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

Mon APR 27, 2009
IEEE Social Implications of Technology "Software Simplicity Suffocated" 5:30, Lincoln Lab, Lexington
Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "Learn how to get the most out of your QuickBooks software", 6PM, Waltham
BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 2", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Java Meetup Group, "A discussion of Seam", 6:30, MIT's EHS Office, Cambridge
Boston Water User Group, "create a complex system in less than an hour", 7 pm, One Broadway, Cambridge

Tue APR 28, 2009
Independent Computer Consultants, Boston Chapter, "Consultants Chat", 6:30-8:30, Little India, Waltham

Wed APR 29, 2009
Beantown .NET User Group, "CSLA .NET as the 'M' in MVC/MVP/MVVM", 6-8 pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile Boston, "Ellen Gottesdiener on Agile Requirements", 6:30-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Portfolio Night", 7:30, Wheeler's Frozen Desserts, Boston

Thu APR 30, 2009
Boston Javascript Meetup, "JavaScript Library Comparisons", 6PM, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
NH Ruby/Rails SIG, "State Machines & Git", 7-9 PM,  RMC Research, Portsmouth

Fri MAY 01, 2009
NH GamingSIG, "Lua & TeeWorlds", 6:30PM, 1230 Elm St, Manchester NH
North Shore Computer Society computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Sat MAY 02, 2009
NE User Group Summit "help each other by sharing our experiences" 11-5, Microsoft Research, Cambridge

Mon MAY 04, 2009
Boston SEO Networking, "affiliate marketing, search engine round table" 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
New England F# User Group, "Introduction to F# and VSLab" 6:30-8:30, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 3", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Cent NH Linux Users, "MySQL Optimization", 7PM, Sybase, Concord NH

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

Wed MAY 06, 2009
Boston Area Windows Server User Group (BAWSUG), "thoughts and insights on Windows 7", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
BostonPHP User Group, "Get Smart - Use Smarty!", 7pm, Optaros, Boston

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

Fri MAY 08, 2009
Boston Area Windows Server User Group (BAWSUG) "Windows 2008 Load & Lab event" 8am-4:45pm, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon MAY 11, 2009
Boston MySQL Meetup, "talk about the world's most popular open source database", 7 PM, Boston
Cambridge Enterprise Web Meetup "discuss current issues developing web applications" 7:30, Cambridge
BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 4", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue MAY 12, 2009
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup "collaborative thesaurus proposal, Semantic Enterprise Wiki" 6PM, Cambridge
Boston InDesign Users, "Long Documents and plug- ins", 6:30, Mass College of Art
BostonCHI (ACM SIG), "TBA", 6:30, 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, Wellesley Gateway Building
Seacoast Linux Users Group (SLUG), "An overview of the Bazaar Version Control System", 7PM, UNH Durham
Boston.PM (Perl Mongers), "TBD", 7:15PM, MIT E51-376

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
Boston Macintosh User Group, "Read Sweater Software", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston Avid User Group, "Post NAB Wrap-Up", 6:30-9 PM, WGBH, Brighton Landing
DataCAD Boston Users Group, "May Meeting", 6 PM, GSD Associates, North Andover

Thu MAY 14, 2009
Boston SolidWorks Users, 5:30-9PM, American Science & Eng, Billerica
New England Java, "Spring and Flex Integration", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
SQL Server UG, "Managing SQL 2000/2005 with SQL 2008 Policy Based Management", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston
Boston CocoaHeads / MassMacDevs group, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 149

Mon MAY 18, 2009
BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 5", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed MAY 20, 2009
NE Midrange Users, "What’s New in RPG for V6R1", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
ASP.NET Professional Users, "Globalization and Localization for ASP.NET sites", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
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
Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "Meet other local Python Programming Language enthusiasts!", 7PM, Cambridge

Thu MAY 21, 2009
Boston Section ASQ, 6:30, topic & location TBD
Natl Info Security Chapter, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Gr Boston ACM, "How to Build Programmable Multi-Core Chips", 7PM, MIT Room E51-345

Tue MAY 26, 2009
Soc Prof Consultants and ICCA (joint mtg), "So You’re Considering Becoming a Consultant!", 6-9, Burlington

Wed MAY 27, 2009
Agile Boston, "Learning Agile via Agile Games", 6:30-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Metrowest Ruby Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, Natick

Thu MAY 28, 2009
Agile Bazaar, "A Jet Engine On Your Pinto", 6PM, Location: Pizzeria Uno, Newton
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Javascript Meetup, "GenevaJS demo, extension to Prototype library", 6PM, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
Boston Plone Meetup Group, "using Plone, ..... cool Plone products", 7PM, Boston

Sat MAY 30, 2009
Boston Linux & Unix, "Installfest", 9:00 am, MIT Building E51, Room 061

Mon JUN 01, 2009
New England F# User Group "Richard Hale Shaw" 6:30-8:30, Microsoft Research, Cambridge
BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 6", 6:30, 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 Pros, "Visual Studio Report Control, Test Driven Development", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Fri JUN 05, 2009
DAMA New England, "Working with Use Cases on Data-Centric Projects", Thursday??? 9:30-11:30 am, Weston

Mon JUN 08, 2009
BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 7", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue JUN 09, 2009
BostonCHI (ACM SIG), "TBA", 6:30 PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Seacoast Linux Users Group (SLUG), "Mer built using the Open SUSE build system", 7 PM, UNH Durham

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

Thu JUN 11, 2009
SQL Server User Group, "MDM on the Microsoft Stack", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon JUN 15, 2009
BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 8", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

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

Thu JUL 02, 2009
Visual Basic Professionals, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon JUL 06, 2009
New England F# User Group "Amanda Laucher" 6:30-8:30, Microsoft Research, Cambridge

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

Wed JUL 15, 2009
Boston Linux & Unix UG "Another Look at MythTV and MythDora" 6:30-9 pm, MIT Location to be determined
Web Innovators Group, "people interested in internet and mobile innovation", 6:30 pm, Cambridge

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

APR 27, 2009
Mobile Monday Boston, "Boston Mobile Company Demos", 5:30, Fairmont Copley Plaza

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

MAY 02, 2009
NE User Group Summit "help each other by sharing our experiences" 11-5, Microsoft Research, Cambridge

MAY 05, 2009
Marketing Your Business On The Web (using websites, email, social media, blogs, etc.), 6-9pm, Boston

MAY 07-08, 2009
Independent Game Conference East, Northeastern University

MAY 08, 2009
Boston Area Windows Server User Group (BAWSUG) "Windows 2008 Load & Lab event" 8am-4:45pm, Microsoft, Waltham

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

MAY 21-22, 2009
TiECON East 2009 entrepreneurial conference, 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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