Who Sponsors This Group?
Wondering who is helping us do all this great work? This is our growing list of sponsors helping to make all this possible. We've made it easy to visit their sites and find their products or services. These companies offer a variety of discount programs as well as free books, software, and other items for you, our member. They know you are trying to figure it all out, and they are trying to help make it easier. Please consider them when thinking about your next purchase.
Who Hosts Our Meeting Location?
With over 300 centers in 60 countries, New Horizons is the world's largest independent IT training company. Over the past 25 years, New Horizons has delivered a full range of technology and business skills training through innovative learning methods that have transformed businesses and helped over 25 million students reach their goals.
New Horizons provides our members the space and facilities that make our meetings possible. Many thanks to our gracious host! For more information on meeting times at New Horizon's location, click here
Adobe
As our main sponsor, Adobe is heavily involved with our support.
"The User Group community plays an important role in educating computer users and reaching out to those who are new to technology. They are ideal testers of new products and serve as one of the most credible sources for product recommendations within their communities. Their feedback over the years have helped Adobe build industry-leading products. Adobe is committed to supporting the User Group community and maintaining long-term relationships with them."
-- Dr. Charles M. Geschke, Founder & Co-Chairman of the Board, Adobe Systems Incorporated
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Peachpit Press
Peachpit Press has been publishing top-notch books on the latest in graphic design, desktop publishing, multimedia, Web publishing, and general computing since 1986. Our award-winning books feature step-by-step explanations, timesaving techniques, savvy insider tips, and expert advice for computer users of all sorts.
Ever cracked open a Visual QuickStart Guide? That's us. We're also home to the best-selling Classroom in a Book series from Adobe Press as well as a ton of other popular series, titles, and authors. Scott Kelby ring a bell?
The Peachpit family has grown over the years to encompass an elite collection of the world's top computer book imprints specializing in graphics and design, including our flagship, Peachpit Press, as well as New Riders, Adobe Press, and Macromedia Press, among others. Peachpit is a part of Pearson Education, the world's largest integrated educational publisher.
Our members enjoy a whopping 30% discount off any book purchase. WOW! (Get your discount code at the meetings) Book Review Program available, details here
O'Reilly Media
O'Reilly Media spreads the knowledge of innovators through its books, online services, magazine, and conferences. Since 1978, O'Reilly has been a chronicler and catalyst of leading-edge development, homing in on the technology trends that really matter and spurring their adoption by amplifying "faint signals" from the alpha geeks who are creating the future. An active participant in the technology community, the company has a long history of advocacy, meme-making, and evangelism.
Exciting book review program offers FREE books to participating members. Thanks O'Reilly!
Sams Publishing
Our Usergroup Program is designed to draw Sams Publishing closer to our users and users closer to us. The program offers benefits to groups that include book discounts, review and library copies, event support, and access to the authors and experts that make Sams books indispensable tools for technology professionals and enthusiasts.
Apress
Apress: "Books For Professionals, By Professionals"supports user group education and training efforts. AAMUG is a registered Apress user group.
User group benefits include the following: Discounts—a special 25% discount off the retail price of Apress titles, Free books for review purposes, Advanced PDFs or review copies of books before their official release, and more!
Coffeecup Software
"Warm people, Friendly Software" Nice discounts on very affordable web design software. FREE support and FREE upgrades for life.
"We don't just make Software, we make Webmasters. What we have done since 1996 is pretty simple. We make software so you can create a Website. We want you to create sites that we can be proud of too. So we will try to do everything we can to help you."
CoffeeCup offers our members a nice 20% discount good on any software purchase.
Lynda
Online technical training that helps you learn, master, and apply digital tools and techniques.
Lynda Weinman, a Web graphics and design veteran, wrote the very first industry book on Web design, Designing Web Graphics, in 1995. She is a prominent educator and the author of dozens of best-selling books. Weinman was a faculty member at Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA, in 1989, and has worked as an animator and motion graphics director in the film special effects industry.
Weinman has worked as a consultant for Adobe, Macromedia, and Microsoft, and has conducted workshops at Disney, Microsoft, Adobe, and Macromedia. She has been a keynote speaker, moderator, and lecturer at numerous design, animation, Web design, and computer-graphics conferences. Weinman and her husband Bruce Heavin co-founded lynda.com, a training company with headquarters in Ojai, CA, in 1995. She co-founded the Flashforward Conference and Film Festival, the largest Adobe Flash® conference in the world, in 2000.
