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User Group events:
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Tue NOV 17, 2009
NH SolidWorks Users, "Electronic Routing/Tips and Tricks", 5:30-9:15, Nashua Community College
SPIN - Software Process Improvement "Credibility & Persuasion Skills", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford
Independent Computer Consultants Assn "Winning Contracts with Scrum & Agile" 6-9, Rebecca’s Cafe, Burlington
InDesign Users, "Prepress: Getting your files to print", 6:30, Mass College of Art and Design
Boston .NET User Group, "Boston Geek Dinner",  Boston Beer Works (Canal Street)
Boston Flex Application Incubator, "Bring questions for discussion" 6:15, Online and @ Broduer Partners, Boston

Wed NOV 18, 2009
Providence Geeks, "Overview of Dynadec", 5:30-8:30, NEW @AS220, Providence
DataCAD Boston Users Group, "DBUG's 22nd Anniversary", 6PM, World Trade Center, Boston
Cape Cod .NET Users, "An Update on Open Cape", 6PM, Venture Think Together, Hyannis
NE Midrange Users Group, "What’s Happening with RFID", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
NE Sitecore Users Group "integrate Brightcove video hosting into Sitecore" 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Silverlight Development", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Windows Mobile Developers, "Windows Marketplace for Mobile", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
NE Digital Media UG, "Astaro Loadfest - Build your own personal use firewall", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "AMD-V: AMD64 virtualization extension", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), topic TBD, 7PM, Salisbury Labs Room 104, WPI
So NE Network Users, "Exchange 2010", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI
Boston Post Mortem, "featuring a panel of game AI experts", 7PM, The Skellig, Waltham
Cambridge Python Meetup, "Testing in Python", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, GeekOffices, Cambridge

Thu NOV 19, 2009
Nashua Scrum Club, "Scrum and Kanban", 6PM, Harbor Homes, Nashua
Final Cut Pro Users, "Codec-Confusion: Resolution!", 6:30-9 PM, New England Institute of Art, Brookline
Gr Boston Chapter of the ACM & IEEE Computer Society "The Power of Abstraction", 7PM, MIT Room 6-120
Northwest iPhone Developers, "developing 3D applications for iPhone", 7PM, Acton Library
Flash Platform Users, "informal discussions", 7PM, Infrared5, Jamaica Plain

Fri NOV 20, 2009
No Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light
SIBMUG - A PC User Group "A detailed look at Windows 7 features", 7PM, Adult Learning Center, Dover, NH
Cape Cod XNA check website for update

Sun NOV 22, 2009
Digital Arts Meetup Group, $ "Digital photo editing workshop", 4PM, Porter Square

Mon NOV 23, 2009
Waltham Quickbooks Meetup Group, "how to get the most out of your QuickBooks software", 6PM, Waltham
BostonDotNet Certification Group "TBA" 6:30, Microsoft Waltham

Wed NOV 25, 2009
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, 7PM, Natick
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston
Boston Xna Developers Group, "Roundtable Discussions", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu NOV 26, 2009
Boston Plone Meetup Group, 7PM, Betahouse, Cambridge

Mon NOV 30, 2009
DAMA New England, "Master Metadata Management Using an ELDM", 6PM, Harvard Pilgrim HC, Wellesley
BostonDotNet Certification Group "regular meeting" 6:30-9, Executive Briefing Center Microsoft Waltham
Boston Water User Group, "Next meeting", 7 pm, One Broadway, Cambridge

Tue DEC 01, 2009
Boston Drupal Meetup, 6:30, MIT Tang Center, rm E51-149
Boston Network Users, "Windows 7 Networking Overview", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest @ Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed DEC 02, 2009
Boston Area SAS Users, "Coders Corner", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Windows Boston, "Whats in your toolbox? - ROUND 2", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Computer Eyestrain Meetup, "December Meetup", 7 pm, Cambridge
DC401 Defcon Group, "Surprise Talk from Pepin", 5:30-7, AS220, Providence

Thu DEC 03, 2009
Boston SolidWorks Users, topics TBA, 5:30, Objet, Billerica
Beantown .NET Users, "Bill Heys, Branching & Merging Best Practices", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
The Agile Bazaar, "Mike Hill of Anarchy Creek", 6PM, location TBD
NE Visual Basic Pros, "TBA", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Azure User Group, "speakers and topics being worked out", Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge

Fri DEC 04, 2009
No Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light
Boston KM Forum, "Using NING.COM", 7:30-9:30 am, Rebecca’s at Reservoir Place, Waltham

Sat DEC 05, 2009
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XXXV", 9-5, MIT Building E51, Room 061
Boston Post Mortem, "Video Game Orchestra", 7-9 PM, $$ Berklee Performance Center, Boston 

Mon DEC 07, 2009
Boston Webmasters Meetup, 5:30, CambridgeSide Place Galleria Food Court
NE F# User Group, "Asyncronous Programming for Newbs", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30 pm, Cambridge Royal Sonesta
BostonDotNet Certification Group "regular meeting" 6:30-9, Executive Briefing Center Microsoft Waltham
Cambridge SEO Meetup, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington

Tue DEC 08, 2009
Virtualization User Group, "Installing and Using Windows XP Mode", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Seacoast Mac Users, "Open Question & Answer", 6:15, Rye NH Jr High
BostonCHI, "Steve Krug: Finding and Fixing Usability Problems", 6:30, Raytheon, Billerica
New England SQL User Group, "Scouting Out Execution Plans", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston.pm, "Tech Meeting", 7:15, MIT, Room E51-376
Silver Lining Users, "Meeting on Cloud & Virtualization", 7-9 PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup Group, "Semantic Web Awareness Initiative – Marketing", 6PM, Cambridge
Boston Voice Users, "Redstart Systems: surfing the Web by voice", 7:30, MIT, Room 2-135

Wed DEC 09, 2009
Oracle DBA SIG, "Oracle Performance Tuning", 6:30, Sheraton Framingham
Boston Cloud Services Meetup, 6:30, Aprigo, Waltham
Boston Macintosh User Group, "Snow Leopard Q&A", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
SLUG (NH Seacoast Linux), "Maybe GPicSync; maybe Mono (FOSS .Net Framework)", 7PM, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham

Thu DEC 10, 2009
Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM & IEEE Computer Society "Task-specific Search" 7-9 PM, MIT Room E51-315
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston

Mon DEC 14, 2009
Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, The Field, Cambridge

Tue DEC 15, 2009
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "Tactical Coherence", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford
Cape Cod .NET Users, "WCF", 6:15, Plymouth Public Library

Wed DEC 16, 2009
Providence Geeks, (Tentative date) topic TBD, 5:30-8:30, @AS220, Providence
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "SharePoint Development for ASP.NET Developers", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
So NE Network Users, "Symantec", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI

Thu DEC 17, 2009
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), topic TBD, 7PM, Salisbury Labs Room 104, WPI

Mon DEC 21, 2009
Boston Java Meetup, "TBA", 6.30PM, Cambridge

Tue JAN 05, 2010
Boston Network Users, "Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest @ Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Thu JAN 07, 2010
The Agile Bazaar, "Tom and Mary Poppendieck", 6PM, location TBD
NE Visual Basic Pros, "Silverlight 3 - SketchFlow", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JAN 12, 2010
BostonCHI, No Regular Meeting in January
NE "M" Users Group, "DeepSee by Intersystems", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building

Wed JAN 13, 2010
Boston Avid Users, 6:30PM, topic & location TBD

Tue JAN 19, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement, "Becoming a Technology Manager", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford

Wed JAN 20, 2010
So NE Network Users, "SBS 2008", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI
New England Midrange Users Group, "Virtualization (IBM Blade Server)", 6pm, Seekonk

Thu JAN 28, 2010
Boston Azure User Group, "speakers and topics being worked out", Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge

Thu FEB 04, 2010
The Agile Bazaar, "Amir Elfar of MedAvante", 6PM, location TBD

Tue FEB 09, 2010
BostonCHI, "David Rose: Disability Access", 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Thu FEB 11, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, "Parallelism Zen for .NET Developers", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue FEB 16, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "Power of Project Patterns", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford

Wed FEB 17, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "PHP Case Study (Subject to Change)", 6pm, Seekonk

Thu FEB 25, 2010
JavaScript Meetup Group, "Ubiquity and/or JetPack", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAR 09, 2010
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Tue MAR 16, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "Ed Yourdon: TBA", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford

Wed MAR 17, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "Soup to Nuts with Triggers (Subject to Change)", 6pm, Seekonk

Tue APR 08, 2010
BostonCHI, "Candy Sidner: Engagement and Deixis", 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Tue APR 20, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "Using Social Media", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford

Wed APR 21, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "No Meeting, Please Attend the User Conference"

Tue MAY 11, 2010
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Tue MAY 18, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "TBA", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford

Wed MAY 19, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "Security Encryption (Subject to Change)", 6pm, Seekonk

Tue JUN 08, 2010
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Tue JUN 15, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "TBA", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford

Wed JUN 16, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "DB Web Query (Subject to Change)", 6pm, Seekonk



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

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

NOV 17, 24, DEC 01, 08
IEEE Continuing Ed Program, "Perl Scripting for System Administrators", 6:15-9:15, Holiday Inn, Woburn

NOV 18, 2009
Brick Marketing, "Search Engine Optimization (SEO) & Email Marketing", Waltham

NOV 18, 23, DEC 2
IEEE Continuing Education Program, "Advanced Embedded Linux", 6-9, Holiday Inn, Woburn

NOV 19, 2009
Boston Section ASQ, "Legal Aspects of Quality Workshop", Paparazzi, Burlington

NOV 19, DEC 03 & 10
IEEE Continuing Ed Program, "Virtualization and VMware’s Infrastructure", 6:15-9:30, Holiday Inn, Woburn

NOV 22, 2009
Digital Arts Meetup Group, "Digital photo editing workshop", 4PM, Porter Square

DEC 02, 2009
Boston Area SAS Users, "An Afternoon with Ron Cody", 1-4:30PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

DEC 08, 2009
The MSDN Northeast Roadshow, "Don't Fear the Coder Tour", Microsoft, Waltham

DEC 09, 2009
The MSDN Northeast Roadshow, "Don't Fear the Coder Tour", Hotel Providence, Providence

DEC 11, 2009
Agile Bazaar, "Sashimi Stories - Slicing Requirements for Agile Success", location TBA

MAR 20-21, 2010
IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2010, Westin Hotel, Waltham

MAR 20-24, 2010
IEEE Virtual Reality 2010, Westin Hotel, Waltham

MAR 25-26, 2010
The Haptics Symposium, Westin Hotel, Waltham


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

Boston TechVenue Calendar

IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners - Waltham

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