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Profile

Architecture Topics
- Service Oriented Architecture (SOA)
- Future Topics

References
- Software Design
- Christopher Alexander's Patterns
- Software Patterns
- Lightweight Methods

Architecture & Object Technology Links

Free / Open Source Software Links

Twin Cities User Groups

Twin Cities User Groups

High Technology Communities

• Minneapolis - Saint Paul ACM SIGGRAPH
  Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
• Twin Cities Cisco User Group
• Twin Cities Database User Group (TCDBUG)
• Twin Cities .NET User Group
• Twin Cities Section of the IEEE
   Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers 
• North Star Chapter of INCOSE 
  International Council on Systems Engineering
• Twin Cities Java User Group
• Twin Cities Linux Users Group
• Object Technology User Group of the Twin Cities 
      Agile Experience Group
      OTUG Java SIG (J2EE Study Group)
      Twin Cities Patterns Group
• Twin Cities Oracle Users Group
• The Twin Cities Software Process Improvement Network (TwinSPIN)
• Twin Cities Pocket PC User Group
• Twin Cities Quality Assurance Association (TCQAA)
• Twin Cities Rational Users Group (now www.tcrug.org)
• Twin Cities Wireless Users Group
• Twin Cities Zope/Python Users Group
• Twin Cities Robotics Group
• Tripoli Minnesota (Model Rocketry)

This is just a partial listing of the technology centric user groups in the Twin Cities.  For example, Google can help you locate groups focused on any of the following:  Palm  Pocket PC  BEA  Apple  PC  NetWare  UNIX  BSD Cognos PHP Cold Fusion 4D CA Perl ...