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Updated 01/21/2012 -- '12 #020
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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

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

Mon JAN 23, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Kinect Boston Meetup, "Soft Launch and Brainstorming", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "chapters 10 and 11", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JAN 24, 2012
NH SolidWorks Users, "Working with Imported Geometry, and more", 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH
consortium of HCI-related organizations, "Boston Interactions Holiday Party 2012", 6-10, The Asgard, Cambridge
NH Java Users, "JVM Internals", 6:30, Kingsbury Hall @UNH Durham NH
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Final Cut Pro Users, "Visual Storytellers Mixer", 7PM, Paramount Center, Boston
Boston Front End Developers Meetup, "Apps with HTMLCSS and JS using Mulberry", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed JAN 25, 2012
Lexington Computer Group, "Digitizing physical books with scanner and OCR & eBook publishing", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
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
NH Sys Eng & Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "Using Open Source Software to Run Your Business", 6PM, Hilton Garden, Portsmouth NH
Boston PHP Meetup, "Agile SCRUM Workshop", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile Boston, "Bill Joiner on Leadership Agility", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "Quicktime X", 7PM, Nashua Public Library
Boston Autodesk Maya Users, "Marmoset Toolbag and portfolio presentation techniques", 7PM, BU Center for DIA, Waltham
Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden
Boston Python Meetup, "An evening with Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Frank Wiles, and Alex Gaynor", 7PM, MIT Stata Center

Thu JAN 26, 2012
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Cloud Optimizing Every Business", 5PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
Boston Web Performance Group, "Top vs. Weak Performers on Black Friday/Cyber Monday", 6:30, Wayfair Offices, Boston
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "HTML 5 And JQuery", 7PM, WPI

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 Group, "WP Queries (Developer) & Restoring from a Backup (Beginner/Int)", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JAN 31, 2012
Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Introduction to Orchard CMS", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed FEB 01, 2012
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, topics TBD, 5:30, Metso Automation, Shrewsbury
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Green Land Cafe, Salem
Boston Linux & Unix, "Raspberry Pi Demo Night", 6:30 pm, MIT Building 56-114 - Whitaker Building
MacTechGroup, "topic*tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Thu FEB 02, 2012
Agile NE, "Agile Reality - The QA stories", 6-9 pm, Constant Contact, Waltham
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Making a Quality "Quality" Presentation", 6PM, Blackwater Grill, Salem NH
NE Visual Basic Pros, "Async Programming in .Net 4.5", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Refresh Boston, "Getting Stuff Done", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
UX Boston Book Club, "User Experience Design", 7-9PM, Gemvara HQ, Boston
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
North Shore Drupal Meetup, "General Meetup", 7:30 PM, location Coming soon! (Salem?)

Fri FEB 03, 2012
North Shore Computer Society computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon FEB 06, 2012
Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "Monitoring MongoDB with MMS and more", 6:30, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge

Tue FEB 07, 2012
Dev Boston and Azure Cloud, "Architecting for Failure: Why Cloud Architecture is Different", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Drupal, "hosted by the MIT Drupal Group", 6:30 PM, MIT room E51-145
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
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
NH Joomla Users, "Making the Jump to Joomla 2.5", 6PM, 8 Jenkins Ct, Durham NH

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 Java Users Group, "Getting started with MongoDB", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NE SQL Server Users Group, "SQL Server + Hadoop == Big Data - Mike Walsh", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
North Shore Computer Society, "Identity Theft and You", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

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, "Interaction and Data Visualizations", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
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

Thu FEB 16, 2012
Virtualization User Group, "Hyper-V 3.0, and more", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
NE Area SMS Users, "System Center Configuration Manager", 6:30 PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Final Cut Pro Users, "Think Metadata", 7PM, Paramount Center, Boston

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

Tue FEB 21, 2012
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), "New IEEE-730 Software Quality Assurance Standard", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Boston Predictive Analytics, "How far away from me is Kevin Bacon? (Social Media & Network Analysis)", 6:30, IBM, Cambridge
Boston Hacks/Hackers, "The Boston Globe's digital strategy: a peek behind the (pay)wall", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 8PM, One Broadway, Cambridge

Wed FEB 22, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
DataCAD Users (DBUG), "topic tbd", 6PM, BSA |Space|, Boston
Agile Boston, "A Culture of Agility", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Tech Meetup, "SharePoint Performance: Best Practices from the Field", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Unity Group, "Unity Game Demo Night", 7PM, Asgard Irish Pub, Cambridge

Thu FEB 23, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "Solving Access Control in the Cloud - from WIF to ACS", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
App Development Meetup, "General meeting and networking to kickoff 2012", 6PM, Au Bon Pain (Kendall), Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "Stay tuned for more details!", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center, 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
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "topic TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue FEB 28, 2012
NH Sys Eng & Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "Big Data - What it is and What it's Good For", 6PM, Hilton Garden, Portsmouth NH
Boston Hacks/Hackers, "Pros, Cons & Ques of Using New Media Tools to Tell the Story", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester

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

Tue MAR 06, 2012
Boston Drupal, "learning about and contributing to Drupal core", 6:30, MIT room E51-145
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed MAR 07, 2012
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Salem
MacTechGroup, "topic*tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

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
Virtualization User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
New England M Users' Group, "Common Clinicals impacts", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
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
Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston
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

Tue MAR 20, 2012
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), "Human-Centered Risk Management", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 8PM, One Broadway, Cambridge

Wed MAR 21, 2012
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
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "topic TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Thu MAR 29, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "Introduction to Windows Azure SDK", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed APR 04, 2012
Boston PHP Meetup, "Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Salem
MacTechGroup, "topic*tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Thu APR 05, 2012
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

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
Virtualization User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
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, "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

Tue APR 17, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, topic TBD, 8AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

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
Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "Topic TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Wed MAY 02, 2012
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Salem
MacTechGroup, "topic*tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Thu MAY 03, 2012
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Tue MAY 08, 2012
Virtualization User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
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 Boston Meetup, "Chris Bowen: Developing Software for Windows 8", 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

Tue MAY 15, 2012
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham

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

Thu JUN 07, 2012
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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
Virtualization User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
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

Tue JUN 19, 2012
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Thu JUN 28, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "Azure Topic(s) TBD", 6PM, location TBA, Cambridge

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

JAN 28, 2012
Agile NE, "Agile 101 course: Kanban Flow for Hardware + Software Work", Constant Contact, Waltham

FEB 10-12, 2012
Advanced iPhone/iPad Boot Camp, "Three Day IOS 5.0 Intensive Workshop", WorkBar Boston, 711 Atlantic Ave

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

MAR 09-11, 2012
Boston Beginner iPhone/iPad Boot Camp, "Three Day IOS 5.0 Intensive Workshop", WorkBar Boston, 711 Atlantic Ave

MAR 09-12, 2012
New England Software Symposium, Sheraton Colonial, Wakefield

MAR 10, 2012
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Big Data Workshop: Session 1", 9-5, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Virtualization Group - Boston, "Fourth Annual Virtualization Deep Dive Day", Lantana, Randolph

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

JUL 22-25, 2012
SharePoint Technology Conference, "website to be posted", Westin Copley Plaza, Boston

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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