User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Wed OCT 01, 2008 Windows Server Users, "Windows 7", 6-9 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Flash Platform User Group, "Design Patterns Meeting", 7 pm, Brightcove, One Cambridge Center Boston PHP User Group and Boston PHP Meetup, "Flex & the Zend Framework", 6:30 pm, IBM Lotus, Cambridge Thu OCT 02, 2008 Beantown .NET, "Skinning Silverlight Controls", 6PM, Hollister Inc, Boston NE Visual Basic Professionals, "Literals in VB: XML and Text Processing", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham Extreme Thursday Club, "Transitioning to Agile", 6:30, Kinsale's, 2 Center Plaza, Boston Fri OCT 03, 2008 No Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Mon OCT 06, 2008 Boston jQuery, "jQuery JavaScript, iPhone, and Rich Internet Applications" 7PM. Panera, Needham Search Engine Optimization Group, "better ways to work with search engines", 7PM, Robbins Library, Arlington Metrowest Photoshop Meetup Group, "trade tips and tricks", 7PM, Southborough Cent NH Linux Users, "Ubuntu 8.10 Intrepid Ibex beta preview", 7PM, @NHTI Library, rm 146, Concord NH Tue OCT 07, 2008 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest", 7 pm, 41 Winter Street, Boston Wed OCT 08, 2008 RI & SE MA SolidWorks Users, "Best Modeling Practices / Surfacing", 5:30, Ramada, Seekonk SW Quality Group, "Survey of Test Automation Projects", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston Macintosh User Group, "Maximize your built-in applications like TextEdit and Preview", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Boston .NET User Group Monthly Meeting, "LINQ Demystified", 6-8 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Thu OCT 09, 2008 NE SQL Server User Group, "Performance Monitoring Tips for SQL Server 2008", 6:30 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Web Design Meetup Group, "discuss projects, methods and whatever else", 7 PM, Trident, Boston No Shore Comp Soc, no meeting this month Boston Free Software Group 7 pm, Boston Sat OCT 11, 2008 Visually Impaired and Blind UG "System Access, SA Mobile Network, & Victor Reader Stream" 1-4 pm, Boston Mon OCT 13, 2008 Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square Boston MySQL Meetup Group, "Meet nearby MySQL Users", 7 PM, MIT building E51, room 372 GNHLUG Seacoast LUG "HTTP Representational State Transfer" 7 pm, 301 Morse Hall, UNH, Durham Tue OCT 14, 2008 Boston Flex Users, "How to use Flex 3 & Cairngorm with LiveCycle Data Services 2.6", 7PM, Adobe, Newton Boston CHI, "Regular Meeting", Details TBA New England Java Users Group, "An evening with Rod Johnson from SpringSource", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston.pm chapter of Perl Mongers, "Topic - TBD - Stone Soup / Lighning talks?", 7:15, MIT E51-149 Wed OCT 15, 2008 Access Day, Intro & Intermediate sessions, 1-4PM, Microsoft, Waltham Access Day, Developer sessions, 4-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Flex & Interactive Media Meetup "Using the Flex Automation Framework" 6:00, Auburndale Midrange Users Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk Boston Avid Users, "Digital Asset Mgmt/Sony XDCAM", 6PM, @National Boston, Brookline Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux Gaming and Game Servers", 6:30-9 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 376 Boston Wi-Fi Meetup Group, "talk about the latest developments in community wi-fi", 7 PM, Somerville Southern New England Network Users Group, "Lee Benjamin: subject TBD", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "Pimp My Code & session 2", 7PM Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI Central MA / Northern CT SolidWorks User Group, "TBA", Metso Automation, Shrewsbury Thu OCT 16, 2008 Computer Measurement Group quarterly meeting, 8:30AM-4:30PM, Doubletree, Westborough Final Cut Pro, "An Evening With Larry Jordan", 6:30, location TBD IEEE and GBC/ACM, "Security in Voting Systems", 7PM, MIT Stata Ctr room 32-123 Fri OCT 17, 2008 Windows Boston, "Windows Server 2008 Training Event - Part 2", 9-4:30, Microsoft, Waltham Mon OCT 20, 2008 Boston Java Meetup Group, "learn together and share our experiences" 6:30 PM, Cambridge Tue OCT 21, 2008 NH SolidWorks Users Group, "Design Tables & Equations/DriveWorksXpress", 6-9:15, Nashua Community College Wed OCT 22, 2008 Boston ColdFusion Users, "Open Mic Night with the Boston CFUG", 6PM, Adobe, Newton AgileBoston User Group, "Agile Planning and Estimating", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Merrimack Valley Photoshop Meetup Group, "let’s get together and talk photoshop, 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Boston Flash Platform User Group, "General Meeting", 7 pm, NE Institute of Art Annex, Brookline Thu OCT 23, 2008 Boston Plone Meetup Group, "Plone and Freedom & 10 Things You Didn't Know About Plone", 7 pm, Betahouse, Cambridge Fri OCT 24, 2008 Data Management Association (DAMA), "Linking Geospatial Data to Business Intelligence", 9am-noon, Weston Tue OCT 28, 2008 NE SharePoint User Group, "Impact of Business Productivity Infrastructure Optimization", 6-7:30, Microsoft, Waltham Wed OCT 29, 2008 Greater Boston Chapter of the ICCA, "Using Agile in a Consulting Business", 7-8:30, Hynes Convention Center, Boston Wed NOV 05, 2008 Boston Flash Platform User Group, "Design Patterns Meeting", 7 pm, Brightcove, One Cambridge Center Thu NOV 06, 2008 Beantown .NET, "Assorted 30 minute talks", 6PM, Hollister Inc, Boston NE Visual Basic Professionals, "How to Defend Against Stupid Hacker Tricks", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham Tue NOV 11, 2008 Boston ColdFusion Users, "Refactoring to OO", 6PM, location TBD Boston CHI, "Chris Hart of the Institute for Human-Centered Design", 6:30-9, Sun Microsystems, Burlington New England M Users Group, "Something Interesting", 6:30-9, Wellesley Gateway Building ? Wed NOV 12, 2008 SW Quality Group, "Wideband Delphi Method", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston Macintosh User Group, "Games & Toys", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Thu NOV 13, 2008 CocoaHeads: Boston, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Bldg E51 Rm 149 No Shore Comp Soc, "Modern Piracy", 7PM, Higgins Middle School, Peabody NE Java Users Group, "10 Years of Java and the JVM - Happy Birthday NEJUG", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Wed NOV 19, 2008 Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7:00 PM, Morgan Hall, WPI Boston Linux & Unix, "Details to follow", 6:30 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 376 Southern New England Network Users Group, "HyperV", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI DataCAD Boston Users, "DBUG's 21st Anniversary", 6 pm, World Trade Center, Boston Thu NOV 20, 2008 IEEE and GBC/ACM "Open-architectures for Reading, Writing & Computing with Genomes" 7PM, Broad Inst Aud, MIT NE-30 Tue NOV 25, 2008 AgileBoston "Distributed Scrum- deploying Scrum across globally distributed teams" 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Wed NOV 26, 2008 Boston Flash Platform User Group, "General Meeting", 7 pm, NE Institute of Art Annex, Brookline Wed DEC 03, 2008 Boston Flash Platform User Group, "Design Patterns Meeting", 7 pm, Brightcove, One Cambridge Center Thu DEC 04, 2008 InDesign User Group, "Adobe Creative Suite 4", 6PM, Mass College of Art, Boston Visual Basic Pro, "What's New in SQL Server 2008/Reporting Svcs", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham Tue DEC 09, 2008 Boston CHI, "TBA", 6:30-9, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Wed DEC 10, 2008 SW Quality Group, "Integrating Agile", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston Macintosh User Group, "MythBusters: Mac Troubleshooting", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Wed DEC 17, 2008 Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7:00 PM, Morgan Hall, WPI Boston Linux & Unix, "Details to follow", 6:30 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 376 Southern New England Network Users Group, "Astaro", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI Fri DEC 19, 2008 Boston Red Hat Meetup Group, "keep informed of what's going on with Red Hat", 7PM, Somerville Wed JAN 14, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Schedule Games", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Wed JAN 21, 2009 Southern NE Network Users Group, "Pete Stagman Media Center MVP on Home server", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI Thu FEB 05, 2009 Visual Basic Pro, "VB.Net on Linux/Mono Boo", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Wed FEB 11, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Testing the Untestable", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Wed FEB 18, 2009 Southern NE Network Users Group, "Dan Sulliva, Territory Manager - New England | VMware", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI Thu MAR 05, 2009 Visual Basic Pro, "ASP.Net Data Services (Astoria)", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Wed MAR 11, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Nitty Gritty of QA Project Management", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Wed APR 08, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Security testing w cURL and Perl", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Wed MAY 13, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Automated Functional Test Design", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Wed JUN 10, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Test Tool - Make or Buy?", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Wed JUL 08, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: Every Tuesday Massachusetts UBUNTU Team training, 7-9 pm, South End Technology Center, Boston OCT 07-09, 2008 Flash On Tap Conference, Park Plaza Castle, Boston OCT 08, 2008 Oracle Training Day at Bentley College OCT 09, 2008 Software Association of New Hampshire (SwANH) full-day annual conference, Bedford, NH OCT 10, 2008 Boston Flash Lite Technology Day, Nokia Research Center (NRC), Cambridge Ubuntu Massachusetts Team 10am-5pm, October Exploration (Installfest) OCT 13-17, 2008 ASQ 57th NEQC Conference Royal Plaza, Marlborough OCT 17, 2008 Windows Boston, "Windows Server 2008 Training Event - Part 2", 9-4:30, Microsoft, Waltham OCT 21-23, 2008 Mobile Internet World Conference & Expo, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center OCT 27-30, 2008 Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center Fall 2008 VON Conference & Expo, Boston Convention & Exhibition Center NOV 08-09, 2008 Agile Bazaar, "Deep Agile 2008", MIT Room E51-345 NOV 13, 2008 Windows Vista, "Solution Building for System Builders", Burlington MA NOV 17-20, 2008 Professional Ruby Conference, "Voices That Matter", Sheraton Boston MAR 25-27, 2009 Photoshop World 2009, Hynes Convention Center APR 05-09, 2009 ACM SIGCHI Conference, CHI 2009, Hynes Convention Center SEP 22-24, 2009 Embedded Systems Conference, 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/ Qualware Instructional Services, Burlington, flexible public and corporate IT training. Cambridge Center for Adult Education, 617 547-6789 or 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 New Horizons Boston, Quincy, Waltham and Westborough. Apple seminars MA NH RI Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners - Waltham
These listings are obtained from user group web pages, mailings, and from other sources.