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Updated 04/19/2010 -- '10 #134
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Mon APR 19, 2010
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Design and Development aspects of DNN", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Java Meetup Group, "check website", 6:30, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM, MIT Building E51
NH Ruby Users, "Introducing Non-Relational DBs (NoSQL): MongoDB", 7PM, RMC Research, Portsmouth NH

Tue APR 20, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network, "Using Social Media", 6PM, MITRE Corp, Bedford
Refresh Boston, "Development for the New Mobile Web", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Business Intelligence Group, "Scheduling and Securing Deployed Reports and Data Sources", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Backchannelmedia", 7PM, 105 South St, Boston

Wed APR 21, 2010
NE Open Text Users, "Alchemy & SharePoint for RightFax Archiving", 4PM, Kendall Sq, Cambridge
NH Usability Professionals Assn, "Persuasive user experience design", 6PM, Mad*Pow, Portsmouth NH
NH .NET Users, "Overview of Cloud Service", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Search Engine Optimization (SEO) / MS Web Platform Installer", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Windows Phone Users/Devs, "Microsoft’s New Feature Phone Platform, Windows Phone 7", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "Running Dragon NaturallySpeaking under WINE", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335
Cambridge Python Meetup, "Discrete Event Simulations Made Easy", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Tweetup at the Rattlesnake", 7PM, 384 Boylston St, Boston
Boston Joomla Users, 7PM, Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square
So New England Network, "Dell presenting servers and storage", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI
New England Midrange Users Group, "No Meeting, Please Attend the User Conference"

Thu APR 22, 2010
Boston SolidWorks Users, "Sheetmetal Toolbox: How to market yourself online", 5:30, Summit, Braintree
Boston Arduino Users Group, "topic tbd", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Google Technology Users, "Google Apps Marketplace", 6PM, @Google, Cambridge
Nashua Scrum Club, "Agile Experience at Five Companies", 6PM, Harbor Homes, Nashua NH
Cape Cod .NET Users, "What's New in Entity Framework 4", 6:30, Venture Hyannis
NH Python SIG, "Hands-on exercises -- Python as it's used", 6:30, Amoskeag Incubator, Manchester NH
Boston Plone Meetup, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon APR 26, 2010
Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about QuickBooks", 6PM, Waltham
Boston Java Meetup, "Interactive teaching of children ages 7 to 12", 6:30 PM, Cambridge

Tue APR 27, 2010
NE Sharepoint Users, "What’s New In SharePoint 2010", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
DBUG (DataCAD Boston Users Group), "Host: Mark Madura / DATACAD", 6PM, Boston Society of Architects
Mobile Monday Boston, 6:15, details TBD
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "Front Row (and more)", 7PM, Nashua Public Library

Wed APR 28, 2010
Boston Plone Meetup, "Boston World Plone Day", 2:30, Harvard Univ Lamont Library
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston
UPA Boston Chapter, multiple presentations, 6PM, MathWorks, Natick
Boston CiviCRM Meetup, "UrbanMinistry.org and CityVision.edu", 6:30
JavaScript Meetup Group, "Visual Studio 2010's capabilities", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick
Boston Joomla Users, "Monthly Users Group Meeting", 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden
Boston Flash Platform UG, "prepare to launch new Flash 10.1 based SDK", 7:15, litl HQ (aka Aquent), Boston

Thu APR 29, 2010
SEMPO Boston, "Social Media and Search: Bridging the Divide", 7:45AM, IBM Innovation Ctr, Waltham
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, (see website), 5:30, Siemens VAI, Worcester
Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "Efficient UX & UI Design", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Azure Users, "hands on- Windows Azure SDK Walkthrough", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
IEEE Computer Society & GBC/ACM, "The Next Net: Reality Mining for Honest Signals", 7PM, MIT room E14-633

Mon MAY 03, 2010
OWASP Boston Chapter, "SafeLight Lightning Talk Series and topic TBA", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE F# User Group, "Visual Studio 2010 Special Event"

Tue MAY 04, 2010
ASQ Boston Section, "Leadership Team Meeting", 6PM, Double Tree Hotel, Waltham
Boston Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30 PM, MIT Tang Center, room E51-149
Business Intelligence Group, "Configuring and Administering the SSRS Server", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed MAY 05, 2010
Windows Server Users, "Mapping Your Network With Visio", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
Boston PHP Meetup, "Object Oriented Programming - Plain and Simple", 7PM, location TBD

Thu MAY 06, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile Bazaar, "Agile and Architecture: Crossing the Great Divide", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Topic: Four Case Risk Management Analysis", 6PM, Jackson's, Methuen
Visual Basic Pros, "Building a real-world application in Silverlight 4", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston BizSpark Meetup, "Demo of Balsamiq, SnagIt, MockupsToGo, Napkee", 7 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri MAY 07, 2010
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Proc FCMP, Macros, Coder's Corner", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston JMP Users, "Lean Data Analysis, JMP Connection & Queries", 8:30AM-1PM, TEL Epion, Billerica
No Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Sat MAY 08, 2010
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "details tba", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon MAY 10, 2010
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM, MIT Building E51
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Tue MAY 11, 2010
Boston Jboss Users Group, "Java Connector Architecture 1.6", 5PM, Boston University
Virtualization User Group, "topic TBD", 6PM, IBM, Waltham
Cambridge Semantic Web, "Querying OWL with SPARQL & OWL as a Data Validation Language", 6PM, Cambridge
Boston.pm, "Disk clear with Perl and hardware", 7PM, MIT Room E51-376
Boston Rubyists, "Great HTTP APIs", 7PM, 215 First St, Cambridge

Wed MAY 12, 2010
Providence Geeks, "topic tbd", 5:30-8:30pm, AS220, Providence
Software Quality Group of NE, "A day in the life of a tester at Microsoft", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Boston Area SharePoint Users Group (BASPUG), "topic tbd", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Dr. Martin Wattenberg and Dr. Fernanda Viegas", 6:30, Harvard University
Boston Macintosh Users, "MacSpeech", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI

Thu MAY 13, 2010
NE Java Users Group, "From the ESB to REST and Clouds an Open Source", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Boston Arduino Meetup, "May Meetup", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Bad SQL - Geoff Hiten", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston

Tue MAY 18, 2010
NH SolidWorks Users, topic TBD, 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
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
NH .NET Users, "Inversion of Control and Aspect Oriented Programming", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
Boston Linux & Unix, "Open Source and Astaro's Business", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335
So New England Network, "New Windows phone OS", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Sat MAY 22, 2010
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XXXVII", 9-5, MIT Building E51, Room 061

Mon MAY 24, 2010
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington

Wed MAY 26, 2010
NH Usability Professionals’ Association, "10-Minute Talks", 6-8 pm, Location: TBD
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Wed JUN 02, 2010
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu JUN 03, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUN 08, 2010
Boston Jboss Users Group, "Teiid,Data Federation", 5-9 pm, Boston University
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, Location TBD

Wed JUN 09, 2010
Providence Geeks, "topic tbd", 5:30-8:30pm, AS220, Providence
Software Quality Group of NE, "Choosing What To Automate", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Boston Macintosh Users, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Access Grid Room, Morgan Hall, WPI

Thu JUN 10, 2010
NE SQL Server Users Group, "ETL Patterns - More info coming soon", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon JUN 14, 2010
Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM, MIT Building E51

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

Wed JUN 16, 2010
NE Open Text Users, "eDocs Focus", 4PM, Kendall Sq, Cambridge
New England Midrange Users Group, "DB Web Query (Subject to Change)", 6PM, Seekonk
Boston Linux & Unix, "Secure Data Deletion Under Linux", 6:30, MIT Location to be determined
So New England Network, "Moving to Exchange 2010", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Thu JUN 17, 2010
Boston Arduino Meetup, "June Meetup", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed JUN 23, 2010
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Wed JUN 30, 2010
NH Usability Professionals’ Assn "Politics of Usability - Practice on Zero Budget", 6 pm, Loc: TBD

Wed JUL 07, 2010
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Mon JUL 12, 2010
Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM, MIT Building E51

Wed JUL 14, 2010
Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects

Wed JUL 28, 2010
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Wed AUG 04, 2010
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Wed AUG 25, 2010
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Wed SEP 01, 2010
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Tue SEP 14, 2010
Boston Jboss Users Group, "Testing with JBoss Application Server", 5-9 pm, Boston University

Wed SEP 15, 2010
Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XI", 6:30, MIT Location to be determined

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

Wed NOV 17, 2010
DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston", 6PM, World Trade Center, Boston



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

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

APR 22, 2010
OpsCamp Boston, "technologies and strategies for IT Operations", 3-9, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

APR 23-25, 2010
QuahogCon Hacker Culture Conference, Hotel Providence, Providence RI

APR 24, 2010
NE Digital Artists Group, "3D Stimulus Day", CDIABU, Waltham

APR 28, 2010
Agile Boston Users, "Agile Boston Open Space 2010", Microsoft, Waltham

APR 29, 2010
Boston KM Forum, "Boston Knowledge Management Forum", 9-4:30, Bentley University

APR 30-MAY 01, 2010
NEAR-Fest VII, "New England Amateur Radio Festival", Deerfield Fairgrounds, Deerfield NH

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

MAY 07, 2010
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "SAS Macros Masking/Quoting", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

MAY 08, 2010
Boston Azure Users Group, "Azure Firestarter Event", 8:30-6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

MAY 20, 2010
Boston ASQ Section Workshop, "Understanding and Achieving Environmental Compliance", Doubletree, Waltham

MAY 22, 2010
New England Business Intelligence Code Camp, Microsoft, Waltham

MAY 24, 2010
Boston Drupal, "Drupaltherapy training workshop", 6:30, 9-5, CompuWorks, Boston

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

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

JUN 04-06, 2010
Startup Weekend Boston, "learning, meeting new people, sharpening your skills", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

JUN 05, 2010
Code Camp 2 New Hampshire, New Hampshire Technical Institute, Concord
Boston Joomla Users, "Joomla Day New England", 9 AM-5 PM,  Marlboro, VT

JUN 09, 2010
Boston Mini UPA conference, "Usability and User Experience 2010", Bentley University

JUN 11-13, 2010
New England GiveCamp, "custom solutions for non-profit organizations", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

JUN 22-25, 2010
USENIX Federated Conferences Week, Sheraton Boston

AUG 10-12, 2010
LinuxCon 2010, Renaissance Boston

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

NOV 01-02, 2010
Linux Kernel Summit, Hyatt Regency Cambridge

NOV 03-05, 2010
Linux Plumbers Conference 2010, Hyatt Regency Cambridge

Ongoing:

Various Course Offerings, South End Technology Center, Boston

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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