NWOACM

Over on my blog, someone asked:

New to area and how do I find any info on local user groups???

Our page on Related organizations is a starting list - but we are sure there are more user groups.

What are we missing? Leave a comment here and we will add it.

Spring <br> 2007 conference, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, Thursday, March 22. Sponsored by Southeast Ohio Creative Adobe Technology Squad and Adobe.

The Tech Trends series is an exploration of the issues and trends in technology teaching and learning. The events are free and open to all faculty, staff, students, and the public. The series is sponsored by the Information Technology Committee, the Office of the Executive Vice President and the Office of the Chief Information Officer.

First external speaker of the year is Friday, January 26, 2007, 2:30 - 3:30 p.m., E. Michael Harrington,
Copyright Issues in YouTube, Second Life and Other Adventures in the Metaverse: Music, Law, Politics and Higher Education

Attend a world-class conference on user experience, right here in our area. Internet user Experience 2007, in its third year, brings you top industry speakers, practitioners, and authors to provide you with the most complete package of Internet user experience design training, case studies, and real-world examples ever assembled.

IUE has graduated from "an event plus a tutorial" into a full conference event, expanding its scope to include most aspects of web site design and strategy, including user experience design, graphics, branding, marketing message, effective web writing, and enhancements that drive customers to your site.

Dr. Nathaniel S. Borenstein will present at the next MOCHI meeting: Spam and the Limits of Interpersonal Collaboration

Where: University of Michigan - 411 West Hall (Ehrlicher Room)
When: February 14, 2007
at 6:00pm (arrive eat network)
at 6:30pm (talk begins, lasting around an hour + Q&A)

Event Description:
Spam is an extremely complex and, so far, remarkably intractable problem, increasingly affecting not just email but virtually every kind of interpersonal electronic communication. In this talk, I will summarize the state of the art, survey the remarkably wide set of antispam activities currently under way at IBM and elsewhere, and present the outlines of a comprehensive strategy to fight spam. Unfortunately, the bottom line remains that we are still working very hard just to keep the spam problem from getting worse, and no one should expect a quick or painless solution to this problem. However, the fight against spam has the potential to advance technology in several ways that might be broadly useful in enabling new kinds of Internet infrastructure.

The next Northwest Ohio .NET User Group meeting is this Tuesday, January 16th.

Getting Back to the Basics - Writing Quality Code by Dustin Campbell

In the ever-changing world of software development, we must constantly keep up with new technologies. In fact, so much time is spent absorbing new APIs, documentation and hype that we are often left with very little time to improve our coding skills. This session will some discuss general ways to improve code quality that apply to all languages. In addition, we’ll cover several ways to use C# 2.0 (and some future C# 3.0) features to create readable and elegant code.

The Toledo Area Linux Users Group has kicked off 2007 with a few meetings to re-organize. They are seeking feedback on their new constitution which they drafted yesterday, January 13th.

They will now gather on the 3rd Saturday of the month. Their next meeting will be:

Saturday, February 17, 2007
2:00pm to 5:00pm
Topic(s): To be determined
Location: Stautzenberger College, 5355 Southwyck Blvd

And you can also pencil in these 3rd Saturdays onto your calendar:

Save $50 on a world-class developers conference in Sandusky, Ohio, January 18-19. Register at codemash.org and use 06ZY86 as your "Sponsor Invitation Code".

CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP.

CodeMash is a unique event that will educate developers on current practices, methodologies and technology trends in variety of platforms and development languages such as Java, .NET, Ruby and PHP. Held January 18-19, 2007 at the lush Kalahari resort in Sandusky, Ohio, attendees will be able to attend a world-class technical conference amid Ohio's largest indoor waterpark. So nobody will frown if you show up in shorts, sandals, and your loudest t-shirt. You might even win a prize for doing so.

See codemash.org

Central Ohio Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery, January Chapter Meeting Wednesday, January 17, 2007

Dinner is Free for COCACM members - Reservations are Required, Berwick Manor Party House

QuickBooks: A Practical Model of Software Productization

Allyn W. Brehl, President of CM IT Solutions of NW Columbus

All product software development is tough, but "application" product software
development is even tougher. Application here means end-user applications
which are different from embedded applications. User preferences and
configurability are big factors in achieving a broad market applicability. Al