Welcome
to the ACS SA weekly e-newsletter for the week ending Friday 17th October 2008.
- Nominations for the 2009 ACS SA BEC close at 5pm today!
- October AJUG Meeting - Monday 20th October
- IT Service Management Special Interest Group - Tuesday 21st October
- Adelaide SharePoint User Group - Tuesday 21st October
- October Computer Human Interface (CHI) Meeting - Tuesday 28th October
- EdXN 4th Quarter - The World Internet
Project - Wednesday 29th October
- Special Event! Dr Terry Cutler presents ... Thursday 6th November
- SA Branch Annual General Meeting and November Branch Forum
- Computer Professional Education Program Update
- 16% discount for Red Hat Courses at Etc… Express Training Connections
1. Nominations for the 2009 ACS SA BEC close at 5pm today!
Nominations are invited from ACS SA Members
for the following positions on the 2009 ACS SA BEC:
Branch
Chair
Branch Vice Chair (2 positions)
Branch Secretary
Branch
Treasurer
Ordinary Committee Members (10 positions) Also the ACS South Australian Branch Returning Officer
ACS SA would like to see balanced representation by sector and demographic and encourages all members who
believe they have the attributes to make a positive contribution to submit their
nominations.
Nominations close 5:00pm, Friday 17th October, 2008.
Appointments commence 1 January, 2009.
2. October AJUG Meeting - Monday 20th October
Topic: 'Clojure, a modern Lisp dialect for the Java
Virtual Machine'
Speaker: David Benn
Date: Monday20th October 2008
Time: 6:00 pm
Venue: Brecknock Hotel, 401 King William Street, Adelaide
PCP Hours: 2 - Please update your PCP Hours manually via 'My ACS'
Further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10119427326926
Direct bookings at: www.jugevents.org:80/jugevents/event/show.html?id=10362
3. IT Service Management Special Interest Group - Tuesday 21st OctoberTopic: Challenge - Demonstration
of IT value to business. This year these SIG events have an underlying common theme - practical
challenges in implementing IT SM. If you are a business/IT Manager or a practitioner looking for practical ideas,
you can not miss this talk! Speakers: Glen Winkler - Director of Management Information Services at the Royal District Nursing
Service and, Jodie Rugless - Senior Business Systems Analyst at the Royal District Nursing
Service Date: Tuesday 21st October 2008
Time: 5:30 start
Venue: Excom Education 191 Pultney Street, Adelaide
PCP Hours: 3 - 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=10119347500508
4. Adelaide SharePoint User Group - Tuesday 21st October
Topic: Build Custom Approval Workflows for Web Content Management in MOSS 2007 – Paul
Turner Date: Tuesday 21st October 2008
Time: 5:30
Venue: Level 2, Westpac House, King William Street, Adelaide ( Entrance is actually on
Curry Street)
PCP Hours: 2 - Please update your PCP Hours manually via 'My ACS'
Further information:
http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10116780530568
5. October Computer Human Interface (CHI) Meeting - Tuesday 28th October
Topic: 'New Jobs for Thinking
Heads'
The Thinking Head, in the persona of Performance Artist Stelarc, has been
gaining attention around the world, including at the Beijing Arts Festival in
the lead in to the Olympics. However we are grooming the Head for a number of
other roles and persona, including as a Teaching Head in a hybrid real/virtual
environment, with initial applications focusing on teaching English and German
as a foreign language.
Speaker: David Powers, Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Artificial
Intelligence and Language Technology Laboratories at Flinders UniversityDate: Tuesday 28th October 2008
Time: 5:30 start
Venue: New location same building: Centrelink Useability Centre, Level 1
South Side, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (corner Pulteney and Flinders Sts) PCP Hours: 2 - Please update your PCP Hours manually via 'My ACS'
Bookings and further information:
http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10117105008154
6.
EdXN 4th Quarter - The World Internet
Project - Wednesday 29th OctoberTopic: What do Australians do
online? The internet is everywhere, at work, at
home, and on the move. If Kevin Rudd's plans come to anything, it will soon be
in every school. The underlying technologies are scarcely three decades old, and
some of the most popular sites, such as You Tube and Facebook, are only a few
years old, but this new world of information and communcation is now, for many
of us, an utterly everyday experience. Speaker: Scott Ewing
Date: Wednesday 29th October 2008
Time: 5:30 start
Venue: Internode, 150 Grenfell Street, Adelaide (Next door to the Griffins Head Hotel)
PCP Hours: 3 - 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=9012&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10116005020705
7. Special Event! Dr Terry Cutler presents ... Thursday 6th November ...the findings of the Australian Government’s
Review of the National Innovation System. Dr Terry Cutler is an industry consultant and strategy advisor in the
information and communications technology sector. Terry Cutler has authored
numerous influential reports and papers on the Digital Economy and innovation.
During 2008 he chaired the Australian Government’s Review of the National
Innovation System. Date: Thursday 6th November 2008
Time: 5:15pm for a 5:45pm start
Venue: Riviera Hotel, 31-34 North Tce, Adelaide
PCP Hours: 2 - Please update your PCP Hours manually via 'My ACS'
Bookins and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10119057857908
8. SA Branch Annual General Meeting and November Branch Forum
Branch Forum Topic: SharePoint
"SharePoint is a hot topic in business right now! CIOs, CEOs and managing
directors are all talking it up, but what exactly is it? What and where is this
so called power? During this presentation Daniel will discuss and give an
introductory overview of what SharePoint is , what it can do and what are the
benefits of implementing such a eco-system." Speaker: Daniel Brown
Date: Wednesday, 26th November 2008
Time: 5:30pm for a 6:00pm start.
Venue: Cliftons, Level 1, 80 King William Street, Adelaide
For further information and to advise of your attendance, please book here
9. Computer
Professional Education Program
Looking for
postgraduate study you can fit in with your work commitments, family and social
activities? Visit www.acs.org.au/cpeprogram to
discover how CPEP provides flexibility with 24/7 online access. Any time, any
place distance education.
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