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Updated 10/19/2010 -- '10 #320
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Wed OCT 20, 2010
Providence Geeks, "featuring GlobalMoxie’s Josh Clark!", 5:30, Firehouse 13, Providence
Internet Society, New England Chapter, "The Internet: Its Past and Possible Futures", 5:30, Simmons College, Boston
NH Joomla Users, 6PM, details TBD
Boston Cold Fusion Users, "Mark Phillips on Project Management", 6PM, location TBD
Boston BizSpark Meetup Group, "Financial Projections for Pitch Decks", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Vilna Shul Speakers Series, "Google v. Facebook: Whose hand would you rather be holding?", 6PM, Vilna Shul, Boston
Boston .NET Architecture Study Group, "Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) 4.0", 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
Windows Phone User and Developer Group, "all about Windows Phone 7", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
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
Boston KM Forum, "Influences on How I Can Make Better Decisions", 4-6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
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 Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NAISG Boston Chapter, "Vunerability Management Best Practices", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Sharepoint Users, "Panel on SharePoint 2010", 7PM, Hyatt Regency, Cambridge
ASQ Boston Section $, "ISO 26000: How the ASQ and ISO are Promoting Sustainability", 7PM, $

Mon OCT 25, 2010
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Tue OCT 26, 2010
DataCAD Users "Multiscale Plotting, Prototype Development, SketchUp Animation" 6PM, Boston Society of Architects
Lean Startup Circle - Boston, "October Lean Workshop", 6:30PM
Manchester Linux Users, "Org-Mode presentation", 6:30, Wings Your Way, Manchester NH
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
NH Java Users, "Mark Richards - Antipatterns", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

Wed OCT 27, 2010
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Sitecore 6.4 and the Unified Page Editor", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston
Providence Drupal Meetup, 6PM, McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon
Agile Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
MIT Enterprise Forum, "Picking the Right Initial Market for my Vision?", 6:30, MIT Maclaurin Buildings
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Black Duck Software
Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, agenda TBD, WPI, Worcester

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

Sat OCT 30, 2010
Hacks/Hackers Boston Meetup, "Making geolocal apps using OpenBlock", noon-8 PM, New MIT Media Lab, 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
Boston / Cambridge SEO Internet Marketing Meetup, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington

Tue NOV 02, 2010
Boston Linux & Unix, "PandaBoard - intro to latest open computing platform", 7-9, MIT Whitaker Bldg rm 56-114

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
UX Book Club, "Gamestorming: Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers", 7 pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu NOV 04, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, "Andy Novick, SQL Server Partitioning & Data Management", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ $, "Merrimac Brewery Tour", 6PM, Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Merrimack NH
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
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Fri NOV 05, 2010
North Shore Computer Society Computer Clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon NOV 08, 2010
Boston Java Meetup, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Seacoast Linux Users, "Backup solutions for Linux", 7PM, UNH Morse Hall, rm 301, Durham NH

Tue NOV 09, 2010
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Expanding Your Toolkit for Data Management", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE M Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building
Boston JBoss Users, "Going Above and Beyond with RichFaces", 6PM, Boston University
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
BostonCHI, "User Interface Goals, Artificial Intelligence Opportunities", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed NOV 10, 2010
Software Quality Group, "Software Quality 2010: A Survey of the State of the Art", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NE Digital Artists Group, "BlueSky and Autodesk Event", 6PM, MIT

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
NH Joomla Users, "Joomla! Jumpstart Workshop", 6PM, Manchester School of Technology
NE SQL Server Users, "Baselining, Benchmarking, and Assorted Goodness", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston
Boston Post Mortem, "game audio guru George 'Fat Man' Sanger", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston CocoaHeads, "Next Meeting", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

Sat NOV 13, 2010
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "Further details will be announced ....", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134
Back Bay LISA, "Details TBA"

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

Tue NOV 16, 2010
NH SolidWorks Users, topic TBD, 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH
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
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri NOV 19, 2010
North Shore Computer Society Computer Clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

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

Mon NOV 29, 2010
Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta

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

Mon DEC 06, 2010
Boston Java Meetup, "Details on presentation tba", 6:30 PM, 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
NE SQL Server Users, "Tool Time", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
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

Mon DEC 13, 2010
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Tue DEC 14, 2010
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, IBM, Cambridge

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

Thu DEC 16, 2010
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, 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

Mon JAN 10, 2011
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Tue JAN 11, 2011
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, Constant Contact, 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
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 Jan 20, 2011
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu FEB 03, 2011
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon FEB 07, 2011
Boston Java Meetup, "Details on presentation tba", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue FEB 08, 2011
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, 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

Mon FEB 14, 2011
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Thu FEB 17, 2011
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon MAR 07, 2011
Boston Java Meetup, "Details on presentation tba", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAR 08, 2011
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham

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

Mon APR 04, 2011
Boston Java Meetup, "Details on presentation tba", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue APR 12, 2011
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge

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

Mon MAR 14, 2011
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Tue MAY 10, 2011
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham

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

OCT 20, 2010
Northeast Oracle Users Group, "NOUG Training Day" HAS BEEN CANCELLED
Open Web Application Security Project, "web application security conference", 8am-7pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Digital HeadQuarters User Group, "Fall 2010 Conference", 8:30-4:30, Microsoft, Waltham

OCT 21, 2010
Oracle Technology Day 2010, The Westin Waltham

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

OCT 22, 2010
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Student Conference 2010, 8-5, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

OCT 23, 2010
BostonEErs - Boston ExpressionEngine Meetup, 9-5, "Building your first site in EE", MIT E51-315

OCT 25-27, 2010
Cutter Consortium Summit 2010, "Interact with the Experts in IT", Royal Sonesta Hotel, 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, "Programming Without Fear: Best Practices for New and Existing Software", MIT Building E51

NOV 14, 2010
GBC/ACM, "The Spring Framework: Powering Enterprise Java Development", Harvard University (Maxwell Dworkin)

NOV 16-17, 2010
Semantic Web Summit East, "Upgrade Your Business Intelligence", Hynes Convention Center, Boston

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

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