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

Mon MAY 06, 2013
Boston Android Meetup, "Building your first Android App", 6PM, Hack/Reduce, Cambridge
Boston Python Meetup, "May Project Night", 6:30PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Openstack Boston Meetup, "OpenStack Summit Review", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
North Shore TECH Meetup, "Bimonthly Social", 6:30, Maple Street Tavern, Danvers
Hacking Predictive Analytics App $, "Hackathon", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Tue MAY 07, 2013
NE Info Tech Pro Meetup, "IT LAB - Server 2012", 9 am, New Horizons, Waltham
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 11:30AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
NE Info Tech Pro Meetup, "IT LAB - Server 2012", 1 pm, New Horizons, Waltham
Boston Jaspersoft Meetup, "Cloud Reporting Framework", 4PM, Sheraton Commander, Cambridge
Azure Cloud Meetup, "PowerShell on Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD
Boston Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-145.
Google Developers Meetup, "Visualization Culture", 6:30, 5 Cambridge Ctr
Network Users, "Linux/Unix and Windows Inter-operability", 6:30, NE Rehab Hosp, Woburn
App Development Meetup, "Developers meet Recruiters", 6:30, TBD
Web Performance Meetup, "What if your database could be elastic?", 6:30, Wayfair, 177 Huntington Ave
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St
Code for Boston Meetup, "Weekly Hack Night", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed MAY 08, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Running Mac OSX on a Dell PC", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
SW Quality Group of NE, "Risk-based Testing", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Search in SharePoint 2013", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Java Meetup, "Java and History", 6PM, Harvard Univ
So NE SQL Server, "SQL Server Development and Administration Tips and Tricks", 6PM, NEIT, East Greenwich, RI
NH Joomla Users, "Content Editor (JCE) extension", 6PM, Manchester Community College Library
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Interactive Web Visualizations using D3", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Ember.js Meetup, "Ember List-View, Ember Basics", 6:30
Back Bay LISA, "Asterisk and VOIP", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 145

Thu MAY 09, 2013
Providence Web Design Meetup, "lunch-hour freeform discussion of all things web", 12 Noon, Providence
NE Java Users Group, "Big Data and Business Intelligence", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Web Start Women Boston, "CSS: Positioning & Layouts (4-class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
NE SQL Server Users Group, topic TBD, 6:30, One Cambridge Center
Boston Data Mining meetup, "User friendly Data Mining", 6:30, hack/reduce, 275 3rd St, Cambridge
Boston CocoaHeads, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 325

Sat MAY 11, 2013
Big Data Boston meetup, "Data Analytics hackathon", 9AM, Hack/reduce, 275 3rd St, Cambridge
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Windows 8 App Mashup Workshop", 10 AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
RI Linux Users, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "Tech Resources", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon MAY 13, 2013
Drinks on Tap, "Demos, drinks and discussions about mobile development (21+)", 6PM, Ned Devine's
NH WordPress Meetup, "Child Themes Made Easy", 6:30, The Farm Bar & Grille, Manchester NH
Wikipedia Meetup, 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, 7PM, Microsoft NERD
Boston MySQL Meetup, "VoltDB", 7PM, location TBA
Hacking Predictive Analytics App $, "Hackathon", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Tue MAY 14, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 11:30AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
New England M Users, "iKnow: Mining an legal case for data", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
Boston Ruby UG, "Closures, Writing a Programming Language in Ruby", 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
eXtreme Tuesday Meetup, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
BostonCHI, "Social Interfaces, Social Algorithms, and Social Languages", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Tech in motion Meetup, "Tech Mixer: Mobile Edition", 6:30, Scholars Boston Bistro
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston.pm (Perl), topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Room E51-376
Code for Boston Meetup, "Weekly Hack Night", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed MAY 15, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Paul will finish discussing his Chromebook", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
NE Midrange Users Group $, "IBM POWER Announcements", 6PM, Clarion Inn, Seekonk $
RI Ruby Meetup, "TBA", 6PM, Needs a location
Boston Linux & Unix, "BeagleBone Black and Open Source Computing", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
A11yBos, "Boston Accessibility Roundtable 5/15 Meeting", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston HTML5 Game Development, "HTML5 Game Development Monthly Meetup", 7PM, Bocoup Loft
IT-Pro User Group, "Deep Dive into Hyper-V", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, E.Greenwich RI

Thu MAY 16, 2013
Boston AITP $, "networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $

Sat MAY 18, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Game Development for Beginners", 10 AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence

Mon MAY 20, 2013
Boston Revit Meetup, "What's New in Revit 2014!!", 6PM, Autodesk, Waltham
New England Magento E-Commerce Meetup, 6:30, Microsoft NERD

Tue MAY 21, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 11:30AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
NSCoder Boston Meetup, coding alone together, 6PM, WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Current State of Healthcare Medical Device Security and You", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Boston MongoDB User Group, "MongoDB and Meteor at Gander", 7PM, TBD
BostonPython User Group, "May Presentation Night: Kenneth Reitz", 7PM, Microsoft NERD
Code for Boston Meetup, "Weekly Hack Night", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed MAY 22, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Advanced Skype & TeamViewer - Bells and Whistles", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston PHP Meetup, "Universal Analytics: The Future of Digital Measurement", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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 MAY 23, 2013
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Project, Networking, and Startup Night", 6 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Django Boston Meetup Group, "Kenneth Reitz from Heroku in May", 7PM, TBD
Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Using LESS or SASS to improve your CSS workflow", 7PM, check website

Fri MAY 24, 2013
Smart Data Meetup, "SGI/Slalom presentation", 9 AM, Slalom Consulting 316 Stuart St

Mon MAY 27, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Burlington
Adobe Boston, 6:30, Northeastern Univ

Tue MAY 28, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 11:30AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
Web Start Women Boston, "Practical & Realistic SEO", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Informal Dinner at John Harvard's", 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub
Boston PDA Developers Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Wordpress Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Code for Boston Meetup, "Weekly Hack Night", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed MAY 29, 2013
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "iPhoto Workshop", 7PM, Nashua Public Library

Thu MAY 30, 2013
Azure Cloud Meetup, "Matthew Grace has an Azure Framework", 6PM, Microsoft NERD
Lean Startup Circle Boston, "Lean Startup Circle Boston May Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD

Fri MAY 31, 2013
Windows Server Users, "Windows Server 2012 Loadfest", 8:30AM-4PM, One Cambridge Center

Mon JUN 03, 2013
Django Boston Meetup Group, "django-crispy-forms w/Brian Dant: June", 7PM, TBD

Tue JUN 04, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 11:30AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

Wed JUN 05, 2013
Windows Server Users, "Monthly BAWSUG Meeting", 6PM, 1CC
RI Sharepoint Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Providence College
Seacoast NH Wordpress Developers, "Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Alpha Loft
BostonPython User Group, "June Project Night", 6:30, NERD

Thu JUN 06, 2013
NE Microsoft Developers Meetup, "New Features of Azure", 6:30, 201 Jones Rd, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Fri JUN 07, 2013
495 Web Prof Meetup, "Networking", 6:30, Panera Bread, Franklin

Mon JUN 10, 2013
Web Start Women Boston, "Wrangling HTML (2-class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM, topic and location TBA
Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, 7PM, TBD
Wikipedia Meetup, 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue JUN 11, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 11:30AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
eXtreme Tuesday Club - Boston, "eXtreme Tuesday Club - Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

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
A11yBos, "Boston Accessibility Roundtable 6/12 Meeting", 6:30, Microsoft NERD

Thu JUN 13, 2013
Providence Web Development Meetup, "Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Monthly Meetup", 12:00, TBD
Boston Security Meetup, "Sec problems in postvirtualized environment + Mobile apps in insecure platforms", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Database Design With CA and SoftMart", 6:30, One Cambridge Center

Mon JUN 17, 2013
Hacking Predictive Analytics App in Boston, "Hackathon: Develop/MapReduce Your Dream Predictive Analytics/BigData App.", 7PM, TBD

Tue JUN 18, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 11:30AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
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
Boston HTML5 Game Development, "HTML5 Game Development Monthly Meetup", 7PM, Bocoup Loft
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, "Twitter Bootstrap: Simple HTML, CSS, and JS for user interfaces", 7PM, WPI

Mon JUN 24, 2013
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Burlington
Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta

Tue JUN 25, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 11:30AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
BostonPython User Group, "June Presentation Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Informal Dinner at John Harvard's", 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub

Wed JUN 26, 2013
Boston Windows Game Developers, "Monthly Boston Windows Game Developers Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft NERD

Thu JUN 27, 2013
Boston Azure Cloud User Group, "Cloud Storage (Azure Blob Storage and Amazon S3)", 6PM, Microsoft NERD
Lean Startup Circle Boston, "Lean Startup Circle Boston June Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD

Fri JUN 28, 2013
Boston Area SAS Users Group quarterly meeting, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUL 02, 2013
Seacoast NH Wordpress Developers, "Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Alpha Loft

Wed JUL 03, 2013
Windows Server Users, "Monthly BAWSUG Meeting", 6PM, TBD

Mon JUL 08, 2013
Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, 7PM, TBD
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Boston MySQL Monthly Meetup", 7PM, TBD
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Boston Wikipedia Monthly Meetup", 7PM, Clover Food Lab

Tue JUL 09, 2013
Cambridge Semantic Web, "Cambridge Semantic Web Monthly Meetup", 6PM, MIT Stata Center - Star Room
eXtreme Tuesday Club - Boston, "eXtreme Tuesday Club - Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

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

Thu JUL 11, 2013
Providence Web Development Meetup, "Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Monthly Meetup", 12:00, TBD
Agile New England, topic TBA, 6PM, Constant Contact , Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "Linux @ The Java Room", 7PM, The Java Room

Mon JUL 15, 2013
Hacking Predictive Analytics App in Boston, "Hackathon: Develop/MapReduce Your Dream Predictive Analytics/BigData App.", 7PM, TBD

Wed JUL 17, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Sonar GNU/Linux distribution", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Boston HTML5 Game Development, "HTML5 Game Development Monthly Meetup", 7PM, Bocoup Loft

Mon JUL 22, 2013
QuickBooks Meetup, "Quickbooks Monthly Meetup", 6PM, TBD

Tue JUL 23, 2013
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Informal Dinner at John Harvard's", 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub

Wed JUL 24, 2013
Boston Windows Game Developers, "Monthly Boston Windows Game Developers Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft NERD

Thu JUL 25, 2013
Worcester Web Technology (WWT), "Using HTML5 Canvas and jQuery to Create Images, Graphs and a Coloring Book", 07:00, WPI

Sat JUL 27, 2013
Boston Predictive Analytics $, "Python Data Science Workshops (Sat/Sun)", 8AM, Microsoft NERD

Sun JUL 28, 2013
Boston Predictive Analytics $, "Python Data Science Workshops (Sat/Sun)", 8AM, Microsoft NERD

Mon JUL 29, 2013
Django Boston Meetup Group, "Matt Makai and Coding Across America: July", 7PM, TBD

Tue JUL 30, 2013
BostonPython User Group, "July Presentation Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD
Code for Boston Meetup, "Monthly Demo Night", 7 pm, Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, Cambridge 

Thu AUG 01, 2013
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "Linux @ The Java Room", 7PM, The Java Room

Mon AUG 05, 2013
Django Boston Meetup Group, "ember.js and Django w/Sean Creeley of embed.ly: August", 7PM, TBD

Tue AUG 06, 2013
Seacoast NH Wordpress Developers, "Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Alpha Loft

Wed AUG 07, 2013
Windows Server Users, "Monthly BAWSUG Meeting", 6PM, TBD

Thu AUG 08, 2013
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup Group, "Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Monthly Meetup", 12:00, TBD
Boston Security Meetup, "Abusing HTML5 + Striking back at polymorphic viruses", 6 PM, Jobspring, Boston

Mon AUG 12, 2013
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Boston MySQL Monthly Meetup", 7PM, TBD
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Boston Wikipedia Monthly Meetup", 07:00, Clover Food Lab

Tue AUG 13, 2013
Cambridge Semantic Web, "Cambridge Semantic Web Monthly Meetup", 6PM, MIT Stata Center - Star Room
eXtreme Tuesday Club - Boston, "eXtreme Tuesday Club - Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

Mon AUG 19, 2013
Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, 7PM, TBD
Hacking Predictive Analytics App in Boston, "Hackathon: Develop/MapReduce Your Dream Predictive Analytics/BigData App.", 7PM, TBD

Wed AUG 21, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "OpenStack from Scratch", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Boston HTML5 Game Development, "HTML5 Game Development Monthly Meetup", 7PM, Bocoup Loft

Thu AUG 22, 2013
Worcester Web Technology (WWT), "Develop Node.JS, HTML and JavaScript Apps Using Only Your Web Browser", 7PM, WPI

Mon AUG 26, 2013
QuickBooks Meetup, "Quickbooks Monthly Meetup", 6PM, TBD

Tue AUG 27, 2013
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Informal Dinner at John Harvard's", 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub
Code for Boston Meetup, "Monthly Demo Night", 7 pm, Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway, Cambridge 

Wed AUG 28, 2013
Boston Windows Game Developers, "Monthly Boston Windows Game Developers Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft NERD

Tue SEP 03, 2013
Django Boston Meetup Group, "Converting to Django from PHP:case study", 7PM, TBD

Wed SEP 18, 2013
IT-Pro User Group, "Microsoft Surface Tablet", 7PM, NE Inst of Tech, E.Greenwich RI


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

MAY 11, 2013
Geek Girl Boston Meetup, "Tech Conference Cape Cod 2013", Cape Cod Community College, West Barnstable

MAY 18, 2013
Security BSides Boston, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

MAY 31, 2013
Windows Server 2012 Loadfest, One Cambridge Center

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

JUN 08, 2013
Greater Boston Chapter of the ACM, "Improving User Experience for the Very First Time", Harvard Univ.

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

JUN 22-23, 2013
Design for Drupal web design camp, MIT Stata Center

JUL 27-28, 2013
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Python Data Science Workshops", (currently in the planning stages), Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

AUG 16-18, 2013
Northeast PHP 2013 Conference, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

NOV 08-15, 2013
Better Software & Agile Development East, 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

Bentley University Usability Center - User Experience Certificate program

Data Education (formerly Boston SQL Training)

Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar

Boston TechVenue Calendar

Boston Events List for Professionals

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