The BIG mtng this week = SLUUG general mtng Wed nite!! Editor's picks = Game Developer Contest = only 8 days left and $25,000 to be won! Tonite (Tues) = GAMUG = Apple TV Wed = SLUUG general mtng = Libre-Office -the new version of open Office = Mobile Cellphone technology = Chroot jails - a great security tool Thurs = SPJ Journalist mtng = WikiLeaks Thurs = StL Oracle Users Grp - cloud computing Sunday = Central West End CWElug Next week Wed = SNUG / SuSEsig = Running MS' .NET on MONO in Linux Next week Thurs = StLlug = Video Capture and Editing ============================================================================== TODAY Tuesday, February 8 ============================================================================== Patch Tuesday Tuesday, Feb 8, 2011 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All day Unity GAME DEVELOPER contest. 8 days left. $25,000. 1st place=$10,000 Tuesday, Feb 8, 2011 $25,000 in prizes! 1st Place: $10,000 2nd Place: $5,000 3rd Place: $3,000 4th-10th Place: $1,000 each http://www.kongregate.com/unity_game_contest Unity is a multi-platform game development tool, designed from the start to ease creation of everything from 3D web games to Wii and iPhone games. A fully integrated professional application, Unity just happens to contain the most powerful engine this side of a million dollars and is totally free! Unity is used by the developers such as EA for Tiger Woods Gold from EA, Cartoon Network for Fusion Fall and the upcoming Lego Star Wars game, the Quest for R2-D2. About the Contest Kongregate is happy to announce the support for Unity games, and to celebrate we.re teaming up with Unity for a game development contest (with some awesome prizes!) You are free to create any type of game developed with Unity that you choose so be creative and have fun with it! The 25 highest-rated entries will automatically become finalists, winners will be judged based on creativity, innovation, use of Unity, and how fun they are to play. Visit Unity for more resources and see complete rules of eligibility Last day for game submission is February 15, 2011 and voting ends February 22, 2011. Winners will be announced on February 28, 2011! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 8:00am StL SharePoint Users Grp Tue, February 8, 8am . 11am 3 City Place Dr. St. Louis, MO 63141 VENUE: Microsoft Corporation, 11th Floor, MPR2 http://www.stlsug.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11:30am STLLTUG - St. Louis Lotus Technologies Users Grp Tue, February 8, 11:30am . 1:00pm 500 Maryville Centre Drive, St. Louis, MO IBM Maryville building See http://www.stldominotes.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1:00pm STLSSUG -St. Louis SQL Server User Group Tue, February 8, 1pm . 4pm Three City Place Drive, St. Louis, MO 63141 See http://www.stlssug.org/ for details ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 5:30pm GAMUG - Gateway Area MacIntosh Users Group - The new APPLE TV & the MAC APP STORE Tue, February 8, 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 The new APPLE TV and the MAC APP STORE: Simon Amies will demonstrate the new Apple TV and Air Play which allows iPads and other iOS 4.2 devices to stream video to TVs with HDMI connectors. We also will have a brief discussion of the new Mac App Store which debuts Jan. 6, and what that will mean for Mac users. SPECIAL NOTE: The Apple TV that Simon uses for the demo will be given away as a members-only attendance prize at the end of the evening. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:00pm CCSL - Computer Consultants of St. Louis Tue, February 8, 6pm . 7pm 6630 Delmar Blvd, University City, MO 63128 Venue: St. Louis Bread Co. See http://www.ccsl.org/ Dinner reservations and cancellations 314-995-4652 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm LUCI-NB - Linux Users Central Illinois (Newbie Mtg) Tue, February 8, 7pm . 9pm 1011 E. Ash Street Springfield, IL VENUE: Illinois State Museum Research and Collections Center See http://www.luci.org/ ============================================================================== Wednesday, February 9 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ All day Unity GAME DEVELOPER contest. 7 days left. $25,000. 1st place=$10,000 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8:00am StL ACT! Users Grp Wed, February 9, 8am . 9am See http://www.meetup.com/St-Louis-ACT-Software-Users-Group/ Location is usually shown only to members (which is really STUPID!). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1:00pm SCORCC-G Geneology SIG Wed, February 9, 1pm . 2pm Tesson Ferry Library Branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 See http://www.scorcc.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:00pm JCMS - Joomla CMS Wed, February 9, 6pm . 8pm 10425 Old Olive LL3 St Louis, MO 63141 Venue: Above Web Media http://www.meetup.com/Joomla-CMS-and-Graphics-Design/ NO WEBSITE ENTRY! Is mtng cancelled? Joomla people are at SLUUG general? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:30pm SLUUG St. Louis Unix Users Group = Libre-Office. Mobile Cellphone technology. Chroot jails Sun "owned" the open-source project Open Office. Oracle bought Sun. A number of contributors to Open Office did not think Oracle was being adequately responsive to the calls for improvements & progress. So the "nice thing" about open-source is you can "take your ball and go home". A group of developers have taken the Open Office code and "forked off" a new code base called Libre-Office. Will Oracle just give the Open Office name to Libre Office and will it be the "gold standard"? Or will the fork be permanent and Oracle maintain development of Open Office in another direction? What's new and improved in Libre Office? Stan will tell us his experinces of the last month de-installing Open Office and installing Libre-Office. Will Oracle just give the Open Office name to Libre Office and will it be the "gold standard"? Or will the fork be permanent and Oracle maintain development of Open Office in another direction? And...another short presentation on Mobile Cellphone technology. 2G vs. 3G vs. 4G... Bigger is always better, right? Maybe not. Maybe you really want to know if the frequencies being used are the best for your terrain and buildings? The tutorial on "Chroot jails" is a way of restricting root access in a very scure way still getting access for what is needed. Wed, February 9, 6:30pm . 9:00pm 11885 Lackland Road, Maryland Heights, MO 63146 http://www.sluug.org/ VENUE: Graybar Electric Co, Inc. Your forum for exchanging information about open standards, open systems, open source, products, services and architectures. TONITE= Main presentations @7:30 = Libre-Office by Stan Reichardt. = Mobile cell phone technologies by Jerry Stutte. Basic/tutorial @ 6:30 = Chroot jails by Lee Lammert All month = elections ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm MTM - Midwest Tech Meetup -MOVED March 3 Wed, February 9, 7pm . 9pm http://www.meetup.com/MTechM/ MOVED to 1st Thursday! i.e. March 3 ============================================================================== Thursday, February 10 =============================================================================== 10:00am WCORCC-WE - MS Word SIG Excel SIG Thu, February 10, 10am . 3pm Daniel Boone Branch Library West County Older Residents Computer Club http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ MS Word SIG - 10:00 AM MS Excel SIG - 1:00 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 11:00am SCORCC-F Financial SIG Thu, February 10, 11am . 1pm Tesson Ferry Library Branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 South County Older Residents Computer Club See http://www.scorcc.org/ ** *Membership Fee Required* ** Financial Special Interest Group ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:00pm Gateway/400 Group -"Systems Director for IBM i" Thu, February 10, 12:00pm . 1:30pm 12031 Lackland Rd, St Louis, MO VENUE: Spazio's in WestPort, at the Comfort Inn http://www.gateway400.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:00pm WikiLeaks and access to public records (What happens when you get: the FBI agent-in-charge of StL, a newspaper editor, & a law school prof, to talk about WikiLeaks?) Thu, February 10, 12pm . 1pm 1234 Washington Ave Saint Louis, MO 63103 # : Lucas Park Grille Downtown St. L. chapter, Society of Professional Journalists WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange might not think governments have a right to keep secrets from their citizens, but the reality is that many government documents are not part of the public record. So, where is the line drawn between what the public and journalists have access to and what they don't? And is that line reasonable? We'll ask three distinguished panelists to discuss those questions and others regarding government secrecy and public access at the next lunch meeting of the St. Louis Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists. The panelists are: Dennis Baker, special agent in charge of the FBI St.L Division. Jean Buchanan, Post-Dispatch assist. managing editor/projects. Alan Howard, St. Louis University School of Law professor and First Amendment expert. The meeting will be noon until 1pm Thursday, Feb. 10, at Lucas Park Grille, 1234 Washington Avenue, downtown St. Louis. The cost, including lunch, soft drink, and tip, is $10 for SPJ members and $12 for other guests. 314-971-0073 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm slOUG - StL Oracle Users Grp - cloud computing Thu, February 10, 1:00pm . 4:45pm 424 South Woodsmill Road, Chesterfield, MO 63017 http://www.sloug.org/ Pete Heinrich from Oracle will be speaking about cloud computing and Oracle's direction specifically in the area of Software as a Service (SAAS). We'd also welcome everyone to share their experiences with SAAS, Platform as a Service (PAAS) and Infrastructure as a Service (IAAS). The meeting will be at Oracle's office on Woodsmill. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm STLJUG - StL Java Users Grp -RabbitMQ is a messaging broker utilizing the open AMQP protocol Thu, February 10, 6:30pm . 8:00pm 424 South Woods Mill Road, Chesterfield, MO 63017 http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/ DIFFERENT LOCATION THIS MONTH!!! Oracle offices. 424 South Woods Mill Road Suite 200, Chesterfield, MO 63017 (NOT at CityPlace One Auditorium) RabbitMQ is a robust messaging broker utilizing the open AMQP protocol that is both high performance and easy to use. In addition to digging into the details of how RabbitMQ works there will also be an in-depth demonstration of using the new spring-amqp module as well as tying different languages and platforms together using AMQP based messaging. =============================================================================== Friday, February 11 =============================================================================== 10:00am SCORCC-DTP Desktop Publishing Fri, February 11, 10am . 12pm County Government Center 4544 Lemay Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63129 SCORCC-DTP South County Older Residents Computer Club See http://www.scorcc.org/ ** *Membership Fee Required* ** Desktop Publishing Special Interest Group - 10:00 AM Photoimpact Special Interest Group - 11:00 AM ============================================================================== Saturday, February 12 =============================================================================== 8:30am T3 Techies Teaching Techies -hiatus Sat, February 12, 8:30am . 12:00pm 625 North Euclid St. Louis, MO 63108 http://www.techiesteachingtechies.com/ The Euclid Plaza Building, Suite 516 (Delmar & Euclid), ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 12:00pm DBUG - Data Bytes Users Group Sat, February 12, 12pm . 3pm 12863 Willowyk Drive, St. Louis, MO See http://dbug-stl.tripod.com/Home.htm Thornhill Branch Library, 12863 Willowyk Drive (off Fee Fee Road), St. Louis, MO ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri Sat, February 12, 6pm . 10pm See http://asemonline.org/ for current information. * Regular General Meeting* =============================================================================== Sunday, February 13 ============================================================================== 1:00pm New date - CWElug Central West End Linux Users' Group Sun, February 13, 1pm . 5pm 1610 S. Big Bend Blvd. St. Louis, MO 63117 Venue: Scott's Office http://groups.google.com/group/cwelug/ (which may not actually be current). ============================================================================== COMIING NEXT WEEK... =============================================================================== Monday, February 14 ============================================================================== 1:00pm SCORCC-GM - General Meeting 6:00pm stlDNLIG - StL .NET Languages Interest Group 6:00pm BDPA - Black Data Processing Associates 6:00pm stlRUBY - STL Ruby Users' Grp ============================================================================== Tuesday, February 15 ============================================================================== Unity GAME DEVELOPER contest ends 1:59am tonite! $25,000. 1st place=$10,000 11:45am stlHDI - Help Desk Institute -date & time CHANGE 1:00pm SCORCC-CM - Computer Media SIG 2:00pm stlISSA - Information Systems Security Association - Web and Database Security 6:00pm HIATUS - STLOSUG - StL OpenSolaris Users Grp 6:30pm StL Hadoop Users Grp -the Hive project at Cloudera. 7:00pm Astronomy Digital Imaging SIG 7:30pm Academy of Science - St. Louis 1:59am Unity GAME DEVELOPER contest ends @1:59am tonite! $25,000. 1st place=$10,000 ============================================================================== Wednesday, February 16 =============================================================================== 1:359m Unity GAME DEVELOPER contest ends 9:00am Thornhill Computer Club 11:30am SNUG - Novell Users Grp & SuSE Linux Lunch - .NET on MONO in Linux 2:00pm STLISACA - StL InfoSys Audit & Ctrl Assn 6:00pm GCC - Gateway Computer Club 6:30pm stlPM - StL Perl Mongers Grp 7:00pm StL ALT.NET - GIT distributed version control system ============================================================================== Thursday, February 17 ============================================================================== 1:00pm WCORCC - General Mtg 1:30pm St. Louis GIS Users Group 6:30pm stlLUG -Linux Users' Grp 7:00pm PHP - St Louis PHP Users Group 7:30pm SLRCFA - StL Radio Control Flying Association 7:30pm STL Wordpress Users Group ============================================================================== Friday, February 18 ============================================================================== 1:00pm NCORCC 7:00pm SLARC - StL Area Radio Club 7:30pm SLAS - StL Astronomical Society =============================================================================== Saturday, February 19 ============================================================================== 9:00am OLMOLUG - Ol' Mo' Linux Users Group (in Old Monroe in Lincoln County) 10:00am ROBOMO - StL Area Robotics Grp 4:00pm SILUG-ME =============================================================================== =============================================================================== Check for last minute changes on the individual wbsites. 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