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New mainframers linking up through zNextGen
A heads-up to new mainframers looking for a chance to network with others like yourself: the zNextGen community is meeting at the SHARE conference in Seattle, WA, March 5-10, 2006.
When zNextGen kicked off at SHARE in Boston last year, its organizers were amazed at the turnout – Dillon’s Restaurant & Bar, where the kickoff event was held, was overflowing with folks who were unmistakably enthusiastic about mainframes (and free beer). The zNextGen community was off to a roaring start!
Programmers, developers, IT students and new or recently hired “large systems” employees are all invited to join zNextGen -- one of its primary goals is to give new mainframers a forum to interact with and learn from each other. Events are planned throughout the week at SHARE in Seattle to make the conference the best experience possible for new mainframers.
For more information on the zNextGen community, there’s a great Computerworld article here.
If you can’t make it to SHARE, there are still plenty of other ways to get involved and have your voice heard as the zNextGen effort continues to expand. Send inquiries to Mike Todd at todd@us.ibm.com. Hope to hear from you!
| by Christopher Baran | January 25, 2006 Permalink |
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Blatant plug for a NextGen guy's new blog: http://newmainframe.blogspot.com . Enjoy.
Posted by: Blueman | Jan 26, 2006 10:32:43 PM
I wanted to mention another mainframe centric blog, mine.. LOL
If you are joining the System z community and have an interest in database (specifically DB2 for z/OS), stop by and check it out.
http://blogs.ittoolbox.com/database/db2zos/
Willie
Posted by: Willie Favero | Feb 9, 2006 8:37:58 AM
