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

Mon DEC 12, 2011
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Is Your SharePoint Really Healthy?", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
UPA Boston Chapter, "Usability Testing Student Presentations", 6PM, Simmons College, Boston
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapter 19, 20 - Review Unobtrusive Ajax and jQuery", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "MySQL HA reloaded - tricks and tools to guarantee high availability", 7PM, MIT Building E51
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

Tue DEC 13, 2011
NH Adobe Users, "Google+, what's the fuss?", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Virtualization User Group, "Cloud hopping made simple ...", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Overview of IEEE CS Software Engineering Certificate Programs", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Semantic Web Query Language Tutorial by Lee Feigenbaum", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Boston Azure Users, "Using Windows Azure to extend your applications to Mobile devices", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
OWASP Boston Chapter, "WhiteHat Security", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Designing Spaces for Civic Learning", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
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
Build Guild in Cape Cod monthly gathering of web folks, 6:30, BBC, Sandwich
UPA New Hampshire Chapter, "Test Your Online Marketing Design Intuition", 6:30, Idea Greenhouse, Durham NH
Boston Ruby UG, "MacRuby for Fun and Profit", 7PM, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston
Boston Unity Group, "Tips, Tricks and the Black Holes of Lightmapping", 7PM, Asgard, Cambridge
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Post Mortem, "Fieldrunners HTML5: Bringing a Hit iOS Game to the Web", 7PM, The Skellig, Waltham

Wed DEC 14, 2011
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, "File Management ...", 5:30, Assebet Valley Reg HS, Marlborough
Providence Geeks, "featuring 38 Studios’ first release: Reckoning!!", 5:30PM, AS220, Providence
Boston PHP Meetup, "Hands-on Paper Prototyping", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Software Quality Group of NE, "Developing Extraordinarily Powerful Test Scripts", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Microsoft DevBoston Meetup "Using Windows Azure to Build Cloud Enabled Windows Phone Apps" 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
North Shore .NET Users, "Cloud Architecture Patterns", 6PM, EBSCO Publishing, Ipswich
Windows Phone User and Developer Group, "hanging out, enjoying the food and company", 6 pm, Bison County, Waltham
Back Bay LISA, "Usenix LISA 2011 conference recap", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 376

Thu DEC 15, 2011
Boston Orchard CMS group, "our kick-off meeting!", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Google Technology Users, "Lab and Q&A Session - Apps on Tablets", 6:30, Google, Cambridge
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Django Boston Meetup, "Lightning Talks by the Django Dogstars", 7PM, Dogpatch Labs,  Cambridge
North Shore Web Geeks, topic TBD, 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport

Fri DEC 16, 2011
Boston Python Meetup, "introduction to Python for women and their friends (2 days)", 6PM, MIT, Cambridge

Sat DEC 17, 2011
Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence

Mon DEC 19, 2011
Seacoast SQL Server Users Group, "SQL Server 2012 Power View", 5:30, Great Bay Comm Coll, Portsmouth NH
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapter 21, Security and Vulnerability", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH
Boston Python Meetup, "Web Performance Testing, lightning talks, and beers", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue DEC 20, 2011
NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Speaker details TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed DEC 21, 2011
NH .NET Users, "Playing Games in the Cloud", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
Boston Linux & Unix, "IT Metrics - Being Persuasive with Management", 7 pm, MIT Building E-51, Room 325
So New England Network, "Computer forensics", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, East Greenwich RI

Mon DEC 26, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
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
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed DEC 28, 2011
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "David will be presenting his work", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue JAN 03, 2012
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed JAN 04, 2012
Boston Area Windows Server Users, "Presenter TBD, Topic TBD", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem

Thu JAN 05, 2012
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "How Idea-Driven Organizations Eliminate the Waste That Management Doesn't See", 5:30, Billerica Marriott
Agile New England, "The Path from BA to PO", 6PM, Constant Contact , Waltham
NE Visual Basic Pros, "No SQL - Overview", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Mon JAN 09, 2012
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "This meetup's topic is TBD, speaker from Tokutek", 7PM, MIT Building E51

Tue JAN 10, 2012
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "The GovData Project Winter Course", 1 PM, MIT Media Lab (new building)
Virtualization User Group, topics TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Full recap of DotNetNuke World 2011", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "How Responsive Design is changing storytelling", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester

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

Thu JAN 12, 2012
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NH SharePoint User Group, "Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
NE SQL Server Users Group, "SQL Server 2012 PowerView! - Erik Roll, Bluegranite", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Sat JAN 14, 2012
RI Linux Users, "LAMP Install", 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Mon JAN 16, 2012
Boston Tech Meetup, "Welcome to Windows 8", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

Wed JAN 18, 2012
NE Midrange Users Group, "Watson Runs on an i!", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
Boston Linux & Unix, "Security with TrueCrypt, Snort and OSSEC", 6:30, MIT Location to be determined
Boston Tech Meetup, "download and install Windows 8 preview", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Society for Technical Communication, topic TBD, 6:30, Hilton Garden Inn, Burlington
So New England Network, "Dan Stolts from Microsoft", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, East Greenwich RI
Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Thu JAN 19, 2012
IEEE Computer, GBC/ACM, & BostonCHI, "The Secret Lives of Links", 7PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "The Boston Globe's digital strategy: a peek behind the (pay)wall", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester

Mon JAN 23, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Tue JAN 24, 2012
NH SolidWorks Users, topics TBD, 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH

Wed JAN 25, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston PHP Meetup, "Agile SCRUM Workshop", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Front End Developers Meetup, "Apps with HTML/CSS/JS using Mulberry, and TBA", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Tue JAN 26, 2012
Boston Azure Users and Microsoft DevBoston, "Why Cloud Architecture is Different", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed FEB 01, 2012
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem

Thu FEB 02, 2012
Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE Visual Basic Pros, "Async Programming in .Net 4.5", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Tue FEB 07, 2012
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed FEB 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
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NH SharePoint User Group, "Donal Conlon: SharePoint 2010 & FBA", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
NE SQL Server Users Group, "SQL Server + Hadoop == Big Data - Mike Walsh", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

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

Mon FEB 13, 2012
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Scaling MySQL with Transparent Database Sharding", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue FEB 14, 2012
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston

Wed FEB 15, 2012
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
Boston Linux & Unix, "To be determined", 6:30 pm, MIT Building E-51, Room 325
Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Mon FEB 20, 2012
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

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
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon FEB 27, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Thu MAR 01, 2012
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Wed MAR 07, 2012
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem

Thu MAR 08, 2012
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NH SharePoint User Group, "Talbott Crowell:  SharePoint & PowerShell", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
Boston Security Meetup, "get your security policy the love and affection it deserves", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
NE SQL Server Users Group, "T-SQL Bad Habits to Kick - Aaron Bertrand", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

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

Mon MAR 12, 2012
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue MAR 13, 2012
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
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 MAR 14, 2012
Software Quality Group of NE, "The Importance of Domain Knowledge for an SQA Engineer", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Wed MAR 21, 2012
Boston PHP Meetup, "Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PHP Meetup, "Boston PHP Job fair", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux Soup XII: The Return of Christoph", 6:30, MIT Location to be determined
Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Mon MAR 26, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Wed MAR 28, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu MAR 29, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "Azure Topic(s) TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed APR 04, 2012
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem

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

Thu APR 12, 2012
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Common Backup Problems and How to Deal With Them", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

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

Wed APR 18, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, 6:30, MIT Location and topic to be determined
Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Thu APR 26, 2012
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Wed MAY 16, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Federico Returns", 6:30, MIT Location to be determined

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:

DEC 09-11, 2011
Gr Boston iPhone/iPad Boot Camp Meetup Group, "Absolute Beginners' iPhone/iPad Boot Camp", WorkBar Boston, 711 Atlantic Ave

DEC 12-13, 2011
Agile Boston Users, "Coaching Agile Teams" class, Microsoft, Waltham
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

DEC 16-17, 2011
Boston Python, "A project-driven introduction to Python for women and their friends", MIT, Cambridge

MAR 09-11, 2012
Gr Boston iPhone/iPad Boot Camp Meetup Group, "Absolute Beginners' iPhone/iPad Boot Camp", WorkBar Boston, 711 Atlantic Ave

APR 24-25, 2012
American Society for Quality, "BOSCON", Waltham Woods Conference Center

JUN 08-10, 2012
Gr Boston iPhone/iPad Boot Camp Meetup Group, "Absolute Beginners' iPhone/iPad Boot Camp", WorkBar Boston, 711 Atlantic Ave

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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