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Updated 01/03/2012 -- '12 #003
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Wed JAN 04, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Microsoft Office Web Applications", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
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
MacTechGroup, "topic*tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

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, "Agile 101 Courses", 5:30, Constant Contact , Waltham
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

Fri JAN 06, 2012
North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon JAN 09, 2012
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Check meeting status", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE F# User Group, "Mike Burns Haskell and JSON", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup,  "Fractal Tree Indexes - Theoretical Overview and Customer Use Cases", 7PM, MIT E51-345

Tue JAN 10, 2012
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "The GovData Project Winter Course", 1PM, MIT Media Lab (new building)
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
New England M Users, "GlobalsDB demo", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
Virtualization User Group, "Building an iSCSI Cloud SAN, and more", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI "Socialization & Gamification of Health Behavior Change Apps" 6:30, IBM Center for Soc SW, Cambridge
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Full recap of DotNetNuke World 2011", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Python Meetup, "January Python Project Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Ruby UG, "multiple presentations", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "How Responsive Design is changing storytelling", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston.pm (Perl), "Tech Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room E51-376

Wed JAN 11, 2012
Software Quality Group of NE, "Managing, Measuring, and Improving the Testing Process", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston Sharepoint Users, "Making SharePoint 2010 ROCK by Increasing Findability", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
So NE SQL Server Users, "Operational mistakes to avoid", 6PM, NE Institute of Tech, East Greenwich RI
Back Bay LISA meeting is canceled

Thu JAN 12, 2012
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Boston Security Meetup, "advanced server security in practice", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
NE Java Users Group, "What's new with Grails 2.0", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NH Joomla Users, "Migrating Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.7", 6PM, 530 South Porter St, Manchester NH
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
Boston Web Performance Group, "Jonathan Ranger on Benchmarking Web Performance", 6:30, Wayfair, Boston
North Shore Comp Soc, "The New Digital SLR Camera", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Sat JAN 14, 2012
RI Linux Users, "LAMP Install", 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "VIBUG holiday party", Legal Seafood, Kendall Square

Mon JAN 16, 2012
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Check meeting status", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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

Tue JAN 17, 2012
SPIN (SW Process Improvement) "Recognizing & Measuring Software Security Dangers and Risk" 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "Stay tuned for more details", 6:30PM, MassChallenge HQ, Northern Avenue, Boston

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 Building E-51, Room 315
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 NE Network Users, "Top 10 things every IT Admin should know about Cloud", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E Greenwich RI
Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Thu JAN 19, 2012
Boston AITP $, "networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
IEEE Computer, GBC/ACM, & BostonCHI, "The Secret Lives of Links", 7PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Hacks/Hackers, "The Boston Globe's digital strategy: a peek behind the (pay)wall", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester

Sat JAN 21, 2012
Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence

Mon JAN 23, 2012
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Check meeting status", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Tue JAN 24, 2012
NH SolidWorks Users, "Working with Imported Geometry, and more", 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Final Cut Pro Users, "Visual Storytellers Mixer", 7PM, Paramount Center, Boston

Wed JAN 25, 2012
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston PHP Meetup, "Agile SCRUM Workshop", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile Boston, "Bill Joiner on Leadership Agility", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Front End Developers Meetup, "Apps with HTML/CSS/JS using Mulberry, and TBA", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "Quicktime X", 7PM, Nashua Public Library

Thu 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
JavaScript Meetup, "RightJS - High Performance JavaScript", 6:30, SignedOn, 373 Washington St

Mon JAN 30, 2012
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Check meeting status", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge SEO Meetup, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "WP Queries (Developer) & Restoring from a Backup (Beginner/Int)", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed FEB 01, 2012
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem
Boston Linux & Unix, "Raspberry Pi Demo Night", 6:30 pm, MIT Building 56-114 - Whitaker Building

Thu FEB 02, 2012
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
Boston Security Meetup, "Running an education-focused CTF", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
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
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, topic TBD, 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon FEB 13, 2012
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Scaling MySQL with Transparent Database Sharding", 7PM, MIT E51-345
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
Boston.pm (Perl), "Tech Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372

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
Boston PHP Meetup, "Security-Centered Design: Exploring the Impact of Human Behavior", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Tue FEB 21, 2012
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed FEB 22, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Agile Boston, "A Culture of Agility", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu FEB 23, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "Solving Access Control in the Cloud - from WIF to ACS", 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
Cambridge SEO Meetup, "6th Anniversary SEO Meetup", 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington

Wed FEB 29, 2012
Boston Tech Meetup, "SharePoint Performance: Best Practices from the Field", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Mon MAR 05, 2012
Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta

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
Boston Security Meetup, "get your security policy the love and affection it deserves", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
NH SharePoint User Group, "Talbott Crowell:  SharePoint & PowerShell", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
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
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Pentaho:  open source Business Intelligence Platform", 7PM, MIT E51-345

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
Boston.pm (Perl), "Tech Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372

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

Thu MAR 15, 2012
Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "Robert Daigneau: Service Design Patterns & Solutions", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon MAR 19, 2012
Cambridge SEO Meetup, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

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 Building E-51, Room 315
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

Mon APR 09, 2012
Boston MySQL Meetup, "topic TBD", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue APR 10, 2012
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, TBA
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston.pm (Perl), "Tech Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372

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

Mon APR 16, 2012
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

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

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

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

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
Boston.pm (Perl), "Tech Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372

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

Thu MAY 10, 2012
Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Mon MAY 14, 2012
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "topic TBD", 7PM, MIT Building E51

Wed MAY 16, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Federico Returns", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315

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

Mon JUN 11, 2012
Boston MySQL Meetup, "topic TBD", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

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

Sun JUN 17, 2012
OUR 15th ANNIVERSARY!  Our first calendar was published Tue, 17 Jun 1997

Mon JUL 09, 2012
Boston MySQL Meetup, "topic TBD", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

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



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

JAN 21, 2012
Drupal Camp Western Mass, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, Integrated Sciences Building

FEB 14-15, 2012
Agile Boston, "Core Protocols BOOTCAMP PART 1", Microsoft, Waltham

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

MAR 13-14, 2012
Agile Boston, "The Coaching Stance", Microsoft, Waltham

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 22-23, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "Boston Azure Bootcamp (two days, hands-on)", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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 17-20, 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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