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Updated 10/29/2010 -- '10 #332
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Fri OCT 29, 2010
Boston Haskell Users, "Intro to Type-level programming and Agda", 7PM, MIT CSAIL Reading Room, 32-G882

Sat OCT 30, 2010
Hacks/Hackers Boston Meetup, "Making geolocal apps using OpenBlock", noon-8 PM, New MIT Media Lab, Cambridge

Sun OCT 31, 2010
Boston Post Mortem, "Play Through The Lurking Horror with PRIF ", 2-5 pm, MIT Building 4 Room 145.

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
Boston .NET Certification Group, "topic tbd", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest @ Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Tue NOV 02, 2010
Boston Network Users "Virtualization & Storage Consolidation on Physical Data Center Plant" 6:30, ColoSpace, Waltham
Boston Drupal, "hosted by Sustainability@MIT", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, room E51-325
Boston Linux & Unix, "PandaBoard - intro to latest open computing platform", 7PM, 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", 7PM, 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, "Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Agile Bazaar, "Scaling Scrum: Applying the Agile Scaling Model (ASM)", 6:45-9 PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Boston Avid Users and 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
Mobile Monday Boston, "Mayor Menino presents Citizens Connect", 6pm, Ned Devine’s, Faneuil Hall Market, Boston
Boston Java Meetup, "Effective (Java) Development By Being Lazy And Staying That Way", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "topic tbd", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, 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
Boston .NET Users, "SharePoint 2010 Development for .NET Developers", 5PM, 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
Boston Maya User's Group (bMUG) and NEDAG, "Making 'Ice Age 3'", 6:30 PM, RSVP req'd
Final Cut Pro Users, "Finishing for Broadcast: Making It Street Legal", 7PM, DCU Center, Worcester

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, "Solona CAPTCHA and demos of Apple touch-screen apps", 1-4PM, MIT room 5-134
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
NE Digital Media Users, "check website to verify", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
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
Greater Boston Chapter GBC/ACM, "SciDB: Big Analytics on Big Data", 7PM, Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center

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

Mon NOV 22, 2010
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Wed NOV 24, 2010
Lean Startup Circle - Boston Meetup, 6PM
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
Boston Maya (bMUG) "Maya & ZBrush Workflow - A Next-Generation of Game Character" 7PM, NERD, Cambridge

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, "Agile Metrics, Reporting and Diagnostics", 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
NH Joomla Users, 6PM, details TBD
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
Final Cut Pro Users, "Holiday Mixer", 6:30, location TBD
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: Harry Drew, M.I.T. Media Lab", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, 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
Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "Holiday Event - Show & Tell Night", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
GBC/ACM, "Expanding Computing Power while being environmentally sensitive", 7PM, MIT Room E51-345

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

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

Thu JAN 06, 2011
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
New England Visual Basic Professionals, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

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, "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
So New England Network, "Client Security with the Microsoft Stack", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Thu Jan 20, 2011
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon JAN 24, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Thu FEB 03, 2011
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
New England Visual Basic Professionals, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

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 FEB 28, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

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 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

Mon MAR 28, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

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

Mon APR 11, 2011
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, 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

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

Tue JUN 14, 2011
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge

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


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:


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 09-10, 2010
IBM DB2 Workshop for Oracle Professionals, "Expand your skills... its fast, easy and free", IBM, Waltham

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

NOV 20, 2010
Open Web Application Security Project, "web application security conference", 8am-7pm, Microsoft NERD, 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 02-03, 2010
Boston Drupal, "Drupal Essentials Workshop", 6:30, Isovera Consulting, Waltham

DEC 06, 2010
Drupaltherapy Training, "intensive all-day workshop", 9-5, CompuWorks, Boston

JAN 27-28, 2011
Boston Drupal, "Drupal Essentials Workshop", 6:30, Isovera Consulting, Waltham

APR 14-16, 2011
Agile Bazaar, "2011 Agile Games Conference", 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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