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

Wed FEB 17, 2010
Providence Geek Dinner, "Custom Flow Solutions", 5:30, @AS220, Providence
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Data Template design", 6PM, One Broadway, Cambridge
New England Midrange Users Group, "PHP Case Study on IBM i:  Moving to the Web with PHP", 6PM, Seekonk
Boston ColdFusion User Group, "Dan Wilson on Model-Glue 3", 6PM, Sun Life Financial, Wellesley
NH .NET Users, "WCF WF 4.0 - What's new & improved?", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Standards for the Protection of Personal Information", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Mobile Software Developers Meetup, 6:30, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge
Boston Linux & Unix, "Open Mike Night", 7PM, MIT Building E51, Room 335
Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden
Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn how to develop with CakePHP", 7PM, Optaros, Boston
Southern New England Network Users, "Embedded Device Hacking", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Thu FEB 18, 2010
Boston AITP $, "MA Consumer Protection Division", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $
Natl Info Security Group, "Design of Akamai Technology's Incident Response Process", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
GBC/ACM, 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
Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about QuickBooks", 6PM, Waltham
Boston Lisp Meeting, "A Sane Approach to Modern Web Development", 6PM, Pierce 209, Harvard U.
Boston Java Meetup Group, "Clickframes", 6:30 PM, Cambridge
BostonDotNet Certification Group "we'll do a lab on MVC" 6:30-9, Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge

Tue FEB 23, 2010
DataCAD Users (DBUG), "Building an Airplane/DataCAD X3 Beta", 6PM, Maynard
UPA Boston, "Support for Emergency Responders, Wiki Use in the Enterprise", 6-8:30 PM, Mitre Corp, Bedford
Acton iPhone Developers Meetup, "Roundtable discussion", 7PM, Acton Memorial Library
Boston MySQL Meetup, "MySQL *Social* Meetup", 7PM, John Harvard's Brew Pub, Cambridge

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", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
NH Usability Professionals’ Association, "Reviews of Usability Books", 6PM, Location: TBD
Agile Boston, "Agile Transformation at AOL", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
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
Boston Azure Users, "Identity in the Cloud and Project Geneva", 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: Shooting with RED", 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 WebSquared Meetup, 8PM, Cambridge Brewing Company, Kendall Sq

Fri FEB 26, 2010
Boston Post Mortem, "Game Completion Marathon for Haiti", starts at 4 pm (through Feb 28th), MIT

Sat FEB 27, 2010
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XXXVI", 9AM-5PM, MIT Building E51, Room 061

Mon MAR 01, 2010
NE F# User Group, "Safe and Succinct F#", 6:30, 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

Tue MAR 02, 2010
Boston Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, room E51-149
Business Intelligence Group, "Developing SSAS Cubes (pt 2)", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed MAR 03, 2010
Boston Area Windows Server User Group (BAWSUG), "Topic TBD, Speaker TBD", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
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

Mon MAR 08, 2010
Cambridge Enterprise Web, "web apps with the latest technologies", 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, Probably tomorrow.  Check website

Tue MAR 09, 2010
Virtualization User Group, "monthly meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Business Intelligence Group, "Securing and Administering SSAS", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup Group, 6PM, Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Indian Culture and Mobile Usability Research", 6:30, Google, Cambridge
Boston.pm, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Room E51-376
Seacoast Linux Users Group (SLUG), "No Meeting this month"
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, 8PM, Redbones, Somerville 

Wed MAR 10, 2010
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Ultimate Control With ODS", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Central MA/Northeastern CT SolidWorks UG, "See Website", 5:30-9:30PM, Metso Automation, Shrewsbury
Boston Avid Users, "Winter social event", 6:30, The Burren, Somerville

Thu MAR 11, 2010
Google Technology Users, "Android Development - Developer Perspective", 6PM, Google, Cambridge
XTC-BOSTON "TBA", 6PM,  Cambridge Brewing Company
New England Java Users Group, "Techniques for Testing EJBs", 6 pm, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI

Sat MAR 13, 2010
Visually Impaired and Blind User Group, "Details TBA", 1-4 PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

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, "SUSE Studio", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335
Boston Cloud Services Meetup, "Windows Azure", 6:30, Aprigo, Waltham
Windows Mobile Users/Developers, "TBA", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
 New England Digital Media Users Group, "TBA", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
So New England Network, "PrimalForms 2009 and PowerShell", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick RI
Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden

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

Tue MAR 23, 2010
NH SolidWorks Users, 5:15, topic and location TBD
DBUG (DataCAD Boston Users Group), "March Meeting", 6PM, Boston Society of Architects

Wed MAR 24, 2010
NH Usability Professionals’ Association, "Moderation Skills & Focus Groups", 6-8 pm, PixelMEDIA, Portsmouth, NH

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
Seacoast Linux Users Group (SLUG), "TBA"

Wed APR 14, 2010
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, 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

Wed APR 28, 2010
NH Usability Professionals’ Association, "Persuasive Design: Getting Users to Act", 6-8 pm, Location: TBD

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, 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

Wed MAY 26, 2010
NH Usability Professionals’ Association, "10-Minute Talks", 6-8 pm, Location: TBD

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
Boston Linux & Unix, "Secure Data Deletion Under Linux", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335

Wed JUL 14, 2010
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects

Wed SEP 15, 2010
Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XI", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335

Tue SEP 28, 2010
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects

Tue OCT 26, 2010
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

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

FEB 24-26, 2010
Society for Computational Biology, "Semantics in Healthcare and Life Sciences ", Cambridge/Boston

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 11, 2010
NoSQL Live from Boston, John Hancock Hotel and Conference Center, Boston

MAR 12-15, 2010
Rails Camp New England, register here, URI, W. Alton Jones Campus, West Greenwich RI

MAR 19-21, 2010
Free Software Foundation, "LibrePlanet 2010", Harvard University Science Center

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

MAR 29-APR 01, 2010
MySQL for Beginners course, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

APR 03, 2010
Mobile Camp Boston 3, MIT Tang Center (E51)

APR 12-16, 2010
MySQL for Database Administrators course, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

MAY 03-07, 2010
Professional Scrum Developer course, Burlington

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

JUN 01-04, 2010
MySQL Developer Techniques course, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

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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