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Updated 09/22/2010 -- '10 #291
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Wed SEP 22, 2010
Providence Geeks, "Tracelytics", 5:30-8:30pm, AS220, Providence
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
Agile Boston, "Grounded Visioning", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
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
Boston Drupal, "Learning Git, part II", 6:30, JP Licks, Jamaica Plain
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
Boston Azure Cloud User Group, "Microsoft Windows Azure platform", 6PM, 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 .NET Certification Group, "studying for the 70-562 - ASP.NET 3.5 exam", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PHP Meetup, "HTML5 Redux", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue SEP 28, 2010
NH SolidWorks Users, "Tips and Tricks for Rapid Machined Part Design, etc", 5:15, Rapid Machining, Nashua NH
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects
UPA Boston Chapter, "Novel Approaches for Gaining User Insights", 6PM, 125 High St, Boston
Manchester Linux Users, "Project Caua", 6:30, Wings Your Way, Manchester NH
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", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu SEP 30, 2010
DAMA New England, "Business Semantics, Metadata Discovery, and Knowledge Management", 6PM, Harvard Pilgrim, Wellesley
Boston Security Meetup, "we will talk about the mc1322x project", 6:45pm, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston

Fri OCT 01, 2010
Boston KM Forum, "Creating Knowledge-bases from Electronic Financial Transactions", 7:30-9:30AM, Rebecca’s, Waltham

Mon OCT 04, 2010
Boston Java Meetup, "Details to follow", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Mobile Monday Boston, "Mobile Marketing", 6:30, check website
Boston .NET Certification Group, "studying for the 70-562 - ASP.NET 3.5 exam", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue OCT 05, 2010
Boston Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks TBD", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, room E51-325

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
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Supplier Qualification & Monitor For Medical Devices", 6PM, Jackson's, Methuen
Visual Basic Professionals, "Untility Roundup: learn about the best tools", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Agile Bazaar, "Free Agile 101 Courses", 6:15-6:45, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Agile Bazaar, "A discussion of managing Agile projects", 6:45 PM, IBM Innovation Center, 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
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "details will be announced", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon OCT 11, 2010
Boston / Cambridge SEO Internet Marketing Meetup, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "studying for the 70-562 - ASP.NET 3.5 exam", 6:30 PM, 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", 6PM, 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, (Location Change) Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Cloud Services Meetup, "CloudManage, CloudSwitch", 6:30, Foley Hoag, Waltham

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, "The Enterprise Integration Cloud", 6PM, Oracle, Burlington
NE SQL Server Users, "Brent Ozar - Virtualizing SQL Server", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
XTC-Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
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
Agile Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Thu OCT 28, 2010
Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group, "See Website", 8:30AM-4:30PM, BMC Software, Waltham
Django Boston Meetup, 6PM, Venture Café, Cambridge
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, "Free Agile 101 Courses", 6:15-6:45, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Agile Bazaar, "Scaling Scrum: Applying the Agile Scaling Model (ASM)", 6:45-9 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
Agile Bazaar, "Free Agile 101 Courses", 6:15-6:45, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Agile Bazaar, "Topic TBA", 6:45 PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham

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

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

SEP 23-24, 2010
WorldCat Mashatnon Boston, 9-5, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

SEP 25, 2010
SharePoint Saturday Boston, "free event with a lineup of 30 sessions", Microsoft, Waltham
Podcamp Boston 5!, 8-4:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

SEP 28, 2010
Social Networking Bootcamp Series, "Setting up and Using LinkedIn", The Enterprise Center at Salem State College

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 06-08, 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 11, 2010
CloudCamp Boston, "CloudCamp unconference on Cloud Computing", 3-9 pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

OCT 12-13, 2010
Windows Phone 7 Developer Launch, "under the hood", 9-5, Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge

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

NOV 13-14, 2010
GBC/ACM, "Taming Legacy Code", MIT Building E51, 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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