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

Tue JAN 04, 2011
Boston Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-325
Boston iPad Developers Meetup Group, "iPad v. Dynabook '72", 7PM, Flat Top Johnny's, Cambridge

Wed JAN 05, 2011
Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
MacTechGroup, "Kal: Apple's Calendar program", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 315
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
Agile Bazaar, "An Application of Agile Development", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Beantown .NET Users, "On Time and Under Budget:... Software Project Deadlines", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Software Quality Assurance Fundamentals for Medical Devices", 6PM, Marriott, Billerica
New England Visual Basic Professionals, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
JavaScript Meetup, "Closure Tools: Principles and Practice", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
UX Book Club, Boston Meetup, "Living with Complexity by Don Norman", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri JAN 07, 2011
Boston Drupal, "Drupal 7 Release Party", 7PM, Revolution Rock Bar, 200 High St, Boston

Sat JAN 08, 2011
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "Post holiday Party", 1-4PM, Christopher’s Restaurant, Porter Square, Cambridge

Mon JAN 10, 2011
Cambridge SEO Meetup, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
NE F# User Group, "Windows Phone 7 and Poker Strategies in F#", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge
Boston Linux & Unix, "Introduction to Ruby on Rails", 7PM, MIT Building 4, Room 237
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest @ Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Tue JAN 11, 2011
Virtualization User Group, "Virtual Desktops' Seven Dirty Secrets & TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
New England M Users' Group, "Something Wicked Interesting", 6PM,  Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Colin Ware,Data Visualization Research Lab, UNH", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
XTC-Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Perl Mongers, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Room E51-376
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed JAN 12, 2011
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "SharePoint 2010 Usage and Adoption Best Practices", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
NH Joomla Users, Topic TBD, 6PM, 530 South Porter St, Manchester NH
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Tweaking your Production Sitecore Installation", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Final Cut Pro Users, "January Mixer", 6:30, location TBD
Back Bay LISA, "Automating Inventory, Deployment and Configuration of Your Windows Infrastructure", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149
Boston PHP Meetup, "PHP Framework Bake-Off", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Linux & Unix, "Introduction to Ruby on Rails", 7PM, MIT Building 4, Room 237
Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7PM, WPI Morgan Hall

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
Nashua Scrum Club, "Intro to Test Driven Development", 6PM, Partnership for Successful Living, Nashua NH
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
Boston CocoaHeads, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 395

Wed JAN 19, 2011
NE Midrange Users Group, $ "Easy Microsoft Integration for Applications and Data", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk $
NE ASP.NET Professionals, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "Low Cost Mobile Robot Platform using Linux", 6:30, location TBD
So New England Network, "Client Security with the Microsoft Stack", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI
Boston Chapter STC, "Agile documentation, Strategies for sole technical writers", location TBD

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
UPA Boston Chapter, topic TBD, 6PM, Mitre Corp, Bedford
NH Java Users, "Introduction to Spring Integration", 6:30, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed JAN 26, 2011
Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden

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

Fri JAN 28, 2011
SEMPO Boston Working Group, "'Ask the Experts' Panel Discussion", 7:45AM, BU Ctr for Marketing Tech, Waltham

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

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
NH Joomla Users, 6PM, location and topic TBD
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 APR 27, 2011
Boston PHP Meetup, "Web Performance, Scalability, and Testing techniques", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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
Boston PHP Meetup, "Introducing the Lithium PHP Framework", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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
Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization)", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

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 04-06, 2011
iPhone iPad DevCon East, "focused on iPhone and iPad apps development", Hyatt Regency Cambridge

APR 09-10, 2011
BarCamp Boston 6, "unConference, organized on the fly", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

APR 11-15, 2011
Boston SQL Training, "the most advanced SQL Server training available", Microsoft Technology, 890 Winter St, Waltham

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

JUN 01-03, 2011
SharePoint Technology Conference, preliminary announcement, Boston

JUN 07, 2011
IT Roadmap Conference & Expo, Hynes Convention Center

JUN 13-16, 2011
TechConnect World 2011, Hynes Convention Center

SEP 26-29, 2011
Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center



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

Boston SQL Training

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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