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Updated 11/14/2010 -- '10 #347
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Mon NOV 15, 2010
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest @ Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "Introduction to (Geo)Spatial Programming", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

Tue NOV 16, 2010
NH SolidWorks Users, (see website), 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, 6PM, Hynes Convention Center
Boston SPIN, "Do you have the Right Stuff to Manage a Software QA/Test Team?", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Seacoast SQL Server, "Working to help Great Bay With a DB Design & App Need", 6:15, Great Bay Comm Coll, Portsmouth NH
NH Java Users, "Spring MVC", 6:30, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH
Boston ExpressionEngine Meetup, "Deploying your EE Site: Checklists and Helpful Tips", 7PM, GLAD, Boston
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SCVNGR", 7PM, 175 Second St, Cambridge

Wed NOV 17, 2010
Providence Geeks, "featuring Bakodo", 5:30–8:30pm, AS220, Providence
NE Midrange Users Group $, "Taking the Mystery Out of AS2", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk $
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Legal liability in the age of WikiLeaks", 6PM, BU Student Lounge
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Boston .NET Architecture Study Group, "Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Debugging and Troubleshooting the Greater ASP.NET Environment", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "Google's Android Phone OS", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
Google Technology Users, "open format discussion", 6:30, The Burren, Cambridge
NE Digital Media Users, "check website to verify", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Windows Phone User and Developer Group, "all about Windows Phone 7", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston PHP Meetup, "Usability with Steve Krug", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Python Meetup, "Intro to Twisted: presentation and LAB", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
GBC/ACM / DAMA International, "SciDB: Big Analytics on Big Data", 7PM, Broad Institute, MIT bldg NE-30
So New England Network, "Visualizing Your Network w Visio 2010", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Thu NOV 18, 2010
SEMPO Boston Working Group, "Yahoo! / Bing Search Transition", 7:45AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Section ASQ, "Factory Tour MagneMotion, Inc", 5:30, Devens MA
Boston Azure Users, "Why the Microsoft Cloud?", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "ExpressionEngine and 2011 schedule", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston BizSpark Meetup, "Conversation Media and netBlazr", 6PM, HubSpot, Cambridge
DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston (DBUG's 23rd Anniversary)", 6PM, World Trade Center, Boston
Boston Post Mortem, "growth prospects for social games on Facebook and other platforms", 6-8:30, Vilna Shul, Boston 
XTC-Boston, "topic tbd", 6:30 PM, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Web Performance Group, "Speaker - Jared Rosoff from Yottaa.com", 7PM, Boston
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "Rails 3", 7PM, Cantina's, Newton Center

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
NC Shows "Computer and Electronics Show", See Events listing, Salem, NH

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

Tue NOV 23, 2010
Lean Startup Circle - Boston Meetup, 6PM
Providence Drupal Meetup, 6PM, McFadden’s Restaurant
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Rubyists, "Outside-in development workshop", 7PM, 215 First St, Cambridge

Wed NOV 24, 2010
Boston XNA Developers, "Kinect Baby!", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Agile Boston, "Give Thanks for the Scrum", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon NOV 29, 2010
Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "Video Conversions", 7PM, Nashua Public Library

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
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ $, "Leadership by Cliche", 5:30, Jackson's, Methuen $
Beantown .NET Users, "Web Site Migration to the Cloud - Amazon vs. Azure", 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, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham

Mon DEC 06, 2010
Boston Java Meetup, "Details on presentation tba", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE F# User Group, "fun and interactive session writing some F# code", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue DEC 07, 2010
Boston JBoss Users, "Lighting talks 2010", 6PM, Boston University

Wed DEC 08, 2010
Boston .NET Users, "Dan Mezick, SCRUM", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
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
Boston Macintosh Users, "topic TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51

Thu DEC 09, 2010
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", Noon, Providence
Django Boston Meetup, 6PM, Venture Café, Cambridge
Nashua Scrum Club, "Lean Startup", 6PM, Partnership for Successful Living, Nashua
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
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

Sat DEC 11, 2010
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI
Visually Impaired & Blind/a>, "holiday shopping sites, computer trivia questions", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon DEC 13, 2010
Cambridge SEO Meetup, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
NH Seacoast Linux Users, "topic TBD", 7PM, UNH Morse Hall room 301, Durham NH
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, "MIT Media Lab & Mind-Machine Project", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
Boston DotNetNuke Users, topic 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
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
GBC/ACM, "Expanding Computing Power while being environmentally sensitive", 7PM, MIT Room E51-345

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

Thu JAN 06, 2011
Beantown .NET Users, "On Time and Under Budget:... Software Project Deadlines", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
New England Visual Basic Professionals, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
UX Book Club, Boston Meetup, "Living with Complexity by Don Norman", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Sat JAN 08, 2011
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

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
New England M Users' Group, "Something Wicked Interesting", 6PM,  Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham

Wed JAN 12, 2011
Boston .NET Users, "jQuery and ASP.NET MVC", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
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

Wed FEB 02, 2011
Exchange Server Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

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
Boston JBoss Users, "TBA", 6PM, Boston University

Wed FEB 09, 2011
Boston .NET Users, "Inversion of Control/Dependency Injection and Aspect Oriented Programming", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
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, "No meeting due to Deep Dive Day 2011 on March 11th"
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham

Wed MAR 09, 2011
Boston .NET Users, "Windows Azure", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
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
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 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 01, 2011
Exchange Server Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

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 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
NC Shows, "Computer and Electronics Show", 10-3, Rockingham Racetrack, Salem NH

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 03-05, 2010
Drupaltherapy Training, "intensive all-day workshop", WorkBar Boston

DEC 04, 2010
Boston iPhone Boot Camp, "Three Day Intensive Workshop", 8:30-5, •Cambridge Innovation Center?

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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