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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

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

Mon DEC 13, 2010
Boston Azure Users, "real-world use of Azure for a very large simulation", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Java Meetup, "Details on presentation tba", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest @ Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Tue DEC 14, 2010
NH Adobe Users, "Create Your Own Blog", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Virtualization User Group, "Dr. Issy Ben-Shaul, CTO and Co-Founder of Wanova", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
BostonCHI, "MIT Media Lab & Mind-Machine Project", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem
Boston DotNetNuke Users, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Python Meetup, "NLTK: Natural Language Toolkit", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Rubyists, topic TBD, 7PM, 215 First St, Cambridge
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Web Performance Group, "Joshua Marantz and Matthew Steele from Google", 7PM, 177 Huntington Ave

Wed DEC 15, 2010
Windows Phone User and Developer Group, "annual holiday gathering", 6 pm, Bison County, Waltham
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 KM Forum, "Decision Making: Information, Context, Insight and Perspective", 4-6 PM, Microsoft, Waltham
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 / IEEE, "Introducing Energy Efficient Green Computing", 7PM, MIT Room E51-345

Fri DEC 17, 2010
North Shore Computer Society computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon DEC 20, 2010
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "Special road-trip holiday edition", 7PM, 118 Tucker Avenue, Portland ME

Tue DEC 21, 2010
Boston SPIN, "The Power of Project Patterns", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Wed DEC 22, 2010
Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden

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

Tue DEC 28, 2010
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "New Apple Gadgets From Santa", 7PM, Nashua Public Library

Wed JAN 05, 2011
Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
Boston iPhone Developers Meetup, 7PM, Upper Crust, Waltham

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, "Colin Ware,Data Visualization Research Lab, UNH", 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
NE Java Users Group, "Improving Code Quality", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NE SQL Server Users Group, "The Cloud (not just for rainy days)", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
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
Greater Boston Chapter ACM, "The Anatomy of a Design Decision", 7PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham

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

Tue JAN 25, 2011
NH Java Users, topic TBD, 6:30, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

Thu JAN 27, 2011
NH Sys Eng & Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "The SysAdmin's Guide to SQL Server", 6PM, Hilton Garden, Portsmouth NH
Boston Azure Users, "Matt Grace of Objective Logistics", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle Meetup, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed FEB 02, 2011
Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
Exchange Server Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston iPhone Developers Meetup, "check website", 7PM, Waltham?
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu FEB 03, 2011
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
New England Visual Basic Professionals, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "SharePoint 2010 Development for .NET Developers", 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, "Dipayan Biswas, Bently University", 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

Wed FEB 16, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "Nufront System-on-a-Chip", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room TBD
So New England Network, "Tools for wireless networks, network analysis, and voip", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

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

Thu FEB 24, 2011
Lean Startup Circle Meetup, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Wed MAR 02, 2011
Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
Boston iPhone Developers Meetup, "check website", 7PM, Waltham?
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

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, "Rob Miller, MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab", 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

Wed MAR 16, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "Agile Programming", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room TBD
So New England Network, "Barracuda Networks, Inc - Firewalls, email archiving", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Thu MAR 17, 2011
Club Pocket PC, "Stay tuned for more information!"

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

Wed APR 06, 2011
Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
Boston iPhone Developers Meetup, "check website", 7PM, Waltham?
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

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, "Tom Tullis, Fidelity Investments", 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

Wed APR 20, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "NShort Takes: Nagios and more", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room TBD
Southern New England Network, "Walter Horowitz: – IPV-6", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Wed MAY 04, 2011
Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
Boston iPhone Developers Meetup, "check website", 7PM, Waltham?

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, "Career Paths for Software QA Staff", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston .NET Users, "Adam Machanic speaks on SQL Server Parallel Performance", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

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:

DEC 06-11, 2010
Computer Science Education Week by the ACM

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

MAR 30-APR 01, 2011
8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '11), Sheraton Boston Hotel

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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