As usual, check www.sluug.org/resources/calendar for late changes.
ADVANCED Warning = April 30 deadline to apply for NFS grant at SLU for
summer workshops in... GIS/GPS Applications in Aquatic Ecology/Biology.
Editor's picks =
Tue. Celebrate "Yuri's Nite" 50th anniversary of human spaceflight.
GAMUG Paperless w Steve Jobs
Wed. SLUUG general mtng.
Cross Platform Tricks by Alan Griggs
Tutorial om ckcnfg by Jerry Stutte
Thurs. our Scott Granneman as part of a journalist's lunch panel on
"How to Build an Online Brand"
Sat. &or Sun. Networking w Mac OS X
And the details...
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Tuesday, April 12
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50th Anniv. 1st Human in Space. Yuri Gagarin.
Tuesday, Apr 12, 2011
"Cosmonautics Day" in former Eastern Block since 1st Anniversary. "International Day of Manned Space Flight" by UN proclimation this year. In 1961, Russian Yuri Gagarin was launched from Kazakstan aboard Vostok 3KA-3 to become the 1st human in space.
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Patch Tuesday
Tuesday, Apr 12, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday
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Yuri's Nite parties
Tuesday, Apr 12, 2011
The goal of Yuri's Night is to increase public interest in space exploration and to inspire a new generation of explorers. Celebrated internationally since 2001.
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8:00am
MOVED- StL SharePoint Users Group
Tue, April 12, 8am . 11am
3 City Place Dr. St. Louis, MO 63141 (map)
Moved this month for SharePoint Saturday on April 30.
http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/stlouis/default.aspx
VENUE: Microsoft Corporation, 11th Floor, MPR2
http://www.stlsug.org/
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11:30am
stlLTug - StL Lotus Technologies Users Grp
Tue, April 12, 11:30am . 1:00pm
500 Maryville Centre Drive, St. Louis, MO (map)
IBM Maryville building
See http://www.stldominotes.org/
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1:00pm
stlSSug -StL SQL Server User Grp
Tue, April 12, 1pm . 4pm
Three City Place Drive, St. Louis, MO 63141 (map)
Description
No mtng this month. http://www.stlssug.org/
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5:30pm
GAMUG
- Gateway Area MacIntosh Users Group
GOING PAPERLESS & STEVE JOBS:
Tue, April 12, 5:30pm . 9:00pm
Parkway Central High School (map)
Description
This Month= GOING PAPERLESS & STEVE JOBS:
Jay Kappmeier will demonstrate how to use a document scanner to digitally
archive important paper documents, such as receipts, tax forms, etc. He will
discuss what must be kept on paper and what you can scan and get rid of, and
how searchable PDFs can be made of those documents, so your important papers
will become much more accessable. We will also show the Steve Jobs video
from the Bloomberg Game Changer Series. It is a fascinating look into the
man and the ideas behind the products we prefer to use.
So come join us for what should be an informative evening!
The meeting begins with our regular Q&A and Tips&Tricks Session.
www.gamug.org/
Beginner SIG - 5:30 PM
Intermediate SIG - 5:30 PM
General Meeting - 7:00 PM
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6:00pm
CCSL - Computer Consultants of St. Louis
Tue, April 12, 6pm . 7pm
6630 Delmar Blvd, University City, MO 63128 (map)
Venue: St. Louis Bread Co.
See http://www.ccsl.org/
Dinner reservations and cancellations 314-995-4652
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6:30pm
New Group???
Build Guild
Tue, April 12, 6:30pm . 8:30pm
Tin Can Tavern 3157 Morganford Rd., Saint Louis, MO
Build Guild is a monthly gathering of web folks that enjoy
chatting over drinks. Mustaches optional.
Get geeky with web folks just like you.
Enjoy frothy, tasty adult beverages.
Land gigs, make new friends & connections.
No presentations ever ever ever.
(Maybe they will drink to Yuri's Nite tonite!?!)
http://saintlouis.buildguild.org
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7:00pm
LUCI-NB - Linux Users Central Illinois (Newbie Mtg)
Tue, April 12, 7pm . 9pm
1011 E. Ash Street Springfield, IL
VENUE: Illinois State Museum Research and Collections Center
See http://www.luci.org/
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Wednesday, April 13
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8:00am
St. Louis ACT! Users Group
Wed, April 13, 8am . 9am
http://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-ACT-Software-Users-Group/
Location is usually shown only to members (which is really STUPID!).
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1:00pm
SCORCC-G Geneology SIG
Wed, April 13, 1pm . 2pm
Tesson Ferry Library Branch,
9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123
http://www.scorcc.org/
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6:00pm
JCMS - Joomla CMS
Wed, April 13, 6pm . 8pm
10425 Old Olive LL3 St Louis, MO 63141 (map)
Description
Venue: Above Web Media
http://www.meetup.com/Joomla-CMS-and-Graphics-Design/
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6:30pm
SLUUG
StL Unix Users Grp
Cross-Platform Tricks
chkconfig tutorial
Graybar Electric 11885 Lackland Road, Maryland Heights, MO 63146
This month= The basics/tutorial portion will be chkconfig by Jerry Stutte.
Our main event will be Cross-Platform Tricks by Alan Griggs.
Alan Griggs has been getting paid for working in the Information Technology industry since 1993. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Christian Brothers University (Memphis, TN), a Masters of Information Management and a Masters of Business Administration from Washington University in St. Louis. Alan is now the Data Systems Architect for Wells Fargo Advisors, the 3rd largest brokerage firm in the United States.
Jerry Stutte has worked in molecular biololgy and bio informatics.
Jerry Stutte builds left handed widgets, which he discards because he is right handed.
Or is it the other way around?
http://www.sluug.org/
At Graybar Electric 11885 Lackland Road, Maryland Heights, MO 63146
Every month = Your forum for exchanging information about open standards, open systems, open source, products, services and architectures.
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Thursday, April 14
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10:00am
WCORCC-WE - MS Word SIG Excel SIG
Thu, April 14, 10am . 3pm
Daniel Boone Branch Library (map)
West County Older Residents Computer Club
http://wcorcc.tripod.com/
MS Word SIG - 10:00 AM
MS Excel SIG - 1:00 PM
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11:00am
SCORCC-F Financial SIG
Thu, April 14, 11am . 1pm
Tesson Ferry Library Branch,
9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123
South County Older Residents Computer Club
http://www.scorcc.org/
** *Membership Fee Required* **
Financial Special Interest Group
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12:00pm
Gateway/400 Group
Thu, April 14, 12:00pm . 1:30pm
12031 Lackland Rd, St Louis, MO
This month=
Kent Milligan presenting "Latest on DB2 for iSeries"
Spazio's in WestPort, at the Comfort Inn
http://www.gateway400.org/
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12:00pm
How to Build an Online Brand
Thu, April 14, 12pm . 1pm 1234 Washington Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63103
This is the monthly mtng of the StL chapter of the Society of Professional Journalist but it has appeal for IT techies.
"How do you Build Your Online Brand?"
How do you make a name for yourself in these days of online overload, with journalists, bloggers, commenters and everyone else with access to the Internet competing for attention? Many successful "web-eneurs" have established a personal brand and, with the help of social media sites such as Facebook and Twitter, made their own name and their sites go-to destinations on the Web.
The St. Louis Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists will look at how to set up, polish and market your personal brand, and the potential pitfalls of putting too much of yourself out there, at its next lunch gathering.
The lunch will feature:
Evan Benn, who in just a couple of years at the Post-Dispatch has made himself and his Hip Hops blog reliable and popular sources for all things hops-related across the region.
Angela Ortmann, who has used her stlwinegirl website and web identity to build up an event and consultation business. Earlier this year, the Riverfront Times honored her for Best Use of Facebook to Promote a Personal Brand in its Point & Clique awards.
Chad Garrison, writer and blog manager/editor at the Riverfront Times, and one of the judges of its Point & Clique awards, honoring the best use of the Web by local people and groups.
Scott Granneman, an expert on web security and adjunct professor at Washington University in St. Louis, teaching courses on technology, security, and the Internet. He also plans, develops and hosts websites.
The lunch is set for noon Thursday, April 14, at Lucas Park Grille, 1234 Washington Avenue in downtown St. Louis. Cost (including soft drink and tip) is $10 for SPJ members and $12 for nonmembers.
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1:00pm
SLOUG - StL Oracle Users Grp
Thu, April 14, 1:00pm . 4:45pm
424 South Woodsmill Road
Chesterfield, MO 63017
This month= roundtable format with discussion points on:
Active Dataguard, Virtualization and 11gR2.
http://www.sloug.org/
Venue: Oracle offices.
Park in the back of the building and enter the door facing hwy 141.
Conference room is immediately on the right after you enter the building. Next to the cafeteria. If you enter on the other side of the building you will need to take the elevators down to "G".
Then the conference room will be to your left.
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6:00pm
GAMUG Support Pros SIG -- Drown Your Sorrows
Thu, April 14, 6pm . 9pm
Highlands Brewing Company
Come out, join us and commiserate with other area professionals over good food & drinks.
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6:30pm
stlJUG - StL Java Users Grp
Thu, April 14, 6:30pm . 8:00pm
2281 Ball
Maryland Heights, MO 63043
http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/
LOCATION FOR THIS MONTH!
Monsanto North Campus,
2281 Ball Maryland Heights, MO 63043.
Directions: From 270, east on Page
left on Ball Dr.
Title: Clojure: Art of Abstraction
Presented By: Alex Miller (Revelytix)
About the Presentation:
Clojure is a new language that combines the power of Lisp with an existing hosted VM ecosystem (the Java VM). Clojure is a dynamically typed, functional, compiled language with performance on par with Java. At the heart of all programming lies the need for abstraction, be it abstraction over our data or abstraction over the processes that operate upon it. Clojure provides a core set of powerful abstractions and ways to compose them. These abstractions are based in a heritage of Lisp but also cover many aspects of object-oriented programming as well. This talk will examine these abstractions and introduce you to both Clojure and functional programming. Attendees are not expected to be familiar with either Clojure or FP.
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Friday, April 15
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1:00pm
NCORCC
Fri, April 15, 1pm . 3pm
915 Utz Lane Hazelwood, MO 63042
The County Older Residents Computer Club
Prarie Commons Branch
(between Howdershell and Dunn)
http://www.corcc-stl.com/
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7:00pm
SLARC - St. Louis Area Radio Club
Fri, April 15, 7pm . 8pm
Buder Park, Valley Park, MO 63088
Monthly Meeting
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7:30pm
SLAS
- St. Louis Astronomical Society
Life in Extreme Environments.
Some Like It Hot...and Toxic!
Fri, April 15, 7:30pm . 9:00pm
Washington University,
McDonnell Hall Room 162, St. Louis, MO
http://www.slasonline.org/
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Saturday, April 16
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10:00am
ROBOMO - StL Area Robotics Grp
Sat, April 16, 10am . 1pm
10267 Saint Charles Rock Road, St. Ann, MO
NEW LOCATION!
StL County Library Rock Road Branch (314) 429-5116
http://www.robomo.com/
This month= Atom and WinfieldMike show two different approaches to CNC for the home hobbyist and robot builder. Atom will demonstrate creating parts usings extruded molten plastic, and WinfieldMike will explain how to create parts using a CNC router.
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2:00pm
MC-Clinic
- Networking with Mac OS X
Sat, April 16, 2pm . 4pm
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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4:00pm
SILUG-ME
Sat, April 16, 4pm . 6pm
3720 Green Mount Crossing Dr., O Fallon, IL 62269
Souther Illinois Linux Users Group - Metro East
See http://www.silug.org/
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Sunday, April 17
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2:00pm
MC-Clinic
- Networking with Mac OS X
Sun, April 17, 2pm . 4pm
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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Coming NEXT 2 WEEKS...
SNUG SuSE Linux lunch.
StLlug = Natural Lanhuage Processing w Prof. Kevin Scannell.
International FIRST Robotics ompetition @ Junes Dome Football Stadium.
The DAY by DAY...
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Monday, April 18
1:00pm
SCORCC-WK - MS Works SIG
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Tuesday, April 19
11:45am
stlHDI - Help Desk Institute -date & time CHANGE
1:00pm
SCORCC-CM - Computer Media SIG
2:00pm
STLISSA - Information Systems Security Association
6:00pm
HIATUS - STLOSUG - St. Louis OpenSolaris Users Group
6:30pm
St. Louis Hadoop Users Group
7:00pm
Astronomy Digital Imaging SIG
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Wednesday, April 20
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
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Thursday, April 21
1:00pm
WCORCC - General Mtg
6:30pm
stlLUG -Linux Users' Grp
7:00pm
PHP - St Louis PHP Users Group
7:30pm
IT Advancement Council
7:30pm
SLRCFA - St. Louis Radio Control Flying Association
7:30pm
STL Wordpress Users Group
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Friday, April 22
9:30am
Weber Road Computer Club
1:00pm
SCORCC-I - Internet SIG
7:30pm
SLSRC - St. Louis & Suburban Radio Club
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Saturday, April 23
9:00am
OLMOLUG - Ol' Mo' Linux Users Group
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Sunday, April 24
Easter
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Monday, April 25 thru Saturday!!
"FIRST" high school robotics competition -international finals!!
editor's pick's =
Mon. = The Razor Scripting Language
Tues. = Cloud 9 Computing @ Contegix
Here our own Matt Porter as one of the speakers.
Wed. = Science on Tap. (It was incorrectly listed last wk.)
Plants as Medicine.
Fri. = 2600 mtng. The local chptr of the international hackers grp.
Always a good technical discussion.
Sat. = MicroCenter-Clinic - Multi-boot and Virtual Machines
Sun. = CWE Central West End LUG
Always check for last minute updates at...
www.sluug.org/resources/calendar
And now, the details...
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Monday, March 28
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5:30pm
STLDOTNET - St. Louis .NET User Group
Mon, March 28, 5:30pm . 7:30pm
Three City Place Drive, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (map)
STLNET - St. Louis .NET User Group
See http://www.stlnet.org/
6:00pm
stlDNNug - StL DotNetNuke User Grp
Mon, March 28, 6:00pm . 7:30pm
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
http://stlouis.dnnug.com/
This month = The Razor Scripting Language & DotNetNuke. 05:30-6:00pm Food and social +6:00-7:30pm Program "Razor is a code-first scripting language that is most widely known, and used, as a view engine for ASP.NET MVC. However, the Razor scripting engine can also be hosted outside of its traditional context in ASP.NET MVC, and the DotNetNuke project has done just that. Incorporated into the newest versions of the open source framework, the Razor Host module allows a developer to utilize the power of the Razor scripting language to build DotNetNuke modules. This presentation will provide an introduction to Razor, the DNN host module, and demo a geolocation module that integrates with DotNetNuke's user profile to plot the location of a portal's users on a map." Important meeting logistics info! When you get to the 11th floor, please go to the main conference room. All STLNET UG & DNNUG members will be eating and socializing together and will split up into separate meetings after the meeting introductions are done just before 6:00pm.
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Tuesday, March 29
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3:00pm
Cloud 9 Technology Kickoff
Tue, March 29, 3:00pm . 6:30pm
Soulard Preservation Hall, 1921 South 9th Street, St. Louis, MO 63104
The Contegix Cloud 9 Technology World Tour 2011 event presents attendees with the opportunity to learn and engage with industry experts and will feature keynote speaker Krishnan Subramanian, analyst, Cloud Ave.
Additional speakers will include: * Scott Delap, scalability architect, Riot Games, sharing how Contegix has enabled Riot Games to utilize the cloud for game server provisioning on demand and load testing. * Don Schleicher, vice president, VMWare, discussing what.s happening in the public cloud. * Matthew Porter, founder and chief executive officer, Contegix, reviewing how the next step in cloud computing is outsourcing that extends into the system administration of the infrastructure and application stack.
See http://www.contegix.com/cloud9.php for details.
There is no cost to attend this event, but space is limited.
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Wednesday, March 30
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10:00am
MS Server 2008 R2
-New Horizons free class/seminar
Wed, March 30, 10am . 11am
Looks like New Horizons is offering some sample classes/seminars.
5 different ones today (and a free lunch).
http://www.stlouisaitp.org/downloads/Spring%20Training%202011%202.pdf (Those "%20" in the above URLs were seen as blanks)
11:15am
MS Exchange Server 2010 -New Horizons free class/seminar
11:15am
MS SharePoint 2010 Best Practices -New Horizons free class/seminar
1:15pm
MS Office 2010 transition -New Horizons free class/seminar
2:30pm
MS Forefront Services -New Horizons free class/seminar
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7:00pm
TAP - Science on Tap -Medical Plants
WhenWed, March 30, 7:00pm . 8:30pm
Where7260 Southwest Ave., Maplewood, MO 63143 (map)
Description Crown Room at the Schlafly Bottleworks
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..
This month= For much of human history, plant extracts have been used as ingredients in potions and poisons. In the eastern Mediterranean, use of the latex of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) can be traced back at least to 1400 to 1200 B.C. The Sarpagandha root (Rauwolfia serpentina) has been used in India since approximately 1000 B.C.
Ancient people used medicinal plant extracts as purgatives, antitussives, sedatives, and treatments for a wide range of ailments, including snakebite, fever and insanity. As the use of medicinal plants spread westward across Arabia and Europe, new infusions and decoctions played a role in famous events. During his execution in 399 B.C., the philosopher Socrates drank an extract of coniine-containing hemlock (Conium maculatum). In the last century B.C., Queen Cleopatra used extracts of henbane (Hyoscyamus), which contains atropine, to dilate her pupils and appear more alluring to her male political rivals.
Today, 25% of our medicines still come either directly from plants or are modified plant chemicals and only 10% of plant species have been studied with respect to their chemical constituents!
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Thursday, March 31
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10:00am
WCORCC Workshop
Thu, March 31, 10am . 12pm
Daniel Boone Branch, St. Louis County Library, 300 Clarkson Road in Ellisville
http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ Not held every month.
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5:30pm
STL-AITP - Association of Information Technology Professionals
Thu, March 31, 5:30pm . 8:30pm
7750 Carondelet Avenue St. Louis, MO 63105
Topic: From Punch Cards to Smart Phones - The History of Information Technology Speaker: Christine Leja, CDP/CCP (AITP member) Chris Leja is the CIO of Southwestern Illinois College. Chris will moderate a short video on the History of IT brought to us by Unisys as well as help facilitate a panel with business development recruiters as to where the REAL jobs are and who is actually hiring. Panelists: Where are the Jobs in St. Louis? http://www.stlouisaitp.org/
We have monthly dinner meetings in St. Louis! These meeting are usually held the 4th Thursday of each month at the Crown Plaza in Clayton. These meetings features a social hour to network with our fellow IT professionals, dinner, and a speaker who presents a topic relevant to information technology.
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Friday, April 1
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12:00pm
NCORCC
Fri, April 1, 12pm . 3pm
915 Utz Lane Hazelwood, MO 63042 (map)
The County Older Residents Computer Club
http://www.corcc-stl.com/
Prarie Commons Branch (between Howdershell and Dunn)
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5:00pm
STL 2600 Meeting
Fri, April 1, 5pm . 10pm
2400 South Jefferson Ave. St Louis, MO 63104 (map)
Venue: Arch Reactor
Always a great technical discussion.
This is the local chptr of the international hackers grp.
See http://archreactor.org/index.php?page=2600-meetings
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Saturday, April 2
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8:30am
T3 Techies Teaching Techies
Sat, April 2, 8:30am . 12:00pm
625 North Euclid St. Louis, MO 63108 (map)
http://www.techiesteachingtechies.com/
The Euclid Plaza Building, Suite 516 (Delmar & Euclid),
more details» copy to my calendar
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2:00pm
MC-Clinic - Multi-boot and Virtual Machines
Sat, April 2, 2pm . 4pm
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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Sunday, April 3
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1:00pm
CWElug
Central West End Linux Users' Group
Sun, April 3, 1pm . 5pm
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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2:00pm
MC-Clinic - Multi-boot and Virtual Machines
Sun, April 3, 2pm . 4pm
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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Tuesday, April 5
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All day
G2I - Gateway To Inovation conference
6:00pm
FLEX - STL Adobe Users Group, Flex and Fuse the Arch
6:00pm
GGUG - Gateway Groovy Users Group
6:30pm
MOSLUG - MO Open Source Linux Users Group
7:00pm
ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri
7:00pm
GJUG - Gateway Java Users Group
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Wednesday, April 6
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1:00pm
SCORCC-WWP - Word/Word Perfect SIG
6:30pm
SteerCom - St. Louis Unix Users' Grp - Steering Committee
7:00pm
SILUG-ME
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Thursday, April 7
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10:00am
WCORCC-BI - Beginners SIG Internet SIG
6:00pm
SLACC - StL Area Computer Club
6:00pm
stlLL -StL Lambda Lounge
7:00pm
MTM - Midwest Tech Meetup -iPhone vs Android
7:00pm
stlGD - StL Game Developers
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Friday, April 8
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10:00am
SCORCC-DTP Desktop Publishing
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Saturday, April 9
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8:30am
T3 Techies Teaching Techies
12:00pm
DBUG - Data Bytes Users Group
2:00pm
MC-Clinic - Mac OS X Tips and Tricks
6:00pm
ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri
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Sunday, April 10
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2:00pm
MC-Clinic - Mac OS X Tips and Tricks
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probably misunderstood &/or poorly stated so don't be upset but
do let us know if something can be better scheduled or described.
Always check for last minute updates at...
www.sluug.org/resources/calendar
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Editor's picks =
Tues. Hazelwood LUG Help beginners
or just remind yourself how this stuff works!
Wed. Vim Geeks The Accentuate.us plugin
Thurs. St. Charles lug Hiatus!
Thurs. StL Mobile Dev MS Windows Phone 7. And also...
Developing on Android & iOS in Lua with Corona.
Fri. Document Freedom Day
Sat. OlMo lug The Linux OS in the TiVO DVR.
Sun. Clinic on Backup.
Details of all meetings show below.
WRT the St. Charles lug... Noah has scheduling conflicts thru May.
We are debating moving the St. Charles lug mtng to a different nite.
Make your view known!
And now, the details...
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Tuesday, March 22
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All day
SIMS- STL Society for Information Management
Tuesday, Mar 22, 2011
http://www.simnet.org/?page=STL_Welcome
The Speed of Life - Speaker Brian Shul
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6:30pm
HZWLUG - Hazelwood Linux Users Group
Tue, March 22, 6:30pm . 9:00pm
915 Utz Ln, Hazelwood, MO 63042 (map)
http://hzwlug.sluug.org/
VENUE: Prarie Commons Branch Library.
A Linux Users Group for beginners, the newcomers to Linux.
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7:00pm
GAMUG-SP -Macintosh -Project Management pt. 3
Tue, March 22, 7pm . 9pm
530 East Lockwood Avenue Webster Groves, MO 63119-3217
Gateway Mac Users' Grp Support Pros
http://www.supportpros.org/
This is the final month of our three month look at how we all handle project management. We've talked about how we go about managing projects, we've spoken about the applications we use and now we will go in depth about some of those applications. Several of us at the February meeting took on the challenge of using specific applications for 30 days. During the March meeting, we'll present and talk about those experiences. If you haven't attended the previous meetings, it's no problem! We would look forward to hearing about your ideas and experiences!
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7:00pm
Gateway Older Adults PC Club
Tue, March 22, 7pm . 9pm
12863 Willowyck Dr, St. Louis, MO 63146
Gateway Older Adults Personal Computer Club
Thornhill Branch Library
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7:00pm
LUCI General
Tue, March 22, 7pm . 9pm
1011 E. Ash Street, Springfield, IL
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7:00pm
MWG - MidWest Geeks
Tue, March 22, 7pm . 9pm
1909 S Brentwood Blvd Brentwood, MO 63144
Venue: st. louis bread company - brentwood
http://www.meetup.com/mwgeeks/
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Wednesday, March 23
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6:30pm
vim geeks
- "the Accentuate.us Vim plugin".
wed, march 23, 6:30pm . 8:30pm
3720 green mount crossing drive shiloh, il 62269
VENUE: Comptuer Room
http://www.vimgeeks.org
This month, "the Accentuate.us Vim plugin".
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7:00pm
TAP - Science on Tap -Medical Plants
Wed, March 23, 7:00pm . 8:30pm
7260 Southwest Ave., Maplewood, MO 63143 (map)
Crown Room at the Schlafly Bottleworks
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..
This month=
For much of human history, plant extracts have been used as ingredients in potions and poisons.
In the eastern Mediterranean, use of the latex of the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum) can be traced back at least to 1400 to 1200 B.C. The Sarpagandha root (Rauwolfia serpentina) has been used in India since approximately 1000 B.C. Ancient people used medicinal plant extracts as purgatives, antitussives, sedatives, and treatments for a wide range of ailments, including snakebite, fever and insanity.
As the use of medicinal plants spread westward across Arabia and Europe, new infusions and decoctions played a role in famous events. During his execution in 399 B.C., the philosopher Socrates drank an extract of coniine-containing hemlock (Conium maculatum). In the last century B.C., Queen Cleopatra used extracts of henbane (Hyoscyamus), which contains atropine, to dilate her pupils and appear more alluring to her male political rivals. Today, 25% of our medicines still come either directly from plants or are modified plant chemicals and only 10% of plant species have been studied with respect to their chemical constituents!
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Thursday, March 24
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8:30am
STLCRMUG - St. Louis CRM Users Group
Thu, March 24, 8:30am . 11:30am
3 City Place Drive, Creve Coeur, MO 63131
http://www.stlcrmug.org/
Microsoft Offices Meets every other month.
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10:00am
WCORCC - Technical SIG Multimedia SIG
Thu, March 24, 10am . 3pm
Daniel Boone Branch Library
http://wcorcc.tripod.com/
Technical Forum SIG - 10:00 AM
Multimedia SIG - 1:00 PM
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6:00pm
STLMD
- St. Louis Mobile Dev
Thu, March 24, 6:00pm . 8:30pm
1701 Washington Ave, St Louis, MO 63103
Two talks this month=
1. Introduction to Windows Phone 7. Yep, MS is going to try to get into the market and compete against iOS, Android, WebOS, & Blackberry's OS. And they no doubt will complicate life for us (sigh!). And...
2. How to build cross-platform iOS and Android applications in Lua with Corona.
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.
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Hiatus -
StC LUG
- St. Charles Linux Users Group
Thu, March 24, 6:30pm . 9:30pm
200 Ft Zumwalt Square, O'Fallon, MO 63366
This month = "Video Capture and Editing" by Noah Lance.
There will NOT be a meeting this month!
This topic will be rescheduled.
Noah, our speaker, MC, and Chairman has scheduling conflicts
thru May. The steering committee is considering options
such as moving StClug to a different day or ???. If you have
an opinion on what we should do, PLEASE let us know by contacting
Noah Lance or other members of the steering committee.
http://stclug.sluug.org
Meet at JJ's Restaurant, off of Hwy I-70,
Exit 217, Hwy K South, take right at first light signal.
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Friday, March 25
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All day
Document Freedom Day
Celebrate Document Freedom Day Globally. Annually on LAST Wednesday of March. http://documentfreedom.org/
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9:30am
Weber Road Computer Club
Fri, March 25, 9:30am . 11:30am
4444 Weber Road, St. Louis, MO 63123
Weber Road Branch Library
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1:00pm
SCORCC-I - Internet SIG
Fri, March 25, 1pm . 2pm
Tesson Ferry Library Branch,
9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123
http://www.scorcc.org/
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7:30pm
SLSRC - St. Louis & Suburban Radio Club
Fri, March 25, 7:30pm . 9:00pm
3015 N Ballas Rd, St. Louis, MO
Venue: Nursing Institute building, Missouri Baptist Hospital Complex
http://www.slsrc.org/
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Saturday, March 26
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9:00am
OLMOLUG
- Ol' Mo' Linux Users Group
in Old Monroe
(Lincoln County
NorthWest St. Charles Co.)
We will work at fixing/reloading the Linux OS on
TiVO DVRs.
Sat, March 26, 9am . 4pm
112 1st St, Old Monroe, MO 63369
Third Saturday, sometimes fourth (see exceptions).
Computers & Things, (corner Elm & 1st)
http://www.olmolug.org/
Far Northwest edge of St. Charles Co. (Actually Lincoln Co,).
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2:00pm
GAMP - Gateway Area Mac Programers
Sat, March 26, 2pm . 4pm
120 S Kirkwood Rd, St Louis, MO 63122
http://www.gamprog.org/
Kaldi's Coffee House
Usually last Saturday of month
St. Louis CocoaHeads
Monthly meeting for Mac & iPhone Programming
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2:00pm
MC-Clinic - Backup and Archiving
Sat, March 26, 2pm . 4pm
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.
Also on Sunday!
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Sunday, March 27
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2:00pm
MC-Clinic - Backup and Archiving
Sun, March 27, 2pm . 4pm
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.
Also on Saturday!
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And ...COMING NEXT WEEK...
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Monday, March 28
5:30pm
STLDOTNET - St. Louis .NET User Group
6:00pm
stlDNNug - StL DotNetNuke User Grp
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Wednesday, March 30
10am-3:30pm
New Horizons -5 free, 1hr Microsoft classes
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Thursday, March 31
10:00am
WCORCC Workshop
5:30pm
STL-AITP
- Association of Information Technology Professionals
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Friday, April 1
12:00pm
NCORCC
5:00pm
STL 2600 Meeting
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Saturday, April 2
8:30am
T3 Techies Teaching Techies
2:00pm
MC-Clinic - Multi-boot and Virtual Machines
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Sunday, April 3
1:00pm
CWElug Central West End Linux Users' Group
2:00pm
MC-Clinic - Multi-boot and Virtual Machines
News from the last few days...
Thurs March 10 = OpenSuSE 11.4 Linux released.
Fri. March 11 = Stan's posting in DISCUSS re. the Feb 21 eWeek article praising LibreOffice over the new release of OpenOffice (both surpassing MS-Office).
Mon. March 14 = HP announces that WebOS (Linux) will be installed on all
desktops and notebooks in 2012.
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THIS WEEK'S events...
editor's picks =
Wed. March 16 = St. Louis Business Expo in St. Charles. 11am-6pm
Come see the exhibits and hang out at SLUUG's booth!
Thurs. March 17 = "Social Media & the Egyptian Revolution!" by Scott Granneman
@ StL Linux LUG 6:30pm
Fri. March 18 = StL Astronomical Soc. A new comet coming in Sept!!! 7:30pm
Sat. March 20 = RoBoMo, Robotics grp. Running Ubuntu Linux. 10am
Sat. March 20 = Old Monroe LUG. Fixing TiVO Linux. Noon.
And the details of all this week's events...
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Tuesday, March 15
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6:30pm
StL Hadoop Users Grp
- Hive, Hbase, & Cloudera VM.
Tue, March 15, 6:30pm . 8:00pm
6665 Delmar Blvd, Suite 300, University City, MO. 63130
http://www.stlhadoop.org/
The Hive and Hbase related items in the Cloudera VM. I have also invited Carl to come back and finish his presentation from last meeting.
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7:00pm
Astronomy Digital Imaging SIG
Tue, March 15, 7pm . 10pm
Weldon Spring Interpretive Center (map)
Digital Special Interest Group ( Digital SIG) meeting on digital imaging using ASEM telescopes and cameras (plus private equipment). How to use equipment, how to process images, distribution of free software, hands on demonstrations, etc. Free, open to public.
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Wednesday, March 16
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9:00am
Thornhill Computer Club
Wed, March 16, 9am . 11am
12863 Willowyck Dr, St. Louis MO
DescriptionThornhill Branch Library
314-994-3300
Questions about what you can do on the computer? Join the club!
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11:00am
St. Louis Business Expo in St. Charles
Wed, March 16, 11am . 6pm
1 Convention Center Plaza, St. Charles, MO
St. Charles Convention Center
http://www.stlouisbusinessexpo.com/
We (the SLUUG UNIX/Linux groups) will have a booth at the show.
Please come and stop by the booth either to just say "hi!"
or to give the guys working the booth a brief break.
Volunteers to help set up and man the booth are still welcome!!
Call Lee @ (314)997-4600 or info(a)sluug.org.
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11:30am
Hiatus - SNUG - StL Novell Users Grp &
SuSE Linux Lunch
Wed, March 16, 11:30am . 12:45pm
9500 Manchester Rd, Rockhill, MO 63119
NO Meeting March 2011 - Everybody going to St. Louis Business EXPO.
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)
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6:00pm
GCC - Gateway Computer Club
Wed, March 16, 6pm . 8pm
10001 Bunkum Rd. Fairview Heights, IL 62208
Venue: Caseyville Township Bldg.
http://gcc.signalhill.net/
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6:30pm
stlPM - StL Perl Mongers Grp
Wed, March 16, 6:30pm . 8:30pm
6665 Delmar Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544
Geofrey's talk on node.js will likely be reschedule into the future. A new plan/topic is being sought. If nothing else, we may just meet and chat over food & drink. Venue is Announce Media, LLC
See http://stlouis.pm.org/
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7:00pm
StL ALT.NET
- Threading in C#
Wed, March 16, 7pm . 9pm
Professional Employment Group
999 Executive Parkway Saint Louis, MO
This month = Threads in C#.
Threading basics.
Writing thread-safe code.
Sharing state between threads.
Synchronizing threads.
The thread pool.
Delegates and threads.
Other parallel approaches (e.g., the TPL)
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. ...reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc. ,,,
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Thursday, March 17
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7:30am
stlISACA - StL InfoSys Audit & Ctrl Assn
- Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery
Thu, March 17, 7:30am . 9:30am
http://www.isaca-stlouis.org/
This month = How to Advise and Audit Your Organization's Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery Plans. 1.0 CPE
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1:00pm
WCORCC - General Mtg
Thu, March 17, 1pm . 3pm
Daniel Boone Branch, St. Louis County Library, 300 Clarkson Road in Ellisville
West County Older Residents Computer Club
http://wcorcc.tripod.com/
Contact Mary Ann (6363918123) or Gordon(6363916469)
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6:30pm
stlLUG -Linux Users' Grp
- Social Media & the Egyptian Revolution!
by Scott Granneman
Thu, March 17, 6:30pm . 9:30pm
4633 World Pkwy Cir, Berkeley, MO 63134
Venue: IT Enterprises
http://www.stllinux.org/
Scott Granneman was teaching a class at the university when
the revolution occurred in Egypt. The topic in the class became a daily
study of how The Internet's new "social media" was a key factor in the
history making events. Was it not just the access to The Internet but
the nature of the "social media"? Scott has consolidated these
realizations into a one evening presentation for us.
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7:00pm
PHP - StL PHP Users Grp
Thu, March 17, 7pm . 9pm
http://www.meetup.com/php-425/
Only members of this Group can view the location for this Meetup
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7:30pm
IT Advancement Council
Thu, March 17, 7:30pm . 9:00pm
12405 PowersCourt Dr., St. Louis, MO 63131 (map)
Charter Communications
http://www.itac-stl.org/
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7:30pm
SLRCFA - StL Radio Control Flying Association
Thu, March 17, 7:30pm . 9:00pm
13045 Tesson Ferry, St. Louis, MO
http://www.slrcfa.com/
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7:30pm
STL Wordpress Users Group
Thu, March 17, 7:30pm . 9:00pm
7220 Lindbergh Blvd., Hazelwood, MO 63032
Venue: Lift Office
http://www.meetup.com/stlwordpress/
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Friday, March 18
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1:00pm
NCORCC
Fri, March 18, 1pm . 3pm
915 Utz Lane Hazelwood, MO 63042
The County Older Residents Computer Club Prarie Commons Branch (between Howdershell and Dunn)
http://www.corcc-stl.com/
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7:00pm
SLARC - St. Louis Area Radio Club
Fri, March 18, 7pm . 8pm
Buder Park, Valley Park, MO 63088
Monthly Meeting
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7:30pm
SLAS
- StL Astronomical Society
- The Comet coming in Sept.
Fri, March 18, 7:30pm . 9:00pm
Washington University, McDonnell Hall Room 162
A Daylight Comet Next September?
What Makes A Comet Bright?
by Dr. Joseph Marcus, M.D.
A new comet has been discovered that will pass between the Earth and the sun at the end of September 2011. If the right conditions develop, the comet could become bright enough to be seen during the daytime. But the brightness of new comets has been notoriously difficult to predict accurately. Dr. Marcus will explain what makes a comet shine and what factors determine how bright a comet will become. He will also discuss something about the composition of comets. He will explain how we can tell what a comet is made of, from a distance typically millions of miles away.
http://www.slasonline.org/
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Saturday, March 19
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All day
Really BIG Full Moon
Saturday, Mar 19, 2011
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6emlvlp
Biggest Full Moon in 19 Years Almost Certainly Won't Cause a Huge Natural Disaster.
On March 19th, the moon will be closer to Earth than it's been since 1992. The full moon that night will appear about 14 percent larger and significantly brighter than usual, but despite the brightness, the supermoon has a dark side. Supermoons have been linked to massive natural disasters in the past, from earthquakes to floods--but that connection is typically touted by astrologists. Astronomers and scientists, with typical drollness, say a catastrophe is unlikely.
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11:30am
OLMOLUG - Ol' Mo' Linux Users Group
Fixing Linux on a TiVO DVR.
Yep! A continuation of last month.
We have another disk loaded with the OS.
Sat, March 19, 11:30am . 4pm
112 1st St, Old Monroe, MO 63369
Computers & Things, (corner Elm & 1st)
Third Saturday, sometimes fourth
NOTICE - CHECK CALENDAR - WE MAY...MAY...
MOVE THIS MTNG TO NEXT SATURDAY!!
http://www.olmolug.org/
Far Northwest edge of St. Charles Co.
(Actually Lincoln Co,).
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10:00am
ROBOMO
- StL Area Robotics Grp
- running Ubuntu Linux
Sat, March 19, 10am . 1pm
10267 Saint Charles Rock Road, St. Ann, MO
This month - During March's Meeting Jay and Adam will be presenting ROS (from Willow Garage) running on Ubuntu (Linux) to interface a Kinect (Microsoft). Demo-ing a variety of robotic goodies. Highlighting such things Human Tracking, Robotic Controls, 3D Scanning, SLAM, and other nifty free packages. They will be going over how to install Ubuntu, ROS, Kinect Drivers, and many helpful hints to make replicating the most modern prize winning capabilities of ROS and the Kinect. So bring along a flash drive, a laptop, and a notebook, and be prepared to join the cutting edge of Robot / Computer interfacing. So if you ever wanted to be able to map your house and tell your robot to fetch you a beer from the kitchen then don't miss March's meeting.
NEW LOCATION! StL County Library Rock Road Branch
(314) 429-5116
http://www.robomo.com/
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4:00pm
SILUG-ME
Sat, March 19, 4pm . 6pm
3720 Green Mount Crossing Dr., O Fallon, IL 62269
Souther Illinois Linux Users Group - Metro East
http://www.silug.org/
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Coming NEXT week...
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Monday, March 21
1:00pm
SCORCC-WK - MS Works SIG
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Tuesday, March 22
All day
SIMS-STL Society for Information Management
6:30pm
HZWLUG - Hazelwood Linux Users Group
7:00pm
GAMUG-SP -Mac -Project Management pt. 3
7:00pm
Gateway Older Adults PC Club
7:00pm
LUCI General
7:00pm
MWG - MidWest Geeks
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Wednesday, March 23
6:30pm
VIM Geeks
7:00pm
TAP - Science on Tap -Medical Plants
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Thursday, March 24
8:30am
STLCRMUG - St. Louis CRM Users Group
10:00am
WCORCC - Technical SIG Multimedia SIG
5:30pm
STL-AITP - Association of Information Technology Professionals
6:00pm
STLMD - St. Louis Mobile Dev
6:30pm
StC LUG - St. Charles Linux Users Group
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Friday, March 25
All day
Document Freedom Day
9:30am
Weber Road Computer Club
1:00pm
SCORCC-I - Internet SIG
7:30pm
SLSRC - St. Louis & Suburban Radio Club
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Saturday, March 26
11:00am
OlMoLUG - Old Monroe Linux UG
- Fixing Linux on a TiVO DVR
- Probable date rather than last Sat March 19
2:00pm
GAMP - Gateway Area Mac (& iPhone & iPad) Programers
CoCoa Heads
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Please consult www.sluug.org/resources/calendar for last minute
changes and details.
Everyone is encouraged to join SLUUG's online e-mail DISCUSS list to
discuss topics related to IT, computers, networking,
programming languages & techniques and other technologies.
To join or view the archives see
http://www.sluug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
DISCLAIMERS:
All comments are probably wrongly typed or stated opinion that
has been mistakenly interpreted as a statement of fact.
Some may have been an attempt to start a conversation.
A more complete listing of the week will be forthcoming but for
now...
The Ruby group confirmed they are meeting tonite.
Topics include:
Monthly Ruby Core Library Review . Each month we.ll dis cuss
another library from Ruby.s core libraries. This month is:
Pathname. Bring your favorite libraries to discuss withe the
group each month. (Jeff Barczewski . Pathname)
Forwardable (Gordon Theisfeld @gordonthiesfeld)
Cucumber (Craig) ByteWorks Project review
Time: 6:30 . 8:00pm
Location:
1350 Timberlake Manor Pkwy
Chesterfield, MO 63017
Third floor . train ing room (right off the elevator)
Abrevited "This Week's Events"...
TONITE (Wed.) = SLUUG's general mtng!! See below.
Thurs = Java Users' Grp = BRIT
For deatils see www.sluug.org/resources/calendar
----- Forwarded message from Jeff Muse <jmuse(a)sluug.org> -----
To: discuss(a)sluug.org
Subject: [DISCUSS] TONIGHT - for one night only!
We will hear from Craig Buchek about using StackOverflow and Serverfault, two of
the newer forums which are proving to be a vaulable resource for developers and
sysadmins.
Following our mid-meeting Q&A session (bring your questions!), Lee
Lammert will continue his highly informative and entertaining presentation about
chroot and jails (great security), which was cut short last month.
As usual, the meeting is at Graybar near WestPort, with our first talk
starting at 6:30. Be there!
-Jeff
Editor is traveling and on a project so this posting is just showing the "Editor's Picks" for this week.
THE hilite is the St. Charles LUG Thurs nite..."Linux as a Home Router: Part 2 VPN".
For details and all other listings, see the calendar @ www.sluug.org/resources/calendar
Editor'spicks =
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Wednesday, February 23
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6:30pm VIM Geeks
3720 Green Mount Crossing Drive Shiloh, IL 62269
http://www.vimgeeks.org
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7:00pm TAP - Science on Tap - Seismology in Antarctica: Listening to the Sounds of Climate Change
Maplewood, MO 63143 Schlafly Bottleworks
We will discuss efforts to instrument the Antarctic ice sheets with seismographs and GPS receivers, to better understand the physics of ice flow and the feedbacks between ice sheets and the solid earth. These projects involve traveling to the remotest, coldest parts of the globe and designing instrumentation capable of unattended operation at temperatures down to -100°F. The surprising results thus far include the discovery that huge ice streams 60 miles wide lurch forward twice a day, and that the land surface in parts of Antarctica is rising as the ice melts.
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Thursday, February 24
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1:30pm GIS (Geospatial Info Sys) User Grp
-Homeland Security Infrastructure (HIFLD).
-Missouri PSA (Protetive Security Advisor
1:30pm . 3:30pm
This agenda has 2 homeland security themes:
1:30 - 2:30 Jeremiah Steele will discuss HIFLD to the Regions (HTTR).
Established in 2002, the Homeland Infrastructure Foundation-Level Data Working Group (HIFLD) is comprised of four official members (Dept. of Homeland Security, Dept. of Defense, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and U.S. Geological Survey) and several thousand contributing partners who promote the collections, processing, and sharing of infrastructure geospatial information.
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6:00pm stlMD - StL Mobile Dev - Android ASOP (Android Source)
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6:30pm StC LUG - St. Charles Linux Users Grp
-Linux as a Home Router: Part 2 VPN
Now that we have our linux box setup as our home router, lets see if we can't add some convenient VPN access. This way we can remote in to our home network (unfiltered network) when needed and operate securely for those "need to get out of the house" moments.
We'll primarily be looking at setting up OpenVPN SSL, however we might take a look at a few other quick solutions out there.
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Saturday, February 26
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2:00pm GAMP - Gateway Area Mac Programers
StL CocoaHeads - Mac & iPhone Programming
Very last minute reminder on TODAY's lunch!
Editor's picks =
TODAY
In 30 mins!!! Lunch with SuSE & SNUG = Running .NET on Linux with MONO.
Perl Mongers = Perl 6
Thursday
St Louis Linux US = linux for the Blind
Saturday
OlMoLUG
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Wednesday February 16
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SNUG - Novell Users Grp and SuSE Linux Lunch - .NET on MONO in Linux
WhenWed, February 16, 11:30am . 12:45pm
Where9500 Manchester Rd, Rockhill, MO 63119 (map)
Description http://snug.sluug.org/
SNUG - StL Novell Users Grp and SuSE sig. A lunch time meeting about
SuSE Linux & other Novell sftwr, 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: Running .NET applications on Linux
using Mono. Novell's open source MONO project enables applications
written for Microsoft's .NET to be run on Linux & *nix systems. Mono is
an implementation of the CLI and the .NET Base Class Library (BCL), and
provides additional functionality. The MONO project was started by
Ximian in 2001and turned out the working MONO 1.0 in 2004. Novell bought
Ximian and continued the development with the most recent release in
November 2010. The free and open source MONO project is led by Novell to
create an ECMA standard compliant .NET-compatible set of tools
including, among others, a C# compiler and a Common Language Runtime,
Moonlite (a Silverlite implimentation), F#, Visual Basic, Gtk#, ASP.NET,
ADO.NET.... The stated purpose of Mono is not only to be able to run
Microsoft .NET applications cross-platform, but also to bring better
development tools to Linux developers. Mono can be run on Android, BSD,
iOS, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and other Unix operating systems as well
as MS-Windows and some game console OSes such as the ones for the
PlayStation 3, Wii, and Xbox 360. Some feared that MS crated .NET to
force web developers into a "MS-only" existence but MONO allows the
"Open Standards world" to benefit from the .NET tools and existing apps
while crossing platforms.
more details� copy to my calendar
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2:00pm
STLISACA - StL InfoSys Audit & Ctrl Assn
WhenWed, February 16, 2pm . 4pm
DescriptionSee http://www.isaca-stlouis.org/
more details� copy to my calendar
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3:30pm
Jeopardy Last Day of SuSE Linux vs human champions
WhenWed, February 16, 3:30pm . 4:00pm
WhereCh 4.1 KMOV (map)
DescriptionMonday thru Wed, an IBM computer running SuSE Linux will play
on TV's Jeopardy game show (3:30pm in St.L. Set your DVRs.) The computer
will take on all-time champions Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter. Unlike the
chess playing "Deep Blue", this computer, named "Watson" is off the
shelf hardware. It will use Natural Language Processing to understand
the english questions just like its human competitors. Watson will have
to decide its confidence in knowing the correct answer and decide if it
should "ring in" and take the points penalty if it guesses wrongly. PBS'
Nova did a special on it this week. (Check your listings for repeats.)
Miles O'Brien (the PBS reporter, not the Star Trek transporter chief)
lost to it during the show. title = "Smartest Machine on Earth." >
Watson is powered by 10 racks of IBM Power 750 servers, running SuSE
Linux. > It uses 15 terabytes of RAM and 2,880 processor cores. > > To
prepare for "Jeopardy!", it has been loaded with a > huge amount of >
information about books, movies, history, plays, music, > current
events, and the list goes on. > > For each question, Watson evaluates
information from > about 200 million > pages of content, or 1 million
books, McQueeney said. from
http://washingtontechnology.com/articles/2011/02/10/ibm-watson-data-uses.as…
For those who might prefer to watch online, it is viewable at
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/tech/smartest-machine-on-earth.html Gary
wrote in his previous email that the system uses Natural Language
Processing (NLP) to parse human speech. Check out the presentation given
to our very own LUG on NLP by Kevin Scannell from the computer science
department of SLU at
http://stllug.sluug.org/meeting_notes/2008/osltusm.pdf. -Jeff
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6:00pm
GCC - Gateway Computer Club
WhenWed, February 16, 6pm . 8pm
Where10001 Bunkum Rd. Fairview Heights, IL 62208 (map)
DescriptionVenue: Caseyville Township Bldg.
See http://gcc.signalhill.net/
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6:30pm
stlPM - StL Perl Mongers Grp =Perl 6
WhenWed, February 16, 6:30pm . 8:30pm
Where6665 Delmar Boulevard, Saint Louis, MO 63130-4544 (map)
DescriptionTONIITE = PERL 6. Perl6 has been a long time coming with the
original design dating back to 2000. With releases of great Perl 6
partial implementations such as Rakudo and Niecza rolling along Perl 6
is becoming a more exciting technology every day. This talk will cover
some of the features and advancements that Perl 6 provides today and try
and provide some knowledge on how it can be useful today.
Venue is Announce Media, LLC
Meetings are on every 3rd Wednesday of the month
http://stlouis.pm.org/
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7:00pm
StL ALT.NET - GIT distributed version control system
WhenWed, February 16, 7pm . 9pm
Where999 Executive Parkway Saint Louis, MO (map)
DescriptionVenue: 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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Thursday, February 17
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1:00pm
WCORCC - General Mtg
WhenThu, February 17, 1pm . 3pm
WhereDaniel Boone Branch, St. Louis County Library, 300 Clarkson Road in
Ellisville (map)
DescriptionWest County Older Residents Computer Club
See http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ for current information.
Contact Mary Ann (6363918123) or Gordon(6363916469)
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5:30pm
stlISSA - Information Systems Security Association - Web and Database
Security
WhenThu, February 17, 5:30pm . 7:30pm
DescriptionSTLISSA - St. Louis Chapter - Information Systems Security
Association (ISSA)
http://stl.issa.org
Times and locations may vary each month. This month: - Web and Database
Security
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6:30pm
stlLUG -Linux Users' Grp
WhenThu, February 17, 6:30pm . 9:30pm
Where4633 World Pkwy Cir, Berkeley, MO 63134 (map)
Description
Venue: IT Enterprises
See http://www.stllinux.org/ for latest Information.
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7:00pm
PHP - St Louis PHP Users Group
WhenThu, February 17, 7pm . 9pm
DescriptionSee http://www.meetup.com/php-425/
Only members of this Group can view the location for this Meetup (Which
is really STUPID!)
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7:30pm
Hiatus - STL Wordpress Users Group
WhenThu, February 17, 7:30pm . 9:00pm
Where7220 Lindbergh Blvd., Hazelwood, MO 63032 (map)
DescriptionVenue: Lift Office
See http://www.meetup.com/stlwordpress/
There is NO FEBRUARY 2011 meeting on their calendar.
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7:30pm
SLRCFA - St. Louis Radio Control Flying Association
WhenThu, February 17, 7:30pm . 9:00pm
Where13045 Tesson Ferry, St. Louis, MO (map)
Description http://www.slrcfa.com/
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Friday, February 18
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1:00pm
NCORCC
WhenFri, February 18, 1pm . 3pm
Where915 Utz Lane Hazelwood, MO 63042 (map)
DescriptionThe County Older Residents Computer Club Prarie Commons
Branch (between Howdershell and Dunn) http://www.corcc-stl.com/
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7:00pm
SLARC - St. Louis Area Radio Club
WhenFri, February 18, 7pm . 8pm
WhereBuder Park, Valley Park, MO 63088 (map)
DescriptionMonthly Meeting
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7:30pm
SLAS - St. Louis Astronomical Society
WhenFri, February 18, 7:30pm . 9:00pm
WhereWashington University, McDonnell Hall Room 162, St. Louis, MO (map)
DescriptionSee http://www.slasonline.org/ for current information.
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Saturday, February 19
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9:00am
OLMOLUG - Ol' Mo' Linux Users Group
WhenSat, February 19, 9am . 4pm
Where112 1st St, Old Monroe, MO 63369 (map)
DescriptionThird Saturday, sometimes fourth (see exceptions). Computers
& Things, (corner Elm & 1st) http://www.olmolug.org/ Far Northwest edge
of St. Charles Co. (Actually Lincoln Co,).
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10:00am
ROBOMO - StL Area Robotics Grp
WhenSat, February 19, 10am . 1pm
Where 10267 Saint Charles Rock Road, St. Ann, MO (map)
DescriptionNEW LOCATION! StL County Library Rock Road Branch (314)
429-5116
See http://www.robomo.com/ for current information.
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4:00pm
SILUG-ME
WhenSat, February 19, 4pm . 6pm
Where3720 Green Mount Crossing Dr., O Fallon, IL 62269 (map)
DescriptionSouther Illinois Linux Users Group - Metro East
See http://www.silug.org/
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Tuesday, February 22
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4:00pm
stlHDI - Help Desk Institute - - Mobile Support
6:30pm
HZWLUG - Hazelwood Linux Users Group
7:00pm
GAMUG-SP
7:00pm
Gateway Older Adults PC Club
7:00pm
LUCI General
7:30pm
Academy of Science - St. Louis
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Wednesday, February 23
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All day
SIMS-STL Society for Information Management
6:30pm
VIM Geeks
7:00pm
TAP - Science on Tap
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Thursday, February 24
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8:30am
STLCRMUG - St. Louis CRM Users Group
10:00am
WCORCC - Technical SIG Multimedia SIG
1:00pm
SCORCC-Windows
1:30pm
GIS (Geospatial Info Sys) User Grp -Homeland Security Infrastructure
(HIFLD). Missouri PSA
5:30pm
STL-AITP - Association of Information Technology Professionals
6:00pm
STLMD - St. Louis Mobile Dev
6:30pm
StC LUG - St. Charles Linux Users Group
7:00pm
MWG - MidWest Geeks
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Friday, February 25
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9:30am
Weber Road Computer Club
7:30pm
SLSRC - St. Louis & Suburban Radio Club
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Saturday, February 26
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2:00pm
GAMP - Gateway Area Mac Programers
Just a quick FYI. Hopefully "This Week's Events" will be
published soon.
All tech events tonite seem to be cancelled.
1. Ruby mtng has cancelled in deference to St. Valentine's Day.
2. BDPA has nothing listed on their website.
3. StL .NET languages (i.e. c#) grp website shows nothing for tonite.
Remember "the computer vs the humans this afternoon @ 3:30
pn Jeopady!
Remember St. Valentine's Day (or pay the consequences)!
Wed lunch mtng of SNUG / SuSE sig on "Running .NET on Linux with
MONO."
