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User Group events:
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Tue OCT 21, 2008
Boston SPIN, "What Agile Can Learn From Waterfall & What Waterfall Can Learn From Agile", 6-8:30, MITRE, Bedford
NH SolidWorks Users Group, "Design Tables & Equations/DriveWorksXpress", 6-9:15, Nashua Community College
NH Ruby & Rails Users, "Rails Plug-in System", 7PM, RMC Research, Portsmouth NH

Wed OCT 22, 2008
Boston ColdFusion Users, "Open Mic Night with the Boston CFUG", 6PM, Adobe, Newton
Boston XNA Developers meeting, 6-8PM, Microsoft, Waltham
DataCAD Boston Users, agenda to follow, 6PM, Lesko-Kelly Assoc, Norwell
Boston Scalability Users, "Nikita Ivanov, GridGain project", 6PM, IBM Innovation Ctr, Waltham
AgileBoston User Group, "Agile Planning and Estimating", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Merrimack Valley Photoshop Meetup Group, "let’s get together and talk photoshop, 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
Boston Flash Platform UG, "demo of the new features in Flash CS4", 7PM, NEiA main campus, Brookline villiage
Metrowest Ruby Users Group, "October Meetup", 7PM, Natick
Boston Data Warehouse Meetup, "October Meetup", 7 pm, Boston
NE Area SMS User Group, "Overview of SQL Reporting Services and ConfigManager 2007 R2", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham
Adobe Boston UG, "differences between Actionscript 2.0 and Actionscript 3.0", 7-9 pm, Northeastern Univ

Thu OCT 23, 2008
Boston Plone Meetup Group, "Plone and Freedom & 10 Things You Didn't Know About Plone", 7 pm, Betahouse, Cambridge
NH Python SIG, "Sphinx, etc", 7PM, Amoskeag Incubator, Manchester NH

Fri OCT 24, 2008
Data Management Association (DAMA), "Linking Geospatial Data to Business Intelligence", 9am-noon, Weston

Mon OCT 27, 2008
Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "We will talk about everything QuickBooks", 6PM

Tue OCT 28, 2008
NE SharePoint User Group, "Impact of Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization", 6-7:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed OCT 29, 2008
Greater Boston Chapter of the ICCA, "Using Agile in a Consulting Business", 7-8:30, Hynes Convention Center, Boston
Boston Data Warehouse Meetup, "October Meetup", 6:00, Boston

Tue NOV 04, 2008
Rhode Island .NET UG "Web Sites with Dynamic Data: Almost No Coding Required" 5-8 pm, Roger Williams University

Wed NOV 05, 2008
Boston Flash Platform User Group, "Design Patterns Meeting", 7 pm, Brightcove, One Cambridge Center
Windows Boston, "Clyde Johnson and Ted Vahey - Scripting 101", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston PHP Meetup, "November Meetup", 6:30 PM

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

Sat NOV 08, 2008
Visually Impaired & Blind UG "Victor Reader Stream package & Adept1" 1-4 pm, National Braille Press, Boston

Mon NOV 10, 2008
Cambridge Enterprise Web "current issues developing web applications" 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup Group, "get great tips and share new ideas", 7 PM, TBA
Cambridge Search Engine Optimization, "Boston SEO Networking Roundtable Panel", 6:30 PM, Robbins Library, Arlington

Tue NOV 11, 2008
Boston ColdFusion Users, "Refactoring to OO", 6PM, location TBD
Boston CHI, "Chris Hart of the Institute for Human-Centered Design", 6:30-9, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
New England M Users Group, "Something Interesting", 6:30-9, Wellesley Gateway Building ?

Wed NOV 12, 2008
SW Quality Group, "Wideband Delphi Method", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Boston Macintosh User Group, "Games & Toys", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
Boston Wi-Fi Meetup Group, "talk about the latest developments in community wi-fi", 7 PM, Somerville 

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
NE Java Users Group, "10 Years of Java and the JVM - Happy Birthday NEJUG", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Boston Web Design Meetup Group, "discuss projects, methods and whatever else", 7 PM, Boston

Tue NOV 18, 2008
Boston-area Perl Mongers, "time_t, magic numbers, old school bithacks, Advent Calendar PSA", 7:15, MIT E51-376
Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Workshop Demo: Tone and Color", 7:30, near Porter Square

Wed NOV 19, 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
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", 6 pm, World Trade Center, Boston
Boston Flex & Interactive Media "benefits of LiveCycle Data Services and how to utilize them" 6:00, Auburndale

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

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

Wed NOV 26, 2008
Boston Flash Platform User Group, "General Meeting", 7 pm, NE Institute of Art Annex, Brookline

Wed DEC 03, 2008
Boston Flash Platform User Group, "Design Patterns Meeting", 7 pm, Brightcove, One Cambridge Center
Windows Boston, "Windows Serversions - Server 2008, SBS, Essential, Core, ???", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu DEC 04, 2008
InDesign User Group, "Adobe Creative Suite 4", 6PM, Mass College of Art, Boston
Visual Basic Pro, "What's New in SQL Server 2008/Reporting Svcs", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue DEC 09, 2008
Boston CHI, "TBA", 6:30-9, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Web Innovators Group, "self-/angel-funded startups demo’ing to the crowd", 6:30, Royal Sonesta, Cambridge

Wed DEC 10, 2008
Boston Area SAS Users quarterly meeting, 8:45AM, Holiday Inn, Brookline
Boston Area SAS Users training $, "Combining Data Files", 1:30-5, Holiday Inn, Brookline $
SW Quality Group, "Integrating Agile", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Boston Macintosh User Group, "MythBusters: Mac Troubleshooting", 7PM, MIT Building E51

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 07, 2009
Windows Boston, "Server Administrator Utilities, talk about whats in your toolbox", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham

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

Wed FEB 04, 2009
Windows Boston, "Joint Meeting with Exchange Users Group", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham

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

OCT 21-23, 2008
Mobile Internet World Conference & Expo, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center

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

DEC 10, 2008
Boston Area SAS Users training, "Combining Data Files", 1:30-5, Holiday Inn, Brookline

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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