The Global PowerAIX Community welcomes the following User Groups:

• AIX User Group UK
• Austin Unix/Linux User Group
• Brazil /LA AIX User/Admin Group
• Central Florida Power Users
• China AIX Club
• Dallas PowerAIX Users Group
• Datatrend’s AIX User Group
• Denver AIX/Linux User Group
• Houston AIX/Linux Users Group
• IBM Upstate User Group
• Indian PowerAIX User Group
• Indiana Unix on Power Users Group
• Kansas City AIX/LINUX User Group
• Long Island User Group
• N.Carolina AIXPower/Linux User Group
• North Florida Power Users
• Northern New Jersey Power Users Group
• Philadelphia Power Users Group
• San Antonio AIX/Linux User Group
• South Florida Power
• Tampa Bay Power Group
• Toronto AIX Users Group
• Upstate New York AIX Users Group

User Group Successes
A number of UGs have held one or more meetings this year with very informative presentations by IBM and other vendors. We’d like to begin the practice of highlighting a UG in each Newsletter that has had tremendous success with the growth of their UG and meeting attendance.

Congratulations to the AIX UG UK which has the highest number of members - 100 members as of the end of October, and had 50 members attend their recent meeting on Nov 10th. In appreciation of their hard work and success we’re sending Colin Renouf, the UG Leader, a number giveaways to be used at their next meeting.

Technical University Events
During the Technical University held at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas NV, the week of Sep 11th, the Global PowerAIX Community hosted a number of activities. A keynote presentation by Jeff Howard, Director of System p^TM marketing at IBM, helped kick off the Community activities by announcing the Global PowerAIX Community and giving appreciation awards to the UG leaders who attended. In addition, a “Birds of a Feather” session was held to discuss various community activities around Power and AIX. Carlos Marques the UG leader for Upstate New York AIX UG, presented a Global PowerAIX Community overview. The Global PowerAIX Community also shared a pedestal with IBM developerWorks and over 270 conference attendees requested for more information on the Community. Finally the Global PowerAIX Community UG leaders who attended the Technical University and a number of IBMers got an opportunity to get to know each other better at a dinner at Mix on the top of THEHotel at the Mandalay Bay resort and casino. You can see the great time and beautiful view in these pictures.

Forums
Register with the Global PowerAIX Community Forum.

This is an opportunity to share your expertise with members and visitors by posting or answering questions on the Community forum. In addition we are looking for members to help kick off the forum topics by becoming moderators, if you’re interested please send us an email, info@powerAIX.org

Contest
Best Article on "Systems Administration/Performance Tips" Contest!
Are you a Power AIX aficionado? If so, submit your best tips and techniques article for Systems Administration/Performance on the System p/AIX platform. You can win $500, and have your article appear in the February/March 2007 issue of IBM Systems Magazine. All entries must be received no later than December 10, 2006 via e-mail, and may not exceed 2,300 words. You may email your entries to info@powerAIX.org.org Click here for official contest rules.

New PowerAIX Community Vendor Zone to launch soon!
This is a resource for Community members to easily access information on Power/AIX based products, solutions and services offered by vendors. If you are Power/AIX vendor of products, solutions or services and would like to be included in this upcoming zone please send an email to info@powerAIX.org

Tips & Tricks
Share your own tips and tricks with the community! We are dedicating this section of our newsletter to include a brief article up to 20 lines authored by YOU! Send us helpful bits of key information we may not be aware of but can improve Power/AIX implementations, save us time or help figure out a problem. Email us at info@powerAIX.org

Take a closer look at OpenBSD
Do everything right from the command line
Monitoring a slow system
UNIX tips: Productivity tips
Speaking UNIX, Part 2: Working smarter, not harder
Migrating and moving UNIX filesystems
Errors: errno in UNIX programs
Speaking UNIX, Part 4: UNIX ownership and permissions
Fun with strace and the GDB Debugger
Tcl your desktop

Industry News
The following article was written by the Long Island NY UG leader, Ken Milberg who is a technology writer and site expert for techtarget.com. The article was published in the IBM Systems Magazine’s Open Systems Edition.

POWER5 & APV: Perfect Together
With the arrival of the 20th anniversary of AIX taking place this year, it's indeed time for a celebration. Along with the evolution of AIX, with the introduction of IBM's POWER5 architecture, the combination of both has evolved so that the midrange platforms now feature mainframe-type capabilities . . .

The Global PowerAIX Community in the press!
Introducing the Global PowerAIX Community By Ahmondyllah Oliver eCommunity Manager for Group Intelligence Inc.
Are you missing opportunities to meet and collaborate with industry peers, post and browse job openings, access the latest technical articles, and get notified about system administration guidance/updates? Not if you're actively participating in the new Global PowerAIX community . . .

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