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User Group events:
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Mon AUG 01, 2011
Agile New England, "Transitioning Your Team to Kanban", 5PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NE F# User Group, "Take it Easy with Clojure", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "we'll begin our focus on MVC", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue AUG 02, 2011
Cambridge SEO Meetup, "topic*tbd", 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston Drupal, "Everyone is welcome and encouraged to present ....", 6:30 PM, MIT room E51-145
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston
Boston Network Users MEETING IS CANCELED

Wed AUG 03, 2011
Windows Server Users, "Using Visio to document your network", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, The Lyceum, Salem
DC401 - RI Defcon, "intersection of antique clocks and modern precision timekeeping", 6:30 PM, Brain Tank, Providence
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
Boston MongoDB UG, "learn about non-relational, open source, document-oriented MongoDB", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu AUG 04, 2011
Boston Post Mortem, “Indies Will Shoot You In The Knees: Redux”, 5PM, MIT room 6-120 
NH SolidWorks Users, "Meeting and Barbecue", 5:15, Rapid Sheet Metal, Nashua
Agile New England, "Product Owners Panel", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Boston WebSquared Meetup, "about biotech and healthtech", 7PM
North Shore Drupal Meetup, "Custom theming", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport

Mon AUG 08, 2011
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue AUG 09, 2011
NH Adobe Users, "Intro to Drupal", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Presenting the SWAN Annotation Tool", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Summer Picnic", 6PM, Danehy Park, Cambridge
NH Seacoast Mac Users, "The Seacoast SWAP: Buy, Sell or Trade", 6:15, Idea Greenhouse, Durham, NH
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem
Boston.pm (Perl), "TBA", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372
Boston Rubyists, "Rails 3.1 - CoffeeScript & The Asset", 7PM, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge
Boston PDA "discussion of general and unexpected PDA topics", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed AUG 10, 2011
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "I need to make SharePoint look like that!", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PHP Meetup, "Getting things done: Practical Agile", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Worcester Linux Users, "WLUG BBQ", 6PM, near WPI & Elm Park
Boston Macintosh Users, "Mac OS X Server Setup", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Back Bay LISA, "No meeting scheduled for August"

Thu AUG 11, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Boston Python, "Python Project Night", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE Java Users Group, "Enter the Gradle", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NH SharePoint Users, "Incorporating Social Networks into SharePoint Internet Sites", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
Boston CocoaHeads, "topic TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

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

Mon AUG 15, 2011
Boston Scala Users, "Missing LINQ less with Squeryl/Scalatra and Scalate", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue AUG 16, 2011
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, 6:30, topic, location TBD
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SCVNGR", 7PM, 175 Second Street, Cambridge

Wed AUG 17, 2011
NH .NET Users, "XBOX/KINECT using .NET framework SDK", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Chris Bowen on HTML5", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "Tablet Wars: An Overview", 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, "Monthly Meetup", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "ASP.NET with jQuery and MVC 3", 7PM, WPI location TBD
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Python, "Alternate pythons: PyPy, Jython, IronPython, plus lightning talks, beers", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Sat AUG 20, 2011
Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island, "monthly open house", 1:00 - 8:00, Providence

Mon AUG 22, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston

Tue AUG 23, 2011
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Rubyists, "Tech After Dark", 8PM, Cambridge Innovation Ctr, Kendall Square

Wed AUG 24, 2011
Refresh Boston, "Pleasure, Flow, and Meaning in Design", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Web Performance Group, "Web Performance Culture and Tools at Etsy", 7PM, 177 Huntington Ave, Boston

Thu AUG 25, 2011
Boston Security Meetup, "Slapped in the Facebook: Security & Social Networking", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston
Boston Azure Users, "Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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 Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston

Tue SEP 06, 2011
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed SEP 07, 2011
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

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
NH SharePoint User Group, "Interactive Dashboards with PerformancePoint 2010", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
NE SQL Server Users Group, "NESQL 2011/2012 Kickoff", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Sat SEP 10, 2011
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Mon SEP 12, 2011
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "A MongoDB case study", 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
Web Innovators Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta
Boston Rubyists, "main event", 7PM, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge

Wed SEP 14, 2011
Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn Twitter API Programming", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
jQuery Boston Meetup, "Five minute lightning talks!", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Ruby on Rails 3", 7PM, WPI location TBD
Back Bay LISA, "to be scheduled", 7PM, MIT

Thu SEP 15, 2011
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon SEP 19, 2011
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston

Tue SEP 20, 2011
Boston Area SAS Users Group, topic TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SCVNGR", 7PM, 175 Second Street, Cambridge

Wed SEP 21, 2011
Boston Azure Users, "Kentico CMS for ASP.Net", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
NH .NET Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Global Relief Tech, Portsmouth NH
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", 7PM, 177 Huntington Ave, Boston
So New England Network, "Windows Home Server and a Windows 8 Beta preview", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick RI

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

Sat SEP 24, 2011
NH SharePoint User Group, "Share Point Saturday, New Hampshire!", 8AM, So NH Univ, Manchester NH

Mon SEP 26, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
App Development Meetup, "Apps beyond 2012", 7PM, Au Bon Pain, Kendall Sq

Tue SEP 27, 2011
Boston Water User Group, "concept browser of the forthcoming CCS", 7PM, (Check Website) One Broadway, Cambridge

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

Thu SEP 29, 2011
Boston Azure Users, "Brian Prince from Microsoft", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Tue OCT 04, 2011
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed OCT 05, 2011
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

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
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "IDeveloping Apps on Android Devices with jQuery and Phonegap", 6PM, location TBD
Back Bay LISA, "to be scheduled", 7PM, MIT

Thu OCT 13, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NH SharePoint User Group, "Details TBA", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua

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
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, 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

Wed NOV 09, 2011
Boston PHP Meetup, "Google Analytics for Developers...", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu NOV 10, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NH SharePoint User Group, "Details TBA", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua

Wed NOV 16, 2011
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Coders Corner", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

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

Thu DEC 08, 2011
NH SharePoint User Group, "Details TBA", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua

Mon DEC 12, 2011
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue DEC 13, 2011
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

Thu DEC 15, 2011
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

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

AUG 12-13, 2011
ErlangCamp Boston 2011, "hands on workshop", John Hancock Hotel & Conference Center

AUG 17, 2011
Oracle Technology Day 2011, "Eliminate IT Complexity", Marriott, Burlington

SEP 09-11, 2011
New England Software Symposium, "No Fluff Just Stuff", Sheraton Framingham Hotel

SEP 30-OCT 01, 2011
Boston Azure Bootcamp, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

OCT 29, 2011
New Hampshire Drupal, "DrupalCampNH 2011", Manchester


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

Data Education (formerly 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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