User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Tue JAN 13, 2009 New England M Users' Group, "the HL7 interface specification", 7pm, The Wellesley Gateway Building Boston.pm (Perl Mongers), "Table Driven Testing", 7:15, MIT room E51-376 Boston Rubyists, "The Rails-Merb Merge: What to Expect", 7 pm, 215 First Ave, Cambridge New Hampshire Seacoast Mac, "Home Networking", 6:15 pm, Rye Junior High School Boston Voice Users, "This month we will have an open meeting", 7:30 pm, MIT, Room 2-135 Boston Flex Users Group, "Using the Flex Automation Framework", 7 pm, Adobe Systems, Newton Cape Cod .NET User Group, "An Introduction to Microsoft F#", 6:30-8:30 pm, Plymouth Public Library Wed JAN 14, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Schedule Games", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington BostonPHP User Group, "Mediawiki in production", 6:30-8:30, Optaros, Boston Boston Avid Users Group, "Avid DS Workflow", 6:30-9, BU Center for Digital Imaging Arts, Waltham Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Boston Macintosh User Group, "MacWorld Recap", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Boston .NET User Group, "Parallel Programming in .NET", 6-8 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston PHP Meetup, "tactical and strategic perspectives when deploying MediaWiki.", 6:30 PM, Boston Thu JAN 15, 2009 IEEE Computer Soc & GBC/ACM, "Rapid Application Development for the Cloud", 7-9pm, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham MerriLUG (Nashua/Merrimack Valley area Linux), "TBA", 6/7:30 pm, Martha's Exchange, Nashua New Hampshire Ruby Users Group, "ReviewRamp, Cucumber, & DynamicRecord", 7-9 PM, RMC Research, Portsmouth Boston Chapt, National Info Security Group, "New Massachusetts Privacy Regulations", 6:30 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Information Technology Professionals "Virtualization Security", 6:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $$ Fri JAN 16, 2009 North Shore Computer Society (NSCS), "Computer Clinic (members only)", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Plant Mon JAN 19, 2009 Boston Red Hat Meetup Group, "keep informed of what's going on with Red Hat Linux", 6 pm, Somerville 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 325 NE Midrange Users, "Essential Skills for the RPG Developer", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "Fabric, a simple pythonic remote deployment tool", 7 pm, Cambridge Boston Flex & Interactive Media Meetup "Rich Internet Applications, Flash, Web Design, New Media" 6 pm, Auburndale Access Day, Intro & Intermediate sessions, 1-4PM, Microsoft, Waltham Access Day, Developer sessions, 4-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham Thu JAN 22, 2009 Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI Boston Plone Meetup Group, "There is no definite topic yet", 7 pm, Boston Boston Area SolidWorks User Group, "There will be two Presentations", 5:30-9:30, ITT, Woburn Boston Section ASQ, "2009 ISO Updates", 6:30, location to be announced Sat JAN 24, 2009 New England SQL Server User Group, "SQL Server Code Camp", 8-5, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group, "First Saturday meetup of the year- Details to come", 7 PM Mon JAN 26, 2009 Boston Water User Group, "TBA", 7 pm, One Broadway, Cambridge Boston Java Meetup Group, "learn together and share our experiences", 6:30 PM, Cambridge Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Waltham area Tue JAN 27, 2009 Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "group's goals and objectives", 7:30, Trident, Boston Independent Computer Consultants "Standards for Protection of Personal Information" 6-9, Rebecca's, Burlington New England SharePoint UG, "Web Content Management and operating a public website", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Wed JAN 28, 2009 Central MA SolidWorks UG, "Templates, Formats, and Options & Using Smart Components", 6-9:30, Metso, Shrewbury Boston XNA Developers Group, "TBA", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Data Warehouse and Business Intelligence Meetup, "TBA", 7:00 pm, Boston Metrowest Ruby Users Group, "January Meetup", 7PM, Natick Boston Scalability User Group, "scalability platforms and tools", 6 PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham Mon FEB 02, 2009 Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Digital Black & White", 7-9, Desera Interactive, Somerville Cambridge Search Engine Optimization Meetup, "SEO and internet marketing", 6:30-9, Robbins Library, Arlington Wed FEB 04, 2009 Windows Boston, "Joint Meeting with Exchange Users Group", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham New England Area SMS User Group, "The Redmond Road Show returns", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Thu FEB 05, 2009 Visual Basic Pro, "VB.Net on Linux/Mono Boo", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Fri FEB 06, 2009 North Shore Computer Society (NSCS), "Computer Clinic (members only)", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Plant Mon FEB 09, 2009 Boston MySQL Meetup Group, "TBA", 7 PM, MIT Cambridge Enterprise Web "current issues developing web applications" 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Tue FEB 10, 2009 Boston.pm (Perl Mongers), "Parse::Gnaw - An extensible parser", 7:15, MIT room E51-335 Wed FEB 11, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Testing the Untestable", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington BostonPHP User Group, "PHP IDE Bake-Off", 6:30-8:30, Optaros, Boston Boston Macintosh User Group, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Boston .NET User Group, "A First Look at Windows Azure", 6-8 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Thu FEB 12, 2009 SQL Server Users, "Change Data Capture and SSIS", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham New England Java UG, "Architecture Management - avoid erosion of your code base", 6 pm, Sun Micro, Burlington Boston Web Design Meetup Group, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7 PM, Boston CocoaHeads, "next Meeting", 7 PM, MIT Building E51/Room 149 Sat FEB 14, 2009 Visually Impaired and Blind User Group, "TBA", 1-4 pm, National Braille Press, Boston 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 Boston Linux & Unix "total cost of ownership of Linux in the enterprise" 6:30, MIT E51, Room 395 Thu FEB 19, 2009 GBC/ACM, "RBridges: Layer 2 Forwarding Based on Link State Routing", 7-9pm, Verizon Labs, Waltham Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Free Night at the ICA Museum", 7 pm, Institute of Contemporary Art Tue FEB 24, 2009 Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Digital Photo Montage", 7-9, Desera Interactive, Somerville Wed MAR 04, 2009 NH SolidWorks User Group, "Best Modeling Practices", 6-9:15, Merrimack, NH Windows Boston, "Jack Daniel", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Thu MAR 05, 2009 Visual Basic Pro, "ASP.Net Data Services (Astoria)", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Tue MAR 10, 2009 Web Innovators, "start-ups and individual innovators demo their product/service", 6:30, Cambridge Boston.pm (Perl Mongers), "Hacking the WD Mybook 2 with Perl", 7:15, MIT room E51-335 Wed MAR 11, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Nitty Gritty of QA Project Management", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston Macintosh User Group, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Boston .NET User Group, "Interfacing .NET and Java", 6-8 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Wed MAR 18, 2009 NE Midrange Users, "Putting Run SQL Scripts to Work for You", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk Southern NE Network UG, "Deep dive into diskshadow and Volume Shadow Copy Service", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI Boston Linux & Unix UG "Topic to be determined" 6:30-9 pm, MIT E51, Room 395 Thu MAR 19, 2009 Boston Red Hat meetup group, " keep informed of what's going on with Red Hat Linux", 6PM, Somerville Tue MAR 24, 2009 DataCAD Boston Users Group, "March DBUG Meeting", 6 PM, Boston Society of Architects, Boston Wed APR 01, 2009 Windows Boston, "Topic TBD ", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Wed APR 08, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Security testing w cURL and Perl", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston Macintosh User Group, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Wed APR 15, 2009 Boston Linux & Unix UG "Topic to be determined" 6:30-9 pm, MIT E51, Room 395 Wed APR 22, 2009 Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI Wed MAY 06, 2009 Windows Boston, "Topic TBD ", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Wed MAY 13, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Automated Functional Test Design", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Wed MAY 20, 2009 NE Midrange Users, "What’s New in RPG for V6R1", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI Boston Linux & Unix UG "Topic to be determined" 6:30-9 pm, MIT E51, Room 395 Tue JUN 02, 2009 NE Oracle Users Group, "Tom Kyte- Details to come..." Wed JUN 03, 2009 Windows Boston, "Joint Meeting with Exchange Users Group", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Wed JUN 10, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Test Tool - Make or Buy?", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Thu JUN 18, 2009 Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI Wed JUL 01, 2009 Windows Boston, "Topic TBD ", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Wed JUL 08, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Thu JUL 23, 2009 Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: Every Tuesday Massachusetts UBUNTU Team training, 7-9 pm, South End Technology Center, Boston JAN 9-11, 2009 Fedorea FUDCon Boston, "two days of hackfests and a day of BarCamp", MIT Tang Center (Room E51-145) JAN 23, 2009 BostonCHI "Winter 2009 Professional Development Seminars" 9-5, Sun Microsystems, Burlington, MA JAN 24, 2009 NE SQL Server Users, "SQL Server Code Camp", Microsoft, Waltham Society for Technical Communication, "Hands-On XML for Technical Writers", MathWorks, Natick JAN 30, 2009 New England Database Day, "NEDBDay09", 9 am - 4:15 pm, MIT Stata Center, room 32-123 FEB 20, 2009 Virtualization Deep Dive Day, "virtualization technologies", Microsoft, Waltham MAR 25-27, 2009 Photoshop World 2009, Hynes Convention Center APR 01, 2009 NE Oracle Users Group, Training Day at Bentley College APR 28, 2009 Boston Section ASQ, "BOSCON 2009", Waltham Woods Conference 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, http://www.develop.com Future Media Concepts provides training in all areas of digital media New Horizons Boston, Quincy, Waltham and Westborough. Apple seminars Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar
These listings are obtained from user group web pages, mailings, and from other sources.