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

Fri FEB 22, 2013
NetSquared Boston Meetup, "ID Hackathon", 6PM

Sat FEB 23, 2013
NH Drupal Groups, "First BI-ANNUAL NH Drupal Summit", 1-7PM, The Barley House, Concord NH

Mon FEB 25, 2013
Boston Hadoop Meetup, "Couchbase Boston DevDays", 8:45AM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 3PM, Microsoft Store, 800 Boylston St
NetSquared Boston Meetup, "Cloud War Stories", 5:30
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston .NET Study Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge       (formerly "Boston .Net Certification Group")
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

Tue FEB 26, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Intro to Game Development" workshop, 1PM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
Boston Scala Meetup, "Probabilistic Programming", 6:30, MIT Stata Center
Practice Python Coding Meetup, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston MongoDB Meetup, "Building Credential Systems", 7PM, Localytics, 141 Tremont St
Boston PDA Developers Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed FEB 27, 2013
Lexington Computer and Tech, "Routers: firmware update, convert to repeater, configuration", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Technical Skills Share Meetup, 1:30, Chelmsford Public Library
Boston Tech Happy Hour Meetup, 6PM, Brick and Mortar, 569 Mass Ave, Cambridge
Web Dev Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6PM, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH
Graph Database Meetup, "Neo4j and Cypher", 6:30, Wanderu, 1 International Pl
Windows Game Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile Boston, "Radical Innovation", 6:30, 200 West St, Waltham
AngularJS Boston Meetup, "First Meetup!", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Boston Frontend Dev Meetup, "Getting Hired and Landing That Dream Gig", 7PM, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Boston Grails Meetup, "What we've been working on", 7PM, Cantina, 320 Congress St
Boston Python Meetup, "PyCon on the Charles, part 2", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "Producing eBooks", 7PM, Nashua Public Library
Providence JavaScript Meetup, "Atlantic Wire HTML5 App", 7PM, Swipley, 39 Pike St

Thu FEB 28, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Intro to to Creating Windows 8 Apps with JavaScript & HTML" workshop, 1PM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
Agile Boston, "Radical Innovation", 5PM, Workbar, 711 Atlantic Av
NE Netezza Meetup, "Netezza capabilities & performances", 6PM, IBM, 1 Rogers St, Cambridge
Boston Storm Meetup, "Predictive Analytics", 6PM, Crashlytics, Kendall Square
Boston Azure Cloud Meetup, "Matthew Grace from Objective Logistics", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
HPC & GPU Supercomputing Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri MAR 01, 2013
495 Web Professionals Meetup, "Greet and Meet Networking", 7PM, Panera Bread, Franklin

Sat MAR 02, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLVII", 9AM-5PM, MIT Building E-51, Room 061
Boston Wordpress Meetup, "BostonWP HackDay!", 10AM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St

Mon MAR 04, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 3PM, Microsoft Store, 800 Boylston St
Cambridge SEO Meetup, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAR 05, 2013
Web Start Women Boston, "Practical & Realistic SEO", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St
Nashua Linux Users, "tri-amp audio system ", Makeit Labs, Nashua NH

Wed MAR 06, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "potpurri:  TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Windows Server Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, One Cambridge Center
RI Sharepoint Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Providence College
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Red Lulu Cocina & Tequila Bar, Salem
NH Seacoast Wordpress Meetup, 6:30, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH
MacTechGroup Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335

Thu MAR 07, 2013
FOSS User Group, Natick, topic TBD, 3-6PM, Natick Senior Center
Boston Area SolidWorks UG, "Master Layout Sketch/Motion and Animation", 5:30, AS & E., Billerica
Boston Security Meetup, "Security & Hacking...from the hardware side", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Agile New England, "Bill Joiner on Leadership Agility", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Seacoast Drupal Meetup, "Mapping in Drupal 7 with Geofield", 6PM, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth NH
NE Microsoft Developers Meetup, "TypeScript - Igor Moochnick", 6:30, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham
Boston Python Meetup, "PyCon on the Charles, part 3", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Sat MAR 09, 2013
RI Linux Users, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "BoA bill pay, Google Translate, Fleksy typing, Feedler Pro RSS", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Sun MAR 10, 2013
Hacking Predictive Analytics App, "Hackathon", 1:15, location TBA

Mon MAR 11, 2013
Boston Adobe Users, "CreateNOW Boston with Rufus Deuchler", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, "real-world examples of AWS usage", 7PM, Microsoft NERD
Boston MySQL Meetup, "OpenStack", 7PM, location TBD
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue MAR 12, 2013
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Artificial Intelligence meetup, 6PM, Google, Cambridge
New England M Users' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
Boston Ruby UG, "Rails Application Security in Practice", 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
BostonCHI, "Gamification", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Java Meetup, "ava and Garbage: How to collect?", 6:30PM, Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center
Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed MAR 13, 2013
Boston Area SAS Users Group quarterly meeting, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Dragon Software: Product and Technology Background", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
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
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "SharePoint 2013 Provider Hosted Apps", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Worcester Linux Users, "Your Favorite Android Apps", 7PM, WPI Campus Center

Thu MAR 14, 2013
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 noon, Providence
NE Java Users Group, "Rocking the Gradle", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
NE SQL Server Users Group, "DBA/DB Dev Open Q&A Panel", 6:30, One Cambridge Center
Boston CocoaHeads, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

Sat MAR 16, 2013
Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence

Mon MAR 18, 2013
North Shore TECH Meetup, "Bimonthly Social", 6:30 PM, Maple Street Tavern, Danvers
Boston Wordpress Meetup, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAR 19, 2013
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Agile Resiliency", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Wed MAR 20, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Tentative: Update on Security SW and more", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux Soup XIII: GlusterFS", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Open Analytics Boston, "Discussion about Semantic and Structural Conflicts of Data", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Natl Info Security Group, "Incident Response and Malware Detection Using Traffic Analysis", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
IT-Pro User Group, "Quest Software - TBD", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

Thu MAR 21, 2013
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "High Performance Agile Teams", 7PM, WPI
RI/So MA SolidWorks Users, topics TBD, Bard (Davol), Warwick RI

Mon MAR 25, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Tue MAR 26, 2013
Web Start Women Boston, "JavaScript / jQuery (4-class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed MAR 27, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Skype: Dick Bolander", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston PHP Meetup, "W3C at Boston PHP", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Thu MAR 28, 2013
Web Start Women Boston, "Photoshop: Designing for the Web (2 classes)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center

Mon APR 01, 2013
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Wed APR 03, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "(unconfirmed)  Telescopes part 1", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center

Thu APR 04, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Email spam & Domain names", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Agile New England, "Llewellyn Falco on The Case for Agile Practices", 6PM, check website
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Sat APR 06, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "8 hours of cracking external defenses & pivoting / cyber security 101", 9:30, Microsoft NERD

Tue APR 09, 2013
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Boston Python Meetup, "April Project Night", 6:30PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed APR 10, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "The Human Genome by Allan Kleinman", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Top 10 Ways that SharePoint Will Help Drive End User Adoption", 3PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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

Thu APR 11, 2013
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Deciding Between Relational Databases and Storage Tables in the Cloud", 6:30, One Cambridge Center

Tue APR 16, 2013
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Wed APR 17, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Obtaining a domain and website hosting service", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
RI Ruby Meetup, "Ruby Groups: Act Locally - Think Globally", 6PM, location TBA
Boston Linux & Unix, "OpenStack from Scratch", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
IT-Pro User Group, "Server manager essentials", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI
Boston PHP Meetup, "Solution Design", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu APR 18, 2013
Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group, topics TBD, 8:30AM, EMC, Hopkinton
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Twitter Bootstrap: Simple HTML, CSS, and JS for user interfaces", 7PM, WPI

Mon APR 22, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Wed APR 24, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Building a Website using Weebly", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center

Thu MAY 02, 2013
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Mon MAY 06, 2013
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAY 07, 2013
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

Wed MAY 08, 2013
SW Quality Group of NE, "Risk-based Testing", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Search in SharePoint 2013", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAY 14, 2013
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St

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
IT-Pro User Group, "Deep Dive into Hyper-V", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

Tue MAY 21, 2013
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Current State of Healthcare Medical Device Security and You", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Wed MAY 22, 2013
Boston PHP Meetup, "Universal Analytics: The Future of Digital Measurement", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu MAY 23, 2013
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Using LESS or SASS to improve your CSS workflow", 7PM, check website

Mon MAY 27, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Thu JUN 06, 2013
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

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

Thu JUN 13, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Sec problems in postvirtualized environment + Mobile apps in insecure platforms", 6 PM, Jobspring, Boston

Tue JUN 18, 2013
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Wed JUN 19, 2013
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Build, Customize or Buy?", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Linux & Unix, "Federico Returns", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
IT-Pro User Group, "Jack Danial - open source and security expert", 7PM, NE Inst of Tech, E.Greenwich RI

Thu JUN 20, 2013
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Using HTML5 Canvas and jQuery to Create Images, Graphs and a Coloring Book", 7PM, WPI

Mon JUN 24, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

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

Wed JUL 17, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315

Thu JUL 25, 2013
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Develop Node.JS, HTML and JavaScript Apps Using Only Your Web Browser", 7PM, WPI

Thu AUG 08, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Abusing HTML5 + Striking back at polymorphic viruses", 6 PM, Jobspring, Boston

Wed AUG 21, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

FEB 28-MAR 01, 2013
Isovera, "Drupal Module Development", Waltham

MAR 15-17, 2013
New England Software Symposium, Sheraton Colonial Hotel, Wakefield

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

MAR 25-26, 2013
Isovera, "Drupal 7 Layout and Theming", Waltham

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

MAY 29, 2013
Boston UXPA, "Usability and User Experience 2013", Sheraton Boston Hotel

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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