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Updated 10/13/2003 -- '03 #140

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User group email Notices for August '03,    September '03,    October '03,  or for All Notices
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View previous calendars -- Read Our Story -- OLD User Group Directory and contact list (not updated)
Bostonusergroups.com: "Monthly Meeting Calendar"   --   Boston TechVenue Calendar
User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Tue OCT 14, 2003
GoldMine User Group, "GoldMine Corp Edition + News Ticker", 8:30AM, Harvest Solutions, Waltham
Network Users (BNUG), "MCI MPLS Networks", 7PM, Mt Ida College, Newton
Greater Boston SIGCHI "Making Learning Fun", 7 pm,  Sun Microsystems in Burlington
Microsoft Business Productivity UG "OFFICE 2003 PREVIEW", 5 or 7:30pm, Microsoft Waltham (register)
NH Seacoast Mac Users Group "the State of the Mac"  7:00 PM, Rye Junior High School

Wed OCT 15, 2003
Boston Linux & Unix UG, "An overview of Gentoo Linux", 7-9pm, MIT Building 4-370
So NE Network Users, "Office 2003 w/NFR", 7pm, Roger Williams College, Providence
Access Day, "Introduction to Access", 9AM-Noon, Microsoft, Waltham
Access Day, "Intermediate  Access", 1-5PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Access Day, "Access Developer", 5-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Software Quality Group "Techniques for Gathering Requirements" 6:15pm, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
SIGGRAPH/Boston "Boris FX: RED 3GL" 7pm, Mount Ida College, Newton Centre

Thu OCT 16, 2003
NE Information Security, "Network Forensics" & "Security Stress Testing", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham
Worcester Macromedia, topic TBA, 6:30, Assumption College; IT Building
DataCAD UG, "DataCAD LLC", 6PM, Boston Society of Architects, 52 Broad St, Boston
GBC/ACM, "Geographic Text Search", 7PM, MIT NE-43, AI Lab
Cape Cod .NET "Open Source vs. .NET Development Environments" 7-9 pm, Sr. Center, Mashpee

Fri OCT 17, 2003
No Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municpal Light

Sat OCT 18, 2003
RI Retro-Computing Society "EAI PACE and analogue computing" 10AM-4:30PM, 25 Eagle St, Providence
RIMUG "Open Forum" 11 - 2 P.M., Davies Career Technical High School
Cape Cod .NET Users, $ "ADO.NET Hands-On Training", 9AM-4:30, Cape Cod Community College

Sun OCT 19, 2003
Swapfest:,  "The Flea at MIT", 9am-2pm, Albany and Main Streets, Cambridge

Mon OCT 20, 2003
Worcester Comp Soc, "iPhoto2 and itunes", 6:45, Worcester State College

Tue OCT 21, 2003
Boston SPIN "Effective Metrics for Pragmatic Project Managers" 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
NE Palm Users Group "Palm software for vertical applications" 7 pm, MIT Plasma Fusion Lab, Cambridge
ACM Greater Boston Web Tech Chapter "HiveMind open-source project" 7pm, IBM SPC in Waltham

Thu OCT 23, 2003
Exchange Server UG, "Office Live Server/Aelita Software",  6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon OCT 27, 2003
Final Cut Pro UG (BOSFCPUG) "share tips, techniques, and experiences" 6:30-10 PM, Boston University

Tue OCT 28, 2003
AppleScript Users, "Javascript and Adobe Acrobat", @MIT Bldg E51, Room 372
Assn for Women in Computing "Get Ready to be Hired!" 6-8:30 pm, FleetBoston Financial, Waltham
HEAT User Group "HEAT features and demonstrations and tutorials"  9-4, Microsoft, Waltham 

Thu OCT 30, 2003
BostonPocketPC.com "Windows Mobile 2003 User Group Tour" 5:30pm, Sheraton Commander Hotel, Cambridge
WebSphere Boston UG, "WebSphere Portal Server V5" & "User-group Portal" 6-8 pm, IBM SPC, Waltham

Sat NOV 01, 2003
RIMUG "Open Forum" 11 - 2 P.M., Davies Career Technical High School

Mon NOV 03, 2003
Microsoft Windows Technical Forum "Preview of Small Business Server 2003: 6:30-8:30, Microsoft Waltham

Tue NOV 04, 2003 
Small Business Server UG, "SBS 2003 - a technical look" 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham
Internet Professionals 495, "Cascading Style Sheets" 6:30-8:30, $,  EMC Hopkinton  
 
Wed NOV 05, 2003
Exchange Server UG, "Exchange Basics & Exchange in the Home Network", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
RI .NET Users, "So you THINK you know Objects", R Williams Univ, Portsmouth RI
Worcester Linux Users "TBA" 7PM, Morgan Hall, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Mon NOV 10, 2003
Worcester Comp Soc, "Microsoft Office 2003", 6:45, Worcester State College

Tue NOV 11, 2003
New England M Users' Group "TBA", 6 pm, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley

Wed NOV 12, 2003
Software Quality Group "Tailoring an Agile Methodology to Better Support Testing" 6:15, Sun, Burlington
Boston .NET User Group "3rd Party Vendor Night"  6-9 pm, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Macintosh User Group "Not Your Parents' Printer" 7-9 pm, MIT Building E51 Room 315
Back Bay LISA, "LISA 2003 Recap (tentative)" 7-9pm, MIT Building E51, Room 145 

Thu NOV 13, 2003 
New England Java UG "Software Architecture Strategies & Techniques" 6-8pm, Sun Microsystems Burlington  

Sat NOV 15, 2003
RI Retro-Computing Society "Flexowriter" 10AM-4:30PM, 25 Eagle St, Providence

Tue NOV 18, 2003
ACT! User Group, "Check Website", 8:30 am-10:30 am, Harvest Solutions, Waltham

Wed NOV 19, 2003
So NE Network Users (SneNUG), "Netware 6.5", 7:00, Roger Williams College, Providence
DataCAD UG, "BSA's Build Boston", 6pm, World Trade Center, Boston
Exchange Server UG "Anti-SPAM Panel of 4 to 6 vendors",  6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix UG, "Beowulf Update", 7-9pm, MIT Building 4-370

Thu NOV 20, 2003
NE Information Security, "Penetration Testing Made Simple", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham
Final Cut Pro UG (BOSFCPUG) "share tips, techniques, and experiences" 7-10 PM, Boston University

Tue NOV 25, 2003
AppleScript Users, topic TBD, @MIT Bldg E51, Room 372

Wed DEC 03, 2003
RI .NET Users, "Visio and UML", R Williams Univ, Portsmouth RI

Sat DEC 06, 2003
RIMUG "Open Forum" 11 - 2 P.M., Davies Career Technical High School

Mon DEC 08, 2003
Worcester Comp Soc, "Toy for Tots -- Game demo", 6:45, Worcester State College

Thu DEC 11, 2003
Worcester Linux Users "TBA" 7PM, Morgan Hall, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Wed DEC 17, 2003
So NE Network Users (SneNUG), "X-mas Party/Elections", 7:00, Roger Williams College, Providence
Boston Linux & Unix UG, "Zope - A Bird's and Worm's Eye View", 7-9pm, MIT Building 4-370

Thu DEC 18, 2003
NE Information Security "Trojan Wars, or Whose Computer Is It Anyway?" 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham

Sat DEC 20, 2003
RI Retro-Computing Society "RCS/RI Anniversary" 10AM-4:30PM, 25 Eagle St, Providence



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

OCT 14 - 15, 2003
IEEE Boston Section Course: "XML – The Universal Format for Data Exchange", WPI, Waltham

OCT 16-17, 2003
2003 .Net Developer Tour, Embassy Suites, Logan Airport

OCT 18, 2003
GBCACM Professional Development Seminar: "Application Security Principles" 9-4:30, MIT Room 34-101
Cape Cod .NET "ADO.NET Hands-On Training" 9am-4:30pm, Cape Cod Community College 

OCT 21, 2003
IEEE Boston Section Workshop "Writing and Reviewing Software Requirements" 8:30am - 4:30pm

OCT 25 - NOV 01, 2003
IEEE Boston Section Course: "First Level Security for Computers and Networks (With Lab)", WPI, Waltham

OCT 27 - 31, 2003
IEEE Boston Section Course: "Fundamentals of Perl Programming (With Lab)", WPI, Waltham (Tentative)

OCT 28, 2003
Microsoft CRM Seminar, "Check Website", 8:30 am-10:30 am, Harvest Solutions, Waltham

Oct. 30th - 5:30 PM
BostonPocketPC.com  "Windows Mobile 2003 User Group Tour", 6:30

NOV 01, 2003
GBCACM Prof Dev Seminar: "Bridges, Routers, Switches, Internetworking Protocols" 9-4:30, MIT 34-101

NOV 03-07, 2003
DevelopMentor's Guerrilla .NET, Build .NET applications using C#

NOV 04, 2003
IEEE Boston Section Workshop "Building Accurate Estimates and Realistic Schedules" 8:30am - 4:30pm

NOV 04-05, 2003
IEEE Boston Section Course: "Deploying Wireless LAN Solutions"  Location: TBD

NOV 07-25, 2003
IEEE Boston Section Course: "LINUX System Administration Lab Crash Course" WPI, Waltham (Tentative)

NOV 11 - DEC 16, 2003
IEEE Boston Section Course: "Fundamentals of Client Side JAVA Programming (With Lab)", WPI, Waltham

NOV 15, 2003
IEEE Boston Section Course: "Dynamic Web Pages using PHP and Apache ServerWeb Page"  WPI, Waltham

NOV 18, 2003
IEEE Boston Course: "Software Verification & Validation for Practitioners and Managers"  WPI, Waltham

Dec 09, 2003
IEEE Boston Section Course: "Software Development for Medical Device Manufacturers", WPI, Waltham

Ongoing:

MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science events open to the public

The IEEE Boston Section posts local courses at http://www.ieee-boston.org/

Cambridge Center for Adult Education  Call (617) 547-6789 or check the courses
available at http://www.ccae.org

DevelopMentor Training Classes, Cummings Park, Woburn. http://www.develop.com

Future Media Concepts provides training in all areas of digital media

Pinnacle Training has continuing Microsoft-related courses at Westborough and Braintree

Apple seminars  MA NH RI

Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar

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