Welcome
to the ACS SA weekly e-newsletter for the week ending Friday 4th July 2008.
- IT Project Management Special Interest Group - Monday 7th July
- Adelaide Dot Net Users Group (ADNUG) - Wednesday 9th July
- ACS Adelaide IT Architecture Special Interest Group - Thursday 10th July
- ADNUG UniSA CODECAMPSA - Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th July
- Young IT in the Pub -Thursday 17th July
- FREE BREAKFAST SEMINAR - Adaptive Business Intelligence - 22nd July
- Computer Professional Education (CPE) Program Update
- mega and AIMIA invite you to Mobile Monday in Adelaide
- Express Training Connections - Special Discounts for ACS Members
- Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference
2008
1. IT Project Management Special Interest Group - Monday 7th JulyTopic: Using MS Project
Effectively - This session will outline the most common errors and best practices using MS
Project to increase schedule competency and reflect reality of a project in a
schedule. Speaker: Marc Soester SDM
Date: Monday 7th July 2008
Time: Drinks and nibbles from 5:15pm for a 5:45pm start
Venue: Excom Education, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (on the corner of Flinders St)
PCP Hours: 2 - Please book through the link below to assist us with catering and
to ensure your PCP Hours are updated.
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10105476824895
2. Adelaide Dot Net Users Group (ADNUG) - Wednesday 9th July
Topic: The July meeting will see Nigel Spencer and Jason Schluter practising their demos to be videoed at
CodeCampSA for entry into the Demo Competition. If you are a software developer this shouldn't be missed!
Date: Wednesday 9th July 2008
Time: 5:45pm
Venue: SA Innovation Centre , Level 2, Westpac House, 91 King William Street, Adelaide
PCP Hours: 2 - Please book through the link below to assist us with catering and
to ensure your PCP Hours are updated.
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10110419964791
3. ACS Adelaide IT Architecture Special Interest Group - Thursday 10th July
Topic - Implementing Corporate
Portals- This month’s meeting will see Paul Turner take the stage and talk about the
architecture of implementing corporate portals
Date: Thursday 10th July 2008
Time: 5:30pm
Venue: Excom Education, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (on the corner of Flinders St)
PCP Hours: 2 - Please book through the link below to assist us with catering and
to ensure your PCP Hours are updated.
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10110419958891
4. ADNUG UniSA CODECAMPSA - Saturday 12th and Sunday 13th July CodeCampSA is a .NET developer community-driven event which allows people
with interests across the .NET platform to come together in one location and see
speakers (including many expert presenters) present on a wide range of developer
topics.
Date: Saturday 12 and Sunday 13th July 2008
Time: Regsitration at 8am
Venue: Lecture Theatre HH4-08 UniSA North Terrace Adelaide
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10109365592870
5. Young IT in the Pub -Thursday 17th July
Topic: The Importance of Networking for Getting the Right
Job
Speaker: Richard Levy
Date:Thursday 17th July 2008
Time: 5:30 pm for 6:00 pm start
Venue: Queens Arms Hotel, 88 Wright Street, Adelaide
PCP Hours: 2 - Please book through the link below to assist us with catering and
to ensure your PCP Hours are updated.
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10110618878269
6. FREE BREAKFAST SEMINAR - Adaptive Business Intelligence - 22nd July
Come and hear our authoritative speakers talk about
the progress in Adaptive Business Intelligence and enjoy a free
breakfast.
Speakers include: Matthew Michalewicz and Zbigniew Michalewicz, Ph.D
Date: Tuesday 22nd July 2008 ** Please note change in date**
Time: 7:30 am
Venue: Next Generation Memorial Drive, Memorial Drive, North Adelaide.
(Parking at Adelaide Oval)
PCP Hours: 2 - Please book through the link below to assist us with catering and
to ensure your PCP Hours are updated.
Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10106729140478
7. Computer Professional Education (CPE) Program Update
Hurry - Study Period 2 Enrolments Close 13
July!
It is not too late to enrol in study period 2
which runs from 20 July to 18 October.
Enrol via www.acs.org.au/cpeprogram Payment is not
required until early July, so enrol now and secure your place. There will be no study period 3, so if you
intend to study in 2008 enrol soon.
Dates for study periods change in 2009, details are on our website. Cost is still only $675 per subject for ACS
Members. Time commitment is 8-10 hours per week over the 13 week study
period. Make your commitment to ongoing
professional development and enrol in the CPE Program now!
Our latest enews is available at http://www.acs.org.au/cpeprogram/enewsletter/enewsletter.htm
8.
mega and AIMIA invite you to Mobile Monday in Adelaide
Fresh from the mega SA (Mobile Enterprise Growth Alliance) pitch day
event, BLUEi and Matt Tonkin will be sharing some of their research and
product innovation undertaken towards their mega projects. BLUEi will present Encounter: a Bluetooth networking tool (startencounter.com/)
while Matt Tonkin will speak about the unique market opportunities for
iPhone software and a new category of information tools to match. Sasha
Grbich (mega SA project manager) will speak about future opportunities
with the mega program (www.mega.org.au).
It should be a great evening for those interested in the industry, so please come along and don’t forget your business cards.
Numbers are limited so please RSVP to peta@mega.org.au
Event Details
Date: Monday 7 July 2008
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Venue: Distill (upstairs), 286 Rundle Street, Adelaide, SA 5000
9. Express Training Connections - Special Discounts for ACS Members
Red Hat
Courses – Now in Adelaide!
16% discount off retail prices, awarded to
ACS Members
Express Training Connections
Pty. Ltd., Level 5, 38 Gawler
Place, Adelaide
5000
Full schedule on web site www.etc-australia.com
Are you an IT
professional looking to gain knowledge in the Linux environment? This is an opportunity to get your Red Hat skills
up and running or consolidate your knowledge.
Please book through the email address
below to assist with registration details and to ensure you receive the
specific courses’ special promotion gift. sue@etc-australia.com
or phone 8232 4502
Do you want to
take your Red Hat qualification/skills further still?
If you have
already gained or have skills up to RH131 level, consider moving on to:
- RH253 - runs in Adelaide week commencing 7th
July 2008 or
- RH 300 - runs in Adelaide week commencing
21st July 2008
- RH253 - Red Hat
Linux Networking & Security Administration
- RH300 - RHCE
Rapid Track Course + RHCE (EXAM)
All courses are Red Hat
accredited using qualified Red Hat instructors. This is an opportunity to
increase your Red
Hat skills or consolidate your knowledge and gain industry
certifications as a Red Hat Certified Technician or Red
Hat Certified engineer.
ACS MEMBERSHIP DISCOUNT APPLIES.
Please book through the email address below to assist with registration details
and to ensure you receive the specific courses’ special promotion gift. sue@etc-australia.com or phone 8232
4502
10. Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference
2008
ATNAC
2008 - Adelaide
SA - Call
For Papers
If you
have not submitted a paper to ATNAC 2008 yet, you now have another opportunity
to do so.
Over the recent weeks,
there have been many requests to better align the ATNAC 2008
submission deadlines with the demands placed by the academic and
business year timelines. As a result, the paper submission deadline has
been extended to Monday 04 August.
You will
find the Call for Papers and the necessary details at http://www.plevin.com.au/atnac2008/.
ATNAC
conferences have traditionally been the best meeting place for the Australasian
telecommunication networks and applications researchers and practitioners. It is
ATNAC where industry practitioners meet researchers from academia, and where the
latest in the technology and telecommunications business developments across
Australasia and worldwide are discussed.
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