User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Wed DEC 07, 2005 Worcester Linux Users, changed to "Wed DEC 14" NH SQL Server User Group, "SQL Server 2005 New Features and Adoption", 7pm, New Horizons, Nashua MacTechGrp Meeting, "Embracing the Horror II", 7-9PM, Room 151 Bldg E51 MIT Boston OWASP Chapter, "Enigma Variations", 6:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham Windows Server Users, topic TBD, 6:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham Thu DEC 08, 2005 SQL Server Users, "Scalable DB Systems/Business Insight", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham No Shore Comp Soc, "Preventing Identity Theft", 7PM, Higgins Middle School, Peabody CocoaHeads: Boston next meeting, 7PM, MIT Bldg E51, rm 145 RI Mac Users (RIMUG) Holiday Party, 7:30, Davies Career Tech HS, Lincoln RI Fri DEC 09, 2005 Boston Area SAS Users, "JMP statistical software", 8:45AM, Holiday Inn, Newton Sat DEC 10, 2005 Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XIX", 1-3:30 pm, WCVB-TV Channel 5, Needham Mon DEC 12, 2005 NH Seacoast Linux Users, topic TBA, 7PM, @UNH Morse Hall rm 301 Worcester Comp Soc, "Toys for Tots", 6:45PM, Worcester State College LRC SIGGRAPH/Boston, "A touchscreen-based video switcher" 7pm, National Boston Video Center, Brookline Tue DEC 13, 2005 Autodesk Users, "Building systems, Dimensioning, Hatch and Text", 6PM, Cubellis, Boston Final Cut Pro December Social, 6:30, location TBA Gr Boston Network Users Group "Overview Of Storage Area Networks", 7-9 pm, Mt Ida College, Newton bostonEDGE.org, "Eclipse platform architecture", 7-9 pm, IBM, Lexington Seacoast Mac Users, "Care & Feeding of Mac OS X", 6:15PM, Rye Jr High, Rye NH Windows Tech Forum, topic TBA, 6:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston SPIN, "Economics of Software Process Improvement", 6PM, Mitre, Bedford Boston.PM (Perl Monger) "Class::Agreement, a behavioral contract system for Perl", 7pm, MIT E51-376 Voice Users, "Windows Vista Speech Recognition Demo", 7PM, MIT, Room 2-135 Boston CHI Holiday Party, 7PM, Union Street Restaurant, Newton Centre Wed DEC 14, 2005 Greater Boston Seniors Computer Group "To be Announced" 9:30 am, Newton Senior Center Back Bay LISA, "LISA 2005 Recap", 7PM, MIT E51-149 Boston .NET User Group "Annual Holiday Party Potluck" 6-8pm, Microsoft, Waltham SW Quality Group, "Top Ten Opinions About Testing", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston Macintosh User Group (BMac), "Podcasting: primer on getting started", 7-9 pm, MIT Building E51 Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Access Grid Room, WPI Campus MIT Enterprise Forum, "New World Order of Mobile and Wireless", 5:30-8:30, Stata Center, MIT $ Sys Eng Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "What is iSCSI?", 6:30PM, location??? Thu DEC 15, 2005 NH .NET User Group, topic TBD, 6pm, BU Corp Educ Ctr, Tyngsboro NE Info Security "... in the Next Decade & Securing the Desktop" 6:30 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Final Cut Pro User Group "BOSFCPUG Holiday Party", 6:30-10pm, Details TBA MerriLUG Linux Users, "DNS", 6PM, Martha's Exchange, Nashua NH Greater Boston Chapter of AITP, "Holiday Networking Event", 5:30 pm, Jimbo's, Braintree Five Corners Boston .NET User Group, "Annual Holiday Gathering", 6-8pm, near Boston Convention Center Club Pocket PC-Boston, "Holiday Gathering", time/loc TBA Fri DEC 16, 2005 No Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Plant SIBMUG PC User Grp "Christmas Party, w open source giveaway CDs", 7pm, McConnell Ctr, Dover, NH Sat DEC 17, 2005 The Retro-Computing Society of RI "open house at the new facility at Atlantic Mills", Providence Mon DEC 19, 2005 NE Info Security "Technical Briefing - SQL Server 2005" 6:30 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Java Meetup, "lets gather and talk Java", 7 pm, Boston area Tue DEC 20, 2005 So NE Network Users, "A preview of Vista", 7PM, Roger Williams Coll, Prov RI Storage Networking, "Making Real Use of CDP Technology", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Wed DEC 21, 2005 Access Day, "Introduction to Access", 9:30AM-Noon, Microsoft, Waltham Access Day, "Intro to VBA Pt 3 of 5", 1-4PM, Microsoft, Waltham Access Day, "Access Developer", 4-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Linux & Unix, "Beowulf: The Latest Scoop", 7PM, MIT Bldg E-51, Room 315 Thu JAN 05, 2006 Visual Basic Pro, "AJAX - What is it?", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Tue JAN 10, 2006 Network Users (BNUG), "Open Source alternatives", 7PM, Mt Ida College, Newton Wed JAN 11, 2006 Boston .NET User Group, "Visual Studio 2005 Community Launch Event", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham SW Quality Group, "Proactive UAT", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Back Bay LISA, "Time Management", 7PM, MIT E51-149 The Boston Avid User Group "TBA", 6:30pm Boston Mac Users (BMAC), "MacWorld Keynote & Review", 7PM, MIT Bldg E51 Thu JAN 12, 2006 NE Java Users (NEJUG), "Struts 2006", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington SQL Server Users, "Visual Analysis", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Tue JAN 17, 2006 So NE Network Users, "iSCSI and Where Does It Fit", 7PM, Roger Williams Coll, Prov RI Storage Networking, "Moving to Disk-Based Backup", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Wed JAN 18, 2006 MacWoburn, "SanFrancisco Macworld in Review", 7-9 PM, Woburn Senior Center Boston Linux & Unix, "Maddog's World Tour", 7PM, MIT Room TBD NH SQL Server User Group, "development tools and development approaches", 7pm, New Horizons, Nashua Thu JAN 19, 2006 GBC/ACM, "Conveying the Scent of Information", 7PM, location TBD Tue JAN 24, 2006 Boston AppleScript Users Group, "TBA", MIT Building E51, Room 372 SharePoint Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Tue JAN 31, 2006 NE M User Group, "TrackWare for version & configuration control", 7pm, Wellesley Gateway Building Thu FEB 02, 2006 Visual Basic Pro, "Real-time monitoring with AVICode", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Wed FEB 08, 2006 SW Quality Group, "Preparing for Your Next Job", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Back Bay LISA, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT E51-149 Boston Mac Users (BMAC), "Secure your Mac", 7PM, MIT Bldg E51 Thu FEB 09, 2006 NE Java Users (NEJUG), "Java Concurrency", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Tue FEB 14, 2006 Network Users (BNUG), "Open Source alternatives", 7PM, Mt Ida College, Newton Wed FEB 15, 2006 Boston Linux & Unix, "Overview of Plone, a Content Management System", 7PM, MIT Room TBD Tue FEB 28, 2006 Boston AppleScript Users Group, "TBA", MIT Building E51, Room 372 Thu MAR 02, 2006 Visual Basic Pro, "ADO.NET Enhancements for SQL Server 2005", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Wed MAR 08, 2006 SW Quality Group, "Software Quality, CMM and LEAN", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Back Bay LISA, "Mirapoint", 7PM, MIT E51-149 Thu MAR 09, 2006 NE Java Users (NEJUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Tue MAR 28, 2006 Boston AppleScript Users Group, "TBA", MIT Building E51, Room 372 Thu APR 06, 2006 Visual Basic Pro, "Personalized Sites with ASP.NET and VB", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Comp Measurement Group, topic and location TBD NE Java Users (NEJUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Wed APR 12, 2006 SW Quality Group, "Testing for Different Dev Processes, Industries", 6PM, Sun Micro, Burlington Tue APR 25, 2006 Boston AppleScript Users Group, "TBA", MIT Building E51, Room 372 Thu MAY 11, 2006 NE Java Users (NEJUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Tue MAY 23, 2006 Boston AppleScript Users Group, "TBA", MIT Building E51, Room 372 Thu JUN 08, 2006 NE Java Users (NEJUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Wed JUN 14, 2006 SW Quality Group, "Introduction to Function Points", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Tue JUN 27, 2006 Boston AppleScript Users Group, "TBA", MIT Building E51, Room 372 Wed JUL 12, 2006 SW Quality Group, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: DEC 15, 2005 SQL Server 2005, Visual Studio 2005 Launch, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center JAN 25, 2006 Oracle Winter Training Day, Bentley College, Waltham APR 03-06, 2006 LinuxWorld Conference & Expo, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center MAY 30-JUN 03, 2006 USENIX Annual Technical Conference, "Training, Technical Sessions, workshops, more", Boston JUN 11-16, 2006 Microsoft Tech Ed 2006 Convention, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center JUL 30 - AUG 03, 2006 SIGGRAPH 2006 International Conference, Boston Convention & Exhibition 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/ Qualware Instructional Services Burlington Cambridge Center for Adult Education Call (617) 547-6789 or check the courses available at http://www.ccae.org DevelopMentor Training Classes, Cummings Park, Woburn. http://www.develop.com Future Media Concepts provides training in all areas of digital media Pinnacle Training has continuing Microsoft-related courses at Westborough and Braintree Apple seminars MA NH RI Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar
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