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

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

Tue NOV 24, 2009
NE Sharepoint Users, "SharePoint Online Vs. SharePoint On-Premise", 6PM, Microsoft Waltham
Boston Haskell Users, "Intro to QuickCheck", 6:30, MIT CSAIL Reading Room, 32-G882
So NH Apple Core, "Avery Design Pro", 7PM, Nashua Public Library

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

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", 7PM, 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
DC401 Defcon Group, "Surprise Talk from Pepin", 5:30-7, AS220, Providence
Windows Boston, "Whats in your toolbox? - ROUND 2", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston PHP Users, "Show n Tell Night", 7PM, Optaros, 10 Milk St
Boston Computer Eyestrain Meetup, "December Meetup", 7PM, Cambridge

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, "Five Pillars of Coaching", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NE Visual Basic Pros, "TBA", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Azure Users, "Announcements from the PDC", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, 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
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup Group, "Semantic Web Awareness Initiative Marketing", 6PM, Cambridge
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
Silver Lining Users, "Meeting on Cloud & Virtualization", 7PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Post Mortem, "IGDA Update, Year in Review", 7PM, The Skellig, Waltham
Boston Rubyists, "MongoDB", 7PM, 215 First St, Cambridge
Boston.pm, "Tech Meeting", 7:15, MIT, Room E51-376
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), moved to Mon DEC 14

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
Rhode Island Macintosh Users, 7 pm, "Annual Christmas Party",  Rhode Island College

Mon DEC 14, 2009
Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, The Field, Cambridge
SLUG (NH Seacoast Linux), "Add meta data to your photos with GPicSync", 7-9 PM, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham

Tue DEC 15, 2009
SPIN - S/W Process Improvement Network "Strategic Alignment & Portfolio Excellence", 6-8:30, MITRE, Bedford
Cape Cod .NET Users, "Putting SOAP to REST", 6:15, Plymouth Public Library

Wed DEC 16, 2009
Providence Geeks, (Tentative date) topic TBD, 5:30-8:30, @AS220, Providence
Sitecore Meetup Group, 6PM
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
Boston NAISG, "Audit and Policy Considerations in Wiretapping, Comm Sec, Network Sec", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), topic TBD, 7PM, Salisbury Labs Room 104, WPI
No Shore Web Geeks Meetup, 7PM, The Grog, Newburyport
Boston KM Forum, "Deliver Us from Web 2.0 Content Chaos", 4-6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham

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
Cent MA SolidWorks Users, topic TBD, The Hope Group, Northboro

Thu JAN 14, 2010
New England SQL User Group, "Power Pivot for Excel 2010", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham

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

Wed JAN 20, 2010
NE Midrange Users Group, "Virtualization (IBM Blade Server)", 6PM, Seekonk
Boston Linux & Unix, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
So NE Network Users, "SBS 2008", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI

Tue JAN 26, 2010
NH SolidWorks Users, topic TBD, 5:30, Daniel Webster College, Nashua

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 - S/W Process Improvement Network "Agile in Safety-Critical Environments", 6-8:30, MITRE, 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 22, 2009
Digital Arts Meetup Group, "Digital photo editing workshop", 4PM, Porter Square

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

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

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

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

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
Microsoft and NaviSite Elite Web Optimization Event, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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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