The Boston-area User Group Calendar
Bookmark www.bugc.org for latest listings

"Tell them you saw it on BUGC"
Helping computer users and groups in the Boston area since June 1997
Updated 08/02/2012 -- '12 #194
Send calendar information to Submit11 [AT] bugc [DOT] org

NOTICE - this calendar will continue during the summer.

More help is still needed to ensure its survival.


>----------------------------------------------------------<
>                                                          <
> I am happy to report that a new member has joined the    <
> team and that we will continue to publish the calendar.  <
>                                                          <
> We still need additional volunteers to help us find and  <
> verify meeting and event information.                    <
>                                                          <
> We seek your ideas to automate information gathering     <
> and to more easy post meeting notices.                   <
>                                                          <
> MORE DETAILS COMING SOON.  -   WATCH THIS SPOT.          <
>                                                          <
> Please contact us at Submit11 [AT] bugc [DOT] org for    <
> more information or to volunteer to help.                <
>                                                          <
> Al Sherman                                               <
>                                                          <
>----------------------------------------------------------<

We need YOUR HELP to CONTINUE this calendar - Inquire Here for info


Thanks to Recent Event Reporters:
Charles Sestokas

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

Thu AUG 02, 2012
FOSS User Group, "Meet the $25 Raspberry Pi computer", 3PM, Natick Senior Center
Boston Security Meetup, "Forensic analysis of digital evidence", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Web Start Women Boston, "CSS: Styles & Layouts", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Agile New England, "Build-Measure-Learn from the Trenches: Kanban and Lean Startup", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Sat AUG 04, 2012
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Data Science Workshop: R Bootcamp (Morning session)", 9:30AM, Microsoft NERD $
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Data Science Workshop: R Bootcamp (Afternoon session)", 1:30PM, Microsoft NERD $
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Data Science Workshop: Cloud 101",  1:30PM, Microsoft NERD $
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Data Science Workshop: Map/Reduce", 2:45PM, Microsoft NERD $

Mon AUG 06, 2012
Software Craftsmanship Group, "Code Reading", 6:30, Microsoft NERD

Tue AUG 07, 2012
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, "Cognitive disabilities and accessibility", 6:30,  Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
BNUG - The Boston Network Users Group, topic TBD, 6:30,  New Location To Be Announced
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 7PM, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

Wed AUG 08, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Windows 7 Explorer and Libraries", 10 AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "Hacker Day-Node.js, ElasticSearch & MongoDB", 8AM,  WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Windows Explorer", 2PM, Lexington Senior Center
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Professional Sitecore Development" Book Tour, 6:30, location TBD
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, "Golf outing & meeting", Holden Hills Country Club
Back Bay LISA, "No meeting, summer vacation"

Thu AUG 09, 2012
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
NE Java Users Group, "High Performance Messaging", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NH SharePoint User Group, "13 Things you Need to Know About SharePoint 2013", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
Boston Python User Group, "August Project Night", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

Sat AUG 11, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence
Gr NH Linux Users, "Summer BBQ", Miles Smith Farm, Loudon NH

Mon AUG 13, 2012
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Dave Stokes talking about MySQL 5.6", 7PM

Tue AUG 14, 2012
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
NE Artificial Intelligence, "AI, Pizza, and Beer", 6PM, Google Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Boston Interactions Picnic 2012", 6 PM, Daheny Park, Cambridge
NH Seacoast Mac Users, "Intro to Mountain Lion", 6:15, Idea Greenhouse, Durham, NH
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Ruby UG, "Refactoring" ,"RubyMotion", 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Using Social Media APIs,TextMining (Group 1)", 6:30, Microsoft NERD
Boston.pm (Perl), topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Room E51-376
Boston PDA User Group "User Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Using Social Media APIs,TextMining (Group 2)", 7:45, Microsoft NERD

Wed AUG 15, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Informal meeting - Subject TBA", 10 AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Orchard CMS group, "Deploying Orchard to Windows Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Greater Boston useR Group, "Parallel R with Hadoop and Big Data", 6PM, Broad Institute, 415 Main St, Cambridge
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

Thu AUG 16, 2012
Boston Lean IT Meetup, "Boston Lean IT & Kanban Meetup", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Node.js in the wild, "Organizing and deploying your node app", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
North Shore Web Geeks, "cold beverages and stimulating conversation", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport

Sat AUG 18, 2012
Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence

Tue AUG 21, 2012
Boston BizSpark Meetup, "Funded Founders Panel", 8AM, One Marina Park Drive, Boston
Boston MongoDB User Group, "MongoDB Office Hours", 4PM,  Dogpatch Labs, 1 Cambridge Center, 6th Floor, Cambridge
The Data Scientist, "Cleansing the Data", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center, One Broadway, Cambridge
Web Start Women Boston, "Photoshop: Designing for the Web", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Java Meetup, "Java and MongoDB: Everything about Not Only SQL, MongoDB and Morphia", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Wed AUG 22, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Informal meeting - Subject TBA", 10 AM, Lexington Senior Center
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
jQuery Boston Meetup, "Five minute lightning talks", 6:45, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Boston Front End Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, Brightcove, Boston

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

Tue AUG 28, 2012
Boston PDA Developers Group, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed AUG 29, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Informal meeting - Subject TBA", 10 AM, Lexington Senior Center
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), topic TBD, 7PM, Nashua Public Library

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

Tue SEP 04, 2012
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 7PM, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

Wed SEP 05, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Informal meeting - Subject TBA", 10 AM, Lexington Senior Center
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Green Land Cafe, Salem
Seacoast WordPress Developers Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth
MacTechGroup, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

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

Sat SEP 08, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence

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

Tue SEP 11, 2012
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
New England M Users' Group, "The Future with Common Clinicals", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, topic TBD, 6:30,  Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Tomer Sharon, Google NYC", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Thu SEP 13, 2012
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
NE SQL Server Users Group, topic and location TBA

Wed SEP 19, 2012
UPA Boston, "Social Intranet Case Study and more", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
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, Boston HTML5 Game Development Monthly Meeting, 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St, Boston
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
Open Analytics Boston, "Gaining Insights from an Open Source Knowledge Discovery Platform", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Green Land Cafe, Salem
Seacoast WordPress Developers Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth
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
Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM, topic and location TBD

Tue OCT 09, 2012
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Mobile Research", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

Thu OCT 11, 2012
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence

Wed OCT 17, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Joseph Guarino gives another talk", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Boston HTML5 Game Development, Monthly Meeting, 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St, Boston

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
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Green Land Cafe, Salem
Seacoast WordPress Developers Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth
MacTechGroup, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Mon NOV 12, 2012
Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM, topic and location TBD

Tue NOV 13, 2012
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Joseph Carrabis", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

Wed NOV 21, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, unconfirmed, 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Boston HTML5 Game Development, Monthly Meeting, 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St, Boston

Tue DEC 11, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, topic TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
Boston HTML5 Game Development, Monthly Meeting, 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St, Boston



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

AUG 08, 2012
Boston MongoDB Users, "Hacker Day-Node.js, ElasticSearch & MongoDB", WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave

AUG 11-12, 2012
Northeast PHP Conference, "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

SEP 28, 2012
mogo-media/Adobe Seminar, "From InDesign to Digital Publishing", Bunker Hill Community College

OCT 20, 2012
User Experience Professionals, "Design Your Career" Workshop, Bentley, Waltham

OCT 24, 2012
MongoDB Boston 2012, Courtyard Boston Downtown


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

********************************************************************
Please send meeting announcements to Submit11 [AT] bugc [DOT] org
********************************************************************
Of course, we cannot assume any responsibility for errors, etc...

These listings are obtained from user group web pages, mailings, and from other sources.


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.    
Copyright © 1997-2012 by Allan Sherman and Mike Murphy