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Updated 06/14/2011 -- '11 #164
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Wed JUN 15, 2011
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Metadata in SAS Applications", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Providence Geeks, "June Geek Dinner featuring GreenBytes", 5:30PM, AS220, Providence
UPA Boston Chapter, "Information, design, and the psychology of behavioral change", 6PM, EnerNOC, 101 Federal St, Boston
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Discuss various rendering types", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
NE Midrange Users Group, "Bring Your Own Topic", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH .NET Users, "Windows Azure AppFabric caching", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Intro to Windows Azure for ASP.NET Developers", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "Kurt Keville returns with an update of Beowulf supercomputing", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335
Windows Phone User and Developer Group, "Leveraging Background Processing in Windows Phone 7.1", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Providence Drupal Meetup, 6:30, Lullabot's Activity Center
Boston Python Meetup, "SQLAlchemy", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "CubicVR 3D Engine, simple game physics ", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston
Southern New England Network, "SharePoint 2010", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI
Seacoast NH Drupal Group Meetup, "newcomers to Drupal as well as experienced Drupalists", 7PM, Brown & Co, Portsmouth NH

Thu JUN 16, 2011
Natl Info Security Group, "Hoaxes, Scams and Cyber Crime", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Drupal Self-Help Group, "things found mystifying about Drupal", 6:45 PM, Robbins Library, Arlington
Greater Boston Chapter GBC/ACM, "Rethinking user research for the social web", 7PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "7 presentations...", 7:30, Venture Cafe, Cambridge

Mon JUN 20, 2011
NH Ruby Users Group, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH
Boston .NET Certification Group, "jQuery", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUN 21, 2011
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network) "Software Quality in 2011: the State of the Art", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Agile Boston, "Agile Coaches Monthly Gathering", 6:30, 150 Cambridgepark Dr, Cambridge
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SCVNGR", 7PM, 175 Second Street, Cambridge
Boston Post Mortem, "Slam Bolt Scrappers, the puzzle brawler from Fire Hose Games", 7PM, The Skellig, Waltham

Wed JUN 22, 2011
Boston XNA Developers, "Xna 4.0 - Input Management - Mouse/GamePad/Touch", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Cold Fusion Users, "Open Mic Night", 6PM, Sun Life Financial, Wellesley
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Boston Predictive Analytics "Twitter Sentiment Analysis; Python, R Text Mining Tutorials", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile Boston, "Agile Coaches Panel", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden

Thu JUN 23, 2011
IEEE Consultants Network, "System Modeling and Simulation: An Open Source Approach", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Refresh Boston, "Branding & Marketing for Smallish Businesses", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Web Performance Group, "Powering Up Your Code With High Performance CSS and HTML5", 7PM, 177 Huntington Ave, Boston
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "2nd annual Social-athon", 7PM, Friendly Toast, Cambridge

Sat JUN 25, 2011
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Wikipedia on the Common (Picnic)", Noon, Boston Common

Mon JUN 27, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston .NET Certification Group, "jQuery", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "Creating Better Content w/ Shortcodes", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUN 28, 2011
NH Java Users, "Are you smarter than your average programmer?", 6:30, NH-ICC, Portsmouth
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed JUN 29, 2011
Django Boston Meetup, "Explore django.contrib.auth, backends, integration, profiles..", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St

Thu JUN 30, 2011
Boston Azure Users, "Rock, Paper, Azure CHALLENGE!", 5:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
JavaScript Meetup, "Sencha Ext & Sencha Touch", 7PM, 5 Cambridge Center

Tue JUL 05, 2011
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed JUL 06, 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 .NET Users, "No meeting tonight"

Thu JUL 07, 2011
Agile New England, "Software architecture and agility: what colour is your backlog?", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
NE Visual Basic Pros, "Identify & Fix Performance Problems with Visual Studio Ultimate", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
North Shore Drupal Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport

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

Mon JUL 11, 2011
NE F# User Group, "F# Type Providers", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "jQuery", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston

Tue JUL 12, 2011
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
New England M Users' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
Cambridge SEO Meetup, "topic*tbd", 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston DotNetNuke Users, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Mobile Software Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Rubyists, "Refinery CMS & Radiant CMS", 7PM, Sermo, Cambridge
Boston.pm (Perl), "TBA", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372
Boston PDA "discussion of general and unexpected PDA topics", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed JUL 13, 2011
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "SharePoint 2010 Usage and Adoption Best Practices", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization)", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NH SharePoint User Group, "SharePoint Taxonomy, Rethink Your Classification Strategy", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
jQuery Boston Meetup, "Web mapping with geomap", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St

Thu JUL 14, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Boston CocoaHeads, "topic TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

Mon JUL 18, 2011
Boston .NET Certification Group, "jQuery", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH Ruby Users Group, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

Wed JUL 20, 2011
NE ASP.NET Professionals, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "Open Source Hardware Platforms", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335
Windows Phone User and Developer Group, "Windows Phone 7.1 Structured Storage Applications", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
UPA Boston Chapter, "Accessibility Roundtable", location TBD

Mon JUL 25, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston

Wed JUL 27, 2011
DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, topic TBD, at Boston Society of Architects

Thu JUL 28, 2011
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue AUG 02, 2011
Cambridge SEO Meetup, "topic*tbd", 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington

Wed AUG 03, 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

Mon AUG 08, 2011
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "agenda TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue AUG 09, 2011
BostonCHI, "Summer Picnic", 6-8 pm, Danehy Park, Cambridge
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston.pm (Perl), "TBA", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372

Wed AUG 10, 2011
Granite State NH SharePoint User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
Boston PHP Meetup, "Getting things done: Practical Agile", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu AUG 11, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NE Java Users Group, "Enter the Gradle", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Sat AUG 13, 2011
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Wed AUG 17, 2011
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Chris Bowen on HTML5", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "Android Tablet Wars", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335
Windows Phone User and Developer Group, "Windows Phone 7.1. Live Tile Development Techniques", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon AUG 22, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Thu AUG 25, 2011
Lean Startup Circle, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu SEP 01, 2011
NE Visual Basic Pros, "MEF and Silverlight Extensibility", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon SEP 05, 2011
Boston Java Meetup, "Visualizing java.util.concurrent", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu SEP 08, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Beantown .NET Users, "topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE SQL Server Users Group, "NESQL 2011/2012 Kickoff", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon SEP 12, 2011
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51

Tue SEP 13, 2011
Boston JBoss Users, "Intro to JBoss Application Server 7", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "agenda TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

Wed SEP 14, 2011
Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn Twitter API Programming", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed SEP 21, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XII", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston
Boston Web Performance Group, "Web Performance Monitoring Tales", 7 PM, 177 Huntington Ave, Boston

Thu SEP 22, 2011
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "1st annual Hacks/Hackers @ ONA Hack Day", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon SEP 26, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Thu SEP 29, 2011
Lean Startup Circle, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed SEP 28, 2011
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects

Mon OCT 03, 2011
Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu OCT 06, 2011
NE Visual Basic Pros, "Interactive Dashboards with PerformancePoint 2010", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Beantown .NET Users, "topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon OCT 10, 2011
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51

Tue OCT 11, 2011
Boston JBoss Users, "Developing in the Cloud", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "agenda TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Xmod Pro", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed OCT 12, 2011
Boston PHP Meetup, "Proof you do not need SQL anymore...", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu OCT 13, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence

Wed OCT 19, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "Usability and Fotoxx", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room to be determined
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group,7 pm, MocoSpace, Boston

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

Wed OCT 26, 2011
DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, topic and location TBD

Thu OCT 27, 2011
Lean Startup Circle, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu NOV 03, 2011
NE Visual Basic Pros, "Scrum Project Management with Team Foundation Server 2010", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon NOV 07, 2011
Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue NOV 08, 2011
Boston JBoss Users, "Open Source Licensing and Java Projects", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "agenda TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Xmod Pro", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu NOV 10, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence

Wed NOV 16, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "Rolling out IPv6", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room to be determined

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

Thu DEC 01, 2011
NE Visual Basic Pros, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon DEC 05, 2011
Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue DEC 06, 2011
Boston JBoss Users, "Lightning Talks 2011", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

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

JUN 15, 2011
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Using Dictionary Tables", 1:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

JUN 25-26, 2011
Third Annual Drupal Design Camp Boston, MIT Stata Center

JUL 28-29, 2011
Drupal Developer Workshop Series with Isovera, "Drupal Theming", Waltham

AUG 11-12, 2011
Drupal Developer Workshop Series with Isovera, "Drupal Module Development", Waltham

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

OCT 07, 2011
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Evolution Tour, "ePUB  with InDesign", Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown



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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