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Updated 03/25/2011 -- '11 #086
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Mon MAR 28, 2011
Boston Mobile Software Developers Meetup Group, "networking event", 6PM, The Greatest Bar, 262 Friend St
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 13-14; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Java Meetup, "NetBeans Application Platform", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Users, "Boston Geek Dinner", 6:30-8:30, Boston Beer Works
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "WordPress Theme Framework Bake-Off", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAR 29, 2011
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), topic TBD, 7PM, Nashua Public Library

Wed MAR 30, 2011
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Workflow and Publication in a Distributed Environment", 6PM
Providence Drupal Meetup, 6PM, McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon

Thu MAR 31, 2011
Boston WebsiteSpark Meetup, "Real World Wireframe, UI, and UX", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Azure Users, "Building Causal Games on Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston BizSpark Meetup, "Different Investors for Different Folks", 6PM, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge
SEMPO Boston Working Group, "Mobile Search Marketing", 6PM, Google, Cambridge
Boston Security Meetup, "Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)", 6:15, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston
Final Cut Pro Users, "BOSFCPUG + BOSDSLR Mixer", 6:30, Exposure Place Studios, Waltham

Fri APR 01, 2011
Boston Agda Users, "First Meeting", 7PM, MIT CSAIL Reading Room, 32-G882
North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon APR 04, 2011
Boston Java Meetup, "Details on presentation tba", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 15; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE F# User Group, "Petr Lepilov", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest: We will be writing code...", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Tue APR 05, 2011
Boston Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Ctr, Bldg E51-145
Boston Network Users, "Defending Your Web Site against Cyber-Criminals", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed APR 06, 2011
Boston Area Windows Server Users, "Lync Server 2010", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, The Lyceum, Salem
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
Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group, $ "IT Performance Management in a Financial Crisis", 8AM, EMC, Hopkinton $
Beantown .NET Users, "Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different at a Startup", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile New England, "Pitfalls and Perils of Agile Testing", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Visual Basic Professionals, "Jim O'Neal - Microsoft: topic tbd", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
JavaScript Meetup, "Using RequireJS to write and manage modular javascript", 7PM, location TBD

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

Mon APR 11, 2011
Boston .NET Users, "Processing Data: Parallelism and Performance with PLINQ and C#/.NET 4.0", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 16-18; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge SEO Meetup, "Internet Marketing Networking Event", 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue APR 12, 2011
Virtualization User Group, "RES and eG Innovations", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Jboss Users Group, "JBoss Clustering", 6-9 pm, Boston University
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Boston Drupal, "Dojo: learn, design, and develop D7 sites", 6:30, MassChallenge, Boston
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
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Rubyists, "Main Event at Sermo", 7PM, Cambridge
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, 7PM, WorkBar Boston, 711 Atlantic Ave
Boston Voice Users, topic TBD, 7:30, MIT, Room 2-135

Wed APR 13, 2011
NE Open Text Users, "RightFax 10.0 revealed", 4PM, One Broadway, Cambridge
UPA New Hampshire Chapter, "Rethinking User Research for Social Interaction Design", 6PM, PixelMEDIA, Portsmouth NH
Software Quality Group of NE, "SQA in an Agile Environment", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Milford High School
Boston .NET Users, "jQuery Templates - Fritz Onion", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston
Back Bay LISA, "The Path to Senior Sysadmin", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 376
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Count me in Cool tools: Members share some favorite tools", 7PM, Boston Globe

Thu APR 14, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NE Java Users Group, "DROOLS core rule functionality", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

Mon APR 18, 2011
Boston PHP Meetup, "Zend: Do You Queue? and Best practices for PHP deployment", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 19-20; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH Ruby Users Group, "refactored ClientSideValidations & Capybara for integration testing", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth

Tue APR 19, 2011
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SVCNGR", 7PM, Cambridge
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed APR 20, 2011
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
New Hampshire .Net Seacoast, "First meeting: Windows 7 Phone applications", 6PM, Global Relief, Portsmouth, NH
NH .NET Users, "Stay tuned for topic...", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Agile Development", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "Short Takes: Nagios and more", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395
Windows Phone User Developer, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Southern New England Network, "Walter Horowitz: IPV-6", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Thu APR 21, 2011
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon APR 25, 2011
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 21-22; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue APR 26, 2011
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network) "Add Steak to Exploratory Testing's Parlor-Trick Sizzle", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Wed APR 27, 2011
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
DAMA International, "Applying Knowledge to Meta and Master Data Management", location TBD

Thu APR 28, 2011
SEMPO Boston Working Group, "Using the Internet to Expand Business", 7:45AM, Location TBA
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
UX Boston Book Club, "Christopher Alexander: The Timeless Way of Building", 7-9PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri APR 29, 2011
App Development Meetup, $ "Getting started with iPhone App Development for Beginners", 6PM, Courtyard South Boston $

Mon MAY 02, 2011
NE F# User Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed MAY 04, 2011
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, The Lyceum, Salem
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 MAY 05, 2011
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri MAY 06, 2011
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "50th Anniversary Celebration", 6PM, Meadow Creek Club, Dracut

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

Tue MAY 10, 2011
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Jboss Users Group, "Java and Postgres", 6PM, Boston University
New England M Users' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
BostonCHI, "Speaker: Elizabeth Hinkelman, Galactic Village", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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
NE Java Users Group, "What Functional Purists don't want you to know about Scala", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NE SQL Server Users Group, "topic tbd", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
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

Mon MAY 16, 2011
NH Ruby Users Group, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

Wed MAY 18, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "Open Source Hardware Platforms", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395
Southern New England Network, "Integrating Windows AD and Linux with Likewise", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Thu MAY 19, 2011
Lean Startup Circle, "TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Thu MAY 26, 2011
Boston Azure Users, "PowerShell + Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed JUN 01, 2011
Exchange Server Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, The Lyceum, Salem
Boston iPad Developers Meetup Group, "Share your iPad / HD Apps", 7PM, Bertucci's, Cambridge
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu JUN 02, 2011
DAMA International, "Agile and Pervasive BI: Oxymoron or Emerging Trend?", location TBD

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
NE Java Users Group, "Special Members Meeting", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Disk I/O Tuning - Kevin Kline", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
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, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue JUN 14, 2011
Boston Jboss Users Group, "Fedora", 6-9 pm, Boston University
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Speaker: Matt Boch, Harmonix Music", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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
Southern New England Network, "SharePoint 2010", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Mon JUN 20, 2011
NH Ruby Users Group, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

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

Thu JUN 23, 2011
Lean Startup Circle, "TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUL 12, 2011
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, 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 Mon JUL 18, 2011 NH Ruby Users Group, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Wed JUL 20, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "TBD", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335 Wed JUL 27, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, topic and location TBD Wed AUG 17, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "TBD", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335 Wed SEP 28, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects Wed OCT 26, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, topic and location TBD Thu NOV 17, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston", 6PM, World Trade Center

Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

MAR 25, 2011
BostonCHI, "Professional Development Seminars", Mathworks, Natick

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 02, 2011
SQLSaturday #71, "training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn", Babson College, Wellesley,

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

APR 05, 2011
Microsoft Web Camp, 9-5, Microsoft, Waltham

APR 08, 2011
Healthcare Info & Management Systems Society, "5th Annual Project Management Symposium", 8-3:15, Portsmouth, NH

APR 09, 2011
2011 SharePoint Saturday, 9-5, Microsoft, Waltham

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 12, 2011
Microsoft TechNet Event, "To Manage and Deploy ... with the Microsoft Management Stack", Hilton Garden Inn, Waltham

APR 14-16, 2011
Agile New England, "2011 Agile Games Conference", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

APR 29, 2011
Drupaltherapy Training, "intensive workshop: fresh Drupal skills for new and novice users", 9-5, CompuWorks, Boston

APR 29- MAY 01, 2011
New England Give Camp, "Planning is underway", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

MAY 07, 2011
New England Code Camp 15, "full day of knowledge sharing and networking", Microsoft Waltham

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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