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Resources:
Do your own search using our LIST of USER GROUPS with their website URLs   --   Track Changes
User group email Notices for April '13,    May '13,    June '13,  or for All Notices
View our archives: 2012 calendars,   2013 calendars   or   all previous calendars   --   Read Our Story
Boston User Groups, Inc.   --   Computer Meetup Groups   --   Events @ Microsoft NERD   --   Boston Interactions Calendar   --   Chris Bowen's Blog

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

Mon JUN 10, 2013
Data Mgmt Assn Meetup, "Do Relational Databases Belong in the Cloud?", 6PM, Harvard Pilgrim, Wellesley
Graph DB Boston Meetup, "Community Lightning Talk", 6PM, @Catalyst, Cambridge
Nashua Adobe Meetup, "Adobe DPS and InDesign CS6", 6PM, Rivier University, Dionne Center
Web Start Women Boston, "Wrangling HTML (2-class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
WordPress NH Meetup, "Firebug", 6:30, The Farm Bar & Grille, Manchester, NH
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Introduction to Parallel Universe", 7PM, MIT Building E51, Room 149
Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, "Big Data", 7PM, Carbonite, 177 Huntington Ave
Wikipedia Meetup, 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue JUN 11, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 11:30AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
Boston Cloud Computing Meetup, "kickoff meeting", 6PM, Panera Bread, 450 Boylston St
Windows Mobile App Dev Meetup, "Azure mobile services and integration with Windows 8", 6PM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
Cambridge Semantic Web, topic TBD, 6PM, MIT Stata Center
NE AI Meetup, "Pursuit of Ultimate Morse Decoder", 6PM, hack/reduce, 275 Third St, Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Neurofeedback Games", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Ruby UG, "Hardware Hacking and M2M Websites, Client-side Web Apps", 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Facebook Developers Meetup, "building a sustainable business on Facebook", 6:30, Tavern in the Square, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Meetup, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
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
Boston MongoDB Meetup, "NoSQL is the New Normal", 7PM, Rakuten Loyalty, One South Station
Code for Boston Meetup, "Weekly Hack Night", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed JUN 12, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Seacoast Mobile Meetup, "Kickoff Meeting", 5PM, PixelMEDIA, Portsmouth NH
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, (see website), 5:30, Unix of Phoenix, Westborough
Boston JavaScript Meetup, "June project night", 6PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
NE Netezza Meetup, "Modeling & Design, ETL", 6PM, IBM Innov Ctr, Waltham
SW Quality Group of NE, "Software Quality Engineering Tackles Security Issues", 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
Boston Storm Meetup, "lightning talks", 6:30, Hack/Reduce, 275 Third St, Cambridge
Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7PM, WPI Campus Center
Back Bay LISA, "Continuous Integration of Infrastructure", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 145

Thu JUN 13, 2013
Providence Web Development Meetup, "Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Monthly Meetup", 12:00, TBD
Boston Java Meetup, "Behavior Driven Development and Cucumber-JVM", 6PM, Akamai Technologies, Cambridge
Boston Security Meetup, "Sec problems in postvirtualized environment + Mobile apps in insecure platforms", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston
NE Java Users Group, "Overview of the Android Application Framework", 6PM, Constant Contact, 1601 Trapelo Rd, Waltham
NH SharePoint User Group, "Getting It Right the First Time: Project Management", 6PM, Microsoft Store, Salem NH
Boston JavaScript Meetup, "Client Side Data Management", 6:30, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Database Design With CA and SoftMart", 6:30, One Cambridge Center
Hacking Predictive Analytics Meetup, "Hackathon", 6:30, One Broadway, Cambridge
Boston Ember Meetup, "June meeting", 6:30, TBD
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 325
North Shore Comp Soc, "Vacation! Camera! Action!", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon JUN 17, 2013
------  16th Anniversary of this Calendar -------  First issue was 6/17/1997
Hacking Predictive Analytics Meetup, "Hackathon", 7PM, One Broadway, Cambridge
PyLadies Boston Meetup, "Command Line & Git Intro", 7PM, location TBA

Tue JUN 18, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 11:30AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
Boston Girl Geeks, $ "Boston Girl Geek Dinner 4", 6PM, VMWare, Kendall Square, Cambridge
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "The Unintuitive Nature of Creating Intuitive Designs", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
NSCoder Boston Meetup, coding alone together, 6PM, WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave
Boston Hadoop User Group, "Data Scenarios for Hadoop", 6PM, Hack/Reduce, 275 Third St, Cambridge
Code for Boston Meetup, "Weekly Hack Night", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed JUN 19, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston .NET Architecture Study Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Mobuiquity Inc, Waltham
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Build, Customize or Buy?", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
RI Ruby Meetup, "TBA", 6PM, Needs a location
Boston Linux & Unix, "Federico Returns", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 335
Tech in Motion, "Building Cross-Platform Native Mobile Apps in C# using Xamarin 2.0", 6:30, Microsoft NERD
Boston HTML5 Game Development, "HTML5 Game Development Monthly Meetup", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Big Data Boston Meetup, "talk big data", 7PM, MIT Bartos Theater
IT-Pro User Group, "Jack Danial - open source and security expert", 7PM, NE Inst of Tech, E.Greenwich RI

Thu JUN 20, 2013
RI So MA SolidWorks Users, topic TBD, 5PM, Sensata Tech, Attleboro
Boston Blender Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Worcester Web Technology, "Twitter Bootstrap: Simple HTML, CSS, and JS for user interfaces", 7PM, WPI

Fri JUN 21, 2013
North Shore Computer Society Computer Clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon JUN 24, 2013
Boston Adobe Users, 6PM, topic, location TBD
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about specific QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Burlington
Web Start Women Boston, "CSS Basics (2-class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta
Boston Wordpress Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Software-Testing Meetup, "Inaugural Meeting - The Value of Software Testing", 7PM, location TBA

Tue JUN 25, 2013
Windows App Dev Meetup, "Office Hours", 11:30AM, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
Cascade Boston Meetup, "Leveraging the Cascade", 6:30, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Informal Dinner at John Harvard's", 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub
Boston Python, "June Presentation Night: Machine Learning", 7PM, Microsoft NERD
Boston PDA Developers Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed JUN 26, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Windows Game Developers, "Monthly Boston Windows Game Developers Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft NERD
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Agile Boston, "Agile Hiring: It's a Team Sport", 6:30, 200 West St, Waltham
Boston Avid Users, "EditShare Flow", 6:30, Yawkey Auditorium, 1 Guest St

Thu JUN 27, 2013
Agile Boston, "Agile Hiring: It's a Team Sport", 6PM, PayPal, One International Place
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
Django Boston Meetup, "A Survey of Forms Practices", 7PM, TBD
Prov.JS Meetup, "Testing with Node, Mocha and jsdom", 7PM, Swipley offices, Providence

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

Mon JUL 01, 2013
Boston Python Meetup, "July Project Night", 6:30, Microsoft NERD

Tue JUL 02, 2013
Seacoast NH Wordpress Developers, "Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

Wed JUL 03, 2013
Windows Server Users, "Monthly BAWSUG Meeting", 6PM, TBD
RI Sharepoint Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Atrion, Warwick, RI

Fri JUL 05, 2013
495 Web Prof Meetup, "Networking", 6:30, Panera Bread, Franklin

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
Boston Java Meetup, "VoltDB (tentative)", 6PM,  Akamai Technologies, Cambridge
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
New England M Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley

Wed JUL 10, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
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
FOSS User Group, Natick, 3-6PM, Natick Senior Center
Agile New England, topic TBA, 6PM, Constant Contact , Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "Linux @ The Java Room", 7PM, The Java Room

Sat JUL 13, 2013
RI Linux Users, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence

Mon JUL 15, 2013
Predictive Analytics, "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, 355 Congress St

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
Boston Python, "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
Mobile C# Developers Meetup, "Data Visualization with Xamarin.iOS using NucliOS", 6:30, Microsoft, One Cambridge Center
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, Portsmouth

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

Fri AUG 16, 2013
WordPress Providence Meetup, "WordCamp Providence 2013", 8AM, URI Providence

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

Tue AUG 20, 2013
Boston Python Meetup, "August Project Night", 6:30, Microsoft NERD

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, 355 Congress St

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

Thu AUG 29, 2013
Boston Azure Cloud User Group, "Nimbus Open Source Framework", 6PM, Microsoft NERD

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

Wed SEP 18, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
IT-Pro User Group, "Microsoft Surface Tablet", 7PM, NE Inst of Tech, E.Greenwich RI

Wed OCT 16, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Joseph Guarino Returns", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

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, 2013
WordPress Providence Meetup, "WordCamp Providence 2013", 8AM, URI Providence

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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