The Boston-area User Group Calendar
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Helping computer users and groups in the Boston area since June 1997
Updated 04/06/2012 -- '12 #098
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Thanks to Recent Event Reporters:
Michelle Ackerman

Resources:
Do your own search using our LIST of USER GROUPS with their website URLs   --   Track Changes
User group email Notices for January '12,    February '12,    March '12,    April '12,  or for All Notices
View our archives: 2011 calendars,   2012 calendars   or   all previous calendars   --   Read Our Story
Chris Bowen's Blog   --   Boston User Groups, Inc.   --   User Groups Meeting at MIT   --   Computer Meetup Groups   --   Events @ Microsoft NERD

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

Fri APR 06, 2012
North Shore Computer Society computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon APR 09, 2012
Boston .NET Certification Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue APR 10, 2012
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Virtualization User Group, "Starboard Storage Systems, and more", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
NH Seacoast Mac Users, "Building a Website with your Mac 3.0", 6:15, Rye Jr High
BostonCHI, "Enchanted Furniture: How apps will jump off the screen and into everyday objects", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Java Meetup, "Java and Microsoft Office", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
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
Boston Ruby UG, "Continuous Delivery...", 6:45, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston.pm (Perl), "Uri, revisting cgi", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372
Boston Hacks/Hackers, "How to Keep Your News Site Sticky", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester
Boston PDA "User Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Voice Users, MEETING IS CANCELED

Wed APR 11, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Offline malware scanning / Free Software", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Software Quality Group, "Use Cases - What are they and how are they used for testing?", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NH Joomla Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Idea Greenhouse, Durham NH
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Russ Edelman: Building a Business Case Toolkit for SharePoint", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
OWASP Boston Chapter, "HP Enterprise Security, Gray-Box Vulnerability Testing", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, "discuss online accessibility", 6:30,  Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Back Bay LISA, "A fresh look at SELinux and what it is complaining about", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 145

Thu APR 12, 2012
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, "SW World & Surfacing Design Help, Envelope Parts & 2D to SW 3D", 5:30, Nypro, Clinton
Boston Security Meetup, "2 mobile security talks in 1 night. zomg pwnies!", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
NE Java Users Group, "Building Mobile Apps with HTML, PhoneGap and Java", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NE SQL Server Users Group "Common Backup Problems and How to Deal With Them" 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Monetize Your Windows Phone App", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Kinect Boston Meetup, "Demos and PAX Debrief", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Python Meetup, "Project Night, with Designer advice!", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Final Cut Pro Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Paramount Center, Boston
Greater Boston Chapter GBC/ACM, "Nanoscale construction with DNA", 7PM, MIT Room E51-315
Worcester Linux Users, "ZFS", 7PM, WPI Campus Center

Sat APR 14, 2012
Boston Unity Group, "United for 3D Stimulus and Game Development", 9AM-4PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "CSUN Recap, System Access from Serotek", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon APR 16, 2012
Boston .NET Certification Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

Tue APR 17, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, "Data Manipulation", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), "Adopting Agile: How to Avoid Top 10 Pitfalls", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
NH Java Users, "Developing a Spring Data and MongoDB app", 6:30, location TBD
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Boston Globe
Boston Web Performance Group, "Meet For Speed: learn more about website optimization", 6:30, HubSpot, Cambridge
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 8PM, One Broadway, Cambridge

Wed APR 18, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "iPad Extravaganza - iPad Basics and Favorite iPad Apps", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux Soup XII.2: LVM Fundamentals and CGroups", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 335
Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston
IT-Pro (SNENUG) UG, "VMware Technologies in 2012", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich, RI

Thu APR 19, 2012
Boston AITP $, "networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $
UPA Boston Chapter, "Responsive Design and Prototyping", 6PM, Digitas, 33 Arch St
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Git/Github in an Agile/Collaborative environment", 7PM, WPI
Boston Post Mortem, "Indie Game:The Movie Local Showing", 7PM, Brattle Theatre, Cambridge
North Shore Web Geeks, "Intellectual Property", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport

Mon APR 23, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "Traackr’s migration from HBase to MongoDB", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Mobile Monday Boston, "The Mobile Pitch Challenge", details TBD

Thu APR 24, 2012
Boston Azure Cloud Users, "Building Games with Windows Azure Services", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PDA "Developer Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed APR 25, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Boston InDesign User Group, "Folio ShowNTell 2012", 6:30, Boston Beerworks, Fenway
Agile Boston, "Karen Spencer on The Psychology of Agile", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu APR 26, 2012
NH Sys Eng & Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "Recap of the Microsoft Management Summit", 6PM, Hilton Garden, Portsmouth NH
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri APR 27, 2012
Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group semi-annual meeting, 8:30AM-5PM, IDC, Framingham

Mon APR 30, 2012
HTML5 Boston Meetup Group, "How to Properly Structure an HTML5 Web Page", 6:30, Location TBA
Boston .NET Certification Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAY 01, 2012
Boston Drupal Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-145
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed MAY 02, 2012
IT-Pro (SNENUG) UG, "Tech Update 2012", 9-4, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich, RI
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Salem
MacTechGroup, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335
Bostontech Meetup, "Did WordPress Do That?", 7 pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu MAY 03, 2012
Visual Basic Professionals, "Chris Bowen: Introduction to Windows 8", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Tue MAY 08, 2012
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Virtualization User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
New England M Users' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
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 Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, 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
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Chris Bowen: Developing Software for Windows 8", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Agile Testing", 7PM, WPI

Sat MAY 12, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence

Mon MAY 14, 2012
Boston Software Craftsmanship Group, "a rousing evening of 1/2 baked lightning talks", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Sandro Frattura discussing Pentaho", 7PM, MIT E51-345
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAY 15, 2012
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
BostonCHI, "Richard C Boly, U.S. State Dept - details TBA", 6:30, location TBA
Cambridge SEO Meetup, "topic tbd", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 8PM, One Broadway, Cambridge

Wed MAY 16, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Federico shares his OSCON 2012 presentation", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 335
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, "discuss online accessibility", 6:30,  Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Wed MAY 23, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Orchard CMS group, "Feature Development for V1.4", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Thu MAY 24, 2012
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon MAY 28, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Wed MAY 30, 2012
Boston Azure Cloud Users, "Hands-On with the Windows Azure SDK", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Tech Meetup, "Career Fair", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUN 05, 2012
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed JUN 06, 2012
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Salem
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, "discuss online accessibility", 6:30,  Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
MacTechGroup, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Thu JUN 07, 2012
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Visual Basic Professionals, "Igor Mochnick: RavenDB", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

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

Mon JUN 11, 2012
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston MySQL Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT E51-345
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue JUN 12, 2012
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Lesley Mottla, Zipcar - details TBA", 6:30, location TBA
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

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

Sun JUN 17, 2012
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Tue JUN 19, 2012
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Wed JUN 20, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux on Small Hardware", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
IT-Pro (SNENUG) UG, "Lee Benjamin: Exchange 2010 SP2", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich, RI
Boston HTML5 Game Development, "Monthly Meetup", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Fri JUN 22, 2012
NE Oracle Users, "Five Things You Probably Didn't Know about SQL", 6:30, Doubletree, Westborough

Mon JUN 25, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUN 26, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users quarterly meeting, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed JUN 27, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu JUN 28, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "Michael S. Collier: Topic TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge


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Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

APR 07-08, 2012
BarCamp Boston, "geek unconference, organized on the fly by attendees, for attendees", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

APR 13-15, 2012
Boston Post Mortem, "Mass. DiGi Game Challenge & 3D Stimulus Day", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

APR 19-21, 2012
Agile New England, "Agile Games conference", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

APR 21-22, 2012
Rethink Music Hackers' Weekend, "create music applications from scratch and share with everyone", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

APR 28, 2012
SharePoint Saturday Boston 2012, "sessions from respected SharePoint professionals and MVPs", Microsoft, Waltham

APR 30, 2012
Microsoft TechNet Event, "IT Camp: The Future of IT", 9-5, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

MAY 02, 2012
IT-Pro (SNENUG) UG, "Tech Update 2012", 9-4, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich, RI
The Road to Windows 8!, "A look at the current and future development with Windows 8 and .NET", Microsoft, Waltham

MAY 04-06, 2012
New England GiveCamp, "donate time and talent to support local charities and non-profis", 9-5, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

MAY 11, 2012
Adobe Camp 2012, Joseph B. Martin Conference Center, 220 Longwood Ave, Boston
eCoast Cloud Summit presented by TechWorld, Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel

MAY 12, 2012
UPA Boston Chapter, "Getting Buy-In for UX Research", Bentley University

MAY 19, 2012
Greater Boston Chapter ACM, "2012 Programming: More Than Coding" seminar, 9AM, Harvard University

MAY 24-25, 2012
Boston Drupal Workshop, "Drupal Module Development"

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, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, "Mapping with SAS" Training Class, 1PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

JUL 22-25, 2012
SharePoint Technology Conference, Westin Copley Place Hotel, Boston

AUG 11, 2012
Boston PHP Meetup, "Boston PHP Northeast Conference (Day 1)", 9am, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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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