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

Thu JAN 10, 2013
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Dimensional Management", 5:30, Tewksbury Country Club
Boston Area SolidWorks UG, "Mold / Tool /Die 101, Sustainability Intro", 5:30, ProSource, Waltham
Boston Security Meetup, "Secure data deletion under linux", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
NH SharePoint User Group, "10 Best Productivity Features In SharePoint 2013", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
Boston Lean IT Meetup, "Boston Lean IT & Kanban Meetup", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
NE Java Users Group, "Getting started developing with a PaaS", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NH Drupal Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, ABI Innovation Hub, Manchester NH
Web Start Women Boston, "Wrangling HTML (pt 1)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Big Data and Cloud at Microsoft", 6:30, Microsoft @ One Cambridge Center
OpenStack User Meetup, "New Year Kick-Off Party", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
North Shore Computer Society, " Identity Theft and Computer Security", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 372

Sat JAN 12, 2013
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "Vibug Post-holiday Party", 1-4PM, Boston Beer Works, 61 Brookline Ave
North Shore TECH Meetup, "3D Printing Presentation", 2PM, Custom Heat LLC, Danvers

Mon JAN 14, 2013
Revit Meetup Group, "Review of Autodesk 360 Cloud Services", 5:30, Autodesk, Waltham
Storm Meetup Group, "Getting started with Storm", 6PM,  Visible Measures, 143 South Street
Nashua Adobe Meetup Group, "Photoshop CS6 Power Hour", 6PM, Renaissance Downtowns, Nashua NH
Mobile Monday Boston, "Mobile Marketing + Advertising", 6PM, Seaport Hotel
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Introduction to NuoDB", 7PM, location TBD
Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, "real-world examples of AWS usage", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JAN 15, 2013
NH SolidWorks Users, "Property Tab Builder, Title Block Table, World Model Mania Files", 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Writing Effective User Stories", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Google Developer's Group Boston, "Developer Presentations App Engine", 6:15, EnerNOC Inc, 101 Federal St, Boston
Web Start Women Boston, "Version Control with Git (pt 2)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Java Meetup, "Scaling Java Apps with Elastic Database Virtualization", 6:30PM, Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center, Cambridge
Web Performance Meetup, "Analyzing the Impact of Content and SEO on Performance", 6:30, 177 Huntington Ave, Boston
Central Mass Adobe Meetup, "InDesign with Randall Warniers", 6:30, location TBA
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

Wed JAN 16, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology Group, "Anti-malware and anti-virus software: Gary Patrick", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, "Submodeling, Library Feature 101", 5:30, Assabet Valley Reg Tech H S, Marlborough
Boston PHP Meetup, "Usability Speed Dating", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE Midrange Users Group, "PHP/IBM IBM i Toolkit", 6PM, Clarion Inn, Seekonk
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
Web Start Women Boston, "Wrangling HTML (pt 2)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Mobile C# Dev Meetup, "Data Visualization with MonoTouch using NucliOS", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Maqetta and Dojo Mobile", 7PM, Running Start Incubator, Worcester
BostonCHI, IEEE, & GBC/ACM, "Jared Spool: It's a Great Time to be a UX Designer", 7PM, Constant Contact, Waltham

Fri JAN 18, 2013
North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Sat JAN 19, 2013
Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence

Mon JAN 21, 2013
North Shore TECH Meetup bimonthly social, 6:30, Maple Street Tavern, Danvers
Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "co-founder of IBE.net", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Hacking Predictive Analytics Meetup, "Hackathon", 7PM, Venture Cafe, 1 Broadway, Cambridge

Tue JAN 22, 2013
Web Start Women Boston, "Version Control with Git (pt 3)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston MySQL Meetup informal dinner, 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub, Cambridge
Boston PDA Developers Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Manchester NH Linux Users, "Primer on IPv6 on Linux", 7PM, The Farm, 1181 Elm St

Wed JAN 23, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Computer & Internet Safety by Lexington Police Dept", 10 am, 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, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Interactions, "our annual winter party", 6PM, The Asgard, Cambridge
Natl Info Security Group, "Smoking Guns in the Windows Registry", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Front End Developers Meetup, "Forget Frameworks: Create Your Own Flexible Grid System", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Thu JAN 24, 2013
Tech In Motion Boston, "Perform Better in 2013", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Python Meetup, "January Presentation Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon JAN 28, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), topic TBD, 7PM, Nashua Public Library

Tue JAN 29, 2013
Greater Boston Chapter of ACM, "Playing with WaveForms: Cypress PSOC and Oscilloscopes", 6PM, Lincoln Lab, Lexington

Wed JAN 30, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "The Ever-changing Climate Change by George Gamota", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center

Thu JAN 31, 2013
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu FEB 01, 2013
Practice Python Coding Meetup, "Pending: Mentor Connect Meeting -- Connecting Beginners w/ Mentors", 6:30, TBD

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

Tue FEB 05, 2013
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St
Boston Python Meetup, "February Project Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed FEB 06, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Potpurri: Using our Yahoo group and other discussion", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
Windows Server Meetup and Group, topic TBD, 6PM, One Cambridge Center
RI Sharepoint Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Providence College
Desktop GNU/Linux Meetup, "How to Build a Home/Media Server with GNU/Linux", 6:30, MIT bldg E51
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Red Lulu Cocina & Tequila Bar, Salem
MacTechGroup Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Thu FEB 07, 2013
FOSS User Group, Natick, topic TBD, 3-6PM, Natick Senior Center
Boston Security Meetup, "Intel security talk", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
NE Microsoft Developers Meetup, "Intro to Machine Learning", 6:30, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Sat FEB 09, 2013
RI Linux Users, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "details will be announced at the beginning of February", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon FEB 11, 2013
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "MySQL Security", 7PM, location TBD

Tue FEB 12, 2013
Artificial Intelligence meetup, 6PM, Google, Cambridge
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Build Guild in Cape Cod monthly gathering of web folks, 6:30, BBC, Sandwich

Wed FEB 13, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Topic TBA", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
SW Quality Group of NE, "Implementing Quality as a Platform", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
So NE SQL Server, "Windowing Functions and SQL Server ~ Christina Leo", 6PM, NEIT, East Greenwich, RI 

Thu FEB 14, 2013
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence

Wed FEB 20, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Picasa Revisited by Gerry Sauermann", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center
IT-Pro User Group, "Quest Software - TBD", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI
Boston Linux & Unix, "IPv6 on a Home Network", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315

Thu FEB 21, 2013
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Develop Node.JS, HTML and JavaScript Apps", 7PM, WPI

Mon FEB 25, 2013
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 Python Meetup, "PyCon on the Charles, part 1", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed FEB 27, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Topic TBA", 10 am, Lexington Senior Center

Thu FEB 28, 2013
Boston Azure Cloud Meetup, "Matthew Grace from Objective Logistics", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAR 05, 2013
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

Wed MAR 06, 2013
Windows Server Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, One Cambridge Center

Thu MAR 07, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Security & Hacking...from the hardware side", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston

Sat MAR 09, 2013
RI Linux Users, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence

Tue MAR 12, 2013
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

Wed MAR 13, 2013
SW Quality Group of NE, "Use Cases for Requirements and Testing", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
So NE SQL Server, "Specific Techniques to Make Queries Faster ~ Andy Novick", 6PM, NEIT, East Greenwich, RI 

Thu MAR 14, 2013
NE Java Users Group, "Rocking the Gradle", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Using HTML5 Canvas and jQuery to Create Images, Graphs and a Coloring Book", 7PM, WPI

Wed MAR 20, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux Soup XIII", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Open Analytics Boston, "Discussion about Semantic and Structural Conflicts of Data", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu MAR 21, 2013
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "High Performance Agile Teams", 7PM, WPI

Tue APR 02, 2013
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

Thu APR 04, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Email spam & Domain names", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston

Wed APR 10, 2013
SW Quality Group of NE, "Testing Mobile Apps", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
So NE SQL Server, "Hey! DBAs! You’re doing it wrong! ~ Mike Walsh", 6PM, NEIT, East Greenwich, RI 

Wed MAY 08, 2013
SW Quality Group of NE, "Risk-based Testing", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Wed MAY 15, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Demystifying UEFI", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
So NE SQL Server, "SQL Server Development and Administration Tips and Tricks", 6PM, NEIT, East Greenwich, RI 

Wed JUN 12, 2013
SW Quality Group of NE, "Annual Election of Officers ", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
So NE SQL Server, "Using File Partitioning And Data Compression.... ~ John Miner", 6PM, NEIT, East Greenwich, RI 

Wed JUL 10, 2013
SW Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

JAN 18, 2013
Mad*Pow: Beyond Gamification: Designing Behavior Change Games, Boston

JAN 24, 2013
Drupal 7 in a Day, Waltham

JAN 26, 2013
Seacoast Wordpress Developers, "Intro to WordPress class (for beginners)", 8:30-2:30, Portsmouth, NH

MAR 16-17, 2013
The Northeast GNU/Linuxfest, Harvard University

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 10-14, 2013
Red Hat Summit / JBoss World 2013, Hynes Convention Center

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

SEP 10-12, 2013
IEEE High Performance Extreme Computing Conference(HPEC ‘13), Westin Hotel, Waltham


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)

Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar

Boston TechVenue Calendar

Boston Events List for Professionals

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