Software Resources for North Texas

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
• Radio shows
• National and international organizations with local chapters
• Local organizations
• User groups
• Chambers of Commerce
• Chamber technology councils
• Other general business organizations

Publications

Allen Job Transition Focus Group

CareerBridge Network

A ministry of Trietsch Memorial United Methodist Church.

Career Transitions, First Baptist Church Richardson

CareerLink Network

Christ Church Plano Jobs Ministry

CTW_Dallas Job Posting Group (Career Transition Workshop)

dfw.jobs newsgroup

Seems to be a decent source of local job leads. You'll need to use a Usenet news reader to access the newsgroup.

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.

JOBNET of Plano

Lincoln County Networking Group (LCNG)

Mid-Cities Career Network

Pantego Bible Church Career Resource Center

Not limited to the North Texas area, but local opportunities occasionally show up here.

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.

Occasionally there are events in the area that are held specifically to help people find a job. The Layoff Lounge is one organization that sponsors events like this (there may be an admission charge). Watch the calendars in the publications listed above for similar events. GeekMeet also promotes networking events, some of which are geared for job hunters, and they also have an online job openings list.

Radio shows

National and international organizations with local chapters

AeA Texas Council

Dallas/Ft. Worth Chapter

Alliance of Technology and Women (ATW)

Dallas chapter
Fort Worth chapter

Dallas, section 1402 (ISO 9000 SIG, TL 9000 SIG, Audit SIG)
Greater Fort Worth, section 1416
Divisions of interest:
Software Division
Reliability Division

SIGS of interest:
SIGMETRICS, Measurement and Evaluation
SIGSAC, Security, Audit, and Control
SIGSOFT, Software Engineering

Dallas Chapter

Dallas
Fort Worth (no web page)

Dallas Chapter

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

Fort Worth chapter

Information Systems Security Association (ISSA)

North Texas Chapter

International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE)

North Texas Chapter (Dallas)

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)

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

Dallas Chapter
Fort Worth Chapter
PMI Risk Managment SIG

Dallas/Ft. Worth Chapter

Dallas chapter (contact information at the link above)

Association for Software Engineering Excellence (ASEE) (Dallas chapter)

Women In Technology International (WITI)

WITI North Texas Chapter

Red River Chapter

Local organizations

The Dallas Internet Society (DIS)

Dallas Practitioners Group

GeekMeet

North Texas Technology Council (NTTC)

Metro Midrange Systems Association (MMSA)

Metro-SQA

For software testing professionals.

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

Software Testing Institute (STI)

Techxans

Texas eCommerce Association

User groups

Cowtown Macintosh User Group (CMUG)

Dallas/Fort Worth AutoCAD Users Group - Irving, phone: 972-393-9046

Dallas/Fort Worth Cisco Users Group (DFWCUG)

The Dallas/Fort Worth Compaq Users Group (DFWCUG) - formerly the DEC Local User Group (DFWLUG), now a member of ENCOMPASS, the Compaq Computer User Society

Dallas/Ft. Worth Palm Users Group (DFWPUG)

Dallas/Ft. Worth Perl Mongers

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

Dallas Macintosh Users Group (DMUG)

Dallas MacPack

Dallas .NET Users Group (DDNUG)

Dallas NetWare Users Group (DNUG)

The Dallas Oracle User's Group (DOUG)

Dallas Personal Robotics Group (DPRG)

Dallas SCJD Study Group

Delphi Developers of Dallas (3D)

DFW ColdFusion User Group (DFWCUG)

DFW LAMP Administrators (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP)

DFW PocketPC User Group

Electronic Graphic Artists of Dallas (EGAD)

Fort Worth .NET Users Group (FWDNUG)

Fort Worth Java User's Group (FWJUG)

The Java Metroplex User's Group (JavaMUG)

The JavaHouse Object-Oriented Software Design Discussion Group

JXTA Peer-to-Peer Developer's Group of Texas

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

Mid-Cities PC Users' Group

North Texas Linux Users Group

North Texas Patterns Group

The North Texas PC Users Group(NTPCUG)

Plano .NET Users Group (PDNUG)

Plano Talk-Drink Java^TM

Rational User Group Dallas

SAS Users Group International (SUGI)

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

Talk-Java/Drink-Java (Richardson and Las Colinas)

VMware User Groups

VMware Users Group of Dallas (DFWVMUG) (URL wasn't working when last checked)

Web Services Java Users Group

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 & Chambers of Commerce

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

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

Dallas Chapter
Fort Worth Chapter

Dallas/Fort Worth Chapter

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

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

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

Usability Professionals' Association

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

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