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Open Source Bridge
Mar 25th
Open Source Bridge – June 17-19 Portland, OR
http://opensourcebridge.org
Open Source Bridge is a new conference for developers working with open source technologies. It will take place June 17-19 in Portland, OR, with five tracks connecting people across projects, languages and experience to explore how we do our work and why we participate in open source. The conference structure is designed to provide developers with an opportunity to learn from people they might not connect with at other events.
Open Source Bridge is run entirely by volunteers who believe in the need for an open source conference that focuses on the culture of being an open source citizen, regardless of where in the stack you choose to code. All proceeds from conference registration and sponsorship go directly to the costs of the conference.
Our sessions and events will share in-depth knowledge about using, creating and contributing to open source as citizens of a greater community. You’ll find relevant information whether you write web apps for the cloud, tinker with operating system internals, create hardware, run a startup, or blog about technology.
We’re still seeking session proposals, so submit yours by the end of March 31st.
Some examples of our proposals so far: Brian Aker on Drizzle, a reboot of MySQL designed “for the cloud”; Linux Kernel hacker Greg K-H about how Linux manages development; Ward Cunningham, inventor of the wiki, about what’s next in collaboration; Amber Case, an anthropologist living in both the physical and virtual worlds, about Cyborg Citizenship. (You can view all current proposals at http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/)
In addition to regular conference sessions, we will hold an unconference day for free-form sessions, and host a 24-hour dedicated “hacker lounge” at the top of the Portland Hilton. In addition to hosting the hacker lounge, the Hilton has offered Open Source Bridge attendees steeply discounted room rates, starting at $139/night.
Visit http://opensourcebridge.org/ to learn more about the conference, see our session proposals, and register to attend.
Thanks!
Members:
One Open Source Bridge Conference Pass will be given away at the next COISUG event on April 16. COWPU (http://cowpu.com) will also be giving away a conference pass so don’t miss this chance!
Contact info at coisug dot info for discount code.
COISUG Meeting April 16 – Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Server Management
Mar 23rd
Microsoft – Collaboration, Business Intelligence, Server Management April 16 1:30pm – McMenamins Movie Theater
There’s no doubt that the current economic situation presents difficult challenges for businesses of all kinds, in every industry. Thoughtful business leaders must carefully assess how to best utilize their resources to weather the uncertainty that lies ahead.
At Microsoft, we believe these resources include both people and technology. A new generation of technology innovations is enabling forward-looking businesses to build information systems that are more flexible, more cost effective, and that enable people to understand and respond to changing business conditions with greater insight and speed than ever before.
Meeting Topics include:
- Increasing employee productivity and lowering travel costs with Microsoft Collaboration Tools.
- Gaining a competitive advantage in an economic downturn with Business Solutions and Business Intelligence.
- Reducing your company’s carbon footprint with Microsoft Virtualization and Server Management Technologies.
COISUG Meeting today – Open Source Solutions – 1:00 PM
Mar 18th
COISUG meeting today at 1:00PM focusing on enterprise grade open source solutions designed to improve productivity and drive down costs. Mark Teter, author of Paradigm Shift: Seven Keys of Highly Successful Linux and Open Source Adoptions, will be speaking on this subject and hosting a discussion on these and other items. Don’t miss this event, and spread the word – Have a great week.
COISUG Technology Summit with Mark Teter – March 18
Feb 17th
Mark Teter, author of Paradigm Shift: Seven Keys of Highly Successful Linux and Open Source Adoptions, is dropping by COISUG on March 18 to explore ways to lower both operating and capital IT costs. While IT processing requirements continue to increase, Mark Teter continues to identify ways to leverage new cost reduction strategies and solutions. This session will address how to lower your server, storage, data protection, security and networking expenses. The topics will include best practices for server virtualization, state of union with the storage industry, what people are currently doing for backups, to providing the latest trends in information security. Please join us to hear this action packed session that will cover several areas for IT cost reduction and process improvements.
Who is Mark Teter?
Mark Teter is the Chief Technology Officer at ASG. He is an internationally recognized authority on information technology, advising IT organizations, vendors and government agencies on a broad range of information management issues. Each year, Mark conducts dozens of seminars and training programs for corporate and government institutions. He sits on several financial industry advisory boards and has recently published Paradigm Shift: Seven Keys of Highly Successful Linux and Open Source Adoptions.
About The Sponsor
ASG is equipped with a high-end computing facility that provides testing, benchmarks, demonstrations and an executive briefing center. ASG maintains the highest level of engineering certifications with our partners and vendor community. From our active involvement in the industry, ASG has been acknowledged by Computer Reseller News as one of the Top Ten Storage Solution Providers.
SharePoint Users Group Meeting
Feb 5th
The 2nd meeting of the Bend SharePoint User Group will be held Friday. Bank of the Cascades has generously agreed to host the meeting at their training facility.
Topic: Workflow in SharePoint
Date: Feb 6, from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m
Location: Bank of the Cascades Training Center is located at 1125 NW Bond, but the entrance is on Greenwood. Please don’t use bank
customer parking – there is 2 hr street parking available nearby.
Map: http://tinyurl.com/sharepoint-venue
Audience: Anybody interested in SharePoint
Lunch Details: Please bring a brown bag lunch.
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about the user group or the meeting, please contact:
Barb Troyer: barb.troyer @cinetixsolutions.com, 541.306.6532
Jason Hamlin: Jason.E.Hamlin @lesschwab.com
Please forward to any interested parties.
Hope to see you all there!
Barb Troyer
Cinetix Solutions
Meeting today at 1:00pm – McMenamins Bend
Jan 14th
COISUG is two years old and the limited edition shirts turned out
great! The first 29 people will get one free. These shirts are only
available for a limited time, so be early!
The COISUG meeting is today in Bend, 1:00pm McMenamins Old St. Francis
School Rambler Room – sponsored by BendBroadband. BendBroadband is
going to be discussing Metro-Ethernet and a few other cutting edge
broadband technologies, how they are similar, how they differ, and
what to consider when building multiple paths to promote redundancy.
This will be a great event and as always food will be provided!
COISUG Meeting Metro Ethernet Wednesday January 14 – Lunch Provided – Celebrating 2 Years
Jan 7th
The next COISUG meeting, sponsored by Bend Broadband, is coming up next week and will start at 1:00pm. This should be a very fun event, technical in nature and very applicable to businesses that continue to demand more bandwidth to support their critical applications…and not so critical applications 
As always there will be food and drinks – pizza and tater tots, how can you pass that up!
Topic: Metro Ethernet and Fiber Technologies
When: Wednesday, January 14 1:00PM
Where: McMenamins Old St. Francais School – Rambler Room Bend, OR
COISUG is 2 years old!!! Can you believe it? Lets celebrate! Limited edition COISUG shirts will be available to the first 30 members that show up, so don’t miss out!
Spread the news about this event, we want to pack the room. As always, there will be great giveaways!
See you next week,
Lewis
Bend SharePoint User Group Kickoff Meeting – Friday Dec 12th
Dec 11th
Hi All,
This is a reminder that the first meeting of the Bend SharePoint User Group will be this Friday, December 12th, from 12:00 – 1:30PM. Pizza and networking begins at 12PM. Please bring $4 to contribute towards pizza, or feel free to bring your own lunch.
The meeting will be held at the Cinetix Solutions office at 780 NW York Drive, Suite #204.
Directions: Mt. Washington Drive, turn west onto NW Crossing Drive towards Summit High School, left on Charbonneau, left on York.
Map: http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=cinetix+solutions&ie=UTF8&ll=44.621754,-121.35498&spn=9.460152,23.203125&z=6&iwloc=A
Agenda for our first meeting:
1. Jason Hamlin (Les Schwab) and Barb Troyer (Cinetix Solutions) will share how they are solving real world business problems with SharePoint 2007. We invite you to take 10 minutes or so to share with the group ways in which you are utilizing or planning to utilize SharePoint through your own company.
2. We’re envisioning an interactive user group in which we share ideas and training. Let’s brainstorm as a group regarding what we would like to see this group become, topic ideas, etc.
To gauge the number of potential attendees for our first meeting, please let us know if you will be joining us at:
http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/1425482/
To receive future messages from this group, please join:
http://groups.google.com/group/bend-sharepoint-ug
If you have any questions, comments, or suggestions about the user group or the meeting, please contact:
Thanks,
Barb Troyer
Jason Hamlin
COISUG Event Sponsored by CommVault this Wednesday November 19
Nov 17th
Time: Wednesday November 19th 1:30pm
Place: McMenamins Old St. Francais School, Rambler Room
This Wednesday November 19, CommVault will be sponsoring the COISUG meeting. CommVault is recognized by Gartner and others as one of THE leading Backup Software venders in the market today! That said, the CommVault team will be presenting on the topic “There is No Market for a Pure Backup Vender Anymore!”
Bryan Volchok and Steve Jaynes will be presenting an overview that illustrates the evolution of Data Management venders and show a unified set of solutions that address these questions:
How can I avoid the need to purchase additional primary storage this year?
How do I move to disk based backup without having to buy a ton secondary disk?
How do I address my legal departments demand for email archive and compliance based search?
Put it on your calendars and spread the word.
Meeting: This Wednesday November 19th – CommVault
Next Meeting: January – MetroEthernet Sponsored by BendBroadband
See you at the meeting,
Event: Selling your IT/Tech Business – Bend, OR McMenamins Nov. 12
Nov 3rd
Event: Selling your IT/Tech Business
Wednesday November, 12 2008
12:00-1:30pm
McMenamin’s Old St. Francis School 700 N.W. Bond Street Bend, 97701 Father Luke’s Room
FREE for members of SAO, EDCO, COWPU, COISUG, WoTech and BendTech members, $15 for non-members
