane-Mode HTML5: Is your website mobile-ready?
Scalaz: Purely Functional Programming in Scala
Chloe and the Realtime Web
Generic Programming Galore using D
Dynamo is not just for datastores
Skynet: A Scalable, Distributed Service Mesh in Go
Machine Learning Hack Fest
Parser Combinators: How to Parse (nearly) Anything
New-age Transactional Systems - Not Your Grandpa's OLTP
CoffeeScript, the Rise of "Build Your Own JavaScript"
Bringing Riak to the Mobile Platform
Vim: From Essentials to Mastery
The Kotlin Programming Language
Distributed STM: A new programming model for the cloud
Monads Made Easy
Transactions without Transactions
Getting Truth Out of the DOM
Bitcoin: Giving Money an Upgrade
Actor Interaction Patterns
Mirah for Android Development
Distributed Systems with Gevent and ZeroMQ
Learn to Play Go
We Really Don't Know How to Compute!
Strange Loop Trivia Extravaganza
Heresies and Dogmas in Software Development
Running a startup on Haskell
Bryan O'Sullivan · Arch View · Languages and FP
Distributed Systems: The Stuff Nobody Told You
Shaneal Manek · Lindbergh · Distributed systems
Embedding Ruby and RubyGems Over RedBridge
Core HTML5 Canvas: Mind-blowing Apps in Your Browser
Android App Assimilation
Hadoop and Cassandra sitting in a tree...
Event-Driven Programming in Clojure
Taming Android
Distributed Data Analysis with Hadoop and R
A P2P Digital Self with TeleHash
The Once And Future Script Loader
Building Polyglot Systems with Scalang
DataMapper on Infinispan: Clustered NoSQL
Why CouchDB?
Teaching Code Literacy
STM: Silver bullet or ...
Running Heroku on Heroku
Applying Principles of Stage Magic to User Experience
A Tale of Two Runtimes
Have Your Cake and Eat It Too: Meta-Programming Java
Product Engineering
The Mapping Dilemma
Akka: Reloaded
The Future of F#: Type Providers
"Post-PC Computing" is not a Vision
12:00pm Great Forest Park Balloon Race
2:00pm MC-Clinic - MS Windows Live(TM) Essentials When Sun, September 18, 2pm – 3pm
87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144
Venue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic,
see http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html to sign up.
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Monday, September 19
StrangeLoop 2011 Conference
Talk Like A Pirate Day
1:00pm SCORCC-WK - MS Works & MS Word SIG
Tuesday, September 20
StrangeLoop 2011 Conference
Software Freedom Day
2:00pm STLISSA - Information Systems Security Association
4:00pm stlHDI - Help Desk Institute -date & time CHANGE
6:00pm HIATUS - STLOSUG - St. Louis OpenSolaris Users Group
6:30pm StL Hadoop Users Grp
7:00pm Astronomy Digital Imaging SIG
Wednesday, September 21
9:00am Thornhill Computer Club
11:30am SNUG - St. Louis Novell Users Group and SuSE Linux Lunch
2:00pm STLISACA - StL InfoSys Audit & Ctrl Assn
6:00pm GCC - Gateway Computer Club
6:30pm stlPM - StL Perl Mongers Grp
Thursday, September 22
8:30am STLCRMUG - St. Louis CRM Users Group
10:00am WCORCC - Technical SIG Multimedia SIG
1:00pm SCORCC Windows SIG
5:30pm STL-AITP - Association of Information Technology Professionals
6:00pm MOVED- stlMD - St.L Mobile Dev
6:00pm NSBracket-STL iOS Developer Grp
6:30pm StC LUG - St. Charles Linux Users Group
Friday, September 23
9:30am Weber Road Computer Club
7:30pm SLSRC - St. Louis & Suburban Radio Club
11:00pm CODERS - Code Until Dawn in STL
Saturday, September 24
9:00am Near Space balloon launch RoboMo-3
2:00pm GAMP - Gateway Area Mac Programmers
2:00pm STL CocoaHeads Meeting
As always, check specific websites, etc for details & last minute changes.
Everything is our best guess or opinion and shouldn't be considered
a statement of fact. Anything perceived as an insult, libelous, or hurtful
is obviously misspelled, misstated, misinterpreted, poorly worded,
or unintended.
Send additions and changes to: editor(a)sluug.org
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Editor's Picks =
My biggest anticipation is Wed's FBI agents discussing Cyber-crime
and also Thurs Computer vision & Face Recognition.
Day by day its:
Friday Flash Camp
Sat MicroCenter MS-Powerpoint Tips & & Tricks
Sun CWE lug
Mon
& Tues
UMSL's 2 day class Advanced UNIX Scripting
Wed SLUUG StL UNIX general mtng
FBI agents discuss Cyber-crime
next Thurs StL lug
Computer Vision & Face Recognition
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Friday, September 9
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9:00am
Flash Camp
When Fri, September 9, 9am – 5pm
Where Webster University
The 3rd Flash Camp St. Louis! Come and learn
the latest and greatest about the Flash Platform from locally and
nationally recognized leaders. We have 4 confirmed FAFTA speakers
this year, as well as some top talent from around the country. It's
being hosted at Webster University this year, with a lot more space and
better accommodations. The sessions are geared towards Flash, Flex, AS3,
Mobile and UX. All the details are here: http://www.flashcampstlouis.com
2 Tracks. 12 Speakers. Designer. Developer. Mobile. UX. Experts on the
Adobe Flash Platform from both inside and outside Adobe. Come advance
your Flash, Actionscript and Flex/AIR skills, meet members of the Adobe
team and network with local companies and fellow developers. Sessions
are geared towards designers and developers with beginning to
intermediate level of experience with ActionScript 3, Flash, and/or
Flex and AIR. There will be plenty of giveaways, swag, and a yummy
lunch and warm cookies will be provided.
9:00am Flash vs HTML5 showdown
Speaker: Paul Trani
10:00am Exploring a Designer and Developer Workflow
Speaker: Aaron Pedersen Designers and Developers have long sought the
holy grail: a seamless workflow between both disciplines that allow
each to stretch their creative legs and at the same time, not step on
each others toes. However, such a workflow does not yet exist and both
disciplines have struggled to keep projects on time, under budget,
and keep the other happy along the way. Software, such as Adobe’s
Creative Suite, can help alleviate many of the pain points by creating
workflows between products. However, tools can only solve part of the
problem. Designers and developers need to work together to create their
own workflows that provide an environment that allows for parallel
design and development. In this session we will examine one such
workflow called the ‘Designer and Developer Contract’. This workflow
will focus on wireframes as the contract between both disciplines and
explore how a single document can be used by everyone on the project
team. Topic TBA Speaker: Danielle Cooley
11:00am Topic Enterprise Your
Apps Speaker: Jeff Roberts Designing for Mobile Speaker: Dee Sadler
So you want to create mobile applications? This session will walk you
through the ins and outs of creating graphics for mobile. Resolutions,
tips and tricks to making the graphics as sharp as possible. Using
Photoshop vs Fireworks, how device central can help you, wireframing,
and much more.
12:00pm Lunch
1:00pm How to use Flash with Facebook
Speaker: Ben Bishop Failing faster, failing forward: Collaborative
design as a development activity Speaker: Christina York Rarely do
the best ideas come first and from one person. Collaborative design
is a great way to get a lot of good and bad ideas out there early
and improve the quality of your software/product. This session will
demonstrate techniques for two types of collaborative design: design
studios with team members and stakeholders and participatory design
activities with end users.
2:00pm Where We've Been, Where We're Going -
Look at the past 5 years of the design industry and where it might be
going in the next 5 Speaker: Brad Nunnally Over the past five years,
the world of user experience and design has changed greatly. We've
been able to adapt and grow as we faced down many challenges in the
ever changing world of technology. But, are we ready for the next
five years? If not, what can we do as design professionals to prepare
ourselves for the "next big thing" that will rock the technological
world. Come hear how we can use what we've learned to help prepare
for the future, and get a glimpse at some of the technologies that
we might be designing for before you know it. Building Flex Apps for
Mobile - iOS and Android Speaker: Jason Hanson You can have it all. Use
your existing knowledge of Flash, Flex, and ActionScript to build
mobile apps. Build once and deploy for iOS, Android, and Blackberry
tablets. The recent and exciting updates to the Adobe AIR runtime and
the new tooling in Flash Builder 4.5.x provide the tools you need to
build your app and deliver it via the app markets for Android, iOS,
and Blackberry tablet. Yes, build in Flash and deploy to an iPhone &
iPad app you can sell in the market. We will walk through what you need
to get started building your own apps. I will show how to deploy to
multiple platforms. I will also go over a sample starter projects that
Abobe has provided, that you can use as a starting point so you can hit
the ground running writing good code that will scale well.
3:00pm Rage against the Framework Speaker: David Ortinau We love the Flash platform
for rapidly building awesome experiences. As our projects become more
complex we look to frameworks like Flex for a boost with rich components
and data support. The Flex framework is extremely powerful and often
frustrating. Implementing expressive UX can seem near impossible at
these times, but we need not settle for lesser UX. In this session we'll
talk briefly about the principles of Interaction Design models, and then
take a practical look at common leverage points where we can inject
our interactions to create better experiences. Adobe Edge for flash
designers Speaker: Jacob Heberlie
4:00pm Topic TBA Speaker: Ben Stucki
Keywords flashcamp mobile UX AS3 Flex Flash Flash Platform more
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10:00am
SCORCC-DTP Desktop Publishing
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Saturday, September 10
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8:30am
Hiatus - T3 Techies Teaching Techies
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12:00pm
DBUG - Data Bytes Users Group
WhenSat, September 10, 12pm – 3pm
Where12863 Willowyk Drive, St. Louis, MO
DescriptionSee http://dbug-stl.tripod.com/Home.htm
Thornhill Branch Library,
12863 Willowyk Drive (off Fee Fee Road), St. Louis, MO
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2:00pm
MC-Clinic - MS Powerpoint Tips & Tricks
WhenSat, September 10, 2pm – 3pm
Where87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144
DescriptionVenue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE
in-store computer technology clinic,
see http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html to sign up.
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6:00pm
ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri
WhenSat, September 10, 6pm – 10pm
DescriptionSee http://asemonline.org/ for current information.
* Regular General Meeting*
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Sunday, September 11
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All day
Patriot Day
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1:00pm
CWElug Central West End Linux Users' Group
WhenSun, September 11, 1pm – 4pm
Where1610 S. Big Bend Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63117 (map)
DescriptionVenue: Scott's Office
http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug/
(which may not actually be current).
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2:00pm
MC-Clinic - MS Powerpoint Tips & Tricks
WhenSun, September 11, 2pm – 3pm
Where87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 (map)
DescriptionVenue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE
in-store computer technology clinic,
http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html
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And an overview of next week...
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Monday, September 12
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8:30am
UMSL - Advanced UNIX: Script Files - Day 1
WhenMon, September 12, 8:30am – 4:00pm
Where12837 Flushing Meadows Dr., St. Louis, MO 63131
Description
http://www.cetc.umsl.edu/catalog/unix.html Linux
was developed as a version of UNIX, for use on
personal computers. Its syntax, kernel compilation,
and environment are very similar to other versions of
UNIX. Students interested in Linux can take the UNIX
series of classes to learn the basics of the operating
system. Advanced UNIX: Script Files (Prerequisite:
Intermediate Commands of UNIX/Linux or equivalent
experience.) This course covers the design and use
of UNIX script files for custom applications. Topics
include the consideration of the Bourne shell and
C shell as programming languages, user-defined
variables (including arrays), numeric variables,
operators, assignment statements, and input/output
operations. Learn the standard programming concepts,
such as conditional statements, loop statements, and
recursion, in the context of shell programming. Sample
programs will be discussed to demonstrate techniques
of using UNIX commands. Fee: $399 Two-Day Class
Meets 8:30am-4:00pm (13 hours)
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1:00pm
SCORCC-GM - General Meeting
6:00pm
BDPA - Black Data Processing Associates
6:30pm
stlRUBY - STL Ruby Users' Grp
7:00pm
MWG - MidWest Geeks
7:00pm
stlGD - StL Game Developers
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Tuesday, September 13
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All day
SecureWorld Expo
All day
Patch Tuesday
8:30am
UMSL - Advanced UNIX: Script Files - Day 2
8:30am
STLSUG - St. Louis Sharepoint Users Group
1:00pm
STLSSUG -St. Louis SQL Server User Group
5:30pm
GAMUG - Gateway Area MacIntosh Users Group
6:00pm
CCSL - Computer Consultants of St. Louis
7:00pm
LUCI-NB - Linux Users Central Illinois (Newbie Mtg)
7:30pm
ARCH - Arch Reactor
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Wednesday, September 14
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All day
SecureWorld Expo
8:00am
St. Louis ACT! Users Group
1:00pm
SCORCC-G Geneology SIG
6:00pm
JCMS - Joomla CMS
6:30pm
SLUUG St. Louis Unix Users Group
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Thursday, September 15
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7:30am
IT Advancement Council
1:00pm
WCORCC - General Mtg
6:00pm
stlMD - St. Louis Mobile Dev
6:30pm
stlLUG -Linux Users' Grp
"Computer Vision with OpenCV"
6:30pm
STLJS - Saint Louis JavaScript Meetup
7:00pm
PHP - St Louis PHP Users Group
7:30pm
SLRCFA - St. Louis Radio Control Flying Assoc.
7:30pm
STL Wordpress Users Group
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Friday, September 16
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All day
Balloon Glow
1:00pm
NCORCC - North County Older Residents
Computer Club
7:00pm
SLARC - St. Louis Area Radio Club
7:30pm
SLAS - St. Louis Astronomical Society
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Saturday, September 17
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All day
Great Forest Park Balloon Race
10:00am
Great Forest Park Balloon Race
10:00am
ROBOMO - StL Area Robotics Grp
2:00pm
MC-Clinic - MS-Win Live(TM) Essentials
4:00pm
SILUG-ME - Southern Illinois
Linux Users Group
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Sunday, September 18
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All day
StrangeLoop 2011 Conference
10:00am
Great Forest Park Balloon Race
2:00pm
MC-Clinic - MS Windows Live(TM)
Essentials
