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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Mon OCT 31, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 7, 8, and 9; SportsStore sample app", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "Ten Must-Do steps in converting to WordPress", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue NOV 01, 2011
Boston Network Users, "Layer 2 network mapping", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Drupal, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center room E51-145
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Visit GlobeLab: The Boston Globe's take on the (near) future of news", 7PM

Wed NOV 02, 2011
Cambridge SEO Meetup, "ZoomInfo Marketing OpenHouse", 5PM, 07 Waverley Oaks Rd, Waltham
Boston Area Windows Server Users, "Copy 60 TB in 12 Hours? It's Been Done", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Possible talk on Item Cloning", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church, Salem
jQuery Boston Meetup, "Use Asynchronous Modules with jQuery now!", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu NOV 03, 2011
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Current Good Manufacturing Practice", 5:30, Holiday Inn, Tewksbury
Agile New England, "Agile 101 Courses: Execution & Story Point Estimating", 5:30, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Agile New England, "What Agile can learn from Open Source: Andy Singleton", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Microsoft Dev Boston (was Beantown.NET) "Geo-aware Applications for Windows Phone 7" 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE Visual Basic Pros, "Scrum Project Management with Team Foundation Server 2010", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Web Performance Group, "High Performance JavaScript", 6:30, Wayfair, 177 Huntington Ave
Boston Drupal, "Self-Help Group- a presentation on Drush", 6:45 PM, Robbins Library, Arlington
North Shore Drupal Meetup, "Let's discuss the projects we're working on", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport

Mon NOV 07, 2011
Mobile Monday Boston, "Boston NFC and Mobile Retail Event", 6:30, Park Plaza Hotel, Boston
Boston Python, "November Python Project Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE F# User Group, "topic*tbd", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 10 and 11", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue NOV 08, 2011
NH Adobe Users, "e-pubs and InDesign", 1:30-3:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Virtualization User Group, "Welcome to Virtual Storage and Data Management", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston JBoss Users, "Open Source Licensing and Java Projects", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Overview of Semantic Web by Lee Feigenbaum", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
New England M Users' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
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
BostonCHI, "Designing Spaces for Civic Learning", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed NOV 09, 2011
Boston PHP Meetup, "Boston PHP Job fair", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, topics TBD, 5:30, Old School House Pub, Hudson MA
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Project Server 2010", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Software Quality Group of NE, "Management's View of SQA", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NH Joomla Users, topic TBD, 6PM, 530 South Porter St, Manchester NH
Boston PHP Meetup, "Google Analytics for Developers...", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Back Bay LISA, "Tracking issues - experiences from the field", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 376

Thu NOV 10, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NH SolidWorks Users, "Photoview 360, Configurations and Design Tables", 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH
Boston Security Meetup, "The Volatility Framework", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston
NH SharePoint User Group, "Richard Harbridge (Details to Follow)", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
World Usability Day Event, "Creating Applications That Connect with Users", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE Java Users Group, "Inside Android's Dalvik VM", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NE SQL Server Users Group, "SQL Server Denali High Availability Preview - Allen Hirt", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Business Intelligence Group, "Dimensional Modeling Fundamentals for the SQL Server Platform", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston CocoaHeads, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

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
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "elections, Twitter for beginners, annual gadget day", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon NOV 14, 2011
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapter 12 – Controllers and Actions", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "MySQL Encryption, by Mike Frank of Gazzang", 7PM, MIT Building E51

Tue NOV 15, 2011
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network) "Cleaning Up Confusion, Jargon, Fads of Software Engineering", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Applications From Enterprises to Individuals", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "MongoDB + Boston Predictive Analytics", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH Java Users, "Cloud Foundry", 6:30, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, 6:30, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
iPhone Developers Meetup Group, "iOS5 Storyboards", 6:30, location Coming soon!
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 7PM, 1 Broadway, Cambridge

Wed NOV 16, 2011
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Coders Corner", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH .NET Users, "XBOX/KINECT using .NET framework SDK", 6PM, NHTI, Concord NH
Boston Linux & Unix, "Rolling out IPv6", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 325
Oracle DBA SIG, "Addressing Performance Issues during Change... ", 6:30, location TBD
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston
So New England Network, "International SMB MVP Community Roadshow", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, East Greenwich RI
Final Cut Pro Users, "Sam O’Steen and the Editing of The Graduate", 7PM, Paramount Ctr, 559 Washington St

Thu NOV 17, 2011
DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston", 6PM, World Trade Center
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Google Technology Users, topic TBD, 6:30, Google, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "Customer Development and The Lean Startup methodology topics", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon NOV 21, 2011
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Using Filters & Controller Extensibility", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue NOV 22, 2011
NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Jesse Liberty Topic: TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile Boston, "Give Thanks for the Scrum", location TBD
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed NOV 23, 2011
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon NOV 28, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Domain Driven Design (DDD)", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapter 15- Views", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue NOV 29, 2011
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "An inside look at 'Global Post'", 2PM, Pilot House, 2 Atlantic Ave
Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta

Thu DEC 01, 2011
Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "How to Be a C# Ninja in 10 Easy Steps", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE Visual Basic Pros, "XBox/KINECT using the .NET Framework", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Tech Meetup, "So You Want to Be a Rails Developer?", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Sat DEC 03, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLII", 9-5, MIT Building E-51, Room 061

Mon DEC 05, 2011
Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Model Templates, Model Binding, Model Validation", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue DEC 06, 2011
Boston JBoss Users, "Lightning Talks 2011", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135
Boston Drupal, "Meetup topic tbd", 6:30, MIT Tang Center room E51-145
Boston Web Performance Group, "Dan Bartow on Testing in the Cloud", 6:30, Wayfair, 177 Huntington Ave
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed DEC 07, 2011
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu DEC 08, 2011
Boston Security Meetup, "Digital forensics", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston
NH SharePoint User Group, "Time Is Money. How SharePoint Logging will Save You Both!", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Enterprise Information Management - Chad Gronbach", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

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
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapter 19, 20 – Review Unobtrusive Ajax and jQuery", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue DEC 13, 2011
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, 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
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston

Wed DEC 14, 2011
Boston PHP Meetup, "Lightning talks...", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Software Quality Group of NE, "Developing Extraordinarily Powerful Test Scripts", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET) "Using Windows Azure to Build Cloud Enabled Windows Phone Apps" 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston PHP Meetup, "Paper Prototyping: Sketching and Evaluating Design Concepts", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon DEC 19, 2011
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapter 21, Security and Vulnerability", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue DEC 20, 2011
NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Speaker details TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 7PM, 1 Broadway, Cambridge

Wed DEC 21, 2011
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston
So New England Network, "Computer forensics", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, East Greenwich RI

Mon DEC 26, 2011
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Authentication, Authorization, Deployment", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue DEC 27, 2011
Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Introduction to MonoTouch", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed DEC 28, 2011
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed JAN 04, 2012
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu JAN 05, 2012
Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JAN 10, 2012
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "The GovData Project Winter Course", 1 PM, MIT Media Lab (new building)
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Full recap of DotNetNuke World 2011", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed JAN 11, 2012
Software Quality Group of NE, "Managing, Measuring, and Improving the Testing Process", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Thu JAN 12, 2012
NH SharePoint User Group, "Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua

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

Wed JAN 18, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Security with TrueCrypt, Snort and OSSEC", 6:30, MIT Location to be determined
So New England Network, "Dan Stolts from Microsoft", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, East Greenwich RI

Wed JAN 25, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue JAN 26, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "Architecting for Failure: Why Cloud Architecture is Different", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed FEB 01, 2012
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu FEB 02, 2012
Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed FEF 08, 2012
Software Quality Group of NE, "IEEE Standard 730 - an update on the new SQA standard", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Thu FEB 09, 2012
NH SharePoint User Group, "Donal Conlon: SharePoint 2010 & FBA", 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

Wed FEB 22, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu FEB 23, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "February Meeting - Azure Topic(s) TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu MAR 08, 2012
NH SharePoint User Group, "Talbott Crowell:  SharePoint & PowerShell", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua

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
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed MAR 14, 2012
Software Quality Group of NE, "The Importance of Domain Knowledge for an SQA Engineer", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Tue MAR 29, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "Azure Topic(s) TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Wed APR 11, 2012
Software Quality Group of NE, "Use Cases - What are they and how are they used for testing?", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

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
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed MAY 09, 2012
Software Quality Group of NE, "Release Management Flow", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

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

Wed JUN 13, 2012
Software Quality Group of NE, topic TBD, 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Wed JUL 11, 2012
Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

OCT 29-30, 2011
WhereCamp Boston, "volunteer-created unconference for geography and technology", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

NOV 12-13, 2011
Voices That Matter: iOS Developer Conference, The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School

NOV 14-15, 2011
Free Drupal Training for Students & Job-seekers, "Site Builders Training", 9-5, Acquia, Burlington

NOV 16, 2011
Northeast Oracle Users, "Oracle Product Fair", Marriott Burlington

NOV 16-17, 2011
Free Drupal Training for Students & Job-seekers, "Theme Development", 9-5, Acquia, Burlington

NOV 17, 2011
HTML5 Web Camp, "HTML5 Game Camp!", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

NOV 18, 2011
Acquia HelloDrupal! course, 9-noon, Acquia, Burlington
Acquia HelloDrupal! course, "Drupal for Decision Makers", 2-5, Acquia, Burlington

NOV 19, 2011
AT&T Mobile App Hackathon - Boston, 10-8, MassChallenge, Inc., Boston

NOV 29, 2011
Independent Oracle Users Group, "The Real World Performance Tour", DoubleTree Suites by Hilton, Boston

DEC 08, 2011
Boston Drupal Beginner Training, New Horizons, Boston

DEC 09, 2011
Acquia HelloDrupal! course,  9-noon also 2-5, Acquia, Burlington
Boston Drupal Intermediate Training, New Horizons, Boston

DEC 12-13, 2011
Agile Boston Users, "Coaching Agile Teams" class
Free Drupal Training for Students & Job-seekers, "Site Builders Training", 9-5, Acquia, Burlington

DEC 14, 2011
Free Drupal Training for Students & Job-seekers, "PHP for Drupal", 9-5, Acquia, Burlington

DEC 14-15, 2011
Agile Boston Users, "The Coaching Stance" class

DEC 15-16, 2011
Free Drupal Training for Students & Job-seekers, "Drupal Module Development", 9-5, Acquia, Burlington

JUN 26-29, 2012
Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012, Hynes Convention Center

SEP 11-12, 2012
IEEE Conference on High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC ’12), Westin Waltham Hotel

SEP 18-19, 2012
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

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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