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Updated 07/07/2012 -- '12 #177
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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 JUL 09, 2012
Boston MySQL Meetup, see July 18
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue JUL 10, 2012
NH Adobe Users, "Adobe Framemaker", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
New England Artificial Intelligence, "Short lectures and discussions on topics in AI", 6PM, Google Cambridge
DrinksOnTap Meetup, "Demos, drinks and discussions about mobile development", 6PM, Tavern in the Square, Porter Square
New England M Users' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
NH Seacoast Mac Users, "Backing Up Your Mac", 6:15, Idea Greenhouse, Durham NH
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, "We'll be talking about VPATs", 6:30,  Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Web Start Women Boston, "Photoshop: Designing for the Web", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Software Engineers, "Other People's Code", 6:30, 560 Harrison Ave
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
Boston Ruby UG, "Your Documentation Tool", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Boston PDA User Group "User Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston.pm (Perl), check for possible meeting, 7PM, MIT Room E51-376

Wed JUL 11, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Bon voyage, Paul - Social", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Providence Geeks, "Sproutel (Jerry the Bear)", 5:30PM, AS220, Providence
Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Sharepoint Users, "Maturity and User Adoption: Deployment from Two Complimentary Viewpoints", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Southern NE SQL Server, "Introduction to Extended Events", 6PM, NE Inst of Tech, East Greenwich RI
Back Bay LISA, "Solaris Dynamic Tracing - DTrace", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 395

Thu JUL 12, 2012
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
Boston Security Meetup, "Full disk encryption", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
NH SharePoint User Group, "SharePoint Maturity", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
Boston Python User Group, "July Project Night", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

Mon JUL 16, 2012
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington

Tue JUL 17, 2012
Portsmouth Web Dev Meetup, "Hoopla Party", 6PM, The Press Room, Portsmouth NH
Boston Java Meetup, "Java and Data Distribution: Open Source Clustering with Hazelcast", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed JUL 18, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Erik Svenson tells us about Windows 8", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Orchard CMS group, "Deploying Orchard to Windows Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Linux & Unix, "The Virtual Desktop", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Boston MySQL Meetup, "MySQL Security", 7PM, Space with a Soul
Boston HTML5 Game Development, topic TBD, 7PM, MocoSpace Offices, 186 South St

Thu JUL 19, 2012
NH SolidWorks Users, "Summer Barbecue", 5:15, Rapid Sheet Metal, Nashua NH
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Machine Learning Classification", 7PM, Mitre, Bedford

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

Mon JUL 23, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Tue JUL 24, 2012
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Linear and Logistic Regression Using R (group 1)", 5:45, Cambridge Innovation Ctr
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Final Cut Pro Users, "CS6 Production Premium Premiere", 6:30, Revere Hotel Boston Common
Boston PDA Developer's Group, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Linear and Logistic Regression Using R (group 2)", 7:45, Cambridge Innovation Ctr

Wed JUL 25, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Subject TBA", 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
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "Featured Subject: TBA", 7PM, Nashua Public Library
Bostontech Meetup, "Unsupervised Learning with Big Data", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile Boston, "Moving Beyond Icebreakers", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston InDesign User Group, "3rd Annual Networking Nite", 6:30, Boston Beerworks

Thu JUL 26, 2012
Boston Software Engineers, "Boston Software Engineers Job Fair", 6PM, location TBA
Emerging Business Technology, "NewSQL", 6PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Boston Azure Users, "TOPIC TBD (possibly ES/CQRS)", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Build a Python/Django/JQuery web app within an hour", 7PM, WPI

Sat JUL 28, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Annual Summer BBQ XVIII", 1PM, John and Shelley Chambers' home

Wed AUG 01, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Subject TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Green Land Cafe, Salem

Thu AUG 02, 2012
Boston Security Meetup, "Forensic analysis of digital evidence", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Tue AUG 07, 2012
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, topic TBD, 6:30,  Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon AUG 13, 2012
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue AUG 14, 2012
NE Artificial Intelligence, "AI, Pizza, and Beer", 6PM, Google Cambridge
Boston.pm (Perl), topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Room E51-376
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Using Social Media APIs,TextMining (Group2)", 7:45, Microsoft, NERD

Wed AUG 15, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Subject TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Social Connected", 6PM, 347 Congress St
Boston Linux & Unix, "Replacing Active Directory with Resara Server and Samba4", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Boston HTML5 Game Development, topic TBD, 7PM, MocoSpace Offices, 186 South St

Tue AUG 21, 2012
Boston Java Meetup, "Java and MongoDB: Everything about Not Only SQL, MongoDB and Morphia", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed AUG 22, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Subject TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu AUG 23, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "TOPIC TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon AUG 27, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Thu AUG 30, 2012
Web Start Women Boston, "Project Night", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed SEP 05, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Subject TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
MacTechGroup, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Thu SEP 06, 2012
Boston Security Meetup, "Secure data deletion under linux", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston

Mon SEP 10, 2012
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston .NET Study Group, Check website

Tue SEP 11, 2012
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, topic TBD, 6:30,  Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Tomer Sharon, Google NYC", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham

Thu SEP 13, 2012
NE SQL Server Users Group, topic and location TBA

Wed SEP 19, 2012
NH .NET Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Boston HTML5 Game Development, topic TBD, 7PM, MocoSpace Offices, 186 South St
IT-Pro User Group, topic TBD, 7:00, 1408 Division Rd., East Greenwich, RI

Thu SEP 20, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, "Healthcare Topics", 8:15am-noon, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon SEP 24, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Tue SEP 25, 2012
Boston Water User Group, "Concept Browser of the forthcoming Connected Content Server", 7:00, Cambridge

Wed SEP 26, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu SEP 27, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "TOPIC TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed OCT 03, 2012
MacTechGroup, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Thu OCT 04, 2012
Boston Security Meetup, "Email spam & Domain names", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston

Mon OCT 08, 2012
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue OCT 09, 2012
BostonCHI, "Mobile Research", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu OCT 18, 2012
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon OCT 22, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Wed OCT 24, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu NOV 01, 2012
Boston Security Meetup, "Linux IPsec", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston

Wed OCT 17, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Joseph Guarino Redux", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Boston HTML5 Game Development, topic TBD, 7PM, MocoSpace Offices, 186 South St
IT-Pro User Group, "The Exchange Guy, Lee Benjamin - Exchange 2010 SP2", 7:00, 1408 Division Rd., East Greenwich, RI

Wed NOV 07, 2012
MacTechGroup, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Tue NOV 13, 2012
BostonCHI, "Joseph Carrabis", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham

Wed NOV 21, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, unconfirmed, 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315

Tue DEC 11, 2012
BostonCHI, "Margot Bloomstein", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed DEC 19, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "OpenStack from Scratch", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

JUL 14-15, 2012
Wordpress Developers - WordCamp Boston 2012, Boston University- George Sherman Union

JUL 14-15, 2012
Drupal Design Camp Boston, MIT Stata 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

AUG 17, 2012
Windows 8 Developer Camp, "Windows 8 Release Preview from top to bottom", 9am-8pm, Boston Museum of Science

AUG 18, 2012
Windows 8 Hackathon, "an open Windows 8 code fest", 9am-9pm, Boston Museum of Science

SEP 11-12, 2012
IEEE Conference on High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC '12), Westin Waltham Hotel

SEP 14, 2012
The Agile CULTURE Conference, "Managing in the 21st Century", Four Points Hotel, Norwood

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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