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Updated 09/16/2010 -- '10 #284
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Thu SEP 16, 2010
Gr Boston AITP $, "Networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $
Natl Info Security Group, "How Secure Is Your Lock?", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
GBC/ACM & IEEE, "Computational & synthetic biology to prevent disease & create materials", 7PM, MIT Broad Inst
Boston Web Performance Meetup, "Philip Tellis talks about Boomerang", 7PM, Prudential Center

Mon SEP 20, 2010
Boston Lisp Meeting, "Hari Prashanth on Functional Data Structures for Typed Racket", 6PM, NE Univ, building WVH
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "DotNetNuke news and Development aspects", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Django Boston Meetup, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue SEP 21, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "Agile - The Basics and Beyond...", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Boston CiviCRM Meetup, 6:30, One Laptop Per Child, 1 Cambridge Center
NE BlackBerry Developers Group, 7PM, Marriott Cambridge

Wed SEP 22, 2010
Boston ColdFusion Users, "Charlie Arehart on Hidden Gems in ColdFusion Builder", 6PM, Sun Life Financial, Wellesley Hills
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
Boston Avid Users, "Fixing It In Post!", 6:30, Boston Camera, 395 Western Ave
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick
Boston Joomla! Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden
UPA New Hampshire Chapter, "Six Simple Steps to Social Media Success", 7PM, UNH Durham, Demeritt Bldg, Room 240
Boston Android Hackfest, "We will be writing code. Bring a laptop and a project", 7-11, 41 Winter St, Boston

Thu SEP 23, 2010
Boston Arduino Meetup, "Sept Meetup", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle - Boston, "TBA", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH Python SIG, "Django hands-on workshop", 6:30,  Amoskeag Incubator, Manchester NH
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
Hacks/Hackers Boston Meetup, "How Some Online Newsrooms Are Pulling Away from the Pack", 6PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston PHP Meetup, "HTML5 Redux", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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
Boston Post Mortem, "Maya Rigging for Games and Film w/ Chad Moore – BMUG", 7 pm, 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
Boston Final Cut Pro Users, "What’s Next in Marketing", 6PM, Apple, 815 Boylston St
Gr Boston SharePoint Users Group, "TBA", 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
Boston Area Windows Server Users and Exchange Server Boston, "Speaker/Topic: TBD ", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
OWASP Boston Chapter, "Live Application Threat Modeling", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
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 / Cambridge SEO Internet Marketing Meetup, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Rows Versus Columns: Which One Is Best For You?", 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
Software Quality Group of NE, "CMM vs. Agile", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NH Joomla Users, 6PM, check website
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
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NE Java Users, "Spring GemFire data-fabric and the RabbitMQ AMQP message broker", 6PM, Location TBA
NE SQL Server Users, "Brent Ozar - Virtualizing SQL Server", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston
Boston CocoaHeads, "Cocoa Framework for programming on MacOS X (incl iPhone", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

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
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "walkthrough on DotNetNuke Professional v5.5", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed OCT 20, 2010
NH Joomla Users, 6PM, details TBD
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
GBC/ACM & IEEE, "Interpreting the non-coding human genome", 7PM, MIT Broad Inst

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

Tue NOV 02, 2010
Boston Linux & Unix, "ARM twisting with TI's OMAP, Linux, and the Pandaboard", 7-9, MIT Location TBD

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
Agile Bazaar, "Scaling Scrum: Applying the Agile Scaling Model (ASM)", 6-9 PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham

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, "Going Above and Beyond with RichFaces", 6PM, Boston University
BostonCHI, "Details to be announced", 6:30

Wed NOV 10, 2010
Software Quality Group, "Software Quality 2010: A Survey of the State of the Art", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston PHP Meetup, "Usability with Steve Krug", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu NOV 11, 2010
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Boston Area SolidWorks UG, "Agenda TBA", 5:30, Symmons, Braintree
NE Java Users, "JVM Internals: Garbage Collection and VM Optimizations", 6PM, Location TBA
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

Mon NOV 15, 2010
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "TBA", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed NOV 17, 2010
Boston Linux & Unix, "Google's Android Phone OS", 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, "Lighting talks 2010", 6PM, Boston University

Wed DEC 08, 2010
Software Quality Group of NE, "Career Paths for Software QA Staff", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Back Bay LISA, "Usenix LISA 201 conference recap", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149

Thu DEC 09, 2010
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston

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

Mon DEC 20, 2010
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "TBA", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed JAN 12, 2011
Software Quality Group of NE, "Add Steak to Exploratory Testing's Parlor-Trick Sizzle", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Back Bay LISA, "Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149

Thu JAN 13, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston

Wed FEB 09, 2011
Software Quality Group of NE, "A fundamental approach to improving Software Quality", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Thu FEB 10, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston

Wed MAR 09, 2011
Software Quality Group of NE, "Build, SCM, and QA: Enablers for Agility", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Wed APR 13, 2011
Software Quality Group of NE, "SQA in an Agile Environment", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Wed MAY 11, 2011
Software Quality Group of NE, topic TBD, 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Wed JUN 08, 2011
Software Quality Group of NE, "Maximizing the Value of Testing to the Business", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Wed JUL 13, 2011
Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:


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 21-23, 2010
NE Digital Artists, "Intro to Maya Training", Salem NH

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

OCT 02, 2010
New England Code Camp 14, "It’s the Economy Stupid", 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

OCT 26, 2010
Agile Software Development in VS2010, 9-5, Microsoft Technology Center, 890 Winter Street, Waltham

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

NOV 05, 2010
F# in Education Workshop, 9-4, Microsoft NERD, 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

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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