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

Wed SEP 17, 2008
Tivoli NE Users Group, "Tivoli Service Request Manager", 1PM, Virtual User Group Meeting - See website
Access Day, Intro & Intermediate sessions, 1-4PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Access Day, Developer sessions, 4-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Midrange Users, "LDAP on the iSeries", 5:15, Old Grist Mill Tavern, Seekonk
Boston PocketPC, "Open Mic night", 6:30, 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
iPhone Developers Roundtable "So you want to learn to write apps for the iPhone?" 7pm, W. Newton

Thu SEP 18, 2008
NH .NET Users, "Adding Speech Recognition to your App", 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
Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "Learn how to get the most out of your QuickBooks software", 6PM, 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
Boston Data Warehouse Meetup, "TBA", 7 pm, Boston
Metrowest Ruby Users Group, "Welcome, Natick Rubyists, Railsians or Code Folk", 7PM, Natick

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
Boston PHP Meetup, "show us what you're working on", 6:30 pm, Boston
Boston Plone Meetup Group, "talk about how we are using Plone", 7 pm, Boston

Wed OCT 01, 2008
Windows Server Users, "Windows 7", 6PM,  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
Extreme Thursday Club, "Transitioning to Agile", 6:30, Kinsale's, 2 Center Plaza, Boston

Fri OCT 03, 2008
No Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon OCT 06, 2008
Boston jQuery, "jQuery JavaScript, iPhone, and Rich Internet Applications" 7 PM. Panera, Needham
Search Engine Optimization Group, "better ways to work with search engines", 7PM, Robbins Library, Arlington

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
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu OCT 09, 2008
NE SQL Server User Group, "Performance Monitoring Tips for SQL Server 2008", 6:30 PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Web Design Meetup Group, "discuss projects, methods and whatever else", 7 PM, Trident, Boston
No Shore Comp Soc, no meeting this month

Mon OCT 13, 2008
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square
Boston MySQL Meetup Group, "Meet nearby MySQL Users", 7 PM, MIT building E51, room 372

Tue OCT 14, 2008
Boston Flex Users, "LiveCycle Data Services (LCDS)", 7PM, Adobe, Newton
Boston CHI, "Regular Meeting", Details TBA

Wed OCT 15, 2008
Access Day, Intro & Intermediate sessions, 1-4PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Access Day, Developer sessions, 4-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham
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

Mon OCT 20, 2008
Boston Java Meetup Group, "learn together and share our experiences" 6:30 PM, Cambridge

Tue OCT 21, 2008
NH SolidWorks Users Group, "Design Tables & Equations/DriveWorksXpress", 6-9:15, Nashua Community College

Wed OCT 22, 2008
AgileBoston User Group, "Agile Planning and Estimating", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Merrimack Valley Photoshop Meetup Group, "let’s get together and talk photoshop”, 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

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, "Chris Hart of the Institute for Human-Centered Design", 6:30-9, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

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

Thu NOV 13, 2008
CocoaHeads: Boston, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Bldg E51 Rm 149
No Shore Comp Soc, "Modern Piracy", 7PM, Higgins Middle School, Peabody

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", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI

Fri DEC 19, 2008
Boston Red Hat Meetup Group, "keep informed of what's going on with Red Hat", 7PM, Somerville

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

Wed JAN 21, 2009
Southern NE Network Users Group, "Pete Stagman Media Center MVP on Home server", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI

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

Wed FEB 18, 2009
Southern NE Network Users Group, "Dan Sulliva, Territory Manager - New England | VMware", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI

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 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

NOV 17-20, 2008
Professional Ruby Conference, "Voices That Matter", Sheraton Boston

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

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

SEP 22-24, 2009
Embedded Systems Conference, 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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