Editor's Picks = Thurs. St. Charles LUG How to do Animation! Free "Art of Illusion" sftwr. Wed. StL Hi Performance Computing Vim Geeks Sat. GAMP Mac/iPad/iPhone Programmers Always check http://www.SLUUG.org/ for last minute changes to events. And the details... ============================================================================== ============================================================================== Wednesday, June 22 ============================================================================== 4:30pm STLHPC - StL High Performance Computing Big Data Meets High Performance Computing WhenWed, June 22, 4:30pm . 9:00pm Where1 Savvis Parkway, Town and Country, MO 63017 DescriptionVENUE: Savvis Corporate Headquarters See http://stlhpc.net/ TOPIC: Big Data Meets High Performance Computing Registration required - No Fee. Join us in St. Louis at this free STLhpc.net event on June 22 to learn how High Performance Computing (HPC) is being leveraged to transform unprecedented amounts of data from various industries into business insights and discoveries. Come hear perspectives on Big Data and its effect on the data center from top executives from two of the largest storage companies, Hitachi Data Systems and EMC/Isilon, in the same room. Learn about a specific case of how HPC solutions created here in St. Louis are being used to analyze vast quantities of financial market data. Further, find out how you can connect with local groups, such as the St. Louis High Performance Computing group, STLhpc.net, and the St. Louis Storage Networking User Group. Featuring: * Hubert Yoshida . VP and Chief Technology Officer for Hitachi Data Systems * Rob Peglar . CTO Americas at Isilon Systems, a division of EMC * Jeff Wells . Vice President of Product Marketing at Exegy and Co-chair of the Financial Information Forum.s Market Data Capacity Working Group * David Schuehler . Distinguished Engineer and Vice President of Quality and Performance Engineering at Exegy * Gary Stiehr . Founder, stlhpc.net; Information Systems Group Leader at The Genome Institute at Washington University in Saint Louis ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:30pm VIM Geeks WhenWed, June 22, 6:30pm . 8:30pm Where3720 Green Mount Crossing Drive Shiloh, IL 62269 (map) DescriptionVENUE: Comptuer Room http://www.vimgeeks.org This time, we'll have not just one but two presentations: * Steven Pritchard will dispel the mysteries of Vim syntax files. * Bill Odom (a.k.a., yours truly) will explain the nifty stuff you can do with registers. And, of course, there'll be the always-interesting Q&A and spur-of-the-moment demos and stimulating digressions -- you know, the usual good time. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm StL ALT.NET WhenWed, June 22, 7pm . 9pm Where999 Executive Parkway Saint Louis, MO DescriptionThis meeting: Jeff Sigmon will be talking about his Clojure project, "Hacker News Radio", and how he gives an electronic voice to Hacker News trolls everywhere! Nicholas Cloud will be talking about the DLR, and how dynamic programming can change your life! There may be Python involved too. Don't forget, if you want to be eligible for the following raffle prices you must be a member of the meetup group and you must be present! * 1 L2SProf license (Hibernating Rhinos) * 1 Typemock license * 4 St. Louis Day of .NET tickets Also, members who choose to give a 5-10 minute lightning talk on a technical topic of their choice will have their name entered into the raffle a second time. Please notify me at least two weeks in advance if you plan to give a lightning talk so I can adjust the schedule accordingly. Every meeting: Venue: Professional Employment Group http://www.meetup.com/stlaltdotnet/ Developers should not align themselves with platforms and languages, but with principles and ideas. An "alternative" view of the Microsoft development universe--a view that challenged the "Microsoft-only" approach to software development. He distilled his thoughts into four key developer characteristics which form the basis of the ALT.NET philosophy: 1. You're the type of developer who uses what works while keeping an eye out for a better way. 2. You reach outside the mainstream to adopt the best of any community: Open Source, Agile, Java, Ruby, etc. ,,, ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:00pm Hiatus - TAP - Science on Tap =============================================================================== Thursday, June 23 =============================================================================== 8:30am STLCRMUG - St. Louis CRM Users Group WhenThu, June 23, 8:30am . 11:30am Where3 City Place Drive, Creve Coeur, MO 63131 http://www.stlcrmug.org/ Microsoft Offices Meets every other month. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00am WCORCC - Technical SIG Multimedia SIG WhenThu, June 23, 10am . 3pm WhereDaniel Boone Branch Library http://wcorcc.tripod.com/ Technical Forum SIG - 10:00 AM Multimedia SIG - 1:00 PM ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5:30pm STL-AITP - Association of Information Technology Professionals WhenThu, June 23, 5:30pm . 8:30pm Where7750 Carondelet Avenue St. Louis, MO 63105 http://www.stlouisaitp.org/ We have monthly dinner meetings in St. Louis! These meeting are usually held the 4th Thursday of each month at the Crown Plaza in Clayton. These meetings features a social hour to network with our fellow IT professionals, dinner, and a speaker who presents a topic relevant to information technology. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:00pm Hiatus- stlMD - StL Mobile Dev ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- 6:00pm NSBracket-STL iOS Developer Group WhenThu, June 23, 6pm . 7pm Where1640 S. Lindbergh Blvd., St. Louis, MO 63131 (map) VENUE: St. Louis County Library Headquarters (40 & Lindbergh). http://onelinecodechange.wordpress.com/ We are a group of software developers dedicated to diving deep into Apple.s iOS platform. Our goal is take our current software engineering skills (Java, ObjC, C++) and learn how to apply those skills to the iOS platform. First Meeting Agenda Topic: Embracing the Square Brackets . Objective-C for iOS Development, presented by Brian Coyner ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 6:30pm StC LUG - St. Charles Linux Users Group Basic 3-D Graphics and Animation WhenThu, June 23, 6:30pm . 9:30pm Where200 Ft Zumwalt Square, O'Fallon, MO 63366 (map) See http://stclug.sluug.org Meet at JJ's Restaurant, off of Hwy I-70, Exit 217, Hwy K South, take right at first light signal. Topic: Basic 3-D Graphics and Animation (In Multiple Parts) - 23 June 2011 by Ed Wehner Antimating 3-D Objects (Session 3) We will conclude our 3 part 3D workshop with an overview of 3D animation with a hands on example of making and animating your own character. In addition to Art of Illusion, we will discuss other 3d tools including, Blender, Poser, DAZ Studio and others. We will also show a demonstration of the use of motion capture data to create realistic animations. For those who have been following the series or completed the tutorials on your own, bring in a sample of one of your 3D objects. We will have prizes for the most artistic model, most realistic model and best overall scene. =============================================================================== Friday, June 24 ============================================================================== 1:00pm WRCC - WR Computer Club WhenFri, June 24, 1pm . 3pm Where4444 Weber Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 VENUE: Weber Road Branch Library TOPIC: Social Networking ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1:00pm SCORCC-I - Internet SIG WhenFri, June 24, 1pm . 2pm WhereTesson Ferry Library Branch, 9920 Lin-Ferry Road, St. Louis, MO 63123 http://www.scorcc.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 7:30pm SLSRC - St. Louis & Suburban Radio Club WhenFri, June 24, 7:30pm . 9:00pm Where3015 N Ballas Rd, St. Louis, MO Venue: Nursing Institute building, Missouri Baptist Hospital Complex http://www.slsrc.org/ =============================================================================== Saturday, June 25 =============================================================================== 2:00pm GAMP - Gateway Area Mac Programers WhenSat, June 25, 2pm . 4pm Where120 S Kirkwood Rd, St Louis, MO 63122 Kaldi's Coffee House http://www.gamprog.org/ Usually last Saturday of month St. Louis CocoaHeads Monthly meeting for Mac & iPhone Programming. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 2:00pm MC-Clinic - Windows Live Essentials WhenSat, June 25, 2pm . 3pm Where87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic, see http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html to sign up. Also repeated on Sunday! =============================================================================== Sunday, June 26 ============================================================================== 2:00pm MC-Clinic - Windows Live Essentials WhenSun, June 26, 2pm . 3pm Where87 Brentwood Promenade Ct., Brentwood, MO 63144 Micro Center In Store Clinic FREE in-store computer technology clinic, see http://www.microcenter.com/instore_clinic/sign_up.html to sign up. Repeat of yesterday! ============================================================================== ============================================================================= And, coming next week... ============================================================================= Monday, June 27 12:00pm TT - Tech Talks 5:30pm STLDOTNET - St. Louis .NET User Group 6:00pm stlDNNug - StL DotNetNuke User Grp ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Tuesday, June 28 6:30pm HZWLUG - Hazelwood Linux Users Group 7:00pm GAMUG-SP 7:00pm Gateway Older Adults PC Club 7:00pm LUCI General ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Wednesday, June 29 11:00am SCORCC-W Windows SIG ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday, June 30 8:00am STL Academy of Science 10:00am WCORCC Workshop ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Friday, July 1 12:00pm NCORCC 5:00pm STL 2600 Meeting ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saturday, July 2 8:30am T3 Techies Teaching Techies ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sunday, July 3 1:00pm CWElug Central West End Linux Users' Group ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Monday, July 4 All day HOLIDAY - Independence Day 7:00pm stlGD - StL Game Developers ============================================================================= Usual caveats: Anything that you percieve as an insult, slander, false, or disrespectful is an unintended typo. 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