User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Fri OCT 24, 2008 Data Management Association (DAMA), "Linking Geospatial Data to Business Intelligence", 9am-noon, Weston Mon OCT 27, 2008 Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "We will talk about everything QuickBooks", 6PM Tue OCT 28, 2008 NE SharePoint User Group, "Capturing content from paper based documents", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham PDA Developers Group open forum, 7PM, MIT 3-133 Wed OCT 29, 2008 Greater Boston Chapter of the ICCA, "Using Agile in a Consulting Business", 7-8:30, Hynes Convention Center, Boston Boston Data Warehouse Meetup, "October Meetup", 6:00, Boston Tue NOV 04, 2008 Rhode Island .NET UG "Web Sites with Dynamic Data: Almost No Coding Required" 5-8 pm, Roger Williams University Wed NOV 05, 2008 Windows Boston, "Clyde Johnson and Ted Vahey - Scripting 101", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Avid Users, "process of editing a PBS Frontline documentary", 6PM, WGBH, Brighton Boston PHP Meetup, "November Meetup", 6:30PM Boston Flash Platform Users, "Design Patterns Meeting", 7PM, 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 Sat NOV 08, 2008 Visually Impaired & Blind UG "Victor Reader Stream package & Adept1" 1-4 pm, National Braille Press, Boston Mon NOV 10, 2008 Cambridge Enterprise Web "current issues developing web applications" 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup Group, "get great tips and share new ideas", 7 PM, TBA Cambridge Search Engine Optimization, "Boston SEO Networking Roundtable Panel", 6:30 PM, Robbins Library, Arlington 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, "Caché on Steroids!", 7 pm, Wellesley Gateway Building NH SQL Users Group, "Recovering from a Crashed SQL Server", 7PM, New Horizons, Nashua, Wed NOV 12, 2008 SW Quality Group, "Wideband Delphi Method", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston Macintosh User Group, "Games & Toys", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Boston Wi-Fi Meetup Group, "talk about the latest developments in community wi-fi", 7 PM, Somerville Thu NOV 13, 2008 CocoaHeads: Boston, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Bldg E51 Rm 149 North Shore Computer Society, "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 Boston Web Design Meetup Group, "discuss projects, methods and whatever else", 7 PM, Boston Tue NOV 18, 2008 Boston-area Perl Mongers, "time_t, magic numbers, old school bithacks, Advent Calendar PSA", 7:15, MIT E51-376 Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Workshop Demo: Tone and Color", 7:30, near Porter Square Wed NOV 19, 2008 Access Day, Intro & Intermediate sessions, 1-4PM, Microsoft, Waltham Access Day, Developer sessions, 4-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7:00 PM, Morgan Hall, WPI Boston Linux & Unix, "OpenStreetMap Overview", 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 Boston Flex & Interactive Media "benefits of LiveCycle Data Services and how to utilize them" 6:00, Auburndale 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 Windows Boston, "Windows Serversions - Server 2008, SBS, Essential, Core, ???", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Web Innovators Group, "self-/angel-funded startups demo’ing to the crowd", 6:30, Royal Sonesta, Cambridge Wed DEC 10, 2008 Boston Area SAS Users quarterly meeting, 8:45AM, Holiday Inn, Brookline Boston Area SAS Users training $, "Combining Data Files", 1:30-5, Holiday Inn, Brookline $ 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 07, 2009 Windows Boston, "Server Administrator Utilities, talk about whats in your toolbox", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Boston Linux & Unix "Improving online education and documentation for developers" 6:30, MIT E51, Room TBA Wed FEB 04, 2009 Windows Boston, "Joint Meeting with Exchange Users Group", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham 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 UG, "Dan Sullivan, 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 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 DEC 10, 2008 Boston Area SAS Users training, "Combining Data Files", 1:30-5, Holiday Inn, Brookline 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.