[ANNOUNCE] Events for This Week

This Week's techie events in St. Louis... Editor's Picks = Wed's UNIX philosophy in Genome Research SLUUG's general mtng. Thur's Java SIG - Maven tool Wed & Thur's - Perseid meteor shower ============================================================================= Tuesday 10 Aug Patch Tuesday ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ STLLTUG - St. Louis Lotus Technologies Users Group When Tue, August 10, 11:30am ? 1:00pm Where 500 Maryville Centre Drive, St. Louis, MO (map) Description IBM Maryville building See http://www.stldominotes.org/ Unconfirmed. No response from officers. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ STLSSUG -St. Louis SQL Server User Group When Tue, August 10, 1pm ? 4pm Where Three City Place Drive, St. Louis, MO 63141 (map) Description http://www.stlssug.org/ for details Speaker: Brad McGehee, RedGate Topic: Identifying SQL Server Performance Problems Using SQL Trace Speaker: Brad McGehee, RedGate Topic: Introduction to Graphical Execution Plans ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- GAMUG - Gateway Area MacIntosh Users Group When Tue, August 10, 5:30pm ? 9:00pm Where Parkway Central High School (map) Description http://www.gamug.org/ Beginner SIG - 5:30 PM Intermediate SIG - 5:30 PM General Meeting - 7:00 PM Altho the website emphasises the location for this month (and last) there is no topic listed! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CCSL - Computer Consultants of St. Louis When Tue, August 10, 6pm ? 7pm Where 6630 Delmar Blvd, University City, MO 63128 (map) Description St. Louis Bread Co. http://www.ccsl.org/ Dinner reservations and cancellations 314-995-4652 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ LUCI-NB - Linux Users Central Illinois (Newbie Mtg) When Tue, August 10, 7pm ? 9pm Where 1011 E. Ash Street Springfield, IL (map) Description VENUE: Illinois State Museum Research and Collections Center See http://www.luci.org/ ============================================================================= Wednesday 11 Aug SCORCC-G Geneology SIG When Wed, August 11, 1pm ? 2pm Where Tesson Ferry Library Branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 (map) Description http://www.scorcc.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SLUUG St. Louis Unix Users Group General Monthly Mtng August 11, 6:30pm . 9:00pm 11885 Lackland Road, Maryland Heights, MO 63146 (map) http://www.sluug.org/ Graybar Electric Co, Inc. # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # Rube Goldberg: Applying the UNIX Philosophy to Genomics By David Dooling UNIX is an operating system designed by engineers for engineers. This talk will discuss how The Genome Center at Washington U. in St. Louis is using the design philosophy of UNIX, small reusable components, to develop software and schedule work. The talk will also discuss how the application of this philosophy has allowed The Genome Center to sequence and analyze the genomes of hundreds of cancer patients, the exomes of hundreds of diabetics, and the platypus. You can find a bio here: http://genome.wustl.edu/people/dooling_david # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- And after the Genome talk....you can watch the... Perseid Meteor Shower When Wed, August 11, 7:30pm ? Thu, August 12, 3:30am Where Broemmelsiek Park (map) Description Meteor viewing with the public. Bring lounge chairs and blankets. See http://www.asemonline.org/ Naturally, this is actually viewable anywhere with clear, dark skies but its more fun with friends! It is better viewed LATER at nite. Also, this editor THINKS the peak is actually Thursday nite but asemon probably choose this nite for a good reason. ============================================================================== THURSDAY 12 Aug WCORCC-WE - MS Word SIG Excel SIG When Thu, August 12, 10am ? 3pm Where Daniel Boone Branch Library (map) Description West County Older Residents Computer Club http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ MS Word SIG - 10:00 AM MS Excel SIG - 1:00 PM ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCORCC-F Financial SIG When Thu, August 12, 11am ? 1pm Where Tesson Ferry Library Branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 (map) Description South County Older Residents Computer Club See http://www.scorcc.org/ ** *Membership Fee Required* ** Financial Special Interest Group ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ STLJUG - St. Louis Java Users Group When Thu, August 12, 6:30pm ? 8:00pm Where CityPlace One Auditorium, One City Place, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (map) Description http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/ Maven Presented By: Darryl Parks (Monsanto) Maven is a tool for managing and building Java-based projects. According to it's Apache home, Maven's primary goal is to allow a developer to comprehend the complete state of a development effort in the shortest period of time. In order to attain this goal there are several areas of concern that Maven attempts to deal with: * Making the build process easy * Providing a uniform build system * Providing quality project information * Providing guidelines for best practices development * Allowing transparent migration to new features Darryl Parks is a Technical Lead at Monsanto, Inc. ============================================================================== SATURDAY 14 Aug T3 Techies Teaching Techies When Sat, August 14, 8:30am ? 12:00pm Where 625 North Euclid St. Louis, MO 63108 (map) Description http://www.techiesteachingtechies.com/ The Euclid Plaza Building, Suite 516 (Delmar & Euclid), ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- DBUG - Data Bytes Users Group When Sat, August 14, 12pm ? 3pm Where 12863 Willowyk Drive, St. Louis, MO (map) Description See http://dbug-stl.tripod.com/Home.htm Thornhill Branch Library, 12863 Willowyk Drive (off Fee Fee Road), St. Louis, MO ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri When Sat, August 14, 6pm ? 10pm Description See http://asemonline.org/ for current information. * Regular General Meeting* ============================================================================ MONDAY 16 Aug SCORCC-WK - MS Works SIG When Mon, August 16, 1pm ? 2pm Where Tesson Ferry Library Branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 (map) Description See http://www.scorcc.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- STLDNNUG - St. Louis DotNetNuke User Group When Mon, August 16, 6:00pm ? 7:30pm Where 10330 Old Olive Street Rd, St Louis, MO 63141 (map) Description Venue: TricorBruan See http://stlouis.dnnug.com/