User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Sat OCT 09, 2010 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, rm CT322, Warwick RI Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "Samsung Haven phones", 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 NH Seacoast Linux Users, "What's on your mind?", 7PM, UNH Morse Hall room 301, Durham NH Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Tue OCT 12, 2010 NH Adobe Users, "Captivate 5", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall Virtualization User Group, "Position Xangati, Terminal Services vs VDI", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston JBoss Users, "Tattletale", 6PM, Boston University Seacoast Mac Users, "Ecamm Network Presentation", 6:15, Rye Jr High, Rye NH BostonCHI, "Where I Come From, They Don't Talk To You Like That", 6:30, (Location Change) Constant Contact, Waltham Boston Cloud Services Meetup, "CloudManage, CloudSwitch", 6:30, Foley Hoag, Waltham Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem Boston Rubyists, "Transitioning from BackgroundRB to Resque" and "Websockets with Ruby", 7PM, 215 First Street, Cambridge Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed OCT 13, 2010 Software Quality Group of NE, "CMM vs. Agile", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Southern NE SQL Server, "DMVs as a Shortcut to Procedure Tuning", 6PM, NE Inst of Tech, Warwick RI NH Joomla Users, 6PM, check website Back Bay LISA, "Using MySQLtuner 2.0 to monitor and improve mysql performance", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 372 Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn CSS", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, South Boston Worcester Linux Users, "Open Forum", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI Boston Post Mortem, "gameplay analytics: Facebook metrics and approach at Blue Fang on Zoo Kingdom", 7 pm, Boston 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 Boston Plone Meetup, "Oct Meetup", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon OCT 18, 2010 NE Silverlight Guild, "Silverlight as a Transmedia Platform (kick off meeting)", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Java Meetup, "Revisiting Dependency Injection with Guice", 6:30, 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 Boston Android, "Hackfest @ Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston Tue OCT 19, 2010 Hacks/Hackers Boston Meetup, "Knight News Challenge", 6PM, Nieman Journalism Lab, Cambridge Boston SPIN, "Agile Program Management: Another Approach to Large Projects", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Wed OCT 20, 2010 NH Joomla Users, 6PM, details TBD Boston Cold Fusion Users, "Mark Phillips on Project Management", 6PM, location TBD Boston .NET Architecture Study Group, "topic tbd", 6 PM, Microsoft, Waltham 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 GBC/ACM & IEEE, "Interpreting the non-coding human genome", 7PM, MIT Broad Inst Boston Python Meetup, "Processing.py, inside and out", 7PM, Google, Cambridge So New England Network, "SQL best practices: backups, maintenance, etc.", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick, RI Boston Web Performance Group, "Meet for SPEED", 7 PM, Prudential Center, Boston Thu OCT 21, 2010 SEMPO Boston, "Keeping Up with Google Search", 7:45AM, Google, Cambridge GR Boston AITP $, "Networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $ Boston Azure Users, "Silverlight and Windows Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "Developing iPhone Web Applications with ASP.NET", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Sharepoint Users, "Panel on SharePoint 2010", 7PM, Hyatt Regency, Cambridge Mon OCT 25, 2010 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Tue OCT 26, 2010 DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 NH Java Users, "Mark Richards - Antipatterns", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH 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 Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden 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 NE F# User Group, "Habits of Successful Software Developers", 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 Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford iPhone App Developers Meetup, 7PM, Upper Crust, 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 New England Visual Basic Professionals, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Agile Bazaar, "Scaling Scrum: Applying the Agile Scaling Model (ASM)", 6:45-9 PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham Boston Final Cut Pro Users, "Workflow Mixer", 6:30, WGBH Yawkey Theatre, 1 Guest St Tue NOV 09, 2010 Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Expanding Your Toolkit for Data Management", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, 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 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 Tue NOV 16, 2010 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, 6PM, Hynes Convention Center 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 Boston PHP Meetup, "Usability with Steve Krug", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu NOV 18, 2010 DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston (DBUG's 23rd Anniversary)", 6PM, World Trade Center, Boston Sat NOV 20, 2010 Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XXXVIII", 9AM-5PM, MIT Building E51, Room 061 Wed NOV 24, 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 Wed DEC 01, 2010 Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford iPhone App Developers Meetup, 7PM, Upper Crust, 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 New England Visual Basic Professionals, "Windows Phone 7 Development", 6:15, Microsoft, 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, "Virtualization with OpenVZ", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325 So New England Network, "Malware, Fake AV, and other threats", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn Google Analytics", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon DEC 20, 2010 Boston DotNetNuke Users, "TBA", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Thu JAN 06, 2011 Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Boston PHP Meetup, "PHP Framework Bake-Off", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 JAN 19, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "Low Cost Mobile Robot Platform using Linux", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325 Thu FEB 03, 2011 Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed FEB 09, 2011 Software Quality Group of NE, "A fundamental approach to improving Software Quality", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Boston PHP Meetup, "jQuery Mobile: How to develop apps for the iPhone, iPad, Droid", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn about Aptana Studio 3 IDE", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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: 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 OpenSQLCamp Boston, MIT Stata Center 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 06, 2010 Design Camp Boston, "SOLD OUT!", 8-5, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NOV 11-12, 2010 RIA Unleashed 2010 Boston, "Adobe Flash Platform and related technologies", Bentley University, Waltham NOV 13-14, 2010 GBC/ACM, "Taming Legacy Code", MIT Building E51, Cambridge NOV 30, 2010 Windows Azure Firestarter, "the latest disruptive (and over-hyped!) technology", 9-5, Microsoft, Waltham DEC 02, 2010 SharePoint 2010 Firestarter, "SP new features, upgrade path, deployment options", 9-5, Microsoft, Waltham DEC 06, 2010 Drupaltherapy Training, "intensive all-day workshop", 9-5, CompuWorks, Boston 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
These listings are obtained from user group web pages, mailings, and from other sources.