Re: IBM tech conference

[DrFranken <midrange@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I think you missed the Linux memo Don. :-)

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On 9/2/2014 11:38 PM, Don wrote:

> Paul,
>
> To the best of my knowledge, OCEAN is the only AS/400 LUG active in CA...
>
> But then, IBM's too busy telling everyone they should be forming AIX LUGs...
> :)
>
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Paul
> Nelson
> Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 6:10 PM
> To: 'Midrange Systems Technical Discussion'
> Subject: RE: IBM tech conference
>
> It's truly a shame that the user group in the San Francisco area withered
> and died. At one time, it was really vibrant.
>
> The West Coast region of IBM also ran two educational conferences a year,
> alternating between Vancouver, BC, Salishan Lodge in Oregon, Monterey, CA
> and San Diego.
>
> Paul Nelson
> Cell 708-670-6978
> Office 409-267-4027
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>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> Vernon Hamberg
> Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2014 4:34 PM
> To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> Subject: Re: IBM tech conference
>
> COMMON does have several development sessions - admittedly, many are fairly
> basic, one would have to check the grid when a conference is coming up.
>
> Another is RPG & DB2 Summit, given by Jon Paris, Susan Gantner, and Paul
> Tuohy - this is focused on development in particular.
>
> After that, I'm not sure - some local user groups will have things.
> IBM's developerworks site has stuff, albeit not as much IBM i as we might
> like.
>
> There is always google - places like stackoverflow.com have lots of things
> in their forum on some topics - again, not specifically aimed at IBM i but
> useful for other things like ftp or xml or ...
>
> Again for things web-ish, there is www.w3schools.com - lots of good stuff on
> javascript and html and xml and and and
>
> There are a couple schools for sure - Gateway in WI, Jim Buck, has classes -
> maybe online. Moraine Valley Community College in IL (says it is 2nd largest
> comm coll in country, 36,000 students!) - Michelle August, who run the IT
> stuff there, says they have online classes when enrollment is high enough,
> as I recall.
>
> COMMON tries to have some webinars. Some are free, some require being a
> member.
>
> HTH
> Vern
>
> On 9/2/2014 4:13 PM, Jerry Draper wrote:
> > So. Where can a person go to enchance dev skills?
> >
> > Jerry
> >
> > On 9/2/2014 12:41 PM, Don wrote:
> > > Check the agenda...recent conferences have had incredibly little to
> > > offer for developers...
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: MIDRANGE-L [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > > rob@xxxxxxxxx
> > > Sent: Tuesday, September 2, 2014 3:27 PM
> > > To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
> > > Subject: Re: IBM tech conference
> > >
> > > Once again they combined it with the System Z technical conference.
> > > http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/enterprise/
> > > and you've got less than a week for the early bird rate.