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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 .NET Certification Group, "begin asp.net MVC 3", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston

Tue AUG 23, 2011
iPad Developers Meetup Group, "Augmented Reality Demo", 6:30, Bertucci's, Alewife
Agile Boston, "meeting for Agile coaches and those who employ them", 6:30, CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge
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
Agile Boston, "Socializing Agile Using Triads", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
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

Sat AUG 27, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLI", 9-5, MIT Building E51, Room 061
DC401 - RI Defcon, "Class: Metasploit for Penetration Testing", 6 PM, AS220, The Brain Tank, Providence

Mon AUG 29, 2011
Boston .NET Certification Group, "asp.net MVC 3", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "MuCash: Micro-payments for Blogs", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed AUG 31, 2011
Boston XNA Developers, "Xna 4.0 - Game State Management - Part 2", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu SEP 01, 2011
Agile New England, "Exercising Scrum: Ken Schwaber", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
NE Visual Basic Pros, "MEF and Silverlight Extensibility", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
North Shore Drupal Meetup, "Drupal Theming", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport

Sat SEP 03, 2011
DC401 - RI Defcon, "Class: Metasploit for Penetration Testing", 6 PM, AS220, The Brain Tank, Providence

Mon SEP 05, 2011
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston

Tue SEP 06, 2011
Boston Python, "September Python Project Night", 6 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Network Users, "topic and presenter will be announced shortly", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston
Boston PDA "discussion of general and unexpected PDA topics", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed SEP 07, 2011
Boston Area Windows Server Users, "Speaker and topic TBD", 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 Python, "NumPy & SciPy, plus extras", 7 PM, 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
NH SharePoint User Group, "Interactive Dashboards with PerformancePoint 2010", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
Boston Python, "Python Project Night", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
NE F# User Group, "F# and NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB)", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "asp.net MVC 3", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
New England M Users' Group, "Clinical Decison Support at the VA", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
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
BostonCHI, "How to Create a Value Proposition that Mattersl", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
Boston Ruby UG "ValidAttribute, Minitest, factory_girl, Capybara (RSpec & Webkit)", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed SEP 14, 2011
Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn Twitter API Programming", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Users, "JavaScript for C# and Other Developers", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
jQuery Boston Meetup, "Five minute lightning talks!", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Back Bay LISA, "Converged Networks, Voice/Video/Storage/Data", 7PM, MIT E51-376
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "ASP.NET with jQuery and MVC 3", 7PM, WPI location TBD

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

Mon SEP 19, 2011
Boston .NET Certification Group, "asp.net MVC 3", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston

Tue SEP 20, 2011
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "ODS Statistical Graphics/Propensity Scoring", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network) "Changing How You Manage and Cope with Change", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
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 Location to be determined
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
Boston Python, "NumPy & SciPy, plus extras", 7 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu SEP 22, 2011
Boston Security Meetup, "Intro to Elliptic Curve Ciphers", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston
Boston Maya Meetup Group, "Body Mechanics with Rich Fournier", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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, Hooksett 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
NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Miguel de Icaza Topic: TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon OCT 03, 2011
Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston

Tue OCT 04, 2011
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Could crowdsourced news replace professionals?", 7PM

Wed OCT 05, 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

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

Sat OCT 08, 2011
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

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, "Ruby on Rails 3", 7PM, WPI 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
NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Speaker details TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Fri NOV 11, 2011
DAMA International, "Getting Buy-In for Data Quality through Effective Communications", 10AM, Liberty Mutual, Weston

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

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
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group,7 pm, MocoSpace, Boston

Thu NOV 17, 2011
DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston", 6PM, World Trade Center
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue NOV 22, 2011
NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Jesse Liberty Topic: TBA", 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, "Cornelious J. Van Dyk & Jason Himmelstein", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua

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

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
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge

Wed DEC 14, 2011
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "IDeveloping Apps on Android Devices with jQuery and Phonegap", 7PM, location TBD

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

Tue DEC 20, 2011
NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Speaker details TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed DEC 21, 2011
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group,7 pm, MocoSpace, Boston

Tue Jan 10, 2012
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham

Thu JAN 12, 2012
NH SharePoint User Group, "Details TBA", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua

Sat JAN 14, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Thu FEB 09, 2012
NH SharePoint User Group, "Details TBA", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua

Sat FEB 11, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Tue FEB 14, 2012
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge

Sat MAR 10, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Tue MAR 13, 2012
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham

Tue APR 10, 2012
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, TBA

Sat APR 14, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Tue MAY 08, 2012
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham

Sat MAY 12, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Sat JUN 09, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Tue JUN 12, 2012
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge






Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

AUG 24, 2011
Agile Boston, "1-day class in Agility and the Scrum framework", CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge

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

SEP 20, 2011
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "The Use of Propensity Score and Instrumental Variable Methods", 1:30-5PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

SEP 24, 2011
SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire, Southern New Hampshire University, Hooksett, NH

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

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

SEP 29, 2011
AgileDay2011 Conference, Four Points Sheraton, Norwood

OCT 03-07, 2011
Data Education, "Entity Framework Boot Camp", Boston

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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