O’Reilly is sponsoring Party with Palermo on June 2. We had a great time last year and can’t wait to go back to the Glo Lounge. Don’t forget to wear your favorite glow-in-the-dark Hawaiian shirt. If you’re looking for something to do Monday night before TechEd starts, come on by. This event is free but you do need to leave your business card.

Passing along a reminder from Josh McAdams of Perlcast:

YAPC –yet another Perl conference–takes place June 16th-18th on the campus of Illinois Institute of Technology. It is an inexpensive ($100 US for 3 days) conference with its roots in the Perl Mongers Perl users groups.

But the early bird price ends at the end of April so don’t wait to sign up.

From Jeremy Fluhmann, San Angelo Perl Mongers:

The Open Source Symposium is an inexpensive one-day conference offering talks on various aspects of open source, such as software, development, and best practices. Some talk topics include Perl, Python, Ubuntu, LAMP, version control, and contributing to open source. Through the generosity of our sponsors and open source community members, we are able to keep attendance costs low and event quality high.

The symposium gives attendees the opportunity to mingle with open source users and notable contributors to the open source community. Many of which are local to Texas. The 2008 Open Source Symposium will be held Saturday, April 26, at the C J Davidson Conference Center located on the Angelo State University campus.

For more information on Perl user groups, check out the Perl Mongers.

From Jason N. Gaylord, .NET Valley President:

Join an estimated 300 Developers, IT Professionals, CIO’s and Industry Experts from Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and host-state, Pennsylvania. TECHbash brings together a broad spectrum of Technology Professionals to network, knowledge share and discuss existing technology solutions to business challenges, as well as preview pre-release products on the bleeding edge.

This year, they’ve expanded to three tracks offering more presentations and providing more content choices. The event opens with a keynote presentation Joe Stagner, Program Manager for Microsoft’s Web Tools and Platform Division.

.NET Valley is one of the many user groups in O’Reilly’s UG Program.

Looking for some fun this weekend? Stop by LugRadio Live USA 2008 in San Francisco at the Metreon April 12-13. Tickets are only $10.00. O’Reilly will have a table along with many other exhibitors. Stop by and say hi.

LugRadio Live USA 2008
12th and 13th April 2008
The Metreon Theater, 101 4th St., San Francisco, CA, 94103

Watch this movie for last year’s event.

From Bill Wright, Bellingham Linux Users Group,:

LinuxFest Northwest is happening the 26th and 27th this month. LFNW is an international, technical event focused on Linux and Open Source software that attracts around 1 to 2 thousand attendees each year, the majority from Canada, Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, and California.

LinuxFest Northwest is a nonprofit organization that keeps the event admission free through fund raising and events like our “World Famous Raffle”

Tech Valley Code Camp comes to the Albany, NY area on April 19th, 2008 at New Horizons Computer Learning Center! Attend, present, get some great swag! Code Camp, Heroes and BarCamp–three great events, all on one day, all under one roof. This event is affiliated with Tech Valley .NET Users Group.

Sessions include “I’ve got WCF, now what?” by Andy Bandera and “Introduction to Game Development with XNA” by Chris Bowen.

The 3rd Annual .NET Code Camp is coming up. This free, day-long event is put on by the local .NET community to help promote software development, expose attendees to best practices and provide access to content experts. Code Camp is designed as a series of intensive code-related demos and technical sessions to guide the developer to the next skill level. Code Camps have been taking place all over the country with the goal of providing a developer-to-developer learning experience that is fun and technically stimulating.

For more community events like this, check out the Pittsburgh .NET User Group.

The New Jersey Photographic Educational Conference offers a weekend packed with workshops and lectures, panel discussions, portfolio reviews, plus exhibitor fair.

PC Community group member Jan Fagerholm offers real world experience with hardware and software support, as well as a perspective gained from a programmer’s view of the workings of Vista in this series of monthy articles for Vista.

PCC is one of the many user groups O’Reilly supports through our UG program.

The Central Ohio Day of .NET is a joint venture between the Dayton .NET Developers Group, Central Ohio .NET Developers Group and the Cincinnati .NET Users Group. The event is a FREE day of technology discussions devoted to helping the local development community grow. Day of .NET events are a series of mini-conferences organized by developers for developers.

GGCS welcomes Michael Moser for a presentation on Dragon Naturally Speaking at their general meeting February 25th at the Four Points By Sheraton Hotel, San Rafael, CA. Michael will share his unique insight on the myths, reality and magic of Dragon NaturallySpeaking, a leading speech recognition program. Click here for a complete list of upcoming meetings. The Golden Gate Computer Society is one of many user groups O’Reilly sponsors with it’s user group program.