Be extra careful to double check the individual events websites/URLs because many groups are doing holiday events or changes and may make last minute updates. Editor's picks= Tue MOSLUG Wed SLUUG general mtng = Lee Lammert on LG's model # N2B1 an Arm-based, Linux run NAS server Thurs GIS StL Geographic Information System users' Grp Tue "All StL User Groups'" HOLIDAY Geek Bowl Party ============================================================================== Monday, December 6 Saint Nicholas day Germanic/Alpine christian holiday. Gift giving. "Official" beginning of the Xmas season in western christianity. (and all those stores had Xmas stuff on-sale at Halloween!) Hanukkah (Chanukah) day #6 in 2010. ============================================================================= Tuesday, December 7 All day Pearl Harbor Day ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:00am Vim Fandango WhenTue, December 7, 8am . 5pm WhereComputer Room, 3720 Green Mount Crossing Drive, Shiloh, IL 62208 (map) Description http://www.computerroom.us/2010/08/class-vim-fandango.html Even long-time users rarely employ more than a fraction of its capabilities, ... $299, with lunch included. Contact sales(a)computerroom.us ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:00pm date changed! FLEX - StL Adobe Users' Grp, Flex and Fuse the Arch Moved to NEXT week, i.e. Tue. Dec 14 where we challenge SLUUG (StL UNIX Users' Grp) and all other tech User Grps in the "Geek Bowling Holiday Extravaganza Thingie" http://stltechbowl.eventbrite.com/ http://fafta.groups.adobe.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm GGUG - Gateway Groovy Users Group Tue, December 7, 6pm . 7pm 660 Mason Ridge Center, St. Louis, MO 63141 (map) Lutheran Hour Ministries building http://www.gatewayjug.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:30pm MOSLUG - MO Open Source Linux Users Group NEW LOCATION!! Tue, December 7, 6:30pm . 9:00pm StL Bread Co. South Lindbergh Blvd. @ Watson Rd. , Sunset Hills, Missouri 63127 DANGER! DANGER, Will Robinson! Wired Coffee has gone to winter hours and is closed in the evening so we need a NEW LOCATION!! Currently, we are looking at StL Bread Co. but that MAY change! Stay tuned to SLUUG's DISCUSS list to see if there is a different location. http://groups.google.com/group/moslug ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri Tue, December 7, 7:00pm . 9:30pm http://asemonline.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7:00pm GJUG - Gateway Java Users Group Tue, December 7, 7:00pm . 8:30pm 660 Mason Ridge Center, St. Louis, MO 63141 (map) Lutheran Hour Ministries building http://www.gatewayjug.org Commercial (i.e. non-OpenSource) tools. IDEA and Eclipse, SOAP-based web services, WSDL, and a new tool called PROWESS. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30pm Academy of Science St. Louis Tue, December 7, 7:30pm . 8:00pm St. Louis Zoo, St. Louis, MO (map) Saint Louis Zoo Living World TOPIC: Creepy Crawly Conservation: The Value of Invertebrates http://academyofsciencestl.org/events/ For info call 314-533-8586 or rsvp(a)academyofsciencestl.org ============================================================================== Wednesday, December 8 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8:00am Class: Scripting for System Administrators Wed, December 8, 8am . Fri, December 10, 5pm 3720 Green Mount Crossing Dr., Shiloh, IL 62269 (map) $999, with lunch included each day. Contact sales(a)computerroom.us ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:00am St. Louis ACT! Users Group Wed, December 8, 8am . 9am http://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-ACT-Software-Users-Group/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1:00pm SCORCC-G Geneology SIG Wed, December 8, 1pm . 2pm Tesson Ferry Library Branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 (map) http://www.scorcc.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:30pm *#*#*#*# SLUUG * StL. Unix Users' Group # - Arm-based Linux NAS Server * # Wed, Dec. 8, 6:30pm . 9:00pm Graybar Electric Co, Inc. 11885 Lackland Road, Maryland Heights, MO 63146 http://www.sluug.org/ Your forum for exchanging information about open standards, open systems, open source, products, services and architectures. This month: # Arm-based Linux NAS Server (LG N2B1) by Lee Lammert (i.e. Its made by LG and its model # N2B1) # Also perhaps preceeded by "Karaoke Keyboard" or some tutorial. ============================================================================== Thursday, December 9 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- All day Class: Scripting for System Administrators Wed, December 8, 8am . Fri, December 10, 5pm ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:30am Gateway/400 Group "PHP for RPG Developers" Thu, December 9, 8:30am . 4:00pm 12031 Lackland Rd, St Louis, MO (map) Spazio's in WestPort, at the Comfort Inn http://www.gateway400.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00am WCORCC-WE - MS Word SIG Excel SIG Thu, December 9, 10am . 3pm Daniel Boone Branch Library (map) West County Older Residents Computer Club http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ MS Word SIG - 10:00AM MS Excel SIG - 1:00PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11:00am SCORCC-F Financial SIG Thu, December 9, 11am . 1pm Tesson Ferry Library Branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 (map) South County Older Residents Computer Club http://www.scorcc.org/ ** *Membership Fee Required* ** Financial Special Interest Group ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm HIATUS - SLOUG - St. Louis Oracle Users Group Thu, December 9, 1:00pm . 4:45pm ** *NO MEETINGS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE* ** http://www.sloug.org/ Location changes from month to month ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm Academy of Science St. Louis Thu, December 9, 1pm . 3pm 50 Gay Avenue, Clayton, MO 63105 (map) OASIS at the Center of Clayton 50 Gay Avenue, Clayton, MO 63105 TOPIC: I Forgot to Pick Up the Milk: Some Surprising Findings on Memory and Aging, and Strategies for Improving Memory FREE to the first 10 registrants, $9 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL. Space is limited. To register call 314-533-8586 or e-mail rsvp(a)academyofsciencestl.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1:30pm GIS - Geographic Information System Thu, December 9, 1:30pm . 3:30pm URS Corporation, 1001 Highlands Plaza Dr. West, Suite 300, (map) Professionals in state, city, county, education, and private business that see the benefits of using a Geographic Information System (GIS) in their organization. We meet on a quarterly basis to discuss new technologies our members are using, to share applications and solutions that would benefit the group, and to network with other GIS users in the StL area. An informal atmosphere and membership is open and free to anyone who has an interest in GIS. This month: URS Overview - Heather Milton. Updates on URISA and GISCorps - Heather Milton/Hilary Perkins. Recent projects completed by Esri rent-a-tech - Esri staff. If questions email Kim...kburns(a)esri.com. http://msdis.missouri.edu/stlgis/index.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 4:00pm BDPA - Black Data Processing Associates "Network to Hire" Thu, December 9, 4pm . 7pm Cabanne House in Forest Park (map) Network to Hire Event http://www.bdpa-stlouis.org/ =============================================================================== Friday, December 10 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Class: Scripting for System Administrators Wed, December 8, 8am . Fri, December 10, 5pm ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00am SCORCC-DTP Desktop Publishing Fri, December 10, 10am . 12pm 4544 Lemay Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63129 (map) SCORCC-DTP South County Older Residents Computer Club http://www.scorcc.org/ ** *Membership Fee Required* ** Desktop Publishing SIG - 10:00AM Photoimpact Special Interest Group - 11:00AM County Government Center 4544 Lemay Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63129 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10:00am Academy of Science St. Louis Fri, December 10, 10:00am . 11:30am 5595 Grand Drive, St. Louis, MO 63112 (map) Forest Park OASIS - Dennis and Judith Jones Visitor Center 5595 Grand Drive, St. Louis, MO 63112 TOPIC: Working Under Pressure: Scientific Considerations in the Construction of the Eads Bridge FREE to the first 10 registrants, $9 per person thereafter. OPEN to ALL. Space is limited. To register call 314-533-8586 or e-mail rsvp(a)academyofsciencestl.org ============================================================================== Saturday, December 11 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8:30am Holiday break!! T3 Techies Teaching Techies Sat, December 11, 8:30am . 12:00pm 625 North Euclid St. Louis, MO 63108 (map) http://www.techiesteachingtechies.com/ The Euclid Plaza Building, Suite 516 (Delmar & Euclid), ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12:00pm DBUG - Data Bytes Users' Grp Sat, December 11, 12pm . 3pm 12863 Willowyk Drive, St. Louis, MO (map) http://dbug-stl.tripod.com/Home.htm Thornhill Branch Library, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri Sat, December 11, 6pm . 10pm http://asemonline.org/ * Regular General Meeting* ============================================================================== Sunday, December 12 ============================================================================== All day International Conference on Information Systems conference - ISIS 2010 Sun Dec 12 thru Wed Dec 15 2010 Hyatt Regency, St. Louis, MO (map) http://www.simnet.org/?page=STL_Welcome =============================================================================== Monday, December 13 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All day International Conference on Information Systems conference - ISIS 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm SCORCC-GM - General Meeting Mon, December 13, 1pm . 3pm 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 (map) South County Older Residents Computer Club http://www.scorcc.org/ Tesson Ferry Library Branch ** *Membership Fee Required* ** SCORCC General Meeting more details» copy to my calendar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5:30pm stlSD - StL C# Software Developers Mon, December 13, 5:30pm . 8:30pm 842 S. Holmes Ave., St. Louis, MO 63122 (map) St. Louis County Library: Oak Bend Branch http://www.stlcsharp.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:00pm stlRUBY - STL Ruby Users' Grp Mon, December 13, 6pm . 8pm 1701 Washington Ave., St. Louis, MO (map) http://stlruby.org # RubyConf X - Recap by Jeff Barczewski and others. # Project review - Nathan Neff will update us on his time tracking project with ByteWorks. Command Line Web Time Tracking App. I plan to use Fecba... ============================================================================== Tuesday, December 14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All day International Conference on Information Systems conference - ISIS 2010 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All day Patch Tuesday Tuesday, Dec 14, 2010 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8:00am StL SharePoint Users' Grp Tue, December 14, 8am . 11am 3 City Place Dr. St. Louis, MO 63141 (map) Claims Authentication & Dashboard. Microsoft Corporation, 11th Floor, MPR2 http://www.stlsug.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11:30am stlLTUG - StL Lotus Technologies Users Group Tue, December 14, 11:30am . 1:00pm 500 Maryville Centre Drive, St. Louis, MO (map) IBM Maryville building http://www.stldominotes.org/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm stlSSUG -StL SQL Server User Group Tue, December 14, 1pm . 5pm Three City Place Drive, St. Louis, MO 63141 (map) RAID, SANs and configuring hardware for SQL Server -and- SQL Server 2008 Upgrade using, Database Mirroring as another method http://www.stlssug.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5:30pm GAMUG - Gateway Area MacIntosh Users Group Tue, December 14, 5:30pm . 9:00pm Parkway Central High School http://www.gamug.org/ Beginner SIG - 5:30 PM Intermediate SIG - 5:30 PM General Meeting - 7:00 PM more details» copy to my calendar ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm CCSL - Computer Consultants of St. Louis Tue, December 14, 5:59pm . 6:59pm 6630 Delmar Blvd, University City, MO 63128 (map) St. Louis Bread Co. http://www.ccsl.org/ Dinner reservations and cancellations 314-995-4652 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:00pm Geek Bowling Holiday Extravaganza Thingie -or- "All StL User Groups'" HOLIDAY Bowl Party 6:00pm . 11:55pm The StL Adobe Users' Grp (FLEX) has challenged SLUUG & a slew of any user groups from around town to get together for some Christmas-y bowling, networking, and general jolly-making. We have 8 bowling lanes reserved between all the groups. Probably 48 bowlers and another 48 non-bowling observers/cheerers/jeerers/disinterested partiers! Hope you can make it! Other challenged grps include: * StL Web Dev * Perl Mongers * Arch Reactor * CocoaHeads * Lambda Lounge * StL Mobile Dev * Gateway JUG * Flex and Fuse the Arch * Strange Loop * Alt.NET * Day of .NET * StL Innovation Camp * Flash Camp * ITEN * Bar Camp * Node.js group * Hacks and Hackers * StL Design Meetup * StL Code Retreat * Gateway Groovy * holy cow there's probably more too! http://stltechbowl.eventbrite.com/ http://fafta.groups.adobe.com/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7:00pm LUCI-NB - Linux Users Central Illinois (Newbie Mtg) Tue, December 14, 7pm . 9pm 1011 E. Ash Street Springfield, IL (map) Illinois State Museum Research and Collections Center http://www.luci.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7:00pm Academy of Science St. Louis Tue, December 14, 7:00pm . 8:30pm Missouri History Museum, 5700 Lindell Blvd., St. Louis, Missouri 63112 (map) Lee Auditorium Lindell and DeBaliviere in Forest Park TOPIC: Napoleon in Egypt, Queen Henhenit, and the Tragedy of Maternal Birth Trauma FREE and OPEN to ALL. Middle and high school students welcome. Parking free in Museum lots or in Forest Park. ============================================================================== ============================================================================== C O M I N G N E X T W E E K Wednesday, December 15 ============================================================================== All day International Conference on Information Systems conference - ISIS 2010 All day Bill of Rights Day 9:00am Thornhill Computer Club 11:30am SNUG - St. L. Novell Users Group -and- SuSE Linux SIG Lunch 2:00pm STLISACA - StL InfoSys Audit & Ctrl Assn 6:00pm BDPA - Black Data Processing Associates "Holiday Celebration" 6:00pm GCC - Gateway Computer Club 6:30pm stlPM - St. Louis Perl Mongers Group 7:00pm MTM - Midwest Tech Meetup 7:00pm StL ALT.NET ============================================================================== Thursday, December 16 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1:00pm WCORCC - General Mtg 6:30pm stlLUG -Linux Users' Grp 7:00pm MWG - MidWest Geeks 7:00pm PHP - St Louis PHP Users Group 7:30pm SLRCFA - St. Louis Radio Control Flying Association 7:30pm STL Wordpress Users Group =============================================================================== Friday, December 17 ============================================================================== 1:00pm NCORCC 7:00pm SLARC - St. Louis Area Radio Club 7:30pm SLAS - St. Louis Astronomical Society =============================================================================== Saturday, December 18 ============================================================================== 9:00am Hiatus - OLMOLUG - Ol' Mo' Linux Users Group 10:00am ROBOMO - StL Area Robotics Grp 4:00pm SILUG-ME =============================================================================== Monday, December 20 ============================================================================== 1:00pm SCORCC-WK - MS Works SIG 6:00pm STLDNNUG - St. Louis DotNetNuke User Group ============================================================================== Tuesday, December 21 ============================================================================== 11:45am stlHDI - Help Desk Institute 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.L Hadoop Users Group