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Resources:
Do your own search using our LIST of USER GROUPS with their website URLs   --   Track Changes
User group email Notices for February '12,    March '12,    April '12,    May '12,    June '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.

Mon MAY 21, 2012
Boston .NET Study Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAY 22, 2012
Boston PDA "Developer Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed MAY 23, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Spring-clean Your Machine - update", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Agile Boston, "Implementing Agile company-wide at MASTERCAM", 4:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Providence Geeks, "Math, Supercomputers, Cryptography", 5:30PM, ICERM, 121 South Main St, Providence
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Creating a Windows Phone 7 XNA Game From Start to Submission", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Orchard CMS group, "Orchard CMS 1.4 Site Development", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Portsmouth Web Dev Meetup, "World of web APIs", 6PM, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH
Boston Java Meetup, "Java and Content Management", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
Web Start Women Boston, "Legal Entites 101 (free event)", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
jQuery Boston Meetup, "Five minute lightning talks!", 6:45, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Boston Python User Group, "Science: Genes, Satellites, and Lightning!", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Final Cut Pro Users, "Pioneers of the Video Industry", 7PM, National Boston Video Ctr, 115 Dummer St
Boston Joomla Users, "Acymailing", 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden
Boston Front End Developers Meetup, "Sass: Tips, Tricks and Best-practices", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Thu MAY 24, 2012
App Development Meetup, "Money making apps: informal discussion & networking", 6PM, Panera Bread, Quincy
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH Python SIG, topic TBD, 6:30, ABI Hub, Manchester NH

Mon MAY 28, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston .NET Study Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAY 29, 2012
Boston Software Engineers "Robotics | AI | Big Data", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Django Boston Meetup, "Beer & Coding night", 7PM, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge

Wed MAY 30, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Backups", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, "Town Hall format", 5:30, Assabet Valley, Marlboro
Boston Azure Cloud Users, "Hands-On with the Windows Azure SDK", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Hacks/Hackers, "Data Therapy: Creative Ways to tell your Story with Data", 6PM, MIT Media Lab
DataCAD Users (DBUG), "topic tba", 6PM, GSD Associates, North Andover
Web Start Women Boston, " Project Night! Bring your laptop", 6 pm, Cambridge Innovation Center
Seacoast WordPress Developers Meetup Group, 6:30, Alpha Loft. Portsmouth
NH Sys Eng & Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "Microsoft Management Summit Recap", 6:30, Hilton Garden, Portsmouth NH
Boston Tech Meetup, "Career Fair", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "Underused Features", 7PM, Nashua Public Library

Thu MAY 31, 2012
Web Start Women Boston, "Web Applications: PHP (4 class series)", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Drupal, "Jesse Beach from Acquia", 6:30PM, Details TBA, Arlington

Sat JUN 02, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLIV", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 061

Tue JUN 05, 2012
Virtualization User Group, "Beyond Data Protection in the Cloud, Fujitsu PRIMERGY", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PDA User Group "User Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed JUN 06, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Topic TBD", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Area Windows Server Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
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
Agile Boston, "Gathering Agile requirements", 3PM, Hyatt Regency Boston
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile New England, "Little's Flaw: Dan Vacanti", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Moving Operations Or Sourcing Offshore", 6PM, Sweetheart Inn, Methuen
Visual Basic Professionals, "Igor Mochnick: RavenDB", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Web Performance Group, "Performance Implications of Mobile Web Design", 6:30, Wayfair Offices, Boston
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

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

Mon JUN 11, 2012
Boston Software Craftsmanship Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston .NET Study Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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, "translation of BEL (Biological Expression Language) & Semantic University", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Lesley Mottla, Zipcar - details TBA", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Ruby UG, "TorqueBox", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Wed JUN 13, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Topic TBD", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Software Quality Group of NE, topic TBD, 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NH Joomla Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Idea Greenhouse, Durham NH
Back Bay LISA, "Keeping up with Systems Management across Windows, Linux and Mac platforms", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 145

Thu JUN 14, 2012
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NE SQL Server Users Group "Reducing Data Integration TCO - Best Practices for SQL Server 2012" 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Software Engineers "3D Printing Hackday and Party", 7 pm, Location tba
Boston CocoaHeads, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

Sun JUN 17, 2012
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Mon JUN 18, 2012
NE F# User Group, "Bumblebee", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Study Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUN 19, 2012
SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Boston Java Meetup, "Java and Security: Apache Shiro and OAuth", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
NH Java Users, topic TBD, 6:30, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

Wed JUN 20, 2012
Boston Orchard CMS group, "Orchard CMS Themes Styling and Design Walk Through", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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

Thu JUN 21, 2012
Boston Security Meetup, "Easy Application Security with Apache Shiro", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston
Gr Boston Chapter ACM, "Democracy is a design problem: How changes in design change the outcome of elections", 7PM, MIT E51-315
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "JQueryMobile", 7PM, WPI

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
Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta
Boston .NET Study Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUN 26, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, "SAS Mapping", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Seacoast WordPress Developers Meetup Group, 6:30, Alpha Loft. Portsmouth

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


	(Meetings beyond June will be hidden from view until the future of this calendar is resolved)


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

MAY 22, 2012
Windows Developer Camp, "registration is now full", Microsoft, Waltham

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

MAY 29, 2012
Boston Software Engineers "MapReduce DeepDive Training", 10 am, Foley Hoag, Boston

JUN 05, 2012
TEXPO 2012 Trade Show, Rule Boston Camera, 395 Western Avenue

JUN 06-08, 2012
Windows 8 and Windows Phone Developers, "Metro Accelerator Labs", Microsoft, Waltham

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

JUN 12, 2012
WiAC '12: 2012 USENIX Women in Advanced Computing Summit, Sheraton Boston
UCMS '12: 2012 USENIX Configuration Management Workshop: Virtualization, the Cloud, and Scale, Sheraton Boston
USENIX Cyberlaw '12: 2012 USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cyberlaw, Sheraton Boston

JUN 12-13, 2012
HotCloud '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing, Sheraton Boston

JUN 13, 2012
WebApps '12: 3rd USENIX Conference on Web Application Development, Sheraton Boston

JUN 13-14, 2012
HotStorage '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems, Sheraton Boston

JUN 13-15, 2012
USENIX ATC '12: 2012 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, Sheraton Boston

JUN 14-15, 2012
TaPP '12: 4th USENIX Workshop on the Theory and Practice of Provenance, Sheraton Boston

JUN 15, 2012
NSDR '12: 6th USENIX/ACM Workshop on Networked Systems for Developing Regions, Sheraton Boston

JUN 21-25, 2012
2012 HOW Design Live, Hynes Convention Center

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

JUN 26, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, "Maps Made Easy Using SAS" Training Class, 1:30, 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 11-12, 2012
Boston PHP Meetup, "Boston PHP Northeast Conference", 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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BUGC is maintained by Al Sherman als62@rcn.com and Mike Murphy SeabrookMLM@comcast.net. We thank Earthlink Business for network access and Boston Linux & Unix User Group and BostonUserGroups.org for providing our server.    
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