While the MUG Event Calendar is comparatively quiet for a mid-month week, there are still some notable meeting topics to take note of.

A California group will hold a “Christmas in July” event, an Arizona group will focus on free or cheap software, groups in Montana, California and Ohio will have summer picnic events, and more than one group will herald the impending arrival of Mac OS X 10.7 Lion with meetings previewing the release, and how to prepare for it.

“The MUG Event Calendar” can be found at The MUG Center (http://www.mugcenter.com), an online resource for Mac User Groups. MUGs are good places for making new friends in the Mac community, improving your computing skills, finding solutions to technical problems, and perhaps locating a good deal on used hardware. For more info on MUGs, and to find the location of the one nearest you, go to Apple’s MUG page (http://www.apple.com/usergroups/).