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Updated 02/02/2009 -- '09 #38
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.
 

Mon FEB 02, 2009
Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Digital Black & White", 7-9, Desera Interactive, Somerville
Cambridge Search Engine Optimization Meetup, "SEO and internet marketing", 6:30-9, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston .NET Certification Group, "TBA", 6:30-9:00, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue FEB 03, 2009
Greater Boston Network Users Group, "Massachusetts new data privacy law", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Central MA SolidWorks UG, "Templates, Formats, and Options & Using Smart Components", 5:30-9:30, Metso, Shrewbury

Wed FEB 04, 2009
Windows Boston, "Joint Meeting with Exchange Users Group", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham
New England Area SMS User Group, "The Redmond Road Show returns", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston XNA Developers Group, "Moved January meeting due to weather", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham
MacTechGroup Meeting, "(Maybe) Quartz in your iPHone", 7-9 PM, MIT Sloan School, Bldg E51, Room 335 

Thu FEB 05, 2009
Visual Basic Pro, "VB.Net on Linux/Mono Boo", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Greater Boston Webmasters Meetup Group "Meet other local webmasters to exchange experiences", 6:30, Boston

Fri FEB 06, 2009
North Shore Computer Society (NSCS), "Computer Clinic (members only)", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Plant

Mon FEB 09, 2009
Boston MySQL Meetup Group, "TBA", 7 PM, MIT 
Cambridge Enterprise Web "current issues developing web applications" 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group, "Wikipedia February Meetup", 7 PM, Wagamama, Cambridge

Tue FEB 10, 2009
Boston.pm (Perl Mongers), "Parse::Gnaw - An extensible parser", 7:15, MIT room E51-335
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup Group, "Solving Real Problems with Linked Data", 6 PM, Cambridge

Wed FEB 11, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Nitty Gritty of QA Project Management", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
BostonPHP User Group, "PHP IDE Bake-Off", 6:30-8:30, Optaros, Boston
Boston Macintosh User Group, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston .NET "jQuery: Comprehensive DOM, Event, Animation, & Ajax JavaScript Library" 6-8, Microsoft, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
DataCAD Boston Users Group, "February DBUG Meeting", 6 PM, Signature Architects, Berlin
Boston Avid Users Group, "BAVUG Winter Event ", 7 pm, The Stockyard, Brighton

Thu FEB 12, 2009
SQL Server Users, "Change Data Capture and SSIS", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
New England Java, "Architecture Management - avoid erosion of your code base", 6 pm, Sun Micro, Burlington
Boston Web Design Meetup Group, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7 PM, Boston
CocoaHeads, "next Meeting", 7 PM, MIT Building E51/Room 149
North Shore Computer Society (NSCS), "Buying and Selling on eBay", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Plant

Sat FEB 14, 2009
Visually Impaired and Blind User Group, "TBA", 1-4 pm, National Braille Press, Boston
OpenStreetMap Boston, "get Boston mapped the way you want", 11 am, Bloc 11 Cafe, Somerville

Mon FEB 16, 2009
Boston Java Meetup Group, "Meeting for dinner & drinks at the asgard", 6:30 PM, Cambridge
Boston jQuery, "jQuery JavaScript, iPhone, and Rich Internet Applications" 7 PM. Needham

Tue FEB 17, 2009
Boston SPIN (SW Process Improvement) "Strategy to Prepare for the Better Times Ahead", 6-8:30,MITRE, Bedford

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
Boston Linux & Unix "total cost of ownership of Linux in the enterprise" 6:30, MIT E51, Room 395
Access Day, Intro & Intermediate sessions, 1-4PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Access Day, Developer sessions, 4-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Flex & Interactive Media Meetup "for entrepreneurs and RIA developers" 6:00, Auburndale
Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "Meet other local Python Programming Language enthusiasts!", 7 pm

Thu FEB 19, 2009
GBC/ACM and IEEE, "Bridged Ethernets: RBridges using IETF TRILL", 7-9pm, Verizon Labs, Waltham
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI
Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Free Night at the ICA Museum", 7 pm, Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston Section ASQ, "TBD", 6:30, location to be announced

Fri FEB 20, 2009
North Shore Computer Society (NSCS), "Computer Clinic (members only)", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Plant

Mon FEB 23, 2009
Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Waltham area

Tue FEB 24, 2009
Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Digital Photo Montage", 7-9, Desera Interactive, Somerville
Independent Computer Consultants Ass'n, Boston Chapter, “Consultants Chat”, 6:30-8:30, Little India, Waltham

Wed FEB 25, 2009
Metrowest Ruby Users Group, "Metrowest Ruby Users Group February Meetup", 7PM, Natick

Thu FEB 26, 2009
Boston Plone Meetup Group, "There is no definite topic yet", 7 pm, Betahouse, Cambridge
Amazon Web Services Meetup Group, "all aspects of Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, SaaS", 6:30, Boston

Sat FEB 28, 2009
Boston Linux & Unix UG "Linux InstallFest XXXII" 9 am - 5 pm, MIT E51, Room 061

Tue MAR 03, 2009
Boston Post Mortem (game developers) "State of the Game Industry in Today’s Economic Climate", 8pm, MIT

Wed MAR 04, 2009
NH SolidWorks User Group, "Best Modeling Practices", 6-9:15, Merrimack, NH 
Windows Boston, "Jack Daniel", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham

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

Tue MAR 10, 2009
Web Innovators, "start-ups and individual innovators demo their product/service", 6:30, Cambridge
Boston.pm (Perl Mongers), "Hacking the WD Mybook 2 with Perl", 7:15, MIT room E51-335

Wed MAR 11, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Testing the Untestable", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Boston Macintosh User Group, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston .NET User Group, "Interfacing .NET and Java", 6-8 PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu MAR 12, 2009
New England Java, "Are you ready for Cloud Computing?", 6 pm, Sun Micro, Burlington

Wed MAR 18, 2009
NE Midrange Users, "Putting Run SQL Scripts to Work for You", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
Southern NE Network UG, "Deep dive into diskshadow and Volume Shadow Copy Service", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI
Boston Linux & Unix UG "Topic to be determined" 6:30-9 pm, MIT E51, Room 395

Thu MAR 19, 2009
Boston Red Hat meetup group, " keep informed of what's going on with Red Hat Linux", 6PM, Somerville
Boston Section ASQ, "TBD", 6:30, location to be announced

Tue MAR 24, 2009
DataCAD Boston Users Group, "March DBUG Meeting", 6 PM, Boston Society of Architects, Boston

Wed MAR 25, 2009
Northeast Autosys User Group, "exchange ideas, learn of future products", 9am-2pm, CA Office, Framingham 

Wed APR 01, 2009
Windows Boston, "Topic TBD ", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu APR 02, 2009
Visual Basic Pro, "Geographic Information Systems in .Net", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Sat APR 04, 2009
DataCAD Boston Users Group, "DATACAD's 25th Anniversary", (Tentative Date), Milford High School

Wed APR 08, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Security testing w cURL and Perl", 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

Wed APR 15, 2009
Boston Linux & Unix UG "UNIX, Linux, and BSD: A Look Back" 6:30-9 pm, MIT E51, Room 395

Thu APR 16, 2009
Boston Section ASQ, "TBD", 6:30, location to be announced

Wed APR 22, 2009
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI

Wed MAY 06, 2009
Windows Boston, "Topic TBD ", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu MAY 07, 2009
Visual Basic Pro, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed MAY 13, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Automated Functional Test Design", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Wed MAY 20, 2009
NE Midrange Users, "What’s New in RPG for V6R1", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI
Boston Linux & Unix UG "Topic to be determined" 6:30-9 pm, MIT E51, Room 395

Thu MAY 21, 2009
Boston Section ASQ, "TBD", 6:30, location to be announced

Tue JUN 02, 2009
NE Oracle Users Group, "Tom Kyte- Details to come..."

Wed JUN 03, 2009
Windows Boston, "Joint Meeting with Exchange Users Group", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu JUN 04, 2009
Visual Basic Pro, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed JUN 10, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Test Tool - Make or Buy?", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu JUN 18, 2009
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI
Boston Section ASQ, "TBD", 6:30, location to be announced 

JUL 01, 2009
Windows Boston, "Topic TBD ", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed JUL 08, 2009
SW Quality Group, "Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu JUL 23, 2009
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

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

FEB 20, 2009
Virtualization Deep Dive Day, "virtualization technologies", Microsoft, Waltham

MAR 10-11, 2009
Software Quality Consulting & IEEE, "SW Development for Medical Device Manufacturers", Woburn 

MAR 12, 2009
Software Quality Consulting & IEEE, "Requirements-based Estimating and Scheduling", Woburn 

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

APR 01, 2009
NE Oracle Users Group, Training Day at Bentley College

APR 6-8, 2009
Northeast User Groups Conference, “The Power of i”, Sheraton Hotel, Framingham

APR 28, 2009
Boston Section ASQ, "BOSCON 2009",  Waltham Woods Conference 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



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