Software Resources for North Texas

Software Resources for North Texas

These are the resources that may be useful to people working in the software industry in the north Texas region. Please send additions and corrections to Danny Faught. This web page is a public service of Tejas Software Consulting. Last updated April 8, 2008.

New entries are marked with "**". Note that organizations tend to frequently change the URLs for web pages with information about local chapters. If a link to a local chapter is broken, try the link to the national organization and search for the local chapter there.

Contents

Publications
Job Hunting
National and international organizations with local chapters
Local organizations
User groups
Chambers of Commerce
Chamber technology councils
Other general business organizations

Publications

ComputerUser
DallasBlue Tech and Entertainment News
Dallas Business Journal
Dallas Morning News
Fort Worth Business Press
Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Texas Technology Calendar from Baker Botts

Job Hunting

Allen Job Transition Focus Group

CareerLink Network

CTW_Dallas Job Posting Group (Career Transition Workshop)

dfw.jobs Usenet newsgroup

Local job leads.

DFWQAT mailing list

For sharing job leads for Software Quality Assurance and Software Testing opportunities in the Dallas/Fort Worth area.

E.T. & U (Employment Transition & You) - Prestonwood Baptist Church

First Church Career Transition Ministry

Job Leads mailing list

Job leads and networking opportunities, mostly in the Dallas/Fort Worth area, with a decent trickle of the jobs being relevant to software. Sponsored by the DFW Technical Recruiters Network.

Lincoln County Networking Group (LCNG)

Plano Job Net (The Reformed Church in Plano)

Professional organizations

Many of the professional organizations listed below post job listings related to their area of interest and may also give you a forum for circulating your resume. For example, the Dallas/Fort Worth Unix Users group encourages recruiters and companies who are hiring to announce openings at their meetings, and they have a members-only jobs mailing list that gets a trickle of help wanted postings.

National and international organizations with local chapters

AeA (formerly the American Electronics Association)

AeA Texas Council

AIIM International - the Enterprise Content Management Association

Dallas/Ft. Worth Chapter

Alliance of Technology and Women (ATW)

Dallas chapter
Fort Worth chapter

American Society for Quality (ASQ)

Dallas, section 1402
Greater Fort Worth, section 1416

Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)

Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP)

Dallas
** DeVry Institute of Technology- Irving
** High-Tech Institute - Dallas
** ITT Technical Institute- Arlington
** ITT Tech Institute - Richardson
** University of Texas at Arlington
** University of Texas at Dallas

Black Data Processing Associates(BDPA) Boosting Engineering, Science, and Technology Competition (BEST Robotics, Inc.)

Hubs include: Cowtown, Dallas, Denton County, North Texas

Dallas-Fort Worth chapter

North Texas Global Telecommunications Society (NTGTS)

International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA)

Dallas Chapter

Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)

North Texas Chapter

International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

North Texas Chapter (Dallas)

The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

IEEE Dallas Chapter
IEEE Fort Worth Chapter
IEEE Communications Society
    Dallas Chapter (joint with the IEEE Vehicular Technology Society)
    Fort Worth Chapter

IEEE Computer Society
    Dallas Chapter
    Fort Worth Chapter

IEEE Dallas Section Consultants Network

IEEE Engineering Management Society
   Dallas Chapter (see main web page for chapter info)

IEEE Reliability Society
    Dallas Chapter (see main web page for chapter info)

International Association of Microsoft Certified Partners (IAMCP)

Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter (see chapter list on the main page linked above)

Project Management Institute (PMI)

Fort Worth Chapter

PMI Risk Managment SIG

Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA)

Dallas/Ft. Worth Chapter

Society For Information Management (SIM)

Dallas chapter (contact information at the link above)

Software Process Improvement Network (SPIN)

Association for Software Engineering Excellence

Women In Technology International (WITI)

WITI North Texas Chapter

Xplor International

Red River Chapter

Local organizations

The Dallas Internet Society (DIS)

Dallas Practitioners Group

North Texas Technology Council (NTTC)

Metro Midrange Systems Association (MMSA)

For software testing professionals.

The Technical Club of Dallas (branches: Mid-Cities Technical Club, Telecom Corridor Technical Club)

Software Testing Institute (STI)

Texas eCommerce Association

User groups

Apple Corps of Dallas (ACD)

Cowtown Macintosh User Group (CMUG)

Dallas/Fort Worth AutoCAD Users Group (DFWAUG)

Dallas/Fort Worth Cisco Users Group (DFWCUG)

**Dallas-Fort Worth Civil 3D (Autodesk Civil 3D users)

Dallas/Ft. Worth Perl Mongers

Dallas/Fort Worth Unix User's Group (DFWUUG)

Dallas Macintosh Users Group (DMUG)

Dallas .NET Users Group (DDNUG)

The Dallas Oracle User's Group (DOUG)

Dallas Personal Robotics Group (DPRG)

Dallas-Plano PHP/MySQL Meetup Group

**Dallas Revit User Group (AutoDesk Revit users)

Dallas Ruby Brigade (Dallas.rb)

DFW ColdFusion User Group (DFWCUG)

** DFW Metroplex Rational User Group

** Encompass Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter (HP enterprise technology user group)

Fort Worth .NET Users Group (FWDNUG)

The Java Metroplex User's Group (JavaMUG)

Mercury Interactive Local User Groups (LUGs), Dallas (contact information available at the main web site)

Mid-Cities PC Users' Group

** North Dallas .NET User Group (NDDNUG)

North Texas Linux Users Group

North Texas Patterns Group

The North Texas PC Users Group (NTPCUG)

Plano Talk-Drink Java^TM

SAS Global Forum

North Texas SAS Users Group (NOTSUG)
Tarrant County SAS Users Group (TCSUG)

Service Oriented Architecture User Group

VMware User Groups

VMware Users Group of Dallas (DFWVMUG)

Chambers of Commerce

Arlington Chamber of Commerce
Dallas Northeast Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce
North Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Plano Chamber of Commerce
Richardson Chamber of Commerce
See also: Texas Association of Business

Chamber technology councils

iCity Tech Council - Greater Irving-Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce
Fort Worth Technology Council -Fort Worth Chamber of Commerce
Technology Business Council (under PROGRAMS) - Greater Dallas Chamber of Commerce
Metroplex Technology Business Council (TBC)

Other general business organizations

American Society of Training and Development (ASTD)

Dallas Chapter
Fort Worth Mid Cities Chapter

Dallas/Fort Worth Interactive Marketing Association

D/FW Organizational Development Network

Institute of Management Consultants

Dallas/Fort Worth chapter
Houston chapter

International Association of Business Communicators

Dallas Chapter
Fort Worth Chapter

International Society for Performance Improvement (ISPI)

Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter

North Texas Association of Professional Consultants

Meeting the fourth Monday of each month at the Jaycees Center for the Arts, phone 972-680-4439

Meeting the third Tuesday of each month at; Fuddrucker's Patio Room, Irving Mall; phone 214-354-9001

Service Corps of Retired Executives (SCORE)

Dallas Chapter (contact information at the link above)
Fort Worth Chapter
Waco Chapter

Society for Technical Communication (STC)

Eagle/University of North Texas Chapter (contact information on the main STC web page)
Lone Star Chapter (Dallas/Fort Worth)

Society of Risk Management Consultants

Usability Professionals' Association

Dallas-Fort Worth Chapter (contact information on the Local Chapters page)

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