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If you'll be in the central Germany area on the evening of May 16, don't miss the BIRT User Group Mannheim meeting at 6:00pm. BIRT User Groups are excellent opportunities to improve your BIRT skills, learn new things and network with other BIRT users in your area. New, intermediate and expert BIRT users and developers are all welcome.

Agenda:

• 6-7pm: High performance BIRT reports. This presentation describes some common pitfalls on your way to creating high performance reports. It covers ineffective interactions with the report engine API and points out some bad decisions that can lead to poor report design.
  
• 7-8pm: Networking. Get to know other BIRT enthusiasts. Discuss features of the latest BIRT release and talk about topics and presentations for the next meeting.

The meeting is totally free of charge. Snacks and drinks will be provided -- as well as a DZone BIRT cheat-sheet handout and some nice doorprizes!

You can get additional information and register for this meeting by clicking here.

If you don't live close to any of the existing BIRT User Groups and would be interested in seeing one formed in you area, please contact me.

If you'll be in the Sydney Australia area on the evening of March 21, don't miss the first BIRT User Group Down Under meeting at 5:30pm. BIRT User Groups are excellent opportunities to improve your BIRT skills, learn new things and network with other BIRT users in your area. New, intermediate and expert BIRT users and developers are all welcome.

You can get additional information and register (free) for this meeting by clicking here.

If you don't live close to any of the existing BIRT User Groups and would be interested in seeing one formed in you area, please contact me.

The Atlanta BIRT User Group (ABUG) and the Greater Atlanta Maximo User Group (GAMUG) will host a joint meeting this Friday on April 20th from 8:30am-4pm.

Topics will include:

Morning GAMUG

• Ad Hoc Reporting - Query Based Reports (QBR) in Maximo
  
• How Cloud is going to Impact Everything in IT
  
• Transform your Enterprise Asset Management Initiatives

Afternoon ABUG

• What is BIRT (introductory/intermediate level)
  
• Using BIRT in the Cloud

Check out the agenda and schedule if you're in the Atlanta area and register today!

BUG Mannheim will meet on Friday, the 24th of February from 4pm to 7pm CET in Mannheim, Germany. If you live near the area or plan to be in Germany at that time, I highly encourage you to attend. These are strong technical meetings for BIRT developers and professionals.

AGENDA

1) First Session 4pm-5pm: Enhanced and consistent Chart layouts with the BIRT experts toolbox (Roland Keitel, Detlef Pöhnert)

• BIRT experts toolbox chart-manager
  
• How to make chart axis consistent
  
• How to use the toolbox to make chart palette consistent for all charts in a report (depending on series or customer)

2) Second Session 5pm-6pm: Introducing a BIRT-AMF-Driver for BIRT (Christofer Dutz)

• The BIRT AMF-Driver makes it possible to remotely access any Spring Bean from within a BIRT report without changing the application itself or using a scripted data set in BIRT. The BIRT AMF Driver enables the user to write a SQL-like query to be executed in the Spring backend including JOINS and Subqueries without the need to contact the spring backend multiple times (network traffic will be reduced to a minimum).

3) Meet&Greet 6pm-7pm: Networking (get to know each other)

• Drinks and snacks will be available at no cost.

The meeting will take place at Orientation in Objects GmbH, Weinheimerstraße 68, 68309 Mannheim. Map.

Three options to register:

• XING Event (preferred)
  
• By calling 0621 71839-0
  
• By writing an email to info@oio.de