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
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TODAY
Tuesday, February 8
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Patch Tuesday
Tuesday, Feb 8, 2011
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patch_Tuesday
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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!
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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/
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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/
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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
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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.
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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
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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/
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Wednesday, February 9
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All day
Unity GAME DEVELOPER contest. 7 days left. $25,000. 1st place=$10,000
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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!).
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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/
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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?
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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
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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
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Thursday, February 10
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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
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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
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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/
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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
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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.
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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.
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Friday, February 11
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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
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Saturday, February 12
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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),
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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
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6:00pm
ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri
Sat, February 12, 6pm . 10pm
See
http://asemonline.org/ for current information.
* Regular General Meeting*
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Sunday, February 13
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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).
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COMIING NEXT WEEK...
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Monday, February 14
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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
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Tuesday, February 15
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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
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Wednesday, February 16
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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
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Thursday, February 17
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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
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Friday, February 18
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1:00pm
NCORCC
7:00pm
SLARC - StL Area Radio Club
7:30pm
SLAS - StL Astronomical
Society
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Saturday, February 19
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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
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