[ANNOUNCE] This Week's Events

As always, check www.sluug.org/resources/calendar for last minute changes. Don't miss Ed Wehner on 3D animation TONITE @ St. Charles LUG! ................................................................... Editor's Pick's= All week. "FIRST" high school robotics competition -international finals!! Edward Jones Football Dome. Thurs. Ed Wehner teaches free software for 3D animation @ StClug "The Art of Illusion" sftwr. Fri. UMSL's Distinguished Speaker Lecture. "The Emerging Role of the Technology Strategist" by Dr. Varun Grover, Distinguished Professor of Info Systems. Clemson University. Sat. Application DEADALINE!!!! Deadline to apply for FREE NSF workshop this summer on Aquatic Ecology/Biology GIS/GPS. Sat &/or Sun. MicroCenter Clininc - Video Capture and Editing. Sun. CWElug And now the details.... ============================================================================== Thursday, April 28 ============================================================================= All week "FIRST" high school robotics competition -international finals!! When: Apr 25 - 30, 2011 Where: Edward Jones Dome football stadium Description: These are the international finals. It is the 1st time held in St. Louis and we will also have these finals in 2012 & 2013. The regionals were on SLU's campus in March. The idea is for high schools to compete against each other in building robots which will compete in a game. The game rules are changed each year so that the students need to "think it thru new" and not just rebuild last year's model. The students have had ~6 weeks to build the robot after being told the new game. Segway inventor Ray Kurzwiel , who started the FIRST competition, wnats to bring the excitement of high school sports to engineering & science! Go volunteer to be an advisor at your favosite high school! Last year, he announced the (inter)national finals had been granted to ST. Louis' Edward Jones Dome football stadium for 2011 thru 2013! more details� copy to my calendar All day ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Ubuntu 11.04 Due When: Thursday, Apr 28, 2011 http://www.ubuntu.com/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:30am stlCRMug - StL CRM Users Grp When: Thu, April 28, 8:30am . 11:30am Where: 3 City Place Drive, Creve Coeur, MO 63131 (map) http://www.stlcrmug.org/ Microsoft Offices Meets every other month. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10:00am WCORCC - Technical SIG Multimedia SIG When: Thu, April 28, 10am . 3pm Where: Daniel Boone Branch Library (map) http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ Technical Forum SIG - 10:00 AM Multimedia SIG - 1:00 PM ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5:30pm STL-AITP - Association of Information Technology Professionals When: Thu, April 28, 5:30pm . 8:30pm Where: 7750 Carondelet Avenue St. Louis, MO 63105 (map) http://www.stlouisaitp.org/ We have monthly dinner mtngs. 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:00pm STLMD - St. Louis Mobile Dev When: Thu, April 28, 6:00pm . 8:30pm Where: 1701 Washington Ave, St Louis, MO 63103 (map) 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. No topic listed for this month. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:30pm StC LUG - St. Charles Linux Users Group When: Thu, April 28, 6:30pm . 9:30pm Where: 200 Ft Zumwalt Square, O'Fallon, MO 63366 (map) http://stclug.sluug.org This month= 3D Modeling / Art / Drawing (leading to animation). by Ed Wehner. Bring your Linux, MAC or Windows laptop and learn , "hands on", how to create 3D models using open source 3D Modeling tools. The techniques we will cover are used in 3D Art, Games and major motion pictures. In this first of two parts, we will show you how to make some simple objects such as an hour glass, apple, table, etc. We will also cover some of the basics of object textures and materials to give a real life look to your rendered objects. "The Art of Illusion" software will be provided and requires java. This will lead to next month when we will learn to animate these drawings/models. Ed is formerly a multi-term president of SLUUG as well as vice president and bod spent years organizing our meetings and keeping our servers available in years where we expanded into multiple SIGs and multiple mtngs each month. In his day job, Ed has lead the IT dept at MEMC Electronix Materials in St. Charles before & during their conversion to SAP, and has been a senior IT consultant for the state of Missouri. He is currently a Sr. Consultant at Daugherty Systems assigned to Express Scripts. Meet at JJ's Restaurant, off of Hwy I-70, Exit 217, Hwy K South, take right at first light signal. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm MWG - MidWest Geeks When: Thu, April 28, 7pm . 9pm Where: 1909 S Brentwood Blvd Brentwood, MO 63144 St. Louis Bread Company - Brentwood http://www.meetup.com/MWGeeks/ Not mtng this month/day? ============================================================================ Friday, April 29 ============================================================================= All day "FIRST" high school robotics competition -international finals!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4:00pm UMSL InfoSys Distinguished Speaker - "The Emerging Role of the Technology Strategist" When: Fri, April 29, 4pm . 7pm Where: 1 University Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63121 (map) "The Emerging Role of the Technology Strategist" Dr. Varun Grover is the William S. Lee (Duke Energy) Distinguished Professor of Information Systems at Clemson University. He has published extensively in the information systems field, with over 200 publications in major refereed journals. Nine recent articles have ranked him among the top four researchers based on number of publications in the top Information Systems journals, as well as citation impact (h-index). Dr.Grover is Senior Editor (Emeritus) for /MIS Quarterly, the Journal of the AIS /and/Database/. He is currently working in the areas of IT value, system politics and process transformation and recently released his third book (with M. Lynne Markus) on process change. He is recipient of numerous awards from USC, Clemson, AIS, DSI, Anbar, PriceWaterhouse, etc. for his research and teaching and is a Fellow of the Association for Information Systems. "The Emerging Role of the Technology Strategist" (4.00 PM-5.15 PM, 003 Express Scripts Hall) This talk focuses on the emerging CIO role of business technology strategist and its relationship with the three traditional IT management roles-informational, decisional, and interpersonal. Preliminary data on how the CIOs emerging role is related to reporting level and technical background will be described, as the talk explores what it takes for a CIO to fulfill this role. A reception in honor of Dr. Varun Grover will be held immediately after the presentation from 5.15 pm - 7.00 pm in GracePlace Museum, 2nd Floor, Express Scripts Hall, University of Missouri - St. Louis, 1 University Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63121. ============================================================================ Saturday, April 30 ============================================================================= All day "FIRST" high school robotics competition -international finals!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All day GIS Applications in Aquatic Ecology/Biology. Deadline to apply for FREE NSF workshop on Aquatic GIS. When: Saturday, Apr 30, 2011 GIS Applications in Aquatic Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Where: Department of Biology and Center for Environmental Sciences Saint Louis University, Saint Louis, Missouri When: June 27-29, 2011 and August 17-19, 2011 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 & 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 & 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 27-29 or August 17-19). If you are available for both dates (one or the other), please indicate this in your application. http://pages.slu.edu/faculty/jknouft/index_files/Page304.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All day Marconi Day? ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All day SharePoint Saturday When: Saturday, Apr 30, 2011 http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/stlouis/default.aspx ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2:00pm GAMP - Gateway Area Mac Programers When: Sat, April 30, 2pm . 4pm Where: 120 S Kirkwood Rd, St Louis, MO 63122 (map) See http://www.gamprog.org/ Kaldi's Coffee House Usually last Saturday of month St. Louis CocoaHeads Monthly meeting for Mac & iPhone Programming ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2:00pm MC-Clinic - Video Capture and Editing When: Sat, April 30, 2pm . 3pm Where: 87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic, http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html to sign up. ============================================================================== Sunday, May 1 ============================================================================= 1:00pm CWElug Central West End Linux Users' Group When: Sun, May 1, 1pm . 5pm Where: 1610 S. Big Bend Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63117 (map) Venue: Scott's Office For current information see http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug/ (which may not actually be current). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2:00pm MC-Clinic - Video Capture and Editing When: Sun, May 1, 2pm . 3pm Where: 87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 (map) Venue: Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic, http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html to sign up. ============================================================================ ============================================================================ ============================================================================ Coming NEXT week... ============================================================================ Tuesday, May 3 ============================================================================ 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 ============================================================================= Wednesday, May 4 ============================================================================= 1:00pm SCORCC-WWP - Word/Word Perfect SIG 6:30pm SteerCom - St. Louis Unix Users' Grp - Steering Committee 7:00pm SILUG-ME ============================================================================== Thursday, May 5 ============================================================================= 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 ============================================================================== Friday, May 6 ============================================================================== All day Mid-America GNU/Linux Networkers Conference -POSTPONED!! 12:00pm NCORCC 5:00pm STL 2600 Meeting ============================================================================= Saturday, May 7 ============================================================================= All day Mid-America GNU/Linux Networkers Conference -POSTPONED!! 8:30am T3 Techies Teaching Techies 2:00pm MC-Clinic - Photo Tips 7:00pm stlGD - StL Game Developers