As we close in on a holiday week in the United States, “The MUG Event Calendar” is filled with presenters and presentations.

Steve Sande will discuss one of his passions, NASA’s Apollo Program, at a Colorado group, and Kurt Schmucker of Parallels will be in Oregon to discuss his company’s virtual machine software. Jason Fiske of FileMaker will be the featured speaker at a New Jersey group, while Shane Buehn of Other World Computing/MacSales.com will visit a Texas Group, and the folks who make LastPass will visit a Washington D.C. group.

A sample of the other topics on tap this week include the iPad mini, Mountain Lion, travel resources, Snapheal photo editor; Aperture, digital photography, iOS 6 and much more.

“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/).