User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Tue JAN 04, 2011 Boston Network Users, "How To Enable An infrastructure for Out-of-Band Management", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-325 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 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 Boston iPad Developers Meetup Group, "iPad v. Dynabook '72", 7PM, Flat Top Johnny's, 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, "MySQL 5.5 GA release", 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 Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem 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, "SQL Server Parallel Performance", 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 Boston InDesign Users, "Hot Interactive Documents, iPad, & InDesign", 6:45, 621 Huntington Ave, Boston 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 Mon JAN 17, 2011 NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Tue JAN 18, 2011 Boston Web Performance Group, "Server Side Performance", 7PM, 177 Huntington Ave Wed JAN 19, 2011 Providence Geeks, "topic*tbd", 5:30, AS220, Providence 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 Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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 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 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 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 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 JAN 28, 2011 New England Database Summit 2011, MIT Stata Center, Rm 32-123 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
These listings are obtained from user group web pages, mailings, and from other sources.