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Updated 02/01/2011 -- '11 #025
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Tue FEB 01, 2011
Boston Network Users, "CANCELED due to the pending snow storm" 
Boston Drupal, "hosted by MIT Drupal Group", 6:30 pm, MIT Room E51-325
Providence Drupal, "CMS Smackdown!", 6:30, McFadden’s
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St

Wed FEB 02, 2011
Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Tweaking your Production Sitecore Installation", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Exchange Server Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
Boston iPad Developers Meetup Group, "Talk on Dynabook, plus Share your iPad / HD Apps", 7PM, Bertucci's, Cambridge
Boston Joomla Users, "networking, sharing, and learning", 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden
MacTechGroup, "real speech recognition on your iPhone/iPad", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 315

Thu FEB 03, 2011
NE Agile Bazaar, "The Agile Practitioners Problem Clinic", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Beantown .NET Users, "SharePoint 2010 Development for .NET Developers", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE Visual Basic Pros, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Cloud Services Meetup, "2011 Cloud Opener", 6:30, Foley Hoag, Waltham
JavaScript Meetup, "Node.js FTW - Aaron White", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri FEB 04, 2011
North Shore Comp Society "Members Only Computer Clinic", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon FEB 07, 2011
Boston Java Meetup, "Refactoring to Concurrency", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE F# User Group, "topic TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest showing Roboguice", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Tue FEB 08, 2011
Boston Jboss Users Group, "TBA", 6-9 pm, Boston University
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Semantic Web technologies at BBN", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Virtualization User Group, "Backup and Recovery of Virtual Environments", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
NH Seacoast Mac Users, "Keeping It All in Sync", 6:15, Rye Jr High
BostonCHI, "Love at First Sight or First Sound? How Visual Cues Interact with Other Sensory Cues", 6:30, IBM, Cambridge
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Reporting in DNN, SQLView Pro, MS Report Builder 3.0", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Rubyists, "Main Event at Sermo", 7PM, Cambridge

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 .NET Users, "The Managed Extensibility Framework", 6PM, Daniel Webster College
NH Joomla Users, 6PM, location and topic TBD
Southern NE SQL Server, "Microsoft Dynamics CRM, The Product", 6PM, NE Inst of Tech, Warwick RI
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "SharePoint 2010 as a Web Content Management tool", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Avid Users, "annual Winter Social", 6:30, The Stockyard, Brighton
RI Defcon, "Formulation + Grid Hacks", 6:30 PM, The Brain Tank, Providence
Boston PHP Meetup, "jQuery Mobile: How to develop apps for the iPhone, iPad, Droid", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Back Bay LISA, "Private Sector, Environmentally Friendly Jobs with Free Software" 7p, MIT E51-376
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Hear about Google's cool new tool: Ngram" 6PM, Google, Cambridge

Thu FEB 10, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NE Java Users, "NoSQL Smackdown", 6PM, Oracle, Burlington
NE SQL Server Users, "Parallelism and Performance", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Coding Dojo, "programmers practice to improve their skills", 6:30, First Church in Boston
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston
North Shore Computer Society, "topic*tbd", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light
Boston CocoaHeads, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

Sat FEB 12, 2011
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "demos: IPal and IPal Solo, Orca screen reader, Vinux Ubuntu", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

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

Tue FEB 15, 2011
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "Race to the South Pole: Ten Lessons for Project Managers", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Cambridge SEO Meetup, "5 Year SEO Meetup Anniversary Party", 6:30PM, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SVCNGR", 7PM, Cambridge
App Development Meetup, "development for iOS (iPad, iPhone, iPod, and Android)", 7PM, Borders Back Bay
Boston Unity Group, "Perils of Designing Multiplayer Games", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed FEB 16, 2011
NE Midrange Users Group, $ "iSeries Tips and Tools", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk $
Boston Linux & Unix, "Net Neutrality and the FCC", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395
So New England Network, "Tools for wireless networks, network analysis, and voip", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI
Boston Web Performance Group, "Automate Performance Analysis with dynaTrace, Selenium and ShowSlow", 7PM, 177 Huntington Ave

Thu FEB 17, 2011
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
SEMPO Boston Working Group, "Ask The Experts", 7:45am, Bentley Univ, Waltham

Mon FEB 21, 2011
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest: We will be writing code...", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Tue FEB 22, 2011
Boston Python Meetup, "PyCon on the Charles: practice session 1", 6:45 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "What will news websites look like in the future?", 7PM, Boston Globe

Wed FEB 23, 2011
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Location TBA
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Django Boston Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, Boston

Thu FEB 24, 2011
Boston Azure Users, "Data Security in the Cloud", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Coding Dojo, "programmers practice to improve their skills", 6:30, First Church in Boston
Lean Startup Circle Meetup, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri FEB 25, 2011
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "The Boston Hack Day Challenge", 7 PM, Fan Pier, Boston

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

Tue MAR 01, 2011
Boston PHP Meetup, "Usability Testing Night", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed MAR 02, 2011
Boston Area SAS Users Group, topic TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
Boston Python Meetup, "PyCon on the Charles: practice session 2", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
Web Innovators Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest showing Roboguice", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Tue MAR 08, 2011
Boston Jboss Users Group, "TBD", 6-9 pm, Boston University
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
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston iPad Developers Meetup Group, "Share your iPad / HD Apps", 7PM, Bertucci's, Cambridge

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
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston

Thu MAR 10, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE SQL Server Users, "Powershell", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Coding Dojo, "programmers practice to improve their skills", 6:30, First Church in Boston

Sat MAR 12, 2011
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

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
NE Midrange Users Group, $ "Data Output Management", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk $
Boston Linux & Unix, "Agile Programming", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395
So New England Network, "Barracuda Networks, Inc - Firewalls, email archiving", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick, RI

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

Mon  MAR 21, 2011
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest: We will be writing code...", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed MAR 23, 2011
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Thu MAR 24, 2011
SEMPO Boston Working Group, "Product Demonstrations", 7:45am, Constant Contact, Waltham 
Boston Coding Dojo, "programmers practice to improve their skills", 6:30, First Church in Boston
Lean Startup Circle, "TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, 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
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest: We will be writing code...", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

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
Boston iPad Developers Meetup Group, "Share your iPad / HD Apps", 7PM, Bertucci's, Cambridge

Thu APR 07 2011
Beantown .NET Users, "Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different at a Startup", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Sat APR 09, 2011
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

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, Fidelity, 245 Summer St, Boston
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

Wed APR 13, 2011
Boston Jboss Users Group, "topic*tbd", 5-9 pm, Boston University
Software Quality Group of NE, "SQA in an Agile Environment", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston

Thu APR 14, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence

Wed APR 20, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "NShort Takes: Nagios and more", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395
Southern New England Network, "Walter Horowitz: IPV-6", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Wed APR 27, 2011
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Milford High School
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Boston PHP Meetup, "Web Performance, Scalability, and Testing techniques", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu APR 28, 2011
SEMPO Boston Working Group, "Using the Internet to Expand Business", 7:45am, Location TBA

Wed MAY 04, 2011
Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington
Boston iPad Developers Meetup Group, "Share your iPad / HD Apps", 7PM, Bertucci's, Cambridge

Thu MAY 05, 2011
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon MAY 09, 2011
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge

Tue MAY 10, 2011
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

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

Thu MAY 12, 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

Sat MAY 14, 2011
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Wed MAY 18, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395

Wed MAY 25, 2011
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

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

Thu JUN 09, 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 JUN 13, 2011
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge

Tue JUN 14, 2011
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

Wed JUN 15, 2011
Boston Area SAS Users Group, topic TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Linux & Unix, "Joseph Guarino: Free and Open-Source Software", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335

Wed JUN 22, 2011
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, 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

Wed JUL 20, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "TBD", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335

Wed AUG 17, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "TBD", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335

Thu NOV 17, 2011
DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston", 6PM, World Trade Center


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

FEB 04-06, 2011
iPhone Boot Camp Boston, "3 Day Intensive Workshop", 10-6, WorkBar Boston 

FEB 18-20, 2011
iPhone Boot Camp Boston, "3 Day Intensive Workshop", 10-6, WorkBar Boston 

FEB 19, 2011
Google Chrome Hackathon, HubSpot, 25 First St, Cambridge
Mobile Camp 2011, MIT Sloan

FEB 23, 2011
Silverlight Apps for Windows 7 Firestarter, 9-5, Microsoft, Waltham

MAR 11-13, 2011
2011 New England Software Symposium, Crowne Plaza North Shore - Danvers

MAR 22, 2011
Transforming IT with Cloud Computing Firestarter, 9-4, Microsoft, Waltham

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

APR 01-03, 2011
iPhone Boot Camp Boston, "3 Day Intensive Workshop", 10-6, WorkBar Boston 

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 11-12, 2011
Boston Section ASQ, "BOSCON 2011", Waltham Woods Conf Center
IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, Holiday Inn Select, Woburn

APR 11-13, 2011
NE User Groups Conference, "for IBM i (Power Systems, iSeries, AS/400)", Sheraton Framingham 

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 New England, "2011 Agile Games Conference", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

JUN 01-03, 2011
SharePoint Technology Conference, " details soon " , Sheraton Boston

JUN 03-05, 2011
iPhone Boot Camp Boston, "3 Day Intensive Workshop", 10-6, WorkBar 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:

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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