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

Tue AUG 13, 2013
NH Adobe Users, "Adobe Creative Cloud, Captivate 7", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, "Sheet Metal and more", 5:30, Fabrico, Oxford MA
Windows Store & Mobile Apps Meetup, "Open Summer Meeting", 6PM, One Cambridge Center
Gr Boston Autodesk Users, "Autodesk Infrastructure Design Suite", 6PM, Autodesk, Waltham
Cambridge Semantic Web, "The RDF Pipeline Framework", 6PM, MIT Stata Center - Star Room
Boston Java Meetup, "Java and Media", 6PM, Akamai Technologies, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club - Boston, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Ruby UG, "Missingly, Imposter syndrome, Rack, Ohloh, ... ", 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
Seacoast Mac Users, "Broadcasting from your Mac Part 3 of 3", 6:30, NH-ICC, Durham NH
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 Web Performance Group, "The Render Chain and You", 6:30, Akamai
Boston.pm (Perl), "Social Meeting", 6:30PM, Cambridge Brewing Co (CHANGED)
Code for Boston Meetup, "Weekly Hack Night", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Open Q&A Forum", 7PM, Sheraton Boston
Boston PostgreSQL Meetup, "Postgres Enterprise Manager", 7PM, 34 Crosby Dr, Bedford

Wed AUG 14, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Q&A, Browser feature comparison (cont'd)", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
JavaScript Meetup, "August Project Night", 6PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Google Glass Meetup, "More Glass news, more Glass apps", 6PM, WorkBar Cambridge
Southern NE SQL Server, "Query Optimization", 6PM, NE Inst of Tech, East Greenwich RI
Boston Scala Meetup, "FP in Scala Workshop", 6:30, PayPal, Intl Place
Openstack Boston Meetup, "OpenStack, Ceph, Containers, and Docker", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Google Developers Meetup, "Organizational Meeting", 6:30, Google, Cambridge
Girl Develop IT Boston, $, "Intro to HTML & CSS", 6:30, DockYard, 101 Tremont St
495 Web Prof Meetup, "Update on Google Analytics", 6:30, Panera Bread, Franklin
PyLadies Boston Meetup, "Regex and Modules", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Orchard CMS User Group, "Orchard Module Development & Group Planning", 7PM, Microsoft NERD
Worcester Linux Users, "Internet buffer bloat", 7PM, WPI Campus Center

Thu AUG 15, 2013
Salesforce Platform Dev Meetup, "Using MetadataAPI, Picklist Manager", 6PM, InsightSquared, Cambridge
Boston Drupal, "Keeping your Drupal site secure", 6:30, Davenport Conference Room, 25 1st Street, Cambridge
Boston Blender Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Django Boston Meetup Group, "ember.js and Django w/Sean Creeley of embed.ly: August", 7PM, Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center
Quantified Self Women's Meetup, "First meeting and brainstorming", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center, 14th Floor

Fri AUG 16, 2013
WordPress Providence Meetup, "WordCamp Providence 2013", 8AM, URI Providence
Boston PHP, "$ Northeast PHP Conference 2013 - Tickets Available", 9AM, Microsoft NERD

Sat AUG 17, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Annual Summer BBQ XIX", 1-6PM, John Chambers' home in Waltham
Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence

Sun AUG 18, 2013
PyLadies Boston Meetup, "LPTHW Beginner Meetup", 2PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
The Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group, "Boston Wikipedia Meetup (Cambridge edition)", 7PM, Berkman Center For Internet & Society

Mon AUG 19, 2013
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Collaboration Night"  Dashboards; Kaggle Contests", 6PM, Microsoft NERD
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Book of the Month: "The Signal and the Noise" by Nate Silver", 7PM, Microsoft NERD
Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, "panel of experienced AWS users", 7PM, Microsoft NERD

Tue AUG 20, 2013
NSCoder Boston Meetup, coding alone together, 6PM, WorkBar Cambridge
Web Start Women Boston, "Optimizing your Workflow with Git (2-class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Python Meetup, "August Project Night", 6:30, Microsoft NERD
NE F# Meetup, "Introduction to F# for the C# Developer", 6:30, One Cambridge Center
Boston Storm Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, Hack/Reduce, 275 Third St, Cambridge
Boston Data Visualization, "Data Wrangling with OpenRefine", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St, Boston
Chef Boston (for users of Opscode Chef), "August Meetup", 7PM, Da Vinci Cafe @Brightcove HQ, 290 Congress St, Boston
Code for Boston Meetup, "Weekly Hack Night", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed AUG 21, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Tentative: Our experiences with various computing devices", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
The Data Scientist, "Seminar 1 - Leading Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities", 6PM, Microsoft
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "Boston New Technology: August 2013 Product Showcase #BNT32", 6PM, MassChallenge
New England Artificial Intelligence, "Coding Dojo: a Gentle Introduction to Machine Learning", 6PM, hack/reduce
RI Ruby Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM
Boston Linux & Unix, "OpenStack from Scratch", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 335
Girl Develop IT Boston, $, "Intro to HTML & CSS", 6:30, DockYard, 101 Tremont St
Boston ColdFusion Meetup, 6:30, topic, location TBD
Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, "Nokia HTML5 Game mini code camp", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Node.js in the wild, "Node.js Security", 7PM, Brightcove Office
Boston Vim, "Talks by James Morrin & Gabe Berke-Williams", 7PM, Thoughbot, 41 Winter St, Boston

Thu AUG 22, 2013
Boston Area SolidWorks UG, "GD&T/TolAnalyst/Routing 101 Elec", 5:30, Prosource, Waltham
Web Start Women Boston, "CSS: Positioning & Layouts (4-class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Creative Cut Pro Users, "Final Cut Pro X Workflows", 7PM, Paramount Center, 559 Washington St

Mon AUG 26, 2013
QuickBooks Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, 1 Wall St, Burlington
Boston Wordpress Meetup, 6:30, TBD
Hacking Predictive Analytics, "Hackathon", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center, 3rd Floor

Tue AUG 27, 2013
Code for Boston Meetup, "Monthly Demo Night", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center, 1 Broadway
Boston PDA Developers Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed AUG 28, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Secunia Personal Software Inspector", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Quantified Self, "$ The Quantified Patient", 6PM, athenahealth Visitor Center, 400 N. Beacon St, Watertown
NE Sitecore Meetup, "Multisite, Request Pipelines and Page Editor", 6PM, 281 Summer St, Boston
Boston Windows Game Developers, "Monthly Boston Windows Game Developers Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft NERD
IT Job Seekers Meetup, 6PM, Tavern in the Square, Central Square, Cambridge
Girl Develop IT Boston, $, "Intro to HTML & CSS", 6:30, DockYard, 101 Tremont St
Boston Python Meetup, "August Presentation Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD
Boston Splunk Meetup, "Splunk Basics - A data cave dive", 7PM, TBD

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

Sun SEP 01, 2013
Boston PHP, "PHP Percolate! Season 6", 12:00, Virtual

Tue SEP 03, 2013
Boston TechBreakfast, "Boston TechBreakfast Inaugural: 1sqbox, and more", 8AM, Microsoft NERD
Web Start Women - Boston, "JavaScript / jQuery (4-class series)", 06:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St
Code for Boston Meetup, "Weekly Hack Night", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed SEP 04, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston PHP Meetup, "Universal Analytics: The Future of Digital Measurement", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Windows Server Meetup, "Exchange Crossover Meeting", 6PM, 1CC
RI Sharepoint Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Atrion, Warwick, RI
Girl Develop It Boston, "Intro to HTML & CSS", 6:30, DockYard
Seacoast NH Wordpress, "Plugin Share", 6:30, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth
MacTechGroup, "MacTechGroup Meetup", 7PM, TBD

Thu SEP 05, 2013
App Development Meetup, "Topic: Buying Selling Apps", 6:30, TBD
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "Linux @ The Java Room", 7PM, The Java Room, Chelmsford

Sun SEP 08, 2013
The Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group, "Boston Wikipedia Meetup (Central Boston edition)", 6:30, Northeastern University

Mon SEP 09, 2013
Boston Cloud Computing Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Panera Bread, 450 Boylston St
Boston Python Meetup, "September Project Night", 6:30, Microsoft NERD
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Boston MySQL Monthly Meetup", 7PM, MIT Building E51, Room 149

Tue SEP 10, 2013
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
NE AI Meetup, "AI, Pizza, and Beer", 6PM, Hack/reduce, 275 Third St, Cambridge
Cambridge Semantic Web, "Cambridge Semantic Web Monthly Meetup", 6PM, MIT Stata Center - Star Room
Boston Cloud Services - All things Cloud,  SaaS, PaaS, XaaS, "Security in the cloud.", 6PM, Microsoft NERD
New England M Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley
Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:30, Brightcove, 290 Congress St
eXtreme Tuesday Club - Boston, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston MongoDB User Group, "Topic TBD", 7PM, Microsoft NERD
Boston.pm (Perl), "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT Room E51-376
Boston PostgreSQL Meetup, "Intro to PostGIS", 7PM, Devonshire Boston SkyClub

Wed SEP 11, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Samsung Galaxy & introduction to Android OS", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Storm Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Hack/Reduce, 275 Third St, Cambridge
495 Web Prof Meetup, "LinkedIn, Twitter, Twitter Chats: Online Networking Tips", 6:30, Panera Bread, Franklin

Thu SEP 12, 2013
Providence Web Dev Lunch Hour Meetup Group, "freeform discussion of all things web", Noon
Boston Security Meetup, "Pen testing android internals + Security of mobile cloud ecosystem", 6PM, Google, Cambridge
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Season Opener", 6:30, One Cambridge Center
Boston Clojure Meetup, "discussion and networking", 6:30, Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center
PyLadies Boston Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Sat SEP 14, 2013
RI Linux Users, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence

Sun SEP 15, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Hardcore Hacking and learning with Backtrack 5", 9:30AM, Network Technology Academy, Malden

Mon SEP 16, 2013
Hacking Predictive Analytics, "Hackathon", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center, 3rd Floor

Tue SEP 17, 2013
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Achieving Job Security, Network Vitality and a Little Fame with LinkedIn", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford

Wed SEP 18, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Providence Geeks, topic TBD 5:30PM, AS220, Providence
Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XIV", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room TBD
IT-Pro User Group, "Microsoft Surface Tablet", 7PM, NE Inst of Tech, E.Greenwich RI
Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St

Thu SEP 19, 2013
Boston AITP $, "networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $
UX Boston, "3 Lean UX talks in 1 night + free beer/pizza", 6PM, Dobot
Web Start Women - Boston, "Wrangling HTML (2-class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Lean Startup Circle Boston, "Lean Startup Circle Boston September Meetup", 6:30, TBD
Worcester Web Tech Meetup, "Ext JS MVC for Business Apps", 7PM, WPI

Mon SEP 23, 2013
QuickBooks Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, 1 Wall St, Burlington
Boston Python Meetup, "September Presentation Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD

Tue SEP 24, 2013
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Informal Dinner at John Harvard's", 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub
Boston Spark Meetup, "Installing Spark/Shark on EC2 & Executing Jobs and Queries", 7PM, location TBD

Wed SEP 25, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Boston Windows Game Developers, "Monthly Boston Windows Game Developers Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft NERD

Thu SEP 26, 2013
Boston Azure Cloud User Group, "Geo-based Routing w/ Azure Traffic manager & Amazon Route 53", 6PM, Microsoft NERD
Django Boston Meetup Group, "Converting to Django from PHP:case study", 7PM, Akamai

Mon SEP 30, 2013
Boston Predictive Analytics, "Lightning Talks:  Predictive Analytics World", 6PM, Seaport World Trade Center
Boston Wordpress Meetup, 6:30, TBD

Wed OCT 02, 2013
Windows Server Meetup, "PowerShell", 6PM, 1CC
RI Sharepoint Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Atrion, Warwick, RI
Seacoast NH Wordpress, "WooThemes Canvas demo", 6:30, Alpha Loft, Portsmouth
MacTechGroup, "MacTechGroup Meetup", 7PM, TBD

Thu OCT 03, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "0Day exploit acquisition program + Achieving FISMA compliance", 6PM, Google
The Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "Linux @ The Java Room", 7PM, The Java Room

Sun OCT 06, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Workshop: 8 hours of hands-on lockpicking 101 / practice on North American locks", 9:30AM, Network Technology Academy

Tue OCT 08, 2013
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Cambridge Semantic Web, "Cambridge Semantic Web Monthly Meetup", 6PM, MIT Stata Center - Star Room
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club - Boston, "eXtreme Tuesday Club - Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company

Thu OCT 10, 2013
Providence Web Dev Lunch Hour Meetup Group, "freeform discussion of all things web", Noon
Boston Clojure Meetup, "discussion and networking", 6:30, Akamai, 8 Cambridge Center

Sat OCT 12, 2013
RI Linux Users, 11AM-2PM, Holy Ghost School, 35 Swiss St, Providence

Sun OCT 13, 2013
The Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group, "Boston Wikipedia Meetup (Cambridge edition)", 7PM, Berkman Center For Internet & Society

Mon OCT 14, 2013
Boston Cloud Computing Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Panera Bread, 450 Boylston St
The Boston Python User Group, "October Project Night", 6:30, Microsoft NERD
The Boston MySQL Meetup Group, "The Boston MySQL Meetup Group Monthly Meetup", 7PM, MIT Building E51, Room 149
PyLadies Boston Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

Wed OCT 16, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Joseph Guarino Returns", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room to be determined
IT-Pro User Group, "Office 365 Migration", 7PM, NE Inst of Tech, E.Greenwich RI
Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St

Thu OCT 17, 2013
Software Engineers Meetup, "Our Quantitative Future", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Worcester Web Tech Meetup, "Develop Node.JS, HTML and JavaScript Apps Using Only Your Web Browser", 7PM, WPI

Fri OCT 18, 2013
Computer Measurement Group, 8:30AM-4:30PM, CA tachnologies, Framingham

Mon OCT 21, 2013
Boston Hacking Predictive Analytics App, "Hackathon", 7PM, CIC - 3rd Floor Bogota

Tue OCT 22, 2013
The Boston MySQL Meetup Group, "Informal Dinner at John Harvard's", 6:30, John Harvard's Brew Pub

Wed OCT 23, 2013
Boston Windows Game Developers, "Monthly Boston Windows Game Developers Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft NERD

Thu OCT 24, 2013
Lean Startup Circle Boston, "Lean Startup Circle Boston October Meetup", 6:30, TBD
Django Boston Meetup Group, "Class-Based Views: A DRY approach to view logic  in Django", 7PM, Akamai

Fri OCT 25, 2013
Seacoast NH Wordpress, "Boston WordCamp", 8AM, Microsoft NERD

Mon OCT 28, 2013
QuickBooks Meetup, "The Quickbooks Monthly Meetup", 6PM, TBD

Tue OCT 29, 2013
The Boston Python User Group, "October Presentation Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD

Thu NOV 07, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Beating XSS with content security policy + Advanced windows registry forensics", 6PM, Google, Cambridge


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

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 07, 2013
GBC ACM Seminar, "Introduction to PSoC 4 (C) Architecture", 9AM, MIT Tang Center

SEP 10, 2013
NE Oracle Users, "NOUG Training Day", Bentley University

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

SEP 13-15, 2013
New England Software Symposium, Sheraton Framingham

SEP 15, 2013
Boston Security Meetup, "Hardcore Hacking and learning with Backtrack 5", Network Technology Academy, Malden

SEP 21-22, 2013
Drupal Camp NH, Great Bay Community College, Portsmouth NH

SEP 22-24, 2013
Commercial Users of Functional Languages, Hilton Boston Logan

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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