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

Wed SEP 12, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, Subject TBD, 2PM, Lexington Senior Center
Providence Geeks, "the Fanium story", 5:30PM, AS220, Providence
Adobe Boston Users, "Photoshop CS6, Fireworks CS6", 6PM, MassArt Auditorium, Huntington Av
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Intro to Custom Workflow Actions", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Social Connected", 6PM, Grand Circle Travel Gallery, 347 Congress St
Boston PHP Meetup, "Developing Windows 8 Apps with Your Existing Web Skills", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Back Bay LISA, "Solid State Drives", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149
Boston Macintosh Users, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51
Worcester Linux Users, "Raspberry Pi", 7PM, WPI, Higgins Labs 230

Thu SEP 13, 2012
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
NE Java Users Group, "Play 2.0: The power of Node.js on the JVM ", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NH Joomla Users, "Build a blog from start to finish", 6PM, Manchester Community College
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Database Horror Stories, Bad Code, and How Not to be a Statistic", 6:30, Microsoft @ One Cambridge Center
Boston Software Engineers, "IBT Technologies", 6:30, WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Av
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 372
Practice Python Coding Meetup, "Socialize & Code", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Ctr
North Shore Computer Society "Xfinity Home Security", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Plant

Sat SEP 15, 2012
Boston Software Engineers, "IBT Real Time Web Training Event", Noon, WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Av
Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence

Mon SEP 17, 2012
DAMA International, "Data Visualization", 6PM, Harvard Pilgrim HC, Wellesley
Boston .NET Study Group, "HTML5 / CSS3", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue SEP 18, 2012
Boston BizSpark Meetup, "Funded Founders Panel and networking", 8AM, One Marina Park Drive, Boston
Virtualization User Group, "Fujitsu PRIMERGY, Virtual Infrastructure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Wetware Craftsmanship", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
DrinksOnTap Meetup, "Demos, drinks and discussions about mobile development", 6PM, Tavern in the Square, Porter Square
The Data Scientist, "Seminar 4 - Data Exploration & Mining", 6:15,  EnerNOC Inc, 101 Federal Street
Web Start Women Boston, "Mobile Apps: The Nuts & Bolts You Need to Get Started", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Facebook Developers Meetup, "Robust Handling for calling Facebook", 6:30, Tavern in the Square, Cambridge
Boston Java Meetup, "Java and Mysql: Scaling is everything!", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Web Performance Group, "Load Testing and Performance Analytics with JMeter and New Relic", 6:30, Akamai, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "Learn about7 new products", 6:30, Boston Globe, Dorchester
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Multilayer Perceptron and Support Vector Machines", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed SEP 19, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Subject TBA", 2PM, Lexington Senior Center
Route 9 Ruby Meetup Group, "Arduino w/ Ruby", 5:30, Punchbowl, Framingham
NE Midrange Users Group, "The Programmers Future", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
NH .NET Users, "Web API", 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
IT-Pro User Group, "Get a Good Penetration Test & Become a Security Jedi in the Process", 7PM, NEIT, E.Greenwich RI

Thu SEP 20, 2012
Boston Area SAS Users, "Healthcare Topics", 8:15AM-Noon, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston AITP $, "What is "SSD Caching" and can it hurt me?", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $
Agile New England, "Special Extended Agile 101 Session: Exploring User Wishes Through Mind Mapping", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Greater Boston Chapter of ACM, "Computer-Aided-Biology -> Biology-Aided-Computers", 7PM, Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center
North Shore Web Geeks, "Create a strong business website", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport

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
Boston .NET Study Group, "Debugging JS", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue SEP 25, 2012
Open Analytics Boston, "Gaining Insights from an Open Source Knowledge Discovery Platform", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Distributed Version Control with Git", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PDA Developers Group, "Dev Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed SEP 26, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Subject TBA", 2PM, Lexington Senior Center
UPA Boston, "Social Intranet Case Study and more", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
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
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, 290 Congress St, Boston
Tech In Motion Boston, "Ultra-Modern Front End Architectures", 6:30, Microsoft NERD
Google Developers Meetup, "Google AppEngine", 6:30, Google, Cambridge
Boston Front End Developers Meetup, "HTML5 Prototyping", 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
NE Area SMS Users, "(tentative) Configuration Manager 2012 Migration", 6PM, Microsoft, 1 Cambridge Center, Cambridge

Sat SEP 29, 2012
Cape Cod .NET Users, "Cookout/potluck social event", 11:30AM, 20 Dixon Dr, Mashpee

Mon OCT 01, 2012
Boston Software Engineers, "Nuance Communications", 6PM, Microsoft Store, 800 Boylston St
Boston .NET Study Group, ".NET Framework 4.5", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue OCT 02, 2012
MIT Drupal Group, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-145
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, Red Lulu Cocina & Tequila Bar, 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
Agile New England, "Agile Chartering", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Security Meetup, "Email spam & Domain names", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Web Start Women Boston, "PHP (4 class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
Visual Basic Professionals, "Stay tuned"

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
Boston .NET Study Group, NO MEETING

Tue OCT 09, 2012
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
NE Artificial Intelligence, "AI, Pizza, and Beer", 6PM, Google, Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Mobile Research", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Ruby UG, "Creating Ruby Extensions in C", 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Boston PDA Developers Group, "User Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

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
FOSS User Group, Natick, "Free, Open-Source Software", 3-6PM, NEW Natick Senior Center

Mon OCT 15, 2012
DAMA International, "Governance and Maintenance for Analytics and Operations", 6PM, location TBA
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Study Group, "ASP.NET MVC 4.5", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue OCT 16, 2012
App Development Meetup, "Strategies on monetizing mobile apps", 5PM, Waltham Public Library
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Brock Allen: Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) ???", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
iPhone Developers Meetup Group, "iOS developers Study Group", 7PM, location TBD

Wed OCT 17, 2012
Boston Linux & Unix, "Joseph Guarino Redux", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
NE Oracle Users, "Oracle Optimizer Workshop", 6:30, Doubletree, Westborough
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
Boston Lean IT Meetup, "Boston Lean IT & Kanban Meetup", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Data Quality Services (DQS) - End to End", 6:30, Microsoft @ One Cambridge Center
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "HTML5 Canvas Tag", 7PM, Running Start Incubator, Worcester

Mon OCT 22, 2012
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Study Group, "Windows 8 Apps – HTML5 / CSS / JS", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Tech In Motion Boston, "Windows 8 Development Tools", 6:30, Microsoft NERD

Wed OCT 24, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Agile Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, 200 West St, Waltham

Thu OCT 25, 2012
Agile Boston, topic TBD, 3:30, Sungard, 100 High St, Boston
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon OCT 29, 2012
Boston .NET Study Group, "Windows 8 Apps – XAML / C#", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu NOV 01, 2012
Boston Security Meetup, "Linux IPsec", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Web Start Women Boston, "Project Night", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Mon NOV 05, 2012
New England Magento Meetup, "Monthly Magento Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Study Group, "ASP.NET Web API", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed NOV 07, 2012
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Red Lulu Cocina & Tequila Bar, 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
Boston Lean IT Meetup, "Boston Lean IT & Kanban Meetup", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "topic TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Twitter Bootstrap", 7PM, Running Start Incubator, Worcester

Mon NOV 12, 2012
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Study Group, "Restful API / Node.js Part 1", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Mandeep Singh of Mandeeps", 6:30, location TBD

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
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Big Data and Cloud at Microsoft", 6:30, Microsoft @ One Cambridge Center

Mon NOV 19, 2012
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Robbins Library, 700 Mass Ave, Arlington
Boston .NET Study Group, "Restful API / Node.js Part 2", 6:30, 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

Mon NOV 26, 2012
Boston .NET Study Group, "Mobile apps with jQuery mobile", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Mon DEC 03, 2012
Boston .NET Study Group, "RavenDb.net", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed DEC 05, 2012
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Red Lulu Cocina & Tequila Bar, Salem

Thu DEC 06, 2012
Boston Security Meetup, "Securigin will be doing a sec talk", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Patrick Hynds and Duane Laflotte: Hacker vs. Hacker", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "KnockoutJS", 7PM, Running Start Incubator, Worcester

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
Boston Accessibility Roundtable, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Back Bay LISA, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149

Thu DEC 13, 2012
Boston Azure Users, "AAD/Authentication and/or AAL", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Lean IT Meetup, "Boston Lean IT & Kanban Meetup", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

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

Wed JAN 16, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Android Sensing", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
IT-Pro User Group, "Heroix Longitude", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

Thu JAN 17, 2013
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Maqetta and Dojo Mobile", 7PM, Running Start Incubator, Worcester

Wed FEB 20, 2013
IT-Pro User Group, "Quest Software - TBD", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

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 20-21, 2012
Drupal Training Class, "Drupal 7 Layout and Theming", 460 Totten Pond Rd, Waltham

SEP 21, 2012
North Eastern SolidWorks User Conference, Westford Regency Inn

SEP 22, 2012
UXPA Boston Weekend Workshop, "The Moderator's Worst-Case Survival Guide", 9AM-Noon, Bentley, Waltham
NE Java & Boston Chapt ACM, "The Cloud: How It will Transform Your Life as a Developer!", 9:30AM-4PM, Harvard University

SEP 25-27, 2012
SAS Complimentary Workshop Series, Prudential Center, Boston

SEP 26, 2012
AgileBoston, "Agile ASAP: One-Day Full Immersion Agile Training", 200 West St, Waltham

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

SEP 29, 2012
Seacoast WordPress Developers Meetup Group, "Intro to WordPress class", 8:30AM, location TBA

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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