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User Group events:
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Thu SEP 02, 2010
Boston Area SolidWorks UG, "How to Increase Productivity", 5:30, Advantage, Dedham
Beantown .NET Users, "Chris Bowen on Windows Phone 7", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Merrimack Valley ASQ $, "Risk Assessment using Failure Modes and Effects Analysis", 6PM, Holiday Inn, Tewksbury $
Agile Bazaar, "Offshore Agile: Successes and Sorries", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Visual Basic Professionals, "Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure Storage", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston JavaScript Meetup, "CouchDB for JavaScript Programmers", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue SEP 07, 2010
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 12AM, 41 Winter St, Boston
Boston Network Users, "Virtualization Best Practices", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-325

Wed SEP 08, 2010
Boston Sharepoint Users, "Becoming a SharePoint Solution Provider", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Users, "Test-driven development in .NET", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
So NE SQL Server Users, "Accelerated MDM with SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services", 6PM, NE Inst of Tech, Warwick RI
Agile Boston, "New Tools for the Agile Quiver", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Back Bay LISA, "Using MySQLtuner 2.0 to monitor and improve mysql performance", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149

Thu SEP 09, 2010
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Tazza Cafe, Providence
NE Java Users, "Cloud Computing for Google App Engine and Amazon EC2", 6PM, Oracle, Burlington
Nashua Scrum Club Meetup, "True Agility Requires Us to Re-examine Our Beliefs", 6PM, Harbor Homes, Nashua NH
NE SQL Server Users, "Kalen Delaney - Season Kickoff", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston
Boston Web Performance Meetup, "Hands on Site Optimization", 7PM, Prudential Center
Boston CocoaHeads, "topic TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 372
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI

Sat SEP 11, 2010
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "Details announced in September", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon SEP 13, 2010
NE F# Users, "F# Web Driven Development", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge/Boston SEO Meetup, "Philip Nikolayev, writer and marketing guru, 6:30,  Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Web Innovators Group, "forum for entrepreneurs to present new services", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta
Boston .NET Certification Group, "topic tbd", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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 SEP 14, 2010
NH Adobe Users, "Photoshop CS5 and 3-D", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Boston Jboss Users Group, "Testing with JBoss Application Server", 5PM, Boston University
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, 6PM, MIT Stata Center, Cambridge
NE M Users Group, "Mobile Device Programming", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building
NH Seacoast Mac Users, "Safari In Depth", 6:15, Rye Jr High
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, IBM Research, Cambridge
Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Murphy's, Salem
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Rubyists, topic TBD, 12AM, 215 First St, Cambridge

Wed SEP 15, 2010
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Better User Authentication and Authorization", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party & talk by V. Alex Brennan", 6:30, MIT Room E51-325
So New England Network, "the new Windows phone & new OS", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI
Boston Python Meetup, "Beginner's Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu SEP 16, 2010
GBC/ACM & IEEE, "Computational & synthetic biology to prevent disease & create materials", 7PM, MIT Broad Inst

Mon SEP 20, 2010
Boston Lisp Meeting, "Hari Prashanth on Functional Data Structures for Typed Racket", 6PM, NE Univ, building WVH
Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue SEP 21, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "Agile - The Basics and Beyond...", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
NE BlackBerry Developers Group, 7PM, Marriott Cambridge

Wed SEP 22, 2010
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston
IEEE Consultants Network, "What Cloud Computing Really Means and the Possibilities", 6:30, Foley Hoag LLP, Waltham
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Thu SEP 23, 2010
Boston Arduino Meetup, "Sept Meetup", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle - Boston, "TBA", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Plone Meetup, "Sept Meetup", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri SEP 24, 2010
SQL Server Users, "SQL Server Loadfest R2", 8:30AM, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon SEP 27, 2010
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Tue SEP 28, 2010
NH SolidWorks Users, topic TBD, 5:15, Rapid Machining, Nashua NH
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed SEP 29, 2010
Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn how to use API's like Google Maps", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu SEP 30, 2010
DAMA New England, "Business Semantics, Metadata Discovery, and Knowledge Management", 6PM, Harvard Pilgrim, Wellesley

Mon OCT 04, 2010
Boston Java Meetup, "Details to follow", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Mobile Monday Boston, "Mobile Marketing", 6:30, check website

Wed OCT 06, 2010
Gr Boston SharePoint Users Group, "TBA", 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
iPhone Developers Meetup, 7PM, Waltham
MacTechGroup, "Tapworthy: iPhone design", 7PM, MIT Sloan, E51-315

Thu OCT 07, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, "Shaun Avery, NHibernate", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Visual Basic Professionals, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Area SolidWorks UG, "Agenda TBA", MKS, Wilmington

Sat OCT 09, 2010
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Mon OCT 11, 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 OCT 12, 2010
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting", 6-9 PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, 6PM,  MIT Stata Center, Cambridge
Boston JBoss Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Boston University
BostonCHI, "over-the-phone interaction design", 6:30, Nuance, Burlington

Wed OCT 13, 2010
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI
Back Bay LISA, "Using MySQLtuner 2.0 to monitor and improve mysql performance", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149

Thu OCT 14, 2010
NE SQL Server Users, "Brent Ozar - Topic TBD", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston

Mon OCT 18, 2010
NE Silverlight Guild, "Silverlight as a Transmedia Platform (kick off meeting)", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Mobile Monday Boston, "Mobile Enterprise", 6:30, check website

Wed OCT 20, 2010
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Chris Bowen on 'WebMatrix'", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "Hardware Hacking: Atomic Clock Building", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
So New England Network, "SQL best practices: backups, maintenance, etc.", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick, RI

Thu OCT 21, 2010
Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "Developing iPhone Web Applications with ASP.NET", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Wed OCT 27, 2010
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Thu OCT 28, 2010
Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group, "details tba", 8:30AM-4:30PM
Lean Startup Circle - Boston, "TBA", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon NOV 01, 2010
Boston Java Meetup, "Details to follow", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed NOV 03, 2010
Gr Boston SharePoint Users Group, "TBA", 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
iPhone Developers Meetup, 7PM, Waltham

Thu NOV 04, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, "Andy Novick,  SQL Server Partitioning & Data Management", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue NOV 09, 2010
Boston Area SAS Users Group, topic TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, 6PM, MIT Stata Center, Cambridge
Boston JBoss Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Boston University
BostonCHI, "Details to be announced", 6:30

Wed NOV 10, 2010
Boston PHP Meetup, "Usability with Steve Krug", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu NOV 11, 2010
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston

Sat NOV 13, 2010
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Wed NOV 17, 2010
Boston Linux & Unix, "**UNCONFIRMED** To be determined", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
So New England Network, "Visualizing Your Network w Visio 2010", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Thu NOV 18, 2010
DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston (DBUG's 23rd Anniversary)", 6PM, World Trade Center, Boston

Wed NOV 24, 2010
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Wed DEC 01, 2010
Gr Boston SharePoint Users Group, "TBA", 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
iPhone Developers Meetup, 7PM, Waltham

Thu DEC 02, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue DEC 07, 2010
Boston JBoss Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Boston University

Sat DEC 11, 2010
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Tue DEC 14, 2010
BostonCHI, "Details to be announced", 6:30

Wed DEC 15, 2010
Boston Linux & Unix, "**UNCONFIRMED** To be determined", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
So New England Network, "Malware, Fake AV, and other threats", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:


SEP 09, 2010
Agile Boston Workshop, "Protocols for Maximal Agility", Microsoft, Waltham

SEP 10-12, 2010
New England Software Symposium, Sheraton Framingham

SEP 14, 2010
Agile Boston, "Personal Agility Workshop: Enabling Hyper-Productive Teams", Microsoft, Waltham

SEP 16, 2010
Agile Boston Open Space 2010, "People and Interactions", Westin Hotel, Waltham

SEP 17, 2010
North Eastern SolidWorks User Conference, Westford Regency Inn & Conference Center
Boston Drupal, "Booster Shots for Drupal", (two sessions), Boston

SEP 20, 2010
Mongo Boston, "explore the non-relational, document-oriented database MongoDB", 9-6, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

SEP 25, 2010
SharePoint Saturday Boston, "free event with a lineup of 30 sessions", Microsoft, Waltham

OCT 02, 2010
New England Code Camp 14, "a free, full day of knowledge sharing and networking", Microsoft, Waltham

OCT 05-06, 2010
Lucene Revolution Conference 2010, "Training", Boston Hyatt Harborside Hotel

OCT 06-10, 2010
Boston SQL Training, "From Zero to SSIS! Learning SQL Server Integration Services", Microsoft Technology Center, Waltham

OCT 07-08, 2010
Lucene Revolution Conference 2010, "Conference", Boston Hyatt Harborside Hotel

OCT 14-15, 2010
TechWorld 2010, Pease International Tradeport, Portsmouth NH
InfoXchange 2010, Pease International Tradeport, Portsmouth NH

OCT 16-17, 2010
jQuery Boston Conference, Hilton Boston Logan Airport

OCT 19-22, 2010
58th ASQ NEQC Conference, Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center, Marlborough

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

OCT 20-22, 2010
SPTechCon 2010 Boston, "SharePoint Technology Conference", Hyatt Regency, Cambridge

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

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

NOV 04, 2010
ASP.NET Web Platform Firestarter, "get up to speed with ASP.NET", 9-4, Microsoft, Waltham


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

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

Apple seminars

Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar

Boston TechVenue Calendar

Boston Events List for Professionals

IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners - Waltham

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