Date: September 10th
Topic:Desktop Virtualization
Location: McMenamins Old St. Francais School, Rambler Room
Time: 1pm
- Lunch and giveaways

The October meeting is still in the planning stages – look for a topic survey soon.

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Reminder: Meeting today 4pm TechSpace Bend – Bend Broadband’s Green Data Center

Date: August 12 (Thursday)

Topic: Enterprise-Class Green “Vault” Data Centers (Bend Broadband)

Location: TechSpace Bend (906 Harriman – Old Cigar Building – Across from Blacksmith) Time: 4pm

- Keenan Hall

—Abbott

Processing and Arduino in Tandem: Creating Your Own Digital Art Tools
http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1z5rujk7lajostujsdghqm8s8tjp8rbvpvd9eegto

Instructor: Joseph Gray
This course is an online course in partnership with creativeLIVE

Create your own drawing and animation software-and learn basic programming and electronics skills at the same time. This engaging 5-week online course introduces you to two simple tools: Processing, a programming language for visual thinkers, and Arduino, a hardware platform for working with electronics. You’ll learn how to use these tools together to build something useful right away. You’ll learn to:

* Use Processing to create basic software applications
* Make your own drawing and animation tools
* Create a GUI (Graphical User Interface) to control your software
* Use an Arduino to provide physical controls for your drawing and animation tools

Register Now:
http://post.oreilly.com/rd/9z1zuorvged9h4gjvmgtltdlrjdsisimu0u5iaqr34g
Price: Free
5-Week Course: Tues, 8/31 – 9/28
3:00pm PST – Each 90-120 minutes

** Make the most of your course with our exclusive project kit. **

projBox Kit
Price: $75
Add to cart:
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The projBox Kit contains everything you need to follow along with Processing and Arduino in Tandem. The kit, which requires no soldering, is ideal for beginners in electronics and physical computing. The projBox Kit contains:

* projBox
* Arduino Duemilanove
* Electronics Breadboard
* 4 10k potentiometers
* 4 SPST switches
* 4 LEDs
* USB cable
* Wires

1. Sriram Krishnan on Windows Azure

Date: Jul 28-Aug 3, 2010

Led by: Sriram Krishnan

Please join Sriram Krishnan, author of Programming Windows Azure, in an online book club about Azure: Microsoft’s solution to cloud computing.

Sriram will explore:

• Under the Hood: Why Azure?
• Questions about other clouds and experiences
• What is unique to Azure?
• Limitations of all clouds
• Storage solutions and options
• High performance computing in the cloud
• Which apps work well in the cloud? Which don’t?

How does it work?

Sriram Krishnan, author of Programming Windows Azure, joins our new online book club, The Inner Circle, starting on Jul. 28. We hope you jump right in and post your questions about Windows Azure for Sriram to answer and participate in the discussions with other readers. If you sign up for the online book club using the button on the right, we’ll send you a reminder email.

Sign up here:

http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/e/1689?utm_content=em-orm-ug-AzureBookclubHTML&utm_campaign=UG+Mailings&utm_source=iPost&utm_medium=email&imm_mid=05fe6d&cmp=em-orm-ug-AzureBookclubHTML

2. Best Practices in Developing Requirements for SharePoint Projects:

Poor requirements can be attributed to failed SharePoint implementations. The key to successful SharePoint implementation is properly developing requirements. A lot of people know that this is important, however, only a handful of folks truly understand what it takes to do this right.

In this presentation, you will learn key techniques in effectively eliciting, analyzing, prioritizing, validating and documenting requirements for SharePoint projects.

In addition, participants will be able to identify:

• Key components of requirements gathering process
• Why requirements traceability is paramount in defining ROI in SharePoint projects
• Why having a well defined business case is necessary to effectively initiate requirements gathering

The primary audience for this class are executives, managers, analysts, consultants who wish to properly implement SharePoint and immediately reap its organizational benefits.

Participants will get presentation notes, checklists, and templates.

Sign up here:

https://oreilly.connectsolutions.com/reqsharepoint/event/registration.html

About Dux Raymond Sy

With over 15 years of experience in Information Technology, Dux Raymond Sy has earned a reputation as among the leading experts in leveraging technology to enhance project management. He is currently a managing partner and the chief evangelist of Innovative-e, Inc., a Microsoft-certified, business technology consulting and services company that serves startups to Global 50 clients.

As a thought leader in maximizing project team collaboration, he is focused on empowering organizations on how to leverage the benefits of collaborative tools with quantifiable goals such as: Increasing productivity and efficiency, decreasing collaboration redundancies and streamlining electronic communications. In addition, he is Bamboo Nation’s resident project management expert.

A sought after trainer for Learning Tree International, he has developed and facilitated management and technology training to government organizations, Fortune 500 companies, non-profit institutions in the United States, Bahamas, Barbados, China, the United Kingdom and the Philippines and regularly writes about project management, SharePoint and globalization at MeetDux.com.

The first meeting will be Thursday August 12th and split across two topics – Bend Broadband’s new Green Data center (Part 1) and new developments in the Open Source Arena (Part 2). Bend Broadband will have their Data Center consultant present to talk about the DC and to field questions – design, build and what makes a green data center. In Part 2, Mark Turner will be presenting on some new developments in the Open Source arena. This is a new “special topics” format to be hosted at TechSpace Bend.

Date:August 12 (Thursday)
Topic: Part 1: Enterprise-Class Green “Vault” Data Centers (Bend Broadband) – Part 2: Open Source Developments
Location: TechSpace Bend (906 Harriman – Old Cigar Building – Across from Blacksmith)
Time: 4pm

Results are in! The second meeting is on Desktop Virtualization and hosted by Structured. Structured is on top of their game in Desktop Virtualization and will have an expert onsite to dig deep into this topic. This will be the traditional format hosted at McMenamins Old St. Francais School, Rambler Room – lunch, giveaways etc.

Date: September 10th
Topic:Desktop Virtualization
Location: McMenamins Old St. Francais School, Rambler Room
Time: 1pm
- Lunch and giveaways

The October meeting is still in the planning stages – look for a topic survey soon.

Spread the word!

Thanks,
Lewis Howell
- COISUG

https://oreilly.connectsolutions.com/datadestruction/event/registration.html

Changes in data storage technologies, new Federal and State data privacy regulations and other factors have created an urgent need to have effective electronic records destruction practices. This session will detail the specifics of these changes and how organizations can protect themselves from huge financial liabilities. Having a defined data destruction strategy not only ensures a greener environment, but also ensures that the terabytes of stored data on the hardware are completely and permanently deleted. This session will discuss: legally compliant electronic records destruction policy; effective data destruction methods; degaussing, dismantling and refining; documentation and reporting; hardware & software vendors.

About Ben Rothke

Ben Rothke, CISSP QSA is a New York City based senior security consultant with BT Professional Services and has over 15 years of industry experience in information systems security and privacy.

His areas of expertise are in risk management and mitigation, security and privacy regulatory issues, design & implementation of systems security, encryption, cryptography and security policy development, with a specialization in the financial services and aviation sectors.

Ben is the author of Computer Security – 20 Things Every Employee Should Know and a speaker at industry conferences, such as RSA and MISTI, and is a CISSP and PCI QSA (Qualified Security Assessor).