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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Thu SEP 11, 2008
from WindowsBoston:, "O'Reilly is hosting Ignite Boston 4", 6-10pm, Hooley House, Boston
NE Java Users Group, "JavaFX and Java SE 6 Update 10: A new Desktop Experience", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
CocoaHeads: Boston, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Building E51/Room 149
BostonPHP User Group, "Show us your stuff" 6:30PM, IBM/Lotus, Cambridge
NE SQL Server User Group, "Automating SQL Trace and the Updated RML Utilities", 6:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham
RI Mac Users, "Microsoft Office 2008", 7PM, RI College, Bldg 6
No Shore Comp Soc, "Will You Survive a PC Disaster?", 7PM, Higgins Middle School, Peabody
Boston Web Design Meetup Group, "discuss projects, methods and whatever else", 7PM, Trident, Boston

Sat SEP 13, 2008
Visually Impaired and Blind User Group, "Check in September", 1-4 pm, National Braille Press, Boston
Digital Media Users, "The Connected Home Day", full day training, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon SEP 15, 2008
Web Innovators Group, "a forum for entrepreneurs", 6:30PM, Cambridge Royal Sonesta
Boston Java Meetup Group, "Details to follow.", 6:30PM, Cambridge

Tue SEP 16, 2008
Cold Fusion Users, topic and location TBD, 6PM
Boston SPIN, "Safety-Critical Applications built via Agile Discipline", 6-8:30 PM, MITRE M Bldg, Bedford
Boston Adobe InDesign User Group "What's New in Acrobat 9 Pro", 6 pm, Massachusetts College of Art
NH Ruby and Rails Users, "A trio of talks", 7PM, RMC Research, Portsmouth NH

Wed SEP 17, 2008
Access Day, Intro & Intermediate sessions, 1-4PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Access Day, Developer sessions, 4-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party", 7 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 376
Southern New England Network Users Group, "packet sniffing tutorial", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI
Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7:00 PM, Morgan Hall, WPI
Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "TBA", 7 pm, Cambridge
Midrange Users, "LDAP on the iSeries", 5:15, Old Grist Mill Tavern, Seekonk
Tivoli NE Users Group, "Tivoli Service Request Manager", 1 pm, Virtual User Group Meeting - See website

Thu SEP 18, 2008
NH .NET Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH
Info Security Group, "Use of Technology and Security in Jewelry Theft Investigation", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
G Boston Chapter of ACM, "Evolvability and Robust Design", 7-9 PM, Broad Inst Auditorium (MIT building NE-30)
MerriLUG, "Introduction to OpenStreetMap", 7:30 PM, Martha's Exchange, Nashua

Fri SEP 19, 2008
Boston Red Hat Meetup Group, "keep informed of what's going on with Red Hat Linux", 7PM, Somerville
SIBMUG: A PC User Group, "Lotus Symphony", 7PM, Adult Learning Ctr, Dover NH
No Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Sat SEP 20, 2008
Software Freedom Day, Watch for more information

Mon SEP 22, 2008
AgileBoston User Group, "Report from Agile2008/Toronto, plus: XPGAME TEAMS", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue SEP 23, 2008
SharePoint User Group, open forum, 6-7:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Independent Computer Consultants (ICCA), "Become the Go-To Authority ", 6-9, $ Rebecca's Cafe, Burlington

Wed SEP 24, 2008
Boston Area SAS Users, "Multilevel modeling/SAS Text Miner", 8:45AM, Holiday Inn Brookline
Boston Scalability UG, "WebSphere eXtreme Scale", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
DataCAD Boston Users, topic TBD, 6PM, MZO Architects, Stoneham
Final Cut Pro, "FC Studio 2 tips and techniques", 6:30, Arsenal Ctr for the Arts, Watertown

Thu SEP 25, 2008
Gr Boston AITP $, topic TBD, 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony, Dorchester
NE Visual Basic Professionals, "Come Build the NEVB Site with DotNetNuke", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed OCT 01, 2008
Boston Windows Server User Group, "Paul Thurrott on Windows 7", 6-9 PM,  Microsoft, Waltham

Thu OCT 02, 2008
Beantown .NET, "Skinning Silverlight Controls", 6PM, Hollister Inc, Boston
NE Visual Basic Professionals, "Literals in VB – XML and Text Processing", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed OCT 08, 2008
Rhode Island and SE Mass SolidWorks Users Group, "TBA", 5:30-9:30, Ramada, Seekonk
SW Quality Group, "Survey of Test Automation Projects", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Boston Macintosh User Group, " TBA ", 7PM, MIT Building E51

Thu OCT 09, 2008
NE SQL Server User Group, "Performance Monitoring Tips for SQL Server 2008", 6:30 PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue OCT 14, 2008
Boston CHI, "Regular Meeting", Details TBA

Wed OCT 15, 2008
Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7:00 PM, Morgan Hall, WPI
Central MA / Northern CT SolidWorks User Group, "TBA", Metso Automation, Shrewsbury
Boston Linux & Unix, "Details to follow", 6:30 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 376
Southern New England Network Users Group, "Lee Benjamin: subject TBD", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI

Thu OCT 16, 2008
Computer Measurement Group quarterly meeting, 8:30AM-4:30PM, Doubletree, Westborough
Final Cut Pro, "An Evening With Larry Jordan", 6:30, location TBD
IEEE and GBC/ACM, "Security in Voting Systems", 7PM, MIT Stata Ctr room 32-123

Tue OCT 21, 2008
NH SolidWorks Users Group, "TBA", 6-9:15, Nashua Community College

Wed OCT 22, 2008
AgileBoston User Group, "Agile Planning and Estimating", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu NOV 06, 2008
Beantown .NET, "Assorted 30 minute talks", 6PM, Hollister Inc, Boston
NE Visual Basic Professionals, "How to Defend Against Stupid Hacker Tricks", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue NOV 11, 2008
Boston CHI, "Regular Meeting", Details TBA

Wed NOV 12, 2008
SW Quality Group, "Wideband Delphi Method", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Wed NOV 19, 2008
Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7:00 PM, Morgan Hall, WPI
Boston Linux & Unix, "Details to follow", 6:30 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 376
Southern New England Network Users Group, "HyperV", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI
DataCAD Boston Users, "DBUG's 21st Anniversary", World Trade Center, Boston

Thu NOV 20, 2008
IEEE and GBC/ACM, "Open-architectures for Reading, Writing & Computing with Genomes", 7PM, MIT Broad Inst Aud bldg NE-30

Tue NOV 25, 2008
AgileBoston "Distributed Scrum- deploying Scrum across globally distributed teams" 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu DEC 04, 2008
Visual Basic Pro, "What's New in SQL Server 2008/Reporting Svcs", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed DEC 10, 2008
SW Quality Group, "Integrating Agile", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Wed DEC 17, 2008
Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7:00 PM, Morgan Hall, WPI
Boston Linux & Unix, "Details to follow", 6:30 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 376
Southern New England Network Users Group, "Astaro - tentative", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI

Wed JAN 14, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Schedule Games", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Thu FEB 05, 2009
Visual Basic Pro, "VB.Net on Linux/Mono Boo", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed FEB 11, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Testing the Untestable", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Thu MAR 05, 2009
Visual Basic Pro, "ASP.Net Data Services (Astoria)", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed MAR 11, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Nitty Gritty of QA Project Management", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Wed APR 08, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Security testing w cURL and Perl", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Wed MAY 13, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Automated Functional Test Design", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Wed JUN 10, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Test Tool - Make or Buy?", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Wed JUL 08, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

Every Tuesday
Massachusetts UBUNTU Team training, 7-9 pm, South End Technology Center, Boston

SEP 12, 2008
Unified Communications LabFest for New England User Groups, Microsoft, Waltham

SEP 12-14, 2008
New England Software Symposium, Sheraton Framingham

SEP 13, 2008
Digital Media Users, "The Connected Home Day", full day training, Microsoft, Waltham

SEP 18, 2008
North Eastern SolidWorks User Conference, Westford Regency Conference Center

SEP 20-21, 2008
Developers Code Camp: V10.0, at  Microsoft, Waltham - Event Presentation List

SEP 22-24, 2008
Oracle Performance Firefighting training class, Embassy Suites, Logan Airport

SEP 25-27, 2008
Oracle Forecasting & Predictive Analysis training class, Embassy Suites, Logan Airport

OCT 07-09, 2008
Flash On Tap Conference, Park Plaza Castle, Boston

OCT 08, 2008
Oracle Training Day at Bentley College

OCT 10, 2008
Boston Flash Lite Technology Day, Nokia Research Center (NRC), Cambridge

OCT 13-17, 2008
ASQ 57th NEQC Conference Royal Plaza, Marlborough

OCT 27-30, 2008
Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center
Fall 2008 VON Conference & Expo, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center

NOV 08-09, 2008
Agile Bazaar, "Deep Agile 2008", MIT Room E51-345

NOV 13, 2008
Windows Vista, "Solution Building for System Builders", Burlington MA

MAR 25-27, 2009
Photoshop World 2009, Hynes Convention Center

APR 05-09, 2009
ACM SIGCHI Conference, CHI 2009, Hynes Convention Center


Ongoing:

MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science events open to the public

The IEEE Boston Section posts local courses at http://www.ieeeboston.org/

Qualware Instructional Services, Burlington, flexible public and corporate IT training.

Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 617 547-6789 or 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

New Horizons Boston, Quincy, Waltham and Westborough.


Apple seminars  MA NH RI

Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar

IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners - Waltham

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