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

Tue MAR 12, 2013
NH Adobe Users, "Using Facebook for Social Media Apps", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
CloudCamp Boston Meetup, "Backend-as-a-Service & Mobile Data", 5:30, Bentley Univ
Boston NodeJS Meetup, "Stress Testing Realtime Node.js Apps", 6PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Artificial Intelligence meetup, 6PM, Google, Cambridge
New England M Users' Group, "GT.M and the Web", 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, "Java and Garbage: How to collect?", 6:30PM, Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center
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 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
Providence Geeks, "the ABCya.com story", 5:30PM, AS220, Providence
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
Back Bay LISA, "Mastering Human Communication Patterns for Techies", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149

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
Embedded Systems Meetup, "Kickoff Meeting", 6PM, Foliage, Burlington
NE SQL Server Users Group, "DBA/DB Dev Open Q&A Panel", 6:30, One Cambridge Center
Openstack Boston Meetup, "Hyper-V update for OpenStack Grizzly", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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
NE Area SMS Users, "Deploy, Manage Virtual Apps, Settings w System Center", 6PM, TechTarget, Newton

Wed MAR 20, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Tentative: Update on Security SW and more", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Riak Meetup, "Basho Office Hours", 10AM, Basho Tech, Cambridge
NH SolidWorks Users, "eDrawings for Desktop and iOS", 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH
NE Midrange Users Group $, "How Not to Become a Business Refugee", 6PM, Clarion Inn, Seekonk $
NH Joomla Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Manchester Community College
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
UPA Boston Chapter, "Work Life Balance as an Independent Consultant", 6PM, Bentley Univ
New Technology Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Hult International Business School, Cambridge
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "High Performance Agile Teams", 7PM, WPI
Providence JavaScript Meetup, "JavaScript Patterns in Objective-C", 7PM, Swipley, 39 Pike St
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
Refresh Boston, "Designing Design Teams", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston PDA Developers Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

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
Azure Cloud Meetup, "APM meeting Cloud", 6PM, Microsoft NERD
Windows Game Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 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
Ember.js Meetup, "OpenHack event", 6PM, Dockyard, 101 Tremont St
Web Start Women Boston, "Photoshop: Designing for the Web (2 classes)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

Tue APR 02, 2013
Software Engineers Meetup, "Cloud Data Night", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St
Boston Network Users, "Next Generation Firewall", 7PM, NE Rehab, Woburn

Wed APR 03, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "(unconfirmed)  Telescopes part 1", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Riak Meetup, "Basho Office Hours", 10AM, Basho Tech, Cambridge
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
495 Web Prof Meetup, "Networking", 6:30, Panera Bread, Franklin

Thu APR 04, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Email spam & Domain names", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
Agile New England, "The Case for Agile Practices", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE Microsoft Developers Meetup, "Windows 8 Phone Development", 6:30, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham
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
Web Start Women Boston, "Wrangling HTML (2 classes)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
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
Providence Geeks, "topic*tbd", 5:30PM, AS220, Providence
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
Windows Game Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Python Meetup, "April Presentation Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu MAY 02, 2013
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
Agile New England, "Making Product Decisions with a Practical, Sustainable Value Model", 6PM, Constant Contact , Waltham

Mon MAY 06, 2013
New England Magento Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Python Meetup, "May Project Night", 6:30PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAY 07, 2013
Azure Cloud Meetup, "PowerShell on Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD
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
Windows Game Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 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 MAY 30, 2013
Azure Cloud Meetup, "Matthew Grace has an Azure Framework", 6PM, Microsoft NERD

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:

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

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

MAR 23, 2013
Tech Day Camp, Tri-County Regional Vocational Technical High School, Franklin

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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