Current events
Contents
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/]
- Java Developer Conference June 27-30 Moscone Center, San Francisco CA http://www.java.sun.com/javaone/sf/
- not neccessarily anything 400 specific here
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
December
2006
precise dates not yet on the web sites
- Visual RPG Conference info http://palooza.asna.com/
- Wisconsin 400 Conference http://www.wmcpa.org/ WMCPA
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
2007
Other Calendars
For other calendars of major events of interest to the 400 world, we might periodically check out some of the following.
Availability
Technology Conferences around the computer world, not limited to the 400
http://www.availability.com/events/
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
- http://www-304.ibm.com/jct03001c/services/learning/ites.wss/tp/en?pageType=page&c=a0002173
IT Jungle
Full [calendar of events http://www.itjungle.com/fhm/fhm-calendar.html] such as Chats, Webinars, Seminars, Shows, and Other Happenings.
MAPICS User Groups
http://www.mapicsusergroup.com/Calendar.asp
Regular Meetings
See Category:UserGroups for info on groups that typically have monthly meetings, and other educational activities year round.
Meeting Schedule Formulas
Mondays
First Monday
Second Monday
Third Monday
Fourth Monday
Tuesdays
First Tuesday
Second Tuesday
- 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
Third Tuesday
- Orange County Educational Advancement Network http://www.ocean400.org/ meets at 6 PM on the third Tuesday of the month from January through November.