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

Fri FEB 05, 2010
SEMPO Boston, "The Future of Search: Google's Perspective", 7:45-9:15 AM, Google, Cambridge (Waitlist only)
No Shore Comp Soc Computer Clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon FEB 08, 2010
Boston MySQL Meetup, "how to write optimal joins and subqueries". 7PM, MIT Bldg E-51
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, 7PM, RedBones, Davis Square
Seacoast Linux Users, "Sugar on a Stick", 7PM, Rm 301, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham NH
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, The Field, Cambridge

Tue FEB 09, 2010
NH Adobe Users, "Video Creation and Editing for the Web and Youtube", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup Group, "Teranode Fuel", 6PM, Cambridge
Great Boston Autodesk Users Group, "Manufacturing Content for AEC industry", 6PM, AECOM, Boston
NH Seacoast Mac Users, "Top 20 Mac Hints & Shortcuts for New and Seasoned Users", 6:15, Rye Jr High
BostonCHI, "From eBooks to Learning Books", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Business Intelligence Group, "Developing SSAS Cubes", 6:30,  Microsoft, Waltham
Boston.pm, "Controling git with Perl", 7PM, MIT Room E51-376
Boston Flex User Group, "Flex Data Binding Pitfalls", 6:30, Adobe's new offices, Waltham
Boston Post Mortem, "multi-part presentation", 6:30, The Skellig, Waltham
Boston Rubyists, "More details to follow"
Virtualization Group - Boston, "No Meeting Feb 9th. Look for us at Deep Dive Day Feb 12" (see below)

Wed FEB 10, 2010
Boston DotNet Users, "Rich Minerich: F# and You!", 6-8, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Cloud Services Meetup, "Windows Azure & Viewfinity SaaS-enabled software", 6:30, Aprigo, Waltham
Boston Avid Group, "BAVUG Winter Social Event", 6:30, The Burren, Somerville
Back Bay LISA, "How to Interview a System Administrator", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149
Boston Digital Arts Meetup Group, "Visionary Visuals", 7PM, Boston Museum of Science

Thu FEB 11, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, "Parallelism Zen for .NET Developers", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
New England Java Users Group, "JavaScript Beyond the Basics", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
New England SQL User Group, "SQL Server 2008 R2", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Access Grid Room, Morgan Hall, WPI

Fri FEB 12, 2010
Boston Flash Platform Users, "monthly lunch", 11:30am-1:30pm, Boston Beer Works

Sat FEB 13, 2010
Visually Impaired and Blind User Group, "VoiceOver for the MAC", 1-4 PM, MIT Room 5-134, Cambridge

Mon FEB 15, 2010
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Telerik user control suite", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
NH Ruby Users, "Object Oriented Programming", 7PM, RMC Research, Portsmouth, NH

Tue FEB 16, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "Power of Project Patterns", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford
Business Intelligence Group, "1.Extending SSAS Cubes", 6:30,  Microsoft, Waltham

Wed FEB 17, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "PHP Case Study (Subject to Change)", 6PM, Seekonk
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Data Template design", 6PM, One Broadway, Cambridge
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Standards for the Protection of Personal Information", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "no speaker yet", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335
Greater Boston Chapter ACM, "Common Class of Business-Oriented Database Applications", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Southern New England Network Users, "Embedded Device Hacking", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI
Boston PHP, "Learn how to develop with CakePHP", 7PM, Optaros, Boston

Thu FEB 18, 2010
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Oracle Users, DAMA NE, "A Common Class of Business-Oriented DB Apps", 7PM, MIT Room E51-315

Fri FEB 19, 2010
SIBMUG: A PC User Group, "Working with Windows 7 Libraries", 7PM, Adult Learning Ctr, Dover NH

Mon FEB 22, 2010
Boston Java Meetup Group, "Clickframes", 6:30 PM, Cambridge
Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about QuickBooks", 6PM, Waltham

Tue FEB 23, 2010
DBUG (DataCAD Boston Users Group), "February Meeting", 6PM, Maynard

Wed FEB 24, 2010
NE Open Text Users, "Fax over IP with RightFax", 4PM, Kendall Sq, Cambridge
Boston CiviCRM Meetup, 6PM, NEXUS Resource Ctr, Boston
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston
Boston Scalability User Group, "a lightning talk on Redis", 6 p.m., location TBD
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Thu FEB 25, 2010
Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "7 Secrets to Succeeding and jQuery", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
JavaScript Meetup Group, "Ubiquity and/or JetPack", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Nashua Scrum Club, "Mapping the Change Battlefield", 6PM, Harbor Homes, Nashua NH
Final Cut Pro Users, "Workflow Mixer, 6:30, New England Institute of Art
Boston Plone Meetup Group, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
North Shore Web Geeks, "The Great CMS Debate", 7PM, The Grog, Newburyport
Python Special Interest Group, "Intro to Cascading Style Sheets", 7PM, Amoskeag, Manchester, NH
Boston Azure User Group, "speakers and topics being worked out", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon MAR 01, 2010
NE F# User Group, "Bring your laptops- Speaker: Jason", 6:30-8:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
BostonDotNet Certification Group "regular meeting" 6:30, Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge
Web Innovators Group, "WebInno25", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta Hotel
Cambridge SEO Meetup, 7PM, Arlington

Tue MAR 02, 2010
Boston Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, room E51-149

Wed MAR 03, 2010
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu MAR 04, 2010
Boston Area SolidWorks UG, topic TBD, 5:30-9 PM, AS & E., Billerica
Beantown .NET Users, "Entity Framework, WCF, & Unit Testing", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile Bazaar, "Chris Sterling - Managing Software Debt", 6-9pm, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Visual Basic Pros, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue MAR 09, 2010
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, Google, Cambridge
Virtualization User Group, "monthly meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston.pm, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Room E51-376

Wed MAR 10, 2010
Central MA/Northeastern CT SolidWorks UG, "See Website", 5:30-9:30 PM, Hope Group, Northboro MA

Thu MAR 11, 2010
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Access Grid Room, Morgan Hall, WPI

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

Wed MAR 17, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "Soup to Nuts with Triggers (Subject to Change)", 6PM, Seekonk
Boston Linux & Unix, "no speaker yet", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335
So New England Network, "PrimalForms 2009 and PowerShell", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Thu MAR 18, 2010
Boston Section ASQ, "Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams", 6PM, Paparazzi, Burlington

Tue MAR 23, 2010
DBUG (DataCAD Boston Users Group), "March Meeting", 6PM, Boston Society of Architects

Thu MAR 25, 2010
Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "Real World SEO and new tool kit", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu APR 01, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile Bazaar, "Adapting Configuration Management for Agile Teams", 6-9pm, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Visual Basic Pros, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon APR 05, 2010
NE F# User Group, "Visual Studio 2010 Special Event", 6:30-8:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
BostonDotNet Certification Group "regular meeting" 6:30-9, Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge

Tue APR 06, 2010
Boston Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, room E51-149

Tue APR 13, 2010
BostonCHI, "Learning from People, Applying to Humanoid Robots", 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Boston.pm, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Room E51-376

Wed APR 14, 2010
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Access Grid Room, Morgan Hall, WPI

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

Wed APR 21, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "No Meeting, Please Attend the User Conference"
Boston Linux & Unix, "no speaker yet", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335
So New England Network, "Dell presenting servers and storage", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Tue MAY 04, 2010
Boston Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30 PM, MIT Tang Center, room E51-149

Thu MAY 06, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile Bazaar, "Agile and Architecture: Crossing the Great Divide", 6-9pm, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham

Tue MAY 11, 2010
Boston.pm, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Room E51-376

Wed MAY 12, 2010
BostonCHI, "Dr. Martin Wattenberg and Dr. Fernanda Viegas", 6:30, Harvard University
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Access Grid Room, Morgan Hall, WPI

Tue MAY 18, 2010
SPIN - S/W Process Improvement Network "Agile in Safety-Critical Environments", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Wed MAY 19, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "Security Encryption (Subject to Change)", 6PM, Seekonk
Boston Linux & Unix, "no speaker yet", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335

Thu MAY 20, 2010
Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "iPhone Web Applications with ASP.NET", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUN 08, 2010
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, Location TBD

Wed JUN 09, 2010
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Access Grid Room, Morgan Hall, WPI

Tue JUN 15, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "TBA", 6PM, 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 and Thursday
Massachusetts UBUNTU Team training, 7-9 pm, South End Technology Center, Boston

FEB 11, 2010
Code Mastery Day, 8:30-4:30, Microsoft, Waltham

FEB 12, 2010
Virtualization Deep Dive Day, Microsoft, Waltham

FEB 26, 2010
Agile Bazaar Course, "Agile Leaders", Doubletree Hotel, Waltham

FEB 27, 2010
SharePoint Saturday Boston, Microsoft, Waltham

MAR 05-07, 2010
New England Software Symposium, "latest & best in enterprise software development", Danvers

MAR 06-07, 2010
JoomSki Weekend, "a day of hands-on Joomla training and a day of skiing", Brattleboro, VT

MAR 08, 2010
Drupal Admin Training, schooling in Drupal basics, Central Sq, Cambridge

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 24, 2010
TechNet Event, "Azure, Hyper-V and Windows 7 Deployment", 8 am, Microsoft, Waltham
MSDN Northeast Roadshow, "Driving Toward a New Horizon", 1-5, Microsoft, Waltham

MAR 25, 2010
Northeast Oracle Users Group, "NOUG Training Day", 8 am, Bentley University, Waltham

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

MAR 27, 2010
New England Code Camp 13, "free, full day of knowledge sharing and networking", Microsoft, Waltham

MAY 15-16, 2010
The Agile Bazaar, "Deep Agile 2010: Empowering Teams with Agile Games", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

MAY 25, 2010
IT Roadmap Conference & Expo, Hynes Convention Center

SEP 20-23, 2010
Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center

OCT 20, 2010
Northeast Oracle Users Group, "NOUG Training Day", 8 am, Bentley University, 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/

South End Technology Center @ Tent City Course list

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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