User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Tue NOV 18, 2008 Boston SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network), "Building Your Coaching Skills", 6-8:30, MITRE, Bedford Independent Computer Consultants, "an evening of informal conversation", 6:30-8:30, Little India, Waltham 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 Boston Flex & Interactive Media "benefits of LiveCycle Data Services and how to utilize them", 6PM, Auburndale DataCAD Boston Users, "DBUG's 21st Anniversary", 6 pm, World Trade Center, Boston NE Midrange Users, $ "Current Trends in EDI", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk $ Boston Linux & Unix, "OpenStreetMap Overview", 6:30 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 376 Worcester Linux Users, "Source Code Management", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI Southern New England Network Users Group, "HyperV", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "Meet other local Python Programming Language enthusiasts!", 7 pm Metrowest Ruby Users Group, "Presentation on Ruby.... ", 7PM, Natick New England Digital Media Users Group, "The next meeting .... ", 6:30pm, Microsoft, Waltham Thu NOV 20, 2008 Nashua Linux Users, "Techniques for creating and adjusting photos", 6PM, Martha's Exchange, Nashua NH NAISG Boston Chapter, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham IEEE and GBC/ACM "Open-architectures for Reading, Writing & Computing with Genomes", 7PM, Broad Inst Aud, MIT NE-30 Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "agenda for this meetup by Nov 14th", 7 pm, Techspace, Boston Fri NOV 21, 2008 North Shore Computer Society Computer Clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Sat NOV 22, 2008 Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XXXI", 9 am to 5 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 061 Mon NOV 24, 2008 Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "We will talk about everything QuickBooks", 6PM, Waltham Boston Water User Group, "the new Water V6, including in-the-browser execution capability", 6 pm, Cambridge NH Seacoast Linux Users Group (SLUG), "Backstage at WSCA", 5:15-6:30 pm, Portsmouth, NH Tue NOV 25, 2008 AgileBoston "Distributed Scrum- deploying Scrum across globally distributed teams" 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Python SIG, Agenda to follow, 7PM, Amoskeag Incubator, Manchester NH NE SharePoint User Group (NESUG), "look at SharePoint security from multiple angles", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Wed NOV 26, 2008 Boston XNA Developers, "(more work on our project)", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Flash Platform User Group, "general meeting", 7PM, NE Institute of Art Annex, Brookline Boston Data Warehouse Meetup, "Meet others interested in Data Warehouse / Business Intellegence", 7pm, Boston Thu NOV 27, 2008 Boston Plone Meetup Group, "Boston Plone November Meetup", 7 pm, Boston Mon DEC 01, 2008 Cambridge Search Engine Optimization Group, "search engine round table", 7PM, Robbins Library, Arlington Tue DEC 02, 2008 NH SolidWorks Users, "Sheet Metal Demystified", 6PM, Rapid Sheet Metal, Nashua Greater Boston Network Users Group, "The Past, Present & Future of the Internet", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Wed DEC 03, 2008 RI/So MA SolidWorks Users, "New in 2009/PDM Overview", 5:30, Patriot Cinema, Rumford RI Windows Boston, "Windows Serversions - Server 2008, SBS, Essential, Core, ???", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Flash Platform User Group, "Design Patterns Meeting", 7 pm, Brightcove, One Cambridge Center Boston PHP Meetup, "PHP Show-and-tell", 6:30PM Thu DEC 04, 2008 InDesign User Group, "Adobe Creative Suite 4", 6PM, Mass College of Art, Boston Boston SolidWorks Users, "Drawing Tips & Tricks", 6PM, Burlington Public Library Visual Basic Pro, "What's New in SQL Server 2008/Reporting Svcs", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham Mon DEC 08, 2008 NH Seacoast Linux Users Group (SLUG), "Unit tests, what's that?", 7-9 pm, UNH Morse Hall, Durham, NH Cambridge Enterprise Web "current issues developing web applications" 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup Group, "Using Multiple Database Servers in Isolation", 7 PM, MIT campus 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 $ Boston .NET Users, "Holiday Gathering & Tech Swap", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham SW Quality Group, "Integrating Agile", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston Macintosh User Group, "MythBusters: Mac Troubleshooting", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Boston Data Warehouse Meetup, "Come to network, or discuss a problem", 6:00, Dillon's, 955 Boylston St, Boston Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Thu DEC 11, 2008 SQL Server Users, "Dealing with Big Data", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham IEEE & GBC/ACM, "Computational Information Design", 7PM, Broad Institute Auditorium, MIT building NE-30 CocoaHeads: Boston, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Bldg E51 Rm 149 Boston Web Design Meetup Group, "discuss projects, methods and whatever else", 7 PM, Boston Sat DEC 13, 2008 Visually Impaired and Blind User Group, "The next meeting of VIBUG", 1-4 pm, National Braille Press, Boston Mon DEC 15, 2008 Boston Java Meetup Group, "learn together and share our experiences" 6:30 PM, Cambridge Tue DEC 16, 2008 Boston SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) "Taming the SOA Beast-(SDLC)", 6-8:30, MITRE, Bedford Wed DEC 17, 2008 Access Day, Intro & Intermediate sessions, 1-4PM, Microsoft, Waltham Access Day, Developer sessions, 4-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Linux & Unix, "History of Encryption Technology", 6:30 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 376 Southern New England Network Users Group, "Astaro", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI Thu DEC 18, 2008 Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI 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 Thu JAN 08, 2009 SQL Server Users, "Understanding LINQ to SQL", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Mon JAN 12, 2009 NH Seacoast Linux Users Group (SLUG), "UPnP/DLNA (A/V hardware...)", 7-9 pm, UNH Morse Hall, Durham, NH Wed JAN 14, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Schedule Games", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Tue JAN 20, 2009 Boston SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Meetings for People Who Hate Politics", 6-8:30, MITRE, Bedford Wed JAN 21, 2009 Southern NE Network Users Group, "Pete Stagman Media Center MVP on Home server", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI Boston Linux & Unix "Improving online education and documentation for developers" 6:30, MIT E51, Room TBA NE Midrange Users, "Essential Skills for the RPG Developer", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk Sat JAN 24, 2009 New England SQL Server User Group, "SQL Server Code Camp", 8-5, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Thu FEB 12, 2009 SQL Server Users, "Change Data Capture and SSIS", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Wed FEB 18, 2009 Southern NE Network UG, "Dan Sullivan, Territory Manager - New England | VMware", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI NE Midrange Users, "ABCs of Coding High Performance SQL Apps", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk 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 MAR 18, 2009 NE Midrange Users, "Putting Run SQL Scripts to Work for You", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk 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 MAY 20, 2009 NE Midrange Users, "What’s New in RPG for V6R1", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk 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 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 DEC 12, 2008 Flex Camp Boston, Bentley College, Waltham JAN 24, 2009 NE SQL Server Users, "SQL Server Code Camp", Microsoft, Waltham MAR 25-27, 2009 Photoshop World 2009, Hynes Convention Center APR 05-09, 2009 ACM SIGCHI Conference, CHI 2009, Hynes Convention Center MAY 11-13, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 09), Westin Hotel, Waltham 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, http://www.develop.com Future Media Concepts provides training in all areas of digital media New Horizons Boston, Quincy, Waltham and Westborough. Apple seminars Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar
These listings are obtained from user group web pages, mailings, and from other sources.