Current events

2005

• CA getting out of some of their business according to this Forrester Research article http://www.forrester.com/Research/Document/Excerpt/0,7211,37028,00.html which may present an opportunity for some 400 vendors to migrate CA customers to 400 applications???
• Per June 2005 [Praxis http://www.sysmod.com/praxis/prax0506.htm], until Tom Gilb's new book on Competitive Engineering is published, you can download a copy from [here http://www.gilb.com/Pages/2ndLevel/gilbdownload.html] The relevance of this to 400 audiences is the topic of program testing.

2005 June

• See History of Changes for earlier dates entries removed after the events have passed.
• Watch out for heavy rain followed by flash flooding in the nation's midsection, in the aftermath of tropical storm Arlene
  • Weather Radar Map Link http://www.emergencyemail.org/weatherradarmap.asp
  • Airport Closing and Delay Link http://www.emergencyemail.org/remoteflight.asp
  • Severe Weather Map Link http://www.emergencyemail.org/weathermap.asp
• FASUG June 14 meeting http://www.fasug.org/jun05.html on the new V5R3 Security Options.
• June 15 joint meeting NHMUG and VTMUG at the Fireside Inn in West Lebanon NH, a fireside chat with Steve Fier and others from IBM, as part of the IBM Road Show https://www-926.ibm.com/events/smb/smbusa.nsf select Customer for Attendee type
• NEMUG June 15 [meeting http://www.nemug.com/June2005.htm] on "Time for 21st Century RPG – No More Excuses!" RSVP by June 10
• LISUG June 15 in Long Island New York
• SANS annual conferenc June 20-25 in London UK http://www.sans.org/london2005/
• The 2005 iSeries and AS/400 Connection Conference is June 19-22 in Naples, Fla [Info http://www.as400connection.com/]

2005 July

• IBM iSeries High Availability CIO Fly-in on July 20th which will complete by 3:30pm CT and a special IBM-hosted dinner on the evening of July 19th ... contact your iSeries rep for more details. You could ask Al Mac to forward more info.
• July 26 One Day iSeries Technical Conference by Southern California OCEAN Orange County Educational Advancement Network featuring speakers
  • Bob Cozzi
  • Bob Tipton
  • Carol Woodbury
  • Paul Holm
  • Craig Pelkie
  • Al Grega

August

• August 21-26 -- Boston, Mass. - the 50th anniversary of SHARE https://www.share.org/events/boston/index.cfm

September

• Week of Sept 5 Make IT Easy 2005 conference in Yamato, Japan http://www-306.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/publish/743
• Sept 21 South Burlington Vermont VTMUG iSeries Technical Conference ... info from http://www.vtmug.org/

COMMON

http://www.common.org/conferences/2005/fall/ has info on the COMMON 2005 Fall Conference Sept 18-22 in Orlando Florida.

October

• Oct 17-21 IBM eServer iSeries Technical Conference Miami FL

November

• Nov 4 WAMUG 18th annual Jam see http://eserverusergroup.org/events.html or http://www.wash-midrange.org for details

2006

Visual RPG Conference info (precise dates not yet on the web site http://palooza.asna.com/

April 2006

• April 18-19 or April 24-26 Toronto IBM AS/400 User Group Conference produced by a consortium of midrange user groups of the north east region. Details from http://eserverusergroup.org/events.html and http://www.tug.ca or http://www.neibmconf.com

Other Calendars

For other calendars of major events of interest to the 400 world, we might periodically check out some of the following.

e Server User Group

http://eserverusergroup.org/ Calendar of AS/400 and iSeries events http://eserverusergroup.org/events.html

IEEE

Conferences world wide (but outside of the 400 world) of interest to the IEEE Computer Society.

http://www.computer.org/conferences/calendar.htm

IBM

http://www-1.ibm.com/servers/eserver/iseries/access/events.html

IT Jungle

Full [calendar of events http://www.itjungle.com/fhm/fhm-calendar.html] such as Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings.

Regular Meetings

See Category:UserGroups for info on groups that typically have monthly meetings, and other educational activities year round.

Meeting Schedule Formulas

Tuesdays

• Central New York CNY400UG meets noon on second Tuesday of the Month in Syracuse NY. For directions check out their web site http://www.cny400ug.org/ugscd.htm and this map http://www.google.com/local?q=New+Horizons&hl=en&lr=&client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&sa=X&near=Syracuse,+NY&latlng=43048056,-76147778,13197647386262397692&radius=0.000000&dm=large
• Orange County Educational Advancement Network http://www.ocean400.org/ meets at 6 PM on the third Tuesday of the month from January through November.