[ANNOUNCE] Events For This Week ~ 2 March 2015

*************************************************************************** DISCLAIMER: Check Web Sites for Cancellations, Changes, Fees and Updates *************************************************************************** STL Computer Events Calendar - http://www.sluug.org/resources/calendar/ Send Corrections, new additions, etc by mailto:editor@sluug.org =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= ** *Sign up for our SLUUG DISCUSS mailing list* ** Review our archives with the login and password on this page: http://www.sluug.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss ----------------------------------------------- ** *SLUUG YouTube videos now linked from our resources menu* ** https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFKdr39d_BIqBsLryaGd_vw/videos =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Mon Mar 2 1993 Japanese Supercomputer 2002 Excite@Home, one of the largest ISP's bankruptcy 2006 Wikipedia 1,000,000th article. 2008 Core2 Duo Processor E4700 released ----------------------------------------------- Texas Independence Day ----------------------------------------------- 11:00am ~ 11:05am STL County Outdoor Warning Sirens (Only if skies are clear) ----------------------------------------------- 6:00pm ~ 8:00pm STL ember.js http://www.meetup.com/STLEmber/ VENUE T-Rex - Lammert Building 911 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO ----------------------------------------------- 6:30pm ~ 8:30pm St. Louis Unix Users' Grp - Steering Committee http://www.sluug.org/ 10550 Old Olive Street Rd Saint Louis, MO 63141 . ----------------------------------------------- 6:30pm ~ 8:30pm STL Wordpress Users Group http://www.meetup.com/stlwordpress/ TOPIC Wordpress + Gulp VENUE Integrity Corporation #444 6358 Delmar Boulevard, St. Louis, MO *************************************************************************** Tue Mar 3 1843 telegraph nationally. Congress appropriates $30,000 "to test... 1863 National Academy of Sciences approved by Abe Lincoln 2003 sex offender names can be posted ----------------------------------------------- National Anthem Day ----------------------------------------------- 10:00am ~ 3:30pm WCORCC ~ West County Older Residents Computer Club http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ VENUE St. Louis County Library Daniel Boone Br 300 Clarkson Rd., Ellisville, MO 63011-2222 ----------------------------------------------- 7:00pm ~ 8:30pm StL Python Users Grp http://www.meetup.com/STL-Python/ VENUE T-Rex - Lammert Building 911 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO ----------------------------------------------- 7:00pm ~ 9:00pm Byteworks Volunteer Orientation http://bworks.org 2414 Menard St. Saint Louis, MO 63104 ----------------------------------------------- 8:00pm ~ 10:00pm ARCH Reactor ~ General Meeting http://www.meetup.com/Arch-Reactor-Hackerspace/ 2400 South Jefferson Avenue, St. Louis, MO *************************************************************************** Wed Mar 4 1955 1st radio facsimile (fax) transmission sent across the continent 1956 Wang Sells Core Memory Patent to IBM 1977 1st CRAY 1 supercomputer shipped, to Los Alamos Laboratories, NM 2007 Estonia conducts election on The Net. ----------------------------------------------- 2:00pm ~ 4:00pm Tech Talks @ Tesson Ferry http://www.slcl.org/ TOPIC Cutting the Cord VENUE St. Louis County Library Tesson Ferry Br 9920 Lin-Ferry Dr., St. Louis, MO 63123-6914 ** *CALL 314-994-3300 TO VERIFY* ** ----------------------------------------------- 3:45pm ~ 5:00pm Danforth Scientific Seminar http://www.danforthcenter.org/events/scientific-seminars TOPIC Keeping up with the plant destroyers VENUE Donald Danforth Plant Science Center Library (70) 975 North Warson Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63132 ----------------------------------------------- 6:00pm ~ 8:00pm STL C/C++ Grp http://www.meetup.com/Saint-Louis-C-C-Meetup/ TOPIC DD Part 3 - C++11/14 Standard Libraries VENUE Answers Corp, #300 6665 Delmar Blvd, Saint Louis, MO ----------------------------------------------- 6:00pm ~ 8:30pm STL MySQL Users Group http://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-MySQL-Users-Group/ ----------------------------------------------- 7:00pm ~ 9:00pm SILUG-ME Southern Illinois Linux Users Group http://www.silug.org/ VENUE Computer Room, 3720 Green Mount Crossing Dr., Shiloh, IL 62269 *************************************************************************** Thu Mar 5 1924 IBM is new name for CTR Corp. 1993 Talking Laptop Helps Blind Student Earn B.S. 2013 world's smallest mobile phone, weighing 32 grams. Announced by Willcom. ----------------------------------------------- Casimir Pulaski Day ----------------------------------------------- 5:30pm ~ 7:30pm MS-Win App Dev Grp http://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-Metro-Modern-App-Dev-Group/ VENUE Microsoft Store 2417 Saint Louis Galleria, Richmond Heights, MO ----------------------------------------------- 6:00pm ~ 8:30pm stlLL - StL Lambda Lounge http://lambdalounge.org/ TOPIC Papers Every Programmer Should Read Twice VENUE Revelytix offices, 1st floor meeting room. 680 Craig Road, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 ----------------------------------------------- 6:30pm ~ 9:00pm SLACC - StL Area Computer Club http://slacc.sluug.org/ TOPIC Linux Configuration Workshop VENUE St. Louis County Library Thornhill Br 12863 Willowyck Dr., St. Louis, MO 63146-3771 ----------------------------------------------- 7:00pm ~ 8:30pm ASEMO - Beginner Astronomy http://www.asemonline.org/ Weldon Spring Interpretive Center Broemmelsiek Park, Schwede Road, Wentzville, MO 63385 ----------------------------------------------- 7:00pm ~ 8:30pm Technology Referral Network of St Louis Metro http://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-Metro-Technology-Referral-Network/ VENUE St. Louis County Library Sachs Br 16400 Burkhardt Pl, Chesterfield, MO 63017 ----------------------------------------------- 7:30pm ~ 9:00pm ACM WUSTL Tech Talks https://acm.wustl.edu/ Gregg House Washington University South 40, Clayton, MO 63105 *************************************************************************** Fri Mar 6 1992 Michelangelo virus begins to affect computers. 2003 SCO lawsuit begins. SCO files a $1 billion USD lawsuit against IBM 2013 MS fined €561M by the Euro Commission for not providing alternative web browsers ----------------------------------------------- Alamo Day ----------------------------------------------- Kawa Kon - St. Louis Airport Marriott, http://kawakon.com/ VENUE St. Louis Airport Marriott 10700 Pear Tree Dr, St Louis, MO 63134 ----------------------------------------------- 6:00pm ~ 9:00pm First Friday at Science Center - Gaming http://www.slsc.org/first-fridays StL Science Center, Forest Park, 5050 Oakland Ave, St Louis, MO ----------------------------------------------- 7:00pm ~ 10:00pm ASEMO Broemmelsiek Public Viewing http://www.asemonline.org/ Weldon Spring Interpretive Center Broemmelsiek Park, Schwede Road, Wentzville, MO 63385 ----------------------------------------------- 9:00pm ~ 10:00pm free SciFi episodes - "The Guild" 10:00pm ~ 11:54pm free SciFi movie - WarGames (114 minutes, 1983) http://www.slsc.org/first-fridays Saint Louis Science Center, 5050 Oakland Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 *************************************************************************** Sat Mar 7 1985 PC-DOS 3.1 (update) by IBM released 2008 VeriSign buys Network Solutions = $21 billion. ----------------------------------------------- Kawa Kon - St. Louis Airport Marriott, http://kawakon.com/ Lockpicking Workshop on Saturday by Joe and Bob ARCH Reactor VENUE St. Louis Airport Marriott 10700 Pear Tree Dr, St Louis, MO 63134 ----------------------------------------------- 10:00am ~ 12:00pm Tech Talks @ Oak Bend http://www.slcl.org/ TOPIC Hoopla VENUE St. Louis County Library Oak Bend Br 842 S. Holmes Ave., St. Louis, MO 63122-6507 ** *CALL 314-994-3300 TO VERIFY* ** ----------------------------------------------- 10:00am ~ 1:00pm ROBOMO - StL Area Robotics Grp http://www.robomo.com/ VENUE: St. Louis Science Center 5050 Oakland Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110 ----------------------------------------------- 11:30am ~ 1:30pm Android Netrunner http://www.meetup.com/STL-Android-Netrunner-Meetup/ TOPIC Wizard's Wagon 2015 Store Championship VENUE Wizard's Wagon see 6372 Delmar Blvd, University City, MO ----------------------------------------------- 1:00pm ~ 4:00pm ARCH ~ Make an Insect Hotel - Arch Reactor, http://www.meetup.com/Arch-Reactor-Hackerspace/ 2400 South Jefferson Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63104 ----------------------------------------------- 2:00pm ~ 3:00pm MC ~ Raspberry Pi http://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/instore-clinics.aspx VENUE Micro Center Computers & Electronics 87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 ----------------------------------------------- 2:00pm ~ 4:00pm Big Data Cloud Architects User Group http://www.meetup.com/BigData-Cloud-Meetup/ VENUE IDEAL Office Suites 10 Strecker Road, Ballwin, MO 63011 *************************************************************************** Sun Mar 8 1955 1st "Operating System"=Director for Whilwind 1983 PC/XT released by IBM ----------------------------------------------- Daylight Saving Time Begins ----------------------------------------------- Kawa Kon - St. Louis Airport Marriott, http://kawakon.com/ VENUE St. Louis Airport Marriott 10700 Pear Tree Dr, St Louis, MO 63134 ----------------------------------------------- 2:00pm ~ 3:00pm MC ~ Raspberry Pi http://www.microcenter.com/site/stores/instore-clinics.aspx VENUE Micro Center Computers & Electronics 87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 ----------------------------------------------- 2:00pm ~ 4:30pm WINGS movie that won the 1927 Oscar(1st Oscar) http://sltos.org/ Scottish Rite Auditorium, 3633 Lindell Blvd., St.Louis, MO 63108 ----------------------------------------------- 7:00pm ~ 10:00pm ARCH - Hack Something! http://www.meetup.com/Arch-Reactor-Hackerspace/ 2400 South Jefferson Ave., St Louis, MO 63104 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ And looking forward to the headlines for NEXT week... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Explore Raising Skinny Elephants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magic_SysRq_key ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ** *VOLUNTEER HELP NEEDED* ** A SLUUG Member To Create And Maintain A Meetup Presence Contact the SLUUG Steering Committee mailto:info@sluug.org =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: All Public www.sluug.org Mailing Lists http://www.sluug.org/mailman/listinfo/ :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: SLUUG Online Chat at freenode.net channel #sluug :::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: See SLUUG Internet Relay Chat ~ http://www.sluug.org/resources/irc/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Always check for last minute changes & updates by checking our calendar at http://www.sluug.org/resources/calendar and each individual website. 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