[ANNOUNCE] Events For This Week - 17 June 2012

***************************************************************************** DISCLAIMER: Check Web Sites for Cancellations, Changes, Fees and Updates ***************************************************************************** See STL Computer Events Calendar - http://www.sluug.org/resources/calendar/ Corrections, new additions, etc. should be sent to editor(a)sluug.org ***************************************************************************** EDITOR's Picks: Wed Lunch = Novell SuSE Linux grp general geek lunch with a presentation on Grouplink's everything HelpDesk eHD Thurs = StL LUG Automated Web App Testing with Cucumber and Selenium by Craig Buchek When you write a web application, you need some way to test that it's working properly. It's also helpful to be able to know when you've correctly completed a new feature. In this presentation, we'll cover several Open Source tools that you can use to test any web site. These tools include Selenium (to drive a web browser), Capybara (simple front end to Selenium and others), and Cucumber (to write tests in English). You don't need to be a programmer to understand the presentation. Next Week Tuesday = Tour Hosterian's new data center = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== ...and now this week's details... = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== Tuesday, June 19 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== 2:00pm moved - stlISSA - Information Systems Security Association 6:30pm STL Hadoop Users Grp - v4.0, Cloudera, Apache, MapReduce v2 6:30pm – 8:00pm 600 Emerson Road Suite 400, Saint Louis, MO (map) VENUE: InciteRetail, Suite 920T http://www.stlhadoop.org/ Rob Johnson (Cloudera System Engineer) Topic: Cloudera's Distribution Including Apache Hadoop Version 4.0 is due out in June. There are many exciting new features included in this release including: * Namenode High Availability * Namenode Federation * MapReduce v2 Matthew Goeke and Erich Hochmuth (Monsanto) * Using Hadoop and MapReduce to build data processing pipelines. * We'll cover lessons learned migrating legacy workflows and algorithms to MapReduce. Beer (Incite Retail) and Pizza (EMC) will be provided. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm ASEMO Astronomy Digital Imaging SIG When Tue, June 19, 7pm – 10pm Where Weldon Spring Interpretive Center (map) Description See http://www.asemonline.org/> 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. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7:30pm ARCH - General Meeting = = = = ======================================================================== Wednesday, June 20 = = = = ======================================================================== 9:00am SLCL - Thornhill Computer Club 10:00am SLCL - Jamestown Bluffs Computer Club -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11:30am SNUG - StL Novell Users Grp & SuSE Linux Lunch - GroupLink's "everything HelpDesk (eHD)" 11:30am – 12:45pm 8130 Brentwood Industrial Dr, Saint Louis, MO 63144 (map) http://snug.sluug.org/ GroupLink everything HelpDesk product demonstration. Summary: Nate Baldwin of GroupLink will be providing a web based demonstration of their premier product, everything HelpDesk (eHD). eHD (http://www.grouplink.com/products/ehd.html) is a mobile, web- based, user-friendly help desk solution that fulfills the needs of multiple departments for incident tracking and workflow management. This solution runs smoothly on Mac OS(r), Windows(r), Linux(r) and Novell. Being written in Java(r), the help desk runs on any server with Java 5 installed. LOCATION CHANGE: Interchange Technology is hosting this meeting in their conference room at 8130 Brentwood Industrial Dr, Saint Louis, MO 63144. Office number is 314-647-5440. Lunch will be served. A lunch time meeting about SuSE Linux & tools as well as other Novell sftwr, every 3rd Wednesday. NOTE this month we are NOT at Bandana's Bar-BQ!! LOCATION CHANGE!!! Seating is limited so please RSVP Gary Hollingsworth by mailto:garyh@itinet.com --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm GCC - Gateway Computer Club --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm STL Wordpress Users Group When Wed, June 20, 6pm – 8pm Where 3301 Wisconsin Ave., Saint Louis, MO (map) Description VENUE: goBRANDgo! Offices See http://www.meetup.com/stlwordpress/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm stlPM - StL Perl Mongers Grp - Duck Duck Go DDG When Wed, June 20, 6:30pm – 8:30pm Where Intoximeters, Inc. 2081 Craig Road Saint Louis, MO 63146 (map) Description VENUE: MOVED THIS MONTH!!! NOT at Workhorse Computing on Flora! Meetings are on every 3rd Wednesday of the month http:// stlouis.pm.org/ "St. Louis Perl Mongers" TOPIC: This month we'll meet to discuss the Duck Duck Go plugin API, as documented by DDG. After a brief discussion we will break into groups of 1 or more to hack on the API and see what fun ideas we can implement. We can end by showing off anything that people might have done. Be sure to bring neat ideas! The location is changing for this month! Time: 6:30 PM Wednesday June 6th Location: Intoximeters, Inc. 2081 Craig Road Saint Louis, MO 63146 USA Park near the front of the building and someone should be able to show you to the room. -- --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm CocoaCodingNight (CCN) Mac OS X iOS When Wed, June 20, 7pm – 8pm Where 1909 Brentwood Boulevard Brentwood, MO 63144 (map) Description CocoaCodingNight (CCN) is an opportunity to spend a little time each week working on your Mac or iOS project alongside other Cocoa coders doing the same. This is a great way to get some work done as well as a great way to get/give some face to face help. We typically meet every Wednesday at the Brentwood Bread Co. CCN is Wednesday 12 October 2011 at the Brentwood Square Bread Co. Brentwood Square (#636) 1909 Brentwood Boulevard Brentwood, MO 63144 (314) 963-8998 - Phone (314) 963-8997 - Fax Come after work and work on your Cocoa (Mac or iOS) project with fellow Apple nerds. :-) f- -- Fred Priese = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== Thursday , June 21 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== All day First Day of Summer 7:30am IT Advancement Council When Thu, June 21, 7:30am – 9:00am Where 12405 PowersCourt Dr., St. Louis, MO 63131 (map) Description Venue: Charter Communications See http://www.itac-stl.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm WCORCC - West County Older Residents Computer Club 2:00pm SLCL - Natural BridgeTechnology Discovery Club 2:00pm SLCL - Oak Bend Technology Discovery Club ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm stlLUG - StL Linux Users Grp - Automated Web App Testing with Cucumber, Selenium When Thu, June 21, 6:30pm – 9:30pm Where 4633 World Pkwy Cir, Berkeley, MO 63134 (map) Description Venue: IT Enterprises http://www.stllinux.org/ Automated Web App Testing with Cucumber & Selenium by Craig Buchek When you write a web application, you need some way to test that it's working properly. It's also helpful to be able to know when you've correctly completed a new feature. In this presentation, we'll cover several Open Source tools that you can use to test any web site. These tools include Selenium (to drive a web browser), Capybara (simple front end to Selenium and others), and Cucumber (to write tests in English). You might use these tools for site monitoring, user acceptance testing, regression testing, or test-driven design. We'll cover using these tools with Ruby and Java, but you don't need to be a programmer to understand the presentation. We've used these tools successfully on several projects, and found that they can help us write better applications. Probably the most exciting part is that our customers and QA testers write the Cucumber acceptance tests for us. Venue: IT Enterprises http://www.stllinux.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm STLJS - Saint Louis JavaScript Meetup When Thu, June 21, 6:30pm – 8:30pm Description VENUE: May change every month. See http://www.stljs.org/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30pm SLRCFA - St. Louis Radio Control Flying Association When Thu, June 21, 7:30pm – 9:00pm Where 788 Augustine Rd Eureka, MO 63025 (map) Description http://www.slrcfa.com/ = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== Friday, June 22 All day GIS Applications in Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 3 day NSF workshop When Jun 22 – 24, 2012 Where St. Louis University, Grand Ave & Laclede Ave. (map) Description GIS Applications in Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology You must apply for 1 of the 40 available seats in one of the 2 workshops by April 30. You must describe your interests in biology/aquatic research with GIS/GPS. 3-day long Aquatic GIS Workshop sponsored by NSF, again free for participants. This workshop actually teaches you basics of GIS (about 1.5 days) and rest will be on modeling species distributions and Biological applications of GIS. Where: Department of Biology and Center for Environmental Sciences Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri When: June 22-24. Identical workshop also held Aug. 17-19 Workshop purpose and goals: The application of GIS to the study of biological patterns and processes in terrestrial systems has expanded dramatically during the past decade and served as a valuable resource in ecology and evolutionary biology. This expansion is largely due to the availability of relevant environmental datasets and species distribution data. At the same time, GIS-based studies of aquatic systems have lagged behind and often relied on terrestrial surrogates for data sources. A general goal of this workshop is to train and establish an interactive group of researchers and educators applying GIS techniques to aquatic systems. Applicants with all levels of GIS experience are welcome; however, the workshop is developed and presented for aquatic biologists with little to no background in GIS techniques. The workshop will cover topics including: 1) basic acquisition and manipulation of GIS data, 2) GIS data sources for aquatic research, 3) quantification of environmental attributes of species’ habitat use at multiple spatial scales, 4) species distribution modeling, and 5) development and application of hydrologic data to studies of aquatic systems. The majority of the training will be conducted using ArcGIS; however, other software options will be presented. Computer space will be provided for each attendee. More details on the specific schedule will be provided in the near future. Participants: Faculty/Research Scientists, Postdoctoral Researchers, and Graduate Students conducting research in aquatic systems Sponsors: National Science Foundation and Saint Louis University Cost: Free (Participants responsible for meals, travel, and lodging) Application: Please email a statement of application including a description of your research interests (maximum 1 page) and a C.V. to Dr. Jason Knouft at aquaticGIS(a)slu.edu by April 30. GIS experience is not a prerequisite for the workshop. A total of 20 spots are available for each workshop. Please indicate the dates you would like to attend (June 22-24 or August 17-19). If you are available for both dates (one or the other), please indicate this in your application. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10:00am SLCL - Weber Road Computer Club ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5:00pm MS-Win phone developer wkshp When Fri, June 22, 5pm – 10pm Getting Started with Windows Phone Development Workshop by Nokia Friday, June 22nd, 2012 at 5pm - 10pm Microsoft bought Nokia so that some company would use it's MS- Windows in a phone. With a very small share of the market, its hoping that someone will want to write an app for MS-Win, so here is a chance to learn to develop for it. St. Louis Windows Phone Meetup is pleased to announce a Getting Started with Windows Phone Development Workshop, sponsored by Nokia, on June 22, 2012. Nokia Developer Ambassador Rich Dunbar will be leading the workshop. WP7 enthusiasts and developers of all skill levels are welcomed! This workshop will be focused on the tools and resources you have available as a developer/potential developer for Windows Phone development from Nokia and Microsoft. The event will begin with a brief presentation from Nokia and will then focus on ensuring all the proper tools are introduced and installed. We will review some of the tutorials and quick start projects and then allow time for the attendees to work on the projects they choose and ask questions along the way. The goal of the workshop is to help developers get started on their first Windows Phone app. This developer workshop is sponsored by Nokia and they have been kind enough to provide pizza and beverages for the workshop. Thanks, Nokia! So come on out with your laptop, have the programming tools installed (or at least downloaded), and arrive hungry for knowledge--- and food, too. Although this meetup is primarily focused on WP7 development, we’ll be sure to make time for some enthusiast chatter as we’ve done at the previous meetups. WP7 Programming tools you will need: WP7 SDK 7.1 - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=… WP7 SDK 7.1.1 Update - http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29233 Silverlight for Windows Phone Toolkit - http://silverlight.codeplex.com/releases/view/75888 If you have Windows 8 and are experiencing trouble when installing any of these tools, please see this page for possible workarounds: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/astebner/archive/2012/02/29/10274694.aspx And, as always, your fearless STL WP7 Meetup leader will have goodies to hand out! We’ll begin the food around 5:30 PM and probably wrap everything up around 9 PM or so. That way Rich and I have time to clean up and get out by 10. Rich Dunbar is a Nokia Developer Ambassador. His role is to help recruit developers for Windows Phone applications and equip them with the latest tools, resources and information in order to be successful. Rich is a developer himself with apps in the Windows Phone Marketplace, Blackberry App World, and HP webOS App Catalog. He has been involved in the mobile tech community with webOS for the last several years as a forum leader, writer, Sr. Editor and community Ambassador. You can find him on Twitter @RichDunbar and @NokiaDevOKC. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30pm SLSRC - St. Louis & Suburban Radio Club When Fri, June 22, 7:30pm – 9:00pm Where 3015 N Ballas Rd, St. Louis, MO (map) Description Venue: Nursing Institute building, Missouri Baptist Hospital Complex See http://www.slsrc.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8:00pm CODERS - Code Until Dawn in STL When Fri, June 22, 8pm – 9pm Description VENUE: Location may change each month. See http://www.meetup.com/allnightlong/ Once a month, get together for an all-night hacking session. Stay as long or as short as you'd like. We started this group to spend time with other St Louis developers. This group is for anyone who wants to catch up on that nagging side project at a late night, caffeinated coding session with like-minded individuals. All skill levels and languages are welcome. = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== Saturday , June 23 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== All day GIS Applications in Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 3 day NSF workshop ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8:00am stlISSA golf - Information Systems Security Association When Sat, June 23, 8am – 5pm Where Quail Creek Golf Club (map) Description 1st annual Location: Quail Creek Golf Club Format: 18 Hole Scramble (each team consists of 4 players) Registration Fee: $75 per player Details: The registration fee includes 18-holes of golf, cart, event “goodie bag, lunch and refreshments while playing. On the day of the tournament, players can sign-up for "Closest to the Pin" and "Longest Drive" contests. The ISSA St. Louis is currently working with our event sponsors to provide some great prizes and free give-a- ways! STLISSA - St. Louis Chapter - Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) http://stl.issa.org Times and locations may vary each month. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2:00pm MC- Home Security Basics When Sat, June 23, 2pm – 4pm Where 87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 (map) Description These FREE clinics will be held at all Micro Center stores. Venue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic, see http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== Sunday , June 24 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== All day GIS Applications in Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, 3 day NSF workshop 2:00pm MC- Home Security Basics When Sun, June 24, 2pm – 4pm Where 87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 (map) Description These FREE clinics will be held at all Micro Center stores. Venue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic, see http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== Monday , June 25 = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== All day 1981 - Microsoft incoporated Microsoft Incorporated Microsoft incorporated. Founded six years earlier by Bill Gates and Paul Allen and a 3rd partner who leves the company after a few months. Allen is later forced out by Gates and Balmer. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:00pm SCORCC Works - Word SIG 2:00pm SLCL - Cliff Cave Computer Club -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5:30pm STLDOTNET - St. Louis .NET User Grp - "Persona" When Mon, June 25, 5:30pm – 7:30pm Where Three City Place Drive, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (map) Description STLNET - St. Louis .NET User Group http://www.stlnet.org/ Danielle Cooley on Who are we building this for, anyway? In days filled with long meetings and longer searches for that semicolon you missed, it's easy to forget about the people at the other end of the chain - the end user. No one wants to build a product that isn't user-friendly, so what can be done to make sure what gets built is easy to use? One tool in our arsenal of user experience tools is the Persona. We'll talk a little about personas, why we have them, what makes a good one, and how to make sure they are put to good use. 5:30 - 6:00 pm Food and social 6:00 - 7:30 pm Program http://www.stlnet.org/ Danielle Cooley on Who are we building this for, anyway? In days filled with long meetings and longer searches for that semicolon you missed, it's easy to forget about the people at the other end of the chain - the end user. No one wants to build a product that isn't user-friendly, so what can be done to make sure what gets built is easy to use? One tool in our arsenal of user experience tools is the Persona. We'll talk a little about personas, why we have them, what makes a good one, and how to make sure they are put to good use. 5:30 - 6:00 pm Food and social 6:00 - 7:30 pm Program --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm ???stlDNNug - StL DotNetNuke User Grp ??? = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== ... and an overview of NEXT week ... = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = ======================================================================== Tuesday , June 26 All day 1997 - Communications Decency Act Declared Unconstitutional 10:00am SLCL - Grand Glaize Computer Club 10:00am SLCL - Grand Glaize Tech Talks 12:00pm SCORCC Windows SIG 5:30pm Hostirian's newest data center unveiling 6:30pm HZWLUG - Hazelwood Linux Users Group 7:00pm GAMUG-SP 7:00pm LUCI General 7:30pm ARCH - Arch Reactor ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Wednesday , June 27 6:30pm SteerCom - Moved to new date, this month only 6:30pm VIM Geeks 7:00pm StL ALT.NET 7:00pm CocoaCodingNight (CCN) Mac OS X iOS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday , June 28 10:00am WCORCC - Technical SIG Multimedia SIG 2:00pm SLCL - Sachs Computer Club 5:30pm STL-AITP - Association of Information Technology Professionals 6:00pm STL ISO Develpers Group 6:00pm hiatus- stlMD - StL Mobile Dev 6:00pm hiatus- WCCH - West County Cocoa Heads iOS 6:30pm hiatus- StC LUG - St. Charles Linux Users Group 6:30pm SLCL - Sachs Computer Club 7:30pm ARCH - Programming Workshop --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday , June 30 2:00pm GAMP - Gateway Area Mac Programers ( stl CocoaHeads) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sunday , July 1 1:00pm CWElug Central West End Linux Users' Grp +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ++++++ ** *SUSECon 2012! Registration is now OPEN* ** http://www.suse.com/events/susecon/ Early Bird - $699 USD 18-21 September, 2012 Caribe Royale Hotel, Orlando, Florida The conference will feature technical and business presentations, training, demonstrations, hands-on labs, industry partner technology showcases, customer case studies and keynotes from industry experts. = = = = = ======================================================================== Always check for last minute changes & updates by checking our calendar at All entries are our best guess. All entries should not be considered facts but rather opinions and RFCs. Anything that may be construed or interpreted as malicious, libelous, erroneous, etc. is a typo, misstatement, unintended, or misunderstood. 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