1. UniSA/ ACS July Roundtable - Monday 28th July
2. SA Computer Human Interface (CHI) July Meeting - Tuesday 29th July 
3. Young IT Career Workshop - Thursday 31st July
4.  IT Project Managment Special Interest Group - Monday 4th August
5. Positions Vacant - Skills Assessors
6. PCP HOURS - Have you updated yours lately?
7. Did you know that you can get 15% off your monthly ADSL fees with Internode? 
8. 25th SEARCC Conference on "Connected Society", 11-14 Sept. Chennai, India
9. Express Training Connections - Special Discounts for ACS Members
10. Australasian Telecommunication Networks and Applications Conference 2008
11. Australian System Administrators' Conference (SAGE-AU 2008)

Topic:  'Web 2.0 – Opportunities and Pitfalls' Web 2.0 it is not a single product or technology, it is however a useful concept to describe a genre of applications, technologies, (business) ideas and a new and more participatory way of using the network. Web 2.0 is growing in importance not just for the IT industry and not just because our kids like to chat with their friends instead of watching television.
Speaker: Tom Daly

Date: Monday 28th July 2008
Time: 5:30 pm  - 7:15 pm
Venue: Microsoft Auditorium, Level 2 Westpac House, 91 King William St, 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=10110420006549

Topic: - 'Head Tracking for Virtual Portals' Desktop (fish tank) virtual reality systems use a traditional display screen to provide a window (portal) into a computer simulated world. The sense of reality conveyed by such systems can be improved by tracking the position of the viewer's head and adjusting the view of the simulated world to match.

Speaker: Assoc Prof Paul Calder, School of Computer Science, Engineering and Mathematics, Flinders University

Date:Tuesday 29th July 2008
Time: 5:30 for a 5:45 start
Venue: Excom, 191 Pulteney St, Adelaide (corner Pulteney and Flinders Sts)

Mock interviews will help you gain interview skills. 

To participate, you must initially send your resume together with a cover letter as if you are applying for a job. Your resume and application will be assessed by leading recruiters and recruitment agencies of South Australia. You will then receive an email confirming your interview time. Interviews will be between 2 pm and 5 pm.

Your application should be emailed to tapan.dave@acs.org.au with subject line as "YIT Career Workshop".

Further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10111665048441

4. IT Project Managment Special Interest Group - Monday 4th August

Topic:  - "What has to be done"  Bob will be presenting a tried and true, practical approach to developing a scope, work breakdown structure and schedule that can be used for responding to a tender or creating an internal business case for a project.

Bookings and further information: http://www.acs.org.au/index.cfm?action=event&area=9005&temID=eventdetails&eveID=10110360708376

• Relevant tertiary qualifications and experience in an education or skills assessment capacity (or other human resource selection processes)  
• A keen interest in the development of ICT professionalism, and appropriate and relevant benchmarks and standards
• Well developed analytical, conceptual and problem solving skills with the ability to undertake work under broad direction and make sound decisions about individuals based sometimes on judgment
• The knowledge to know when to seek advice and consult
• A commitment to quality assurance and customer service
• The commercial acumen required to operate within a (not for profit) business unit
• Well developed communication, interpersonal, consultation and interviewing skills

To achieve Practicing Computer Professional status (PCP post-nominals) a member must undertake a minimum of thirty (30) hours structured professional development in any twelve month period.

The Statement requires details of each activity, including the objectives and outcomes of each activity, dates and times, location, the provider details (if any) and the number of hours claimed.

The maximum number of hours that can be claimed for any one activity is twenty-five (25) hours.

Each activity can be entered as it occurs or all information can be added at one time. A member's professional development history is kept as an addendum to the member's record and (in a future release of the web interface) can be printed by the member as and when required. Following each and every update the member's PCP status is re-evaluated.

The ACS is a member of South-East Asian Regional Computer Confederation (SEARCC). Computer Society of India is hosting this year’s SEARCC Conference in conjunction with its 43rd Convention on the theme of "Connected Society", citing today's technology connects the entire world, whether it is rural or urban, irrespective of language, religion, country and so on. In to-day's world rapid inclusive development of any country will necessarily have to integrate different sections of the society seamlessly. Connected Society is a concept which will help us to achieve this objective. The emphasis of the event is to facilitate focusing different issues involved - technical, social and commercial. Visit www.csiconnect2008.org for more information.

Red Hat Courses – Now in Adelaide!

Special Discounts for 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.

Book now for two August courses: Week commencing 11th August 2008 RH033 & RH133
Kick off your Red Hat accreditation with Red Hat Linux Essentials or Red Hat Linux System Administration and RHCT EXAM  

Registration Fees (includes GST): 

16% discount off retail prices is awarded to all ACS Members.

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

• How long does it take you to disable Linux and Unix user accounts across your organisation?
• Would single sign on for services improve your security?
• Afraid of losing your Unix and Linux servers in a Microsoft Active Directory forest?

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.