Information technology user groups
Here are links to other important IT groups on Campus and in the Madison Community. We invite suggestions, comments, and tips pertaining to other web sites you would like to see included as a resource to all.
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Accelerate Madison
A community of entrepreneurs, educators and established businesses, dedicated to sharing successful business strategies and sound business fundamentals, founded on a common need for information technology.
Association of Information Systems Professionals (AISP)
AISP aims to bridge the gap between the academic world of information technology and industry information technology.
Contact: aisp@bus.wisc.edu).
Local Java User groups
Capital Java User Group capjug.org
Madison Java User Group madjug.org
UW Mac Administrators Group
Meetings will be held monthly (with the exception of June) and will include occasional planned topics, discussion of current issues, as well as a time for general talk and Q&A. Future meeting times, content, and other information will always be available at The Mac Admin Web Page.
Join the Mac Admin mailing list. The mailing list will be used as the official reference for who's a part of this group.
Contact: Dave Schroeder, das@doit.wisc.edu
UW Mac Users Group
Monthly meetings on Apple- and Mac-related topics during academic year. Open to students, faculty and staff. For more information and meeting times and locations, see http://wiscmug.org
Contact: emziolkowski@wisc.edu
Madison .NET User Group
Madison Linux Users Group
MadLUG, the Madison Linux Users Group, is a group of Linux enthusiasts, including academics, students, IT professionals and many others.
LOPSA-Madison
LOPSA-Madison meets monthly on the second Wednesday of the month at various locations in and around the Madison area. LOPSA membership is not required for attendance and participation in LOPSA-Madison, but joining LOPSA is strongly encouraged. We invite everyone in the system administration community to present topics from their expertise or experiences. People are available to assist others in writing and performing presentations, as well.
Join the mailing list for announcements and discussions.
Madison PC Users
2nd Wednesday, 7:00 p.m.,
Community Room at Village Cohousing Community
1104 Mound Street
The Madison PC Users Group has something for every level of computer user, from new user to networking professional.
Monthly general meeting topics range from technical presentations on leading software and hardware products to how-to presentations by expert users. Question and Answer sessions are available.
Many special interest groups are available for a wide range of interests. These usually meet monthly at various locations and times. Current SIG offerings include software (such Java, Quicken, and Visual Basic), networking, operating systems, desktop publishing, investment, and one especially for new users. For those interested in volunteer work, the Community SIG helps out local neighborhood centers and is also working on several other community projects.
Contact: Roger or Laurel Tesch at 271-0652 or info@mpcug.com
Madison WebSphere Group
The Madison WebSphere User Group (MWUG) is a non-profit group for the WebSphere user community in southern Wisconsin. The goal is to learn and share WebSphere best practices across a variety of platforms.
All WebSphere developers and administrators are welcome.
Midwest Oracle Users Group
The MOUG is comprised of people of many diverse backgrounds who share a common interest in the Oracle Relational Database and related products. Among our members one will find employees of companies large and small, technical experts, novice users, Oracle VAR's, and Oracle employees.
.Net Group
Administrators of Microsoft's .Net technology have set up a portal where they have placed code samples from their user group meetings. It has schedules of future meetings.
For details, see: http://www.doit.wisc.edu/lists/wisclist/login.aspFor info about the group, contact: Daryl Miller 265-0793
Next/Raphsody users group
Dan Luedtke, 276-5516, djl@whcube.msn.fullfeed.com
NT users group
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., the last Wednesday
of the month, at Union South.
Contact: Jim Leinweber at 262-0736.
Oracle Listserve
This list is for people at the UW who are interested in Oracle. It is a place to ask questions of our colleagues. It is also used to announce local (Madison) training opportunities and other Oracle-related events that might be of interest to the UW Oracle community.
To subscribe, send the message to listproc@uwex.edu.
The body of the message should contain:
subscribe oracle-uw-list your_first_name your_last_name
Tech Partners
Campus-wide forum where interested staff, faculty and student employees discuss the computing issues of the University of Wisconsin.
Wisconsin Oracle Users Group
Wisconsin Oracle Users Group (WOUG) has been organized to provide a forum for Oracle users to share information and to learn more about the Oracle products and services.
More Listserves
To view a list of other user group listserves hosted by DoIT please see the WiscList Public Lists site at the following link: https://lists.wisc.edu/read/all_forums/