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

Sat AUG 24, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLIV", 9AM-5PM, MIT Building E-51, Room 061

Mon AUG 26, 2013
Nashua Adobe Meetup, "Creative Jam Session for our Fall Schedule", 6PM, @Amsterdam, Nashua NH
QuickBooks Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, 1 Wall St, Burlington
Boston Wordpress Meetup, "Tools for Writers and Editors, Design Trends", 6:30, Microsoft NERD
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
Chef Boston Meetup, "a few random talks", 7PM

Wed AUG 28, 2013
HTML5 Boston Meetup, "Build your first mobile app in half a day (HTML5, jQuery, PhoneGap)", 9AM, Hack/Reduce, 275 Third St, Cambridge
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, "Honeycomb Rush" from Scratch", 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 ColdFusion Meetup, 6:30, topic, location TBD
Agile Boston, "The Agile Art Gallery", 6:30, Waltham Public Library
Boston Python Meetup, "Four talks about Flask", 7PM, Microsoft NERD
Boston Splunk Meetup, "Splunk Basics - A data cave dive", 7PM, TBD
So NH Apple Core Meetup, "Small Dog Electronics", 7PM, Nashua Public Library

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

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
AngularJS Meetup, "Lightning Talks & Demos", 6:30, Rakuten Loyalty, 700 Atlantic Ave
MacTechGroup, "File Archiving and Salvaging old data", 7PM

Thu SEP 05, 2013
FOSS User Group, Natick, "topic*tbd", 3-6PM, Natick Senior Center
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Before the Design there is Concept ", 5:30, Courtyard Marriott, Billerica
Node.js Meetup, "Rock ‘Em Socket.IO Bots", 6PM,  Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Agile New England, "How Sustainable is your Agile?", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Gr Boston useR Meetup (R Language), "Creating beautiful trees of clusterings with R", 6:15
App Development Meetup, "Topic: Buying Selling Apps", 6:30, TBD
Mobile C# Dev Meetup Group, "Backgrounding/Multitasking in Mobile, 6:30, One Cambridge Center
Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "Linux @ The Java Room", 7PM, The Java Room, Chelmsford

Sat SEP 07, 2013
PyLadies Boston Meetup, "PyLadies Website Hack Day", 10AM, Cambridge Innovation Center

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
Amazon Web Svcs Meetup, 7PM, TBD

Tue SEP 10, 2013
NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
Windows Store & Mobile Apps Meetup, "Paul Thurrott: Special Guest Speaker", 6PM, One Cambridge Center
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, "A Big Look at MiniTest", 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
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed SEP 11, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "Samsung Galaxy & introduction to Android OS", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Software Quality Group of NE, "Test Tool Bake-off", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Google Glass Meetup, "More Glass news, more Glass apps", 6PM, WorkBar Cambridge
BostonCHI, "Are You Designing Your Professional Relationships?", 6:30, 480 Pleasant St, Watertown
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
Web Start Women - Boston, "Project night", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
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
NE AI Meetup, "Probabilistic Programming and the Democratization of AI", 6PM, Hack/reduce, 275 Third St, Cambridge
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
NSCoder Boston Meetup, coding alone together, 6PM, WorkBar Cambridge

Wed SEP 18, 2013
Lexington Computer and Technology, "TBA", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center
Providence Geeks, topic TBD 5:30PM, AS220, Providence
RI Ruby Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM
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
Node.js in the wild, "How to write an API in one minute using CouchDB", 7PM, Brightcove Office

Thu SEP 19, 2013
Boston AITP $, "networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "PerformancePoint 101", 6PM, Microsoft NERD
UX Boston, "3 Lean UX talks in 1 night + free beer/pizza", 6PM, DockYard, 101 Tremont St
Web Start Women - Boston, "Wrangling HTML (2-class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
Boston Web Performance Group, "Making Sense of RWD and Optimizing Mobile UX", 6:30, Wayfair, 177 Huntington Ave
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

Sat SEP 21, 2013
Desktop GNU/Linux Meetup, "Software Freedom Day", 9:30AM, Cambridge College

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
UPA Boston Chapter, "Don’t Leave Sketching Behind", 6PM, One Broadway, Cambridge
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
Boston Storm Meetup, "Summingbird, Scala and Storm", 6:30, Hack/Reduce, 275 Third St, Cambridge

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

Sun SEP 29, 2013
PyLadies Boston Meetup, "LPTHW Beginner Meetup #1", 2PM, Cambridge Innovation Center

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

Tue OCT 01, 2013
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

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 Area SAS Users Group, "Survival Analysis, Epidemiology", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Security Meetup, "0Day exploit acquisition program + Achieving FISMA compliance", 6PM, Google
Web Start Women - Boston, "CSS Basics (2-class series)", 6:15, Cambridge Innovation Center
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
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
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, 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

Wed OCT 09, 2013
Software Quality Group of NE, topic TBD, 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston Storm Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Hack/Reduce, 275 Third St, Cambridge

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

Tue NOV 05, 2013
Boston Ruby UG, "Project Night", 6:45, Thoughtbot, 41 Winter St

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

Wed NOV 13, 2013
Software Quality Group of NE, "Testing Mobile Apps ", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington

Wed DEC 11, 2013
Software Quality Group of NE, "Testing Mobile Apps ", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington


Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

AUG 24, 2013
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLIV", 9AM-5PM, MIT Building E-51, Room 061

AUG 28, 2013
HTML5 Boston Meetup, "Build your first mobile app in half a day (HTML5, jQuery, PhoneGap)", 9AM, Hack/Reduce, 275 Third St, 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, 2013
Desktop GNU/Linux Meetup, "Software Freedom Day", 9:30AM, Cambridge College

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

OCT 03, 2013
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "PROC SQL Class", 1PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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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