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Updated 03/15/2009 -- '09 #95
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Mon MAR 16, 2009
New England ASP.NET Professionals, "The changing face of ASP.NET development", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Java Meetup Group, "RIA, Adobe Flex with Java", 6:30, MIT's EHS Office, Cambridge
New England Small Business Server User Group, "StorageCraft: Backup solutions", 6-8 PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue MAR 17, 2009
Boston SPIN, "Facilitating the Shift to a Collaborative Culture for Agile Project Success", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Wed MAR 18, 2009
Access Day, "Final Meeting for this Group" 1-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham
NE Midrange Users, "Putting Run SQL Scripts to Work for You", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
Boston Linux & Unix UG, "Doc Searls on Vendor Relationship Management", 6:30, MIT E51, Room 395
NH .NET User Group, "Automating SharePoint with Web Services and jQuery", 6:30, Daniel Webster College
So NE Network Users, "Diskshadow and Volume Shadow Copy Service", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI
Worcester Linux Users, "Arduino", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI
Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "A Whirlwind Excursion through Python C Extensions", 7PM, Cambridge

Thu MAR 19, 2009
Boston Area SAS Users, "Matching Challenge", 8:45AM, Brookline Holiday Inn
Boston Flex & Interactive Media Meetup, "Flash Mashups", 12:15PM
Boston Section ASQ, "Aspiring to Speak with Quality", 5:30, Hilton Garden Inn, Waltham
Gr Boston AITP $, topic TBD, 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester  $
SolidWorks Users, "PDM Workgroup & more", 5:30, Z-Corporation, Burlington
Boston Red Hat meetup group, " keep informed of what's going on with Red Hat Linux", 6PM, Somerville
Information Security Group, "Digital Forensics and Data Security", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston ACM Chapter, "The Improbable Success of Probabilistic Models", 7PM, MIT Room E51-325
New Hampshire Ruby / Rails group, "Cascading Style Sheets, Sinatra", 7PM, RMC Research, Portsmouth, NH
MerriLUG Linux group, "Making "Fairly OK" Videos with Inkscape and Kino", 7PM, Martha's Ex, Nashua, NH

Fri MAR 20, 2009
North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light
Boston Post Mortem  "Floating Points 6: Games of Culture | Art of Games", 7 pm, Emerson College, Boston

Sat MAR 21, 2009
Mobile Camp Boston 2 (BarCamp) -- See Events 

Mon MAR 23, 2009
Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Waltham area
New England SharePoint UG, "Extending SharePoint Using the Business Data Catalog", 6-7:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue MAR 24, 2009
DataCAD Boston Users Group, "Four Lessons", 6PM, Boston Society of Architects, Boston
Independent Computer Consultants Ass'n, "Your Consulting Business Model", 6PM, Rebecca’s Cafe, Burlington

Wed MAR 25, 2009
Boston Scalability UG "informal meeting, no set topic or presentation" 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Agile Boston, "Effective Agile Adoptions", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Cape Cod .NET User Group, "Windows Azure and Azure Services Platform", 6:30-8:30, Plymouth Public Library
Boston Plone Meetup Group, "Meet other locals who use Plone", 7PM,  Betahouse, Cambridge
Boston ColdFusion Users, "Real World jQuery", 7PM, Sun Life Park, Wellesley Hills
Metrowest Ruby Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM
Digital Arts Meetup, "work available in the Boston area", 8PM, Near Symphony, Boston

Thu MAR 26, 2009
IASA New England, "The Event Driven Business", 5PM, Progress Software, Bedford
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Agile Bazaar, "Your Agile Sales Approach Stinks", 6PM, Pizzeria Uno, Newton
Boston Plone Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM
Cent MA-No CT Solidworks Users, topic TBD, Morgan Const, Worcester

Wed APR 01, 2009
Windows Boston, "Powershell", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Northeast Autosys Users, "exchange ideas & learn of future product enhancements", 9-2, CA, Framingham
BostonPHP User Group, "Lessons from my.barackobama.com", 6:30-8:30, Optaros, Boston

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

Sat APR 04, 2009
DataCAD Boston Users Group, "25th Anniversary Party", Mohegan Sun, Uncasville CT

Mon APR 06, 2009
Boston SEO Networking Group, "informal search engine round table", 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
Cent NH Linux Users, "Open Source Business Models, Part 2", 7PM, NHTI Library, Concord NH

Tue APR 07, 2009
Boston Network Users, "Site Visit to Colospace", details TBA
Boston Amazon Web Services Meetup Group, 6:30

Wed APR 08, 2009
RI .NET User Group, topic TBA, 5PM, Roger Williams Univ, room SE-201
Boston .NET User Group, "Mono 2.0 and More!", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
SW Quality Group, "Security testing w cURL and Perl", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Final Cut Pro Users, "Digital Cinema", 6:30, BU Ctr for Digital Imaging Arts, Waltham
Boston Macintosh User Group, topic TBA, 7PM, MIT Building E51
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu APR 09, 2009
Beantown .NET, "Unit Testing Throwdown", 6PM, Hollister, 75 State St, Boston
New England Java, "JSF 2.0 Updates and RichFaces", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
eXtreme Thursday Club, 6PM, Kinsale Irish Pub, Boston
SQL Server User Group, "Using Resource Governor in SQL Server 2008", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon APR 13, 2009
Seacoast Linux Users, "MySQL Optimization", 7PM, UNH Morse Hall, Room 301
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, "current issues developing web applications", 7:30, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Infobright", 7PM, MIT Building E51, Room 372

Tue APR 14, 2009
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup Group, "3 presentations - see website", 6PM, Cambridge

Wed APR 15, 2009
Boston Linux & Unix UG "UNIX, Linux, and BSD: A Look Back" 6:30-9 pm, MIT E51, Room 395
So NE Network Users, "Mass data protection law", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI

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

Wed APR 22, 2009
Cape Cod .NET User Group, "Bob Depin on LINQ", 6:30-8:30, Plymouth Public Library
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI

Thu APR 23, 2009
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Ubuntu Massachusetts, "Jaunty Jackalope Release Party", 7PM, Boston Bar and Grill

Tue MAY 05, 2009
NH SolidWorks Users, "Non-Native Parts, Surfacing CSWP", 6PM, Nashua Community College

Wed MAY 06, 2009
Windows Boston, "thoughts and insights on Windows 7", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu MAY 07, 2009
Visual Basic Pro, "Beyond the Core Concepts of OOP", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue MAY 12, 2009
BostonCHI (ACM SIG), "TBA", 6:30 PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Cape Cod .NET User Group, "Microsoft Developer Evangelist Jim O'Neil", 6:30-8:30, Plymouth Public Library
 New England M Users' Group, "Something Not to Be Missed", 6:30 PM, Wellesley Gateway Building

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

Thu MAY 14, 2009
SQL Server User Group, "Master Data Management(MDM)on the Microsoft Stack", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed MAY 20, 2009
NE Midrange Users, "What’s New in RPG for V6R1", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
Boston Linux & Unix UG "Hacking your Portable Linux Server" 6:30-9 pm, MIT E51, Room 395
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI
So NE Network Users, "Tips and Tricks", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI

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

Thu MAY 28, 2009
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

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

Wed JUN 03, 2009
Windows Boston, "TBD", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Exchange Server Users, "Best of TechEd", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

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

Tue JUN 09, 2009
BostonCHI (ACM SIG), "TBA", 6:30 PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Wed JUN 10, 2009
Boston .NET User Group, "A First Look at Windows Azure", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
SW Quality Group, "Test Tool - Make or Buy?", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Tue JUN 16, 2009
Cape Cod .NET User Group, "SQL Server Guru Adam Machanic", 6:30-8:30, Plymouth Public Library

Wed JUN 17, 2009
NE Midrange Users, "Roundtable Discussions", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
So NE Network Users, "Terminal Services 2008", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI
Boston Linux & Unix UG "Roofnet III - Municipal Wireless" 6:30-9 pm, MIT Location to be determined

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

Thu JUN 25, 2009
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training, 6-9 pm, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed JUL 01, 2009
Windows Boston, topic TBA, 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), topic TBA, 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI

Wed AUG 05, 2009
Windows Boston, "What's in your toolbox? PART 2", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed SEP 16, 2009
So NE Network Users, topic TBA, 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI
Boston Linux & Unix UG "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party X" 6:30-9 pm, MIT Location to be determined

Wed OCT 21, 2009
So NE Network Users, "Likley Sharepoint 2007", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

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

MAR 20-21, 2009
Annual Pro Video Show, Holiday Inn, Dedham

MAR 20-22, 2009
New England Software Symposium, Sheraton Ferncroft, Danvers  NEJUG discount

MAR 21, 2009
Mobile Camp Boston 2 (BarCamp), "Wikipedia Description of BarCamp" MIT Building E51 (Tang Center)

MAR 21-22, 2009
FSF Libre Planet 2009 conference, Cambridge

MAR 23, 2009
The MSDN March 2009 Northeast Roadshow, Microsoft, Waltham

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

MAR 27, 2009
SQL Server 2008 Loadfest, Microsoft, Waltham

MAR 28, 2009
Code Camp 11: Developer Stimulus Package, Microsoft, Waltham

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

APR 04-09, 2009
ACM SIGCHI Conference, CHI 2009, Hynes Convention Center

APR 06-08, 2009
Northeast User Groups Conference, "The Power of i", Sheraton Hotel, Framingham

APR 16, 2009
Oracle Technology "Network Developer Day", Westin Hotel, Waltham

APR 25-26, 2009
Agile Bazaar, "Deep Agile 2009: Agile for Embedded Systems ", Cambridge
BarCamp Boston 4, "Wikipedia Description of BarCamp", 9 AM or whenever, MIT, Stata Center

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

MAY 09, 2009
ACM and IEEE seminar: A Practical Approach to Programming Algorithms, MIT Tang Center, Cambridge

MAY 11-13, 2009
IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 09), Westin Hotel, Waltham

JUN 22-24, 2009
SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference, BZ Media, Hyatt Regency, Cambridge

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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