The IT Specialists Forum
The IT Professional Forum is a group centered in Eugene, Oregon devoted to supporting men and women from all walks of the IT existence to connect. We hope to provide people together with other folks within their regional group to share successes, horror stories, vent, and ideally learn one thing.
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Schedule of meetings
Meetings are the THIRD TUESDAY of every month and are currently held downstairs at the Eugene City Brewery in downtown Eugene. Meetings begin promptly at 6:30pm, with plenty of social/networking time before and after the meeting.
Here is our current schedule of upcoming meetings:
April 19th, 2011 -- Lacey Powers on PostgreSQL Performance Tuning
May 17th, 2011 -- Horst Lueck about Amazon Web Services (AWS) with focus on EC2 and S3 Previous Meetings
Click on the links below to see the talk notes and/or slides.
March 15th, 2011 -- Matt Jarvis with "Real World GIS"
February 15th, 2011 -- Luke Kanies on Puppet
January 18th, 2011 -- Larry Price & "The Cook's Tour of PostGIS"
December 21st, 2010 -- Holiday Social Meeting
November 16th,
Microsoft Office 2007 Key, 2010 -- Jeff Haemer on Using Software Toilet Plungers
October 19th, 2010 -- Lance Albertson on Virtualization Management at the OSU OSL
September 21st, 2010 -- John Abbe on The Power of Naming
August 17th, 2010 -- Lightning Talks!
July 20th, 2010 -- John Labovitz and his amazing Housetruck
June 15th, 2010 -- John Sechrest on Startups and Investing
May 18th, 2010 -- Quentin Hartman on An Introduction to Lua
Apr 20th, 2010 -- Hal Pomeranz on Zeus Botnets and Financial Crime
Mar 16th, 2010 -- Linda Ballas on Application Lifecycle Management
Feb 16th, 2010 -- Mike Simon on Lessons for Computer Security Specialists from Anthropologists
Jan 19th, 2010 -- Dave Klindt on Upcoming Trends for Regional ISPs
Dec 15th, 2009 -- Holiday Social Meeting
Nov 17th, 2009 -- Shannon Dealy on IT on the Road
Oct 20th, 2009 -- Keith Lofstrom on Server Sky
Sep 15th, 2009 -- Dawn Foster on Yahoo Pipes
Aug 17th, 2009 -- Lightning Talks
Jul 21st, 2009 -- John Abbe on Geeks and Culture Shift
Jun 16th,
Office Standard 2010, 2009 -- Hal Pomeranz on Web App Testing with Selenium
May 19th, 2009 -- Esteban Gutierrez and Toby Kohlenberg on Emerging Trends in Information Security
Apr 21st, 2009 -- Colleen Dick on Building Your Rep (aka The "M" Word for IT Professionals)
Mar 17th, 2009 -- Quentin Hartman on Subversion
Feb 17th, 2009 -- Hal Pomeranz on Integrating iPhones with (Mostly) Open Source Infrastructure
Jan 20th,
Office Professional 2007, 2009 -- Lorraine Kerwood on Computer Disposal/Recycling Regulations
Dec 16th, 2008 -- Holiday Social Meeting
Nov 18th, 2008 -- Lark Wadsworth on Sharepoint
Oct 21st, 2008 -- Kevin Kenan on Database Encryption
Sep 16th, 2008 -- Mike Poor, "Corporate Espionage: Defending Against Targeted Attacks"
Aug 19th, 2008 -- Lightning Talks
Jul 15th, 2008 -- Quentin Hartman on Untangle
Jun 17th, 2008 -- Rick McLeod on Software Patents and Other IP Issues
May 20th, 2008 -- Toby Person on Clonezilla
Apr 15th, 2008 -- John Abbe on Wagn
Mar 18th, 2008 -- Special Agent Timothy Suttles on Cyber Crimes and Internet Threats
Feb 19th, 2008 -- Mike Miller on Network Management Systems
Jan 15th, 2008 -- Larry Price on Web Application Security
Dec 18th, 2007 -- Holiday Social Meeting
Nov 20th, 2007 -- Mike Owen demos the ASUS EEE PC
Oct 16th, 2007 -- Gene Kim on Characteristics of High Performing IT Organizations
Sept 18th, 2007 -- Keith Lofstrom on Dirvish
August 21,
Microsoft Office Standard 2007, 2007 -- Lightning Talks About Your Favorite Hacks (talk notes from Toby,
Windows 7 Enterprise, Bob, Hal, and Horst)
July 17, 2007 -- John Sechrest on Drupal
June 19, 2007 -- Randal Schwartz on git
May 15, 2007 -- Matt Jarvis and Selena Deckelmann on Database Back Ends
April 17, 2007 -- Quentin Hartman on Server Virtualization with free VMware products
March 20, 2007 -- Hal Pomeranz on Wireless Security Basics