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Resources:
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User group email Notices for July '12,    August '12,    September '12,    October '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 (NEW URL)   --   Events @ Microsoft NERD

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

Tue OCT 02, 2012
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "The Hive Launch Party", 6PM, Firebrand Saints, Cambridge
Boston Network Users, "Bring Your Own Device, BYOD", 6:30, NE Rehab Hospital, Woburn
MIT Drupal Group, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-145
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 7PM, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "SEO Tips...Using Social Media Platforms", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester

Wed OCT 03, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Build a Comcast personal website in 10 minutes", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Windows Server Users, "‘13 Previews, Load-Balancing", 6PM, Microsoft, 1 Cambridge Center
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Red Lulu Cocina & Tequila Bar, Salem
Seacoast WordPress Developers Meetup Group, "Theme Share", 6:30, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth
NH Drupal Meetup, "organizational meeting", 6:30, Me & Ollie's, Newington NH Mall
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Rapid Miner", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
MacTechGroup, "Recent Objective-C Changes", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Thu OCT 04, 2012
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Excel 2007 Data Mining Tips", 5:30, Courtyard Marriott, Billerica
Agile New England, "Agile Chartering", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Web Start Women Boston, "PHP (4 class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Visual Basic Professionals, "PowerPivot: PivotTable on steroids", 6:20, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Fri OCT 05, 2012
North Shore Computer Society Computer Clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Sat OCT 06, 2012
Agile New England, "Chartering for ANE Volunteers", 9AM, scrum.org office, Burlington

Mon OCT 08, 2012
NE F# User Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Relational databases and NoSQL document stores", 7PM, 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
The Data Scientist, "Seminar 5 - Decision Automation", 6:15, Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Building Mobile Experiences", 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 InDesign User Group, "InDepth With InDesign CS6", 6:30, Mt Ida College, Newton
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 PDA Developers Group, "User Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed OCT 10, 2012
Boston Hadoop Meetup, "Big Data Developer Day", 8AM, IBM Innovation Center
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Subjects TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Sitecore MVC Review", 6PM, Grand Circle Travel Gallery, 347 Congress St
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Demystifying SharePoint 2013", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH Joomla Users, "Joomla 3.0 software, migration options", 6PM, Idea Greenhouse, Durham NH
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
NE Java Users Group, "JRuby - The Best of Java and Ruby", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston PHP Meetup, "Show 'n Tell & Code as Well", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 372
North Shore Computer Society, "Windows 8", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Sat OCT 13, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence

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
iPhone Developers Meetup Group, "iOS6 features discussion", 6:30, Medford Public Library

Tue OCT 16, 2012
Boston BizSpark Meetup, "Funded Founders Panel and networking", 8AM, Goodwin Procter LLP, 53 State St
App Development Meetup, "Strategies on monetizing mobile apps", 5PM, Waltham Public Library
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Behavioral Dynamics of Leadership", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Adobe Boston Users, 6PM, topic and location TBA
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Brock Allen: Windows Identity Foundation (WIF) ???", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30
iPhone Developers Meetup Group, "iOS developers Study Group", 7PM, location TBD

Wed OCT 17, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Subjects TBA", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
UPA Boston Chapter, "Exciting short talks", 6PM, Autodesk, Waltham
Boston Orchard CMS group, "close some bugs for Orchard 1.6 ", 6PM, location TBD
Boston Linux & Unix, "Moodle - Learning with the Power of Open Source", 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
Node.js in the Wild Meetup, "Framework Smackdown", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "gdgt live", 7PM, Bijou Nightclub, 51 Stuart St

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
MetroWest Web Dev Meetup, "Packaging w require.js and aura.js", 7PM, Blue Coyote Grill, Maynard

Fri OCT 19, 2012
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Hack the Presidential Debate", 7PM,  MIT Media Lab

Sat OCT 20, 2012
Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence

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
Boston d3.js Meetup, "D3 and the Encyclopedia of Life", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Tue OCT 23, 2012
NH Java Users, "Lightening Talks", 6:30, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH
Boston PDA Developers Group, "Dev Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed OCT 24, 2012
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Subjects TBA", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
Portsmouth Web Dev Meetup, "Hoopla Party - Halloween Style", 5:30, The Thirsty Moose, Portsmouth NH
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, topic TBD, 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, "How EVault is using Windows Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri OCT 26, 2012
Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group $, (see agenda), 8:30AM-4:30PM, IBM Innovation Ctr, Waltham $

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

Tue OCT 30, 2012
Boston Software Engineers, "The Future of Communications with Nuance and Microsoft", 6PM, Microsoft Store, 800 Boylston St
Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Windows 8, XNA and MonoGame", 6:30, 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
Visual Basic Professionals, topic TBD, 6:20, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

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

Tue NOV 06, 2012
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 7PM, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

Wed NOV 07, 2012
NH SolidWorks Users, topics TBD, 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Sitecore Symposium Panel", 6PM, location TBD
NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Introduction to MonoTouch and Collection Views in iOS6", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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

Sat NOV 10, 2012
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence

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 MongoDB Meetup Group, "Variety and Wanderu", 6:30, MassChallenge, One Marina Park Dr
Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM, topic and location TBD
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue NOV 13, 2012
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Adobe Boston Users, 6PM, topic and location TBA
New England M Users' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
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
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Wed NOV 14, 2012
Boston Software Engineers, "The Future is Real Time with IBT Technologies", 6:30, WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave
Back Bay LISA, "Internet buffer bloat", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149
Boston Front End Developers Meetup, "Adobe Create the Web Tour Boston", 7PM, location TBD
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

Sat NOV 17, 2012
Boston Software Engineers, "Realtime Web Workshop", Noon, WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave

Mon NOV 19, 2012
Boston Orchard CMS group, "Inside Module Development", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
Node.js in the Wild Meetup, "Testing Node.js Code", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

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

Wed NOV 28, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

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

Mon DEC 03, 2012
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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, "Mobile security talk", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Patrick Hynds and Duane Laflotte: Hacker vs. Hacker", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Visual Basic Professionals, topic TBD, 6:20, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "KnockoutJS", 7PM, Running Start Incubator, Worcester

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

Mon DEC 10, 2012
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, 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
Boston PHP Meetup, "How to Become a Web Developer", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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 DEC 26, 2012
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon JAN 07, 2013
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Thu JAN 10, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Secure data deletion under linux", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston

Mon JAN 14, 2013
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

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 JAN 23, 2013
Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon FEB 04, 2013
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu FEB 07, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Intel security talk", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston

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 30-OCT 04, 2012
Predictive Analytics World, Seaport World Trade Center

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

OCT 25-26, 2012
Drupal 7 Layout and Theming, 460 Totten Pond Road, Waltham

NOV 05, 2012
National Information Security Group, "Securanoia - Boston 2012", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

APR 08-10, 2013
Big Data TechCon, Hyatt Regency Cambridge

APR 23-24, 2013
BOSCON, Waltham Woods Conference Center

MAY 28-31, 2013
AnDevCon: Android DevCon Spring, Westin Waterfront

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

AUG 11-14, 2013
SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference, Boston


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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