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.
• CardSystems computer security data breach hit the news media.
  • The actual breach may have occurred some time in 2004.
  • Info on approx 40 million credit cards transactions were improperly exposed.
  • A file of 200 thousand of them got copied by hacker(s).
• 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 8-11 LinuxWorld San Francisco
  • IBM will have booth space at the conference as well as participate in Forum Day.
  • Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive for IBM Software, will deliver a keynote address titled, "Linux in the Enterprise."
  • For more IBM info on upcoming Linux Events [1]
• August 21-26 -- Boston, Mass. - the 50th anniversary of SHARE [2]

2005 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.

Notice proximity to SSA BPCS conference.

SSA BPCS Client Forum

http://www.ssaglobal.com/gcf3005 has info on SSA Global Client Forum 2005 Sept 19-22 in Orlando Florida.

Notice proximity to COMMON conference.

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

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

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

Tuesdays

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.