User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. 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 Fri NOV 07, 2008 Boston Plone Meetup Group, "free half-day conference about Plone", 1-6 pm, Cambridge Public Library 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 Search Engine Optimization, "Boston SEO Networking Roundtable Panel", 6:30 PM, Robbins Library, Arlington Boston MySQL Meetup Group, "get great tips and share new ideas", 7 PM, TBA Cambridge Enterprise Web "current issues developing web applications" 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Tue NOV 11, 2008 ColdFusion Users, "Refactoring to OO", 6PM, Sun Life, Wellesley Autodesk Users, "Revit Architecture", 6PM, One Winthrop Sq, Boston 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!", 7PM, Wellesley Gateway Building NH SQL Users Group, "Recovering from a Crashed SQL Server", 7PM, New Horizons, Nashua Boston Flex Users, "Building an App for both Flex and AIR", 7PM, Adobe, Newton Boston Voice Users, "Linux-Capable Speech Recognition", 7:30, MIT, Room 2-135 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 Data Mgmt Assn, "How to Design a Transactional Database", 1-4PM, Hilton Garden, Waltham NE Java Users Group, "10 Years of Java and the JVM - Happy Birthday NEJUG", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston Network Users, "Future of Mobile Commerce Computing", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham CocoaHeads: Boston, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Bldg E51 Rm 149 North Shore Computer Society, "Modern Piracy", 7PM, Higgins Middle School, Peabody Boston Web Design Meetup Group, "discuss projects, methods and whatever else", 7 PM, Boston Mon NOV 17, 2008 Boston Java Meetup Group, "learn together and share our experiences" 6:30 PM, Cambridge Tue NOV 18, 2008 Boston SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network), "Building Your Coaching Skills", 6-8:30, MITRE, Bedford Independent Computer Consultants, "an evening of informal conversation", 6:30-8:30, Little India, Waltham 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 Boston Flex & Interactive Media "benefits of LiveCycle Data Services and how to utilize them", 6PM, Auburndale DataCAD Boston Users, "DBUG's 21st Anniversary", 6 pm, World Trade Center, Boston NE Midrange Users, $ "Current Trends in EDI", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk $ Boston Linux & Unix, "OpenStreetMap Overview", 6:30 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 376 Worcester Linux Users, "Source Code Management", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI Southern New England Network Users Group, "HyperV", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "Meet other local Python Programming Language enthusiasts!", 7 pm Metrowest Ruby Users Group, "Presentation on Ruby.... ", 7PM, Natick Thu NOV 20, 2008 NAISG Boston Chapter, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham IEEE and GBC/ACM "Open-architectures for Reading, Writing & Computing with Genomes", 7PM, Broad Inst Aud, MIT NE-30 Sat NOV 22, 2008 Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XXXI", 9 am to 5 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 061 Mon NOV 24, 2008 Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "We will talk about everything QuickBooks", 6PM Tue NOV 25, 2008 AgileBoston "Distributed Scrum- deploying Scrum across globally distributed teams" 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Wed NOV 26, 2008 Boston XNA Developers, "(more work on our project)", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Flash Platform User Group, "general meeting", 7PM, NE Institute of Art Annex, Brookline Boston Data Warehouse Meetup, "Meet others interested in Data Warehouse / Business Intellegence", 7pm, Boston Thu NOV 27, 2008 Boston Plone Meetup Group, "Boston Plone November Meetup", 7 pm, Boston Wed DEC 03, 2008 RI/So MA SolidWorks Users, topic TBD, 5:30, Patriot Theater, E Providence RI Windows Boston, "Windows Serversions - Server 2008, SBS, Essential, Core, ???", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham 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 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 Thu DEC 11, 2008 IEEE & GBC/ACM, "Computational Information Design", 7PM, Broad Institute Auditorium, MIT building NE-30 Tue DEC 16, 2008 Boston SPIN (Software Process Improvement Network) "Taming the SOA Beast-(SDLC)", 6-8:30, MITRE, Bedford Wed DEC 17, 2008 Boston Linux & Unix, "History of Encryption Technology", 6:30 pm, MIT Building E51, Room 376 Southern New England Network Users Group, "Astaro", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI Thu DEC 18, 2008 Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI 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 Tue JAN 20, 2009 Boston SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Meetings for People Who Hate Politics", 6-8:30, MITRE, Bedford 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 NE Midrange Users, "Essential Skills for the RPG Developer", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk 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 NE Midrange Users, "ABCs of Coding High Performance SQL Apps", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk 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 MAR 18, 2009 NE Midrange Users, "Putting Run SQL Scripts to Work for You", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk 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 MAY 20, 2009 NE Midrange Users, "What’s New in RPG for V6R1", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk 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 NOV 08-09, 2008 Agile Bazaar, "Deep Agile 2008", MIT Room E51-345 NOV 10-11, 2008 IEEE TePRA Conference 2008, Holiday Inn, Woburn 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 MAY 11-13, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 09), Westin Hotel, Waltham 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.