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Updated 08/21/2012 -- '12 #212
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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 May '12,    June '12,    July '12,    August '12,    September '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.

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
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, "7 product demonstrations", 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Wed AUG 22, 2012
Lexington Computer & Technology Group, "The Higgs Boson, also Internet apps built into TV", 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
Portsmouth Web Dev Meetup, "Lessons learned while developing a high concurrency site", 6PM, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH
The Data Scientist, "Cleansing the Data", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Ctr
Agile Boston, "The Happiness Metric", 6:30, 200 West St, Waltham
jQuery Boston Meetup, "Five minute lightning talks", 6:45, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Boston Python User Group, "Giant Robots and Lightning", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu AUG 23, 2012
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
Agile Boston, "The Happiness Metric", 3:30, Sungard, 100 High St, Boston
Boston d3.js Meetup, "Introduction to d3 using Tributary", 6:45, Cambridge Innovation Center

Fri AUG 24, 2012
NE F# User Group, "Featured Speaker: Richard Minerich", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Sat AUG 25, 2012
NH Drupal Users, "Summer BBQ", 2:30, Miles Smith Farm, Loudon NH

Mon AUG 27, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "WordCamp Aftermath", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Wed AUG 29, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "the Latest in Exploring Mars", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Bostontech Meetup, "Designing Web Backends for 100 Million Events per Day", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), topic TBD, 7PM, Nashua Public Library

Thu AUG 30, 2012
NH SolidWorks Users, (see agenda), 5:15, Rapid Sheet Metal, Nashua NH
Web Start Women Boston, "Project Night", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Refresh Boston, "A Customer-Centric Approach to Product Strategy and Design", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue SEP 04, 2012
MIT Drupal Group, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-145
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
FOSS User Group, Natick, "Free, Open-Source Software", 3-6PM, Natick Senior Center
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Getting the Most from Your Internal Audit Program", 5:30, Courtyard Marriot, Billerica
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Developer Testing with Visual Studio 2012", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Security Meetup, "Secure data deletion under linux", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Web Start Women Boston, "JavaScript / jQuery (4 class series)", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Visual Basic Professionals, "A Crash Course In Windows 8", 6:15, 201 Jones Rd, 1st floor, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Fri SEP 07, 2012
North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Sat SEP 08, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLV", 9-5, MIT Building E-51, Room 061
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 SEP 10, 2012
NE Mobile .NET Developers, "Developing Services with Mono for Android", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
NE Artificial Intelligence, "AI, Pizza, and Beer", 6PM, Google Cambridge
Cambridge Semantic Web, "translation of BEL, Semantic Univ", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
New England M Users' Group, "The Future with Common Clinicals", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
NH Seacoast Mac Users, "Mac, iPhone, iPod or iPad Q&A", 6:15, Rye Jr High
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
BostonCHI, "Tomer Sharon, Google NYC", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Ruby UG, "How Ruby Implements Blocks, Closures and Metaprogramming", 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Boston PDA User Group "User Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, MO MEETING THIS MONTH

Wed SEP 12, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, Subject TBD, 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Social Connected", 6PM, Grand Circle Travel Gallery, 347 Congress St
Back Bay LISA, "Solid State Drives", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149
Boston Macintosh Users, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51

Thu SEP 13, 2012
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Season Opener",  3PM, New Cambridge Location
Boston Lean IT Meetup, "Boston Lean IT & Kanban Meetup", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
NE Java Users Group, "Play 2.0: The power of Node.js on the JVM ", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 372

Mon SEP 17, 2012
DAMA International, "Data Visualization", 6PM, Harvard Pilgrim HC, Wellesley

Tue SEP 18, 2012
DrinksOnTap Meetup, "Demos, drinks and discussions about mobile development", 6PM, Tavern in the Square, Porter Square
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Wetware Craftsmanship", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Boston Web Performance Group, "Load Testing and Performance Analytics with JMeter and New Relic", 6:30, Akamai, Cambridge

Wed SEP 19, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Subject TBA", 10 AM, Lexington Senior Center
UPA Boston, "Social Intranet Case Study and more", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
NE Midrange Users Group, "The Programmers Future", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
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
Windows Phone User and Developer Group, "topic*tbd", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston HTML5 Game Development, Boston HTML5 Game Development Monthly Meeting, 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St, Boston
Node.js in the Wild Meetup, "Sharing code between Node.js apps", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Thu SEP 20, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, "Healthcare Topics", 8:15AM-Noon, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston AITP $, "Networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Sat SEP 22, 2012
NH SharePoint User Group, "SharePoint Saturday", 8AM, Southern New Hampshire University, Hooksett, NH

Sun SEP 23, 2012
Boston Arduino Meetup, "General Project Work", 11AM, location TBA

Mon SEP 24, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta

Tue SEP 25, 2012
Open Analytics Boston, "Gaining Insights from an Open Source Knowledge Discovery Platform", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Facebook Developers Meetup, 6:30, location TBA

Wed SEP 26, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Subject TBA", 10 AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Front End Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, Brightcove, Boston

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

Tue OCT 02, 2012
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 7PM, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

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
Visual Basic Professionals, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

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
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Wed OCT 10, 2012
Back Bay LISA, "The State of ZFS", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149

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

Mon OCT 15, 2012
DAMA International, "Governance and Maintenance for Analytics and Operations", 6PM, location TBA

Tue OCT 16, 2012
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed OCT 17, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Joseph Guarino Redux", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
IT-Pro User Group, "The Exchange Guy, Lee Benjamin - Exchange 2010 SP2", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI
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 OCT 25, 2012
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

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

Thu NOV 08, 2012
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Windows Identity Foundation", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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 14, 2012
Back Bay LISA, "Internet buffer bloat", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149
IT-Pro User Group, "Veeam Software overview", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

Thu NOV 15, 2012
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Thu NOV 29, 2012
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu DEC 06, 2012
Boston Security Meetup, "Securigin will be doing a sec talk", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue DEC 11, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, topic TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Margot Bloomstein", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

Wed DEC 12, 2012
Back Bay LISA, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149

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
IT-Pro User Group, "Windows Server 2012 Launch", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

Wed JAN 09, 2013
Back Bay LISA, "LISA Recap", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

AUG 22, 2012
Agile Boston, "Agile ASAP: One-Day Full Immersion Agile Training", 200 West St, Waltham

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 15, 2012
Boston Accessibility Conference, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

SEP 17-20, 2012
Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center

SEP 20, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users training class, "Analyzing U.S. Healthcare Data with SAS", 1-5PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

SEP 22, 2012
NE Java & Boston Chapt ACM "The Cloud: How It will Transform Your Life as a Developer!", 9:30-4, Harvard University

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

OCT 13, 2012
Boston Application Security Conference, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

OCT 24, 2012
MongoDB Boston 2012, Courtyard Boston Downtown

JUN 11-13, 2013
Red Hat Summit / JBoss World 2013, 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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