Editor's pick's: TONITE = Wednesday SLUUG's general mtng. Libra Office's "mail merge" by Stan Riechardt. SLUUG's rebuilding of the mail server by Jeff Muse. A technical tour de force...or how to get alot of work done!! ;-) And lots of good technical conversations. Thurs = Oracle UG Java UG NEXT Monday & Tues... UMSL's Intro to UNIX class ============================================================================== Wednesday, Aug 10 ============================================================================== 6:30pm SLUUG St. Louis Unix Users Group WhenWed, August 10, 6:30pm . 9:00pm Where11885 Lackland Road, Maryland Heights, MO 63146 (map) Description http://www.sluug.org/ VENUE: Graybar Electric Co, Inc. THIS MONTH= The basics portion will be on LibreOffice Mail Merge Processing by Stan Reichardt Informal demonstration of the Mail Merge Wizard process to create multiple documents from a simple database. To begin, we export column and row data from a spreadsheet into a *.CVS file. That file is then used to quickly build a LibreOffice database. Using that database, we can filter selected records and extract specific data fields into a document or email format. Output can be globally modified, or individual outputs can be customized before being printed or emailed. Our main event will be Migration of Services to AMBER (tentative pending completion of work) by SLUUG Volunteers When finished we will have moved our main SLUUG web site to much larger hardware on AMBER. A warning notice went out and instructions about password changes were sent to subscribers. During several hours downtime we rewnewed a domain, synced mailboxes, propagated DNS records, and much more. We have migrated most of our affiliate web sites from our BUD server to our AMBER server. Migration of SLUUG e-mail and mailing lists is mostly complete. Plans for re-purposing our BUD server are in view. EVERY MONTH= Your forum for exchanging information about open standards, open systems, open source, products, services and architectures. The St. Louis Unix Users Group (SLUUG) general meetings are usually on the second Wednesday of each month. We start the general meeting with a basic session; which may include either simple tutorials, displays of newly discovered web sites, command line wonders, demonstrations of useful applications, amazing graphical packages, major resolution of long standing anomalies, blinking lights, or quantum shifts in both time and space. 1Then we will have our usual quick welcome, introduction, administrative announcements, and a Questions and Answers Period. After all that, we take a break before our main event. ============================================================================== Thursday, August 11 ============================================================================== 8:15am STL Tech-Security Conference WhenThu, August 11, 8:15am . 3:45pm Where16625 Swingley Ridge Road Chesterfield, MO. 63017 (map) DescriptionVENUE: Doubletree Hotel & Conference Center See http://www.dataconnectors.com/events/2011/08StLouis/agenda.asp Overview The St. Louis Tech-Security Conference features 25-30 vendor exhibits and several industry experts discussing current tech-security issues such as email security, VoIP, LAN security, wireless security, USB drives security & more. There will be lots of give a ways and prizes such as iPods, $25, $50 and $100 gift cards, as well as cash prizes and lots more! This unique conference format will provide educational speaker sessions as well as tremendous networking opportunities. You'll come away with advice and knowledge you can start applying to your environment immediately. To register for this conference, click on the link in the left column. Your registration will include your breakfast, lunch, conference materials and entrance into the conference sessions and exhibit area. Scroll down to view the full conference agenda. more details» copy to my calendar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10:00am WCORCC-WE - MS Word SIG Excel SIG WhenThu, August 11, 10am . 3pm WhereDaniel Boone Branch Library (map) DescriptionWest County Older Residents Computer Club http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ MS Word SIG - 10:00 AM MS Excel SIG - 1:00 PM more details» copy to my calendar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11:00am Hiatus - SCORCC-F Financial SIG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:00pm Hiatus- Gateway/400 Grp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm SLOUG - St. Louis Oracle Users Group WhenThu, August 11, 1pm . 4pm Where424 South Woodsmill Road, Suite 200 Chesterfield , MO 63017 (map) Description<a href="http://www.sloug.org/> http://www.sloug.org/</a> <p> Dan Glasscock from Oracle will be doing a presentation on RAC tuning. There will be ample time after the presentation for questions. At Oracle's office on Woodsmill. more details» copy to my calendar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm stlJUG - StL Java Users Grp WhenThu, August 11, 6:30pm . 8:00pm WhereCityPlace One Auditorium, One City Place, Creve Coeur, MO 63141 (map) Description http://www.ociweb.com/javasig/ n the Java build space, first there was Ant, which provided a reliable way to build without an IDE. Then there was Maven, which provided standardization in build life cycles and dependency management. Now... Enter the Gradle, which provides convention over configuration approach to the build process and an approach at building that isn't based on XML. This session assumes no familiarly with Gradle as it introduces this new approach at building projects. This session will look at multi-language or polyglot projects, as well as integration to Ant and Maven. It will conclude with building custom plugins for the Gradle build process. About the Presenter: Ken has been a practitioner and instructor of RUP since the late 1990s, and an extreme programmer and coach since the middle 2000s. more details» copy to my calendar ============================================================================== Friday, August 12 ============================================================================== All day Perseids Meteor Shower WhenAug 12 . 13, 2011 DescriptionSee http://www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-calendar-2011.html The Perseids is one of the best meteor showers to observe, producing up to 60 meteors per hour at their peak. The shower's peak usually occurs on August 13 & 14, but you may be able to see some meteors any time from July 23 - August 22. The radiant point for this shower will be in the constellation Perseus. The full moon will definitely be a problem this year, hiding the fainter meteors with its glare. But with up to 60 meteors per hour possible, it could still be a great show. Find a location far from city lights and look to the northeast after midnight. more details» copy to my calendar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 10:00am Hiatus SCORCC-DTP Desktop Publishing ============================================================================= Saturday, August 13 ============================================================================== All day Perseids Meteor Shower WhenAug 12 . 13, 2011 DescriptionSee http://www.seasky.org/astronomy/astronomy-calendar-2011.html The Perseids is one of the best meteor showers to observe, producing up to 60 meteors per hour at their peak. The shower's peak usually occurs on August 13 & 14, but you may be able to see some meteors any time from July 23 - August 22. The radiant point for this shower will be in the constellation Perseus. The full moon will definitely be a problem this year, hiding the fainter meteors with its glare. But with up to 60 meteors per hour possible, it could still be a great show. Find a location far from city lights and look to the northeast after midnight. more details» copy to my calendar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 8:30am Hiatus - T3 Techies Teaching Techies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 12:00pm DBUG - Data Bytes Users Group WhenSat, August 13, 12pm . 3pm Where12863 Willowyk Drive, St. Louis, MO (map) DescriptionSee http://dbug-stl.tripod.com/Home.htm Thornhill Branch Library, 12863 Willowyk Drive (off Fee Fee Road), St. Louis, MO more details» copy to my calendar ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:00pm ASEMO - Astronomical Society of Eastern Missouri WhenSat, August 13, 6pm . 10pm DescriptionSee http://asemonline.org/ for current information. * Regular General Meeting* ============================================================================== Sunday, August 14 ============================================================================== All day 1945 VJ Day ============================================================================== ============================================================================== And coming NEXT week... ============================================================================== Monday, August 15 1:00pm SCORCC-GM - General Meeting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Tuesday, August 16 8:30am UMSL - Introduction to UNIX - Day 1 1:00pm Hiatus - SCORCC-CM - Computer Media SIG 2:00pm STLISSA - Information Systems Security Association 4:00pm stlHDI - Help Desk Institute -date & time CHANGE 6:00pm HIATUS - STLOSUG - St. Louis OpenSolaris Users Group 6:30pm StL Hadoop Users Grp 7:00pm Astronomy Digital Imaging SIG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, August 17 8:30am UMSL - Introduction to UNIX - Day 2 9:00am Thornhill Computer Club 11:30am SNUG - StL Novell Users Grp & SuSE Linux Lunch 2:00pm STLISACA - StL InfoSys Audit & Ctrl Assn 6:00pm GCC - Gateway Computer Club 6:30pm stlPM - StL Perl Mongers Grp ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Thursday, August 18 7:30am IT Advancement Council 1:00pm WCORCC - General Mtg 1:30pm St. Louis GIS Users Group 6:30pm HIATUS - stlLUG -Linux Users' Grp 6:30pm STLJS - Saint Louis JavaScript Meetup 7:00pm PHP - St Louis PHP Users Group 7:30pm SLRCFA - St. Louis Radio Control Flying Association 7:30pm STL Wordpress Users Group ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, August 19 All day 33rd Annual YMCA Bookfair All day Discount Deadline - StrangeLoop 1:00pm NCORCC - North County Older Residents Computer Club 7:00pm SLARC - St. Louis Area Radio Club 7:30pm SLAS - St. Louis Astronomical Society ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, August 20 All day 33rd Annual YMCA Bookfair 10:00am ROBOMO - StL Area Robotics Grp 4:00pm SILUG-ME - Southern Illinois Linux Users Group ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, August 21 All day 33rd Annual YMCA Bookfair ============================================================================= NOTICE: Everything is our "best guess". 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