The Kansas City Computer Measurement Group (KCCMG) is holding an all day conference on IT Security on March 14 at the Sprint Complex in Overland Park. The conference is free, and lunch will be provide by EMC. There will be speakers from Symantec, EMC, HP, Strategic Continuity Solutions, and Motta Network Experts. For more information go to http://kccmg.org. To register go to http://kccmg.eventbrite.com.
http://regions.cmg.org/regions/kccmg/
Tue, Feb 28, 2012, 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
KC Big Data Meetup group will meet March 28 and feature a presentation on Hadoop from John Leach. John organized both the Chicago and St. Louis Hadoop Users Groups. We are meeting at ThinkBig Partners 1800 Baltimore from 6-8pm.
To sign up and RSVP go to http://www.meetup.com/Kansas-City-Big-Data-Projects-Group/events/53245722/
This month's KCDesignCore meeting is WAY out of the normal box. We won't be learning where to point or click in our Adobe software to accomplish certain tasks -- but we WILL be learning how to be better creatives and visual designers as we work through some interactive exercises with Stefan Mumaw, author of the book Caffeine for the Creative Mind, creative director at Reign, and "purveyor of all things that rock."
This meeting idea was suggested at our February planning session (our continued gratitude to Suzanne Warner who swears by the book!), and we managed to track down THE MAN behind the caffeine! He's graciously agreed to spend the evening with us and work through one of the book's topics: "HABIT." As visual designers, this is the kind of departure from the normal "how-to" that could easily help us win, or dominate, a new project. Come prepared to let loose and have some fun.
"Habit"
Are your ideas flimsy? Do you feel like they scamper away in the dark and hide the moment you share them? Are you jealous of those rocking few who seem to come up with novel, creative solutions to even the most hard-nosed of problems, the kind of ideas that are uttered along side angelic voices while beams of light fall from the heavens? Good, because Reign Creative Director and Caffeine for the Creative Mind author Stefan Mumaw has the plan to turn your creative output from sparse to habitual. "Habit" is a hands-on creative workshop that explores where creativity hides and how we can generate ideas in greater quantity and quality, regardless of job title or project restrictions. Don’t settle for routine thoughts and stale solutions, crank up your ideation and learn how to boost the potential of your concepts.
Our local sponsor, TekSystems, is joining us with some actual caffeine (of the physical nature). Stefan will bring copies of his book to sign and give away, too.
This promises to be a fun, interactive, hands-on meeting for all of us who create ideas for a living. Invite your creative friends to join us. Everyone who brings a friend will receive an extra raffle ticket for our drawings!
STEFAN MUMAW
If Celtics legend Kevin McHale and a giraffe hooked up, the result would most likely be Reign Creative Director Stefan Mumaw. Born and bred in Southern California, Stefan graduated from Chapman University and foresook a lucrative career in MMA to follow his passion for design. So enamored by the creative process, in fact, Stefan has authored four books on the topic of design; two on creative web design and two on the creative process. A fifth book, "Tall Designers and Thin Air: Lack of Oxygen and the Creative Advantage" was strangely never published. He also speaks at numerous industry events, followed by a constant effort to play down the embarrassing behavior he typically exhibits on stage.
http://www.meetup.com/KCDesignCore/events/53349412/
Kansas City Information Technology Professionals has partnered with Symantec to bring you an EXCITING night around the topic of Information Security!!
The event, hosted by Johnson County Community College (Regnier Center), will take place on March 21st from 5:30 – 11pm (doors open at 4:30)
We'll have Symantec's CEO, Enrique Salem to give a keynote speech on global threat landscape and how current IT trends are requiring organizations to take new approaches in security.
An exciting “Capture the Flag” (CTF) event will follow the Keynote. Security professionals and ethical hackers will use tools and tactics in an attempt to retrieve a particular “flag” on a private network/server (set up specifically for this event).
To make the CTF even MORE interesting, Symantec has set aside $10,000 in cash and prizes!
Read more & register here:
http://www.kcitp.com/2012/02/24/kcitp-infosec-night-symantec-ceo-keynote-capture-the-flag-event-10k-in-cashprizes/
Read the full post here:
http://blogs.technet.com/b/kevinremde/archive/2012/02/14/breaking-news-free-it-camps-being-what-s-next-in-it-open-for-registration.aspx
Our next set of IT Pro events (“IT Camps”) in the US Central Region have been scheduled and are now officially open for registration! The events are free, go from 9:00am to 3:00pm, and include some light breakfast and lunch. But most importantly, they are full of new and useful information that all IT Pros will benefit from. (And it never hurts that we might give out a few prizes at the end of the day, too.)
Gearing up for the Future (Camp Part 1)
You may have heard Microsoft’s recent slogan: “Be What’s Next”. But sometimes in IT, for whatever the reason, it’s hard enough even just to be “what’s now” or “what’s current”. You’re running older versions of server operating systems and technologies you would like to replace, but maybe don’t know exactly how to make the move without causing one of the main things that keeps us up at night: service disruption.
In this camp session we are going to introduce you to, and give you a chance to play with, the migration technologies that will help you transition to the most current versions of our solutions, and help you to take full advantage of Windows Server 2008 R2. Making the transition to the most current products isn’t always easy, but we have ways to help you get there and to get you ready for the future of I.T. and business productivity.
The Future is Sooner Than You Think (Camp Part 2)
Now that you are ready for what’s next, don’t you want to know a little more about what that is? There is a new wave of transition happening among IT organizations and IT workers to embrace more and more the concept of Cloud Computing. Yet many of us are still wondering how it will really fit into our own environment, or how it will benefit our businesses.
In this camp session we are going to introduce to you to the future of the cloud. Together we’re going to walk through what our next System Center version - System Center 2012 - will bring to your IT organizations; both in overall manageability and in supporting private, public, and hybrid clouds. And we’ll introduce to you (and demonstrate for you) what is coming in the next version of Windows Server - currently known as codename Windows Server “8”.
The world-famous CityCamp model is finally arriving in Kansas City!
The Lawrence Apple Users' Group 2.0 will be having a meeting entitled "Jailbreaking your iPhone: how and why" Wednesday, March 7th , 7pm at Douglas County Senior Services at 745 Vermont Street in Lawrence.
Time: March 21, 2012 from 11:30am to 1pm
Location: Microsoft
Organized By: Dennis Chepurnov
The next meeting of AgileKC will take place on Thursday February 23 , 2012 -- 6:30 PM at:
Centriq Training Center
8700 State Line Road
Suite 200
Leawood, KS 66206
(see www.agilekc.org for a map to Centriq)
Hello All !
Our next meeting will be held:
6:30 PM, Wed, February 22, 2012
Centriq Training Center
8700 State Line Rd, Leawood, KS
(West side of State Line Rd, directly across from Ward Parkway Mall)
Sponsor: CJK Software Consultants
Food and door prizes will be provided by : CJK Software Consultants
VMware Cloud infrastructure and management solutions deliver intelligent virtual infrastructure
Local developer Luke Patterson is making a tour of the user groups in the Kansas City metro, you can follow his tour on his blog:
http://keyholesoftware.wordpress.com/2012/02/08/kc-user-group-tour-part-1-perl-mongers/
Go Luke!
Meeting Schedule for Thursday, February 23rd, 2012:
Please note that the meeting room this time has changed to Suite 730, this is up one floor from where we're typically at. Also, I wasn't able to drum up enough interest for the lightning talks this month, but Bill Fellows has agreed to deliver one of his popular TSQL talks. We look forward to seeing you all there!
Cloud Intelligence Conference - April 12, 2012 Welcome to the Cloud Intelligence Conference!
Invest just one day in the Cloud Intelligence Conference and learn everything you need to know to start putting powerful network computing information management strategies to work in your business.
http://centriq.com/cloudintelligence/default.aspx
Just a heads up, our next meeting will be in less than 2 weeks...
Saturday, Feb. 25th at 2pm at the Plaza branch of the Kansas City Public Library. Earl Glynn will talk about something interesting, I'm sure. (Voter data?).
You can RSVP here if you want, 4 people are signed up so far:
http://groupspaces.com/KCRUsersGroup/
You’re invited to join us for Lunch and great conversation on Lean software.Format: Lean Coffee topical formatWhen: Thursday, Feb. 23, 11:30 am
Where: Red Robin (95th and Metcalf)
Local software developer and member of the NodeKC user group has written a nice post about an alternative to the traditional format of user group meetings. You can read his post here:http://www.scottsmerchek.com/area-users-groups-a-collaborative-approach
I hope we continue to see innovation in user group meetings, including the increasingly popular hackathons and the meetings with a format of 5 10-minute presentations instead of the single 1 hour presentation. I don't think anything is wrong with the standard format, but there is room for lots more.
March SMCKC Breakfast, March 2
Content marketing is becoming increasingly important as companies shift to publishers. During the March breakfast at Kansas City Café (1532 Grand Blvd., Kansas City), attendees will hear from Brody Dorland (founding partner of Allure New Media and co-creator of DivvyHQ.com) and Jayme Thomason (co-founder and CEO of DivvyHQ.com) to get an inside scoop on content marketing, why it matters and how it's done. Participants will learn several content marketing-related concepts, including how to determine ideal content marketing vehicles, establishing a publishing schedule, assembling a great editorial team, utilizing editorial planning tools and building an effective workflow, among others. Admission is $5; breakfast is an additional $8.50 (+ beverage.)
Pinterest Potluck and Happy Hour, Feb. 16
Join us at Barkley (1740 Main St., Kansas City) for an informal discussion about Pinterest, which is quickly becoming one of the hottest social sites on the Internet. SMCKC will provide drinks and chips; please bring a dish to share (using a recipe you found on Pinterest, of course.) We'll also create a real-life Pinterest board, so bring a picture or clipping to share. Admission is $5 at the door.
http://smckchhfeb2012.eventbrite.com/
http://www.meetup.com/pythonkc/
Sat Feb 11
10:00 AM
CRMUG Kansas City Regional Chapter Meeting (Feb 2012)
Venture Fridays is a simple but fun concept: The startup culture of Kansas City and surrounding areas is invited to gather at our private office lounge to discuss what we’re all thinking about, working on, needing help with, and might do for each other. Existing or aspiring entrepreneurs of all types and ages are invited. Let’s raise our glasses to building the entrepreneurial culture beyond ourselves.
Doors are open on Rainbow Boulevard (Westwood, Kan.) 4 to 6 p.m. on the 2nd Friday of every month. Who are your hosts? We’re a web marketing metacompany, still whiffing the baby powder of our start in 2009. We work hard, and we play hard. Sometimes Venture Fridays will be co-located with other events, sometimes not. Either way, we’ll be here drinking and thinking. Will you? Drop in.
No soliciting or mooching please (entrepreneurial mojo required; read more in Discussions).
http://www.meetup.com/VentureFridays/events/40687202/?a=me2p_grp&rv=me2p
Time: February 22, 2012 from 11:30am to 1pm Location: Microsoft Organized By: Dennis Chepurnov Event Description: Valorem Consulting and WorkSpace Communications invite you to the next Lunch & Learn meeting of the Kansas City Cloud Computing User Group. Presenter: Katrina Dawn, Workspace Communications WorkSpace Communications is hosted, voice-enabled Microsoft® Lync™ offered in a per-user subscription model. Discover how combining your existing e-mail with a cloud-based Lync platform can allow you to deliver high-quality VoIP, instant messaging, audio and video conferencing, and deskshare services. Software as a Service model with no up-front investment Reduced infrastructure & Support costs Increased operational efficiency Improved workforce mobility Reduced energy consumption WorkSpace keeps mobile employees connected throughout the day. And because Lync 2010 is a Microsoft platform, most people are already familiar with it. A quick glance at the desktop tells employees where their colleagues are at the moment, and one touch connects them instantly via phone, IM or even a spontaneous conference call with desk sharing. WorkSpace is a fully integrated Lync solution Instant Messaging and Presence - Help users connect using the right tools at the right time. Audio, Video and Web Conferencing - Get integrated audio, video, and web conferencing. Mobility - Extend the power of Lync Server 2010 to workers on the go. Enterprise Voice - By integrating VoIP, WorkSpace gives you a complete Unified Communications solution. Seating is limited; register today at http://www.clicktoattend.com/?id=159250 Lunch will be provided. |
D2W 2012
D2W, the 3rd annual Designer, Developer and mobile workflow conference has even bigger plans this year. For one, we are on the Plaza this year at the Marriott. We have free parking, great rooms, and some of *the* best speakers in the country (and beyond).
http://www.d2wc.com/
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