User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. 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 Boston .NET Certification Group, "TBA", 6:30-9:00, Microsoft, Waltham Tue FEB 03, 2009 Greater Boston Network Users Group, "Massachusetts new data privacy law", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Central MA SolidWorks UG, "Templates, Formats, and Options & Using Smart Components", 5:30-9:30, Metso, Shrewbury 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 Boston XNA Developers Group, "Moved January meeting due to weather", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham MacTechGroup Meeting, "(Maybe) Quartz in your iPHone", 7-9 PM, MIT Sloan School, Bldg E51, Room 335 Thu FEB 05, 2009 Visual Basic Pro, "VB.Net on Linux/Mono Boo", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Greater Boston Webmasters Meetup Group "Meet other local webmasters to exchange experiences", 6:30, Boston 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 Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group, "Wikipedia February Meetup", 7 PM, Wagamama, Cambridge Tue FEB 10, 2009 Boston.pm (Perl Mongers), "Parse::Gnaw - An extensible parser", 7:15, MIT room E51-335 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup Group, "Solving Real Problems with Linked Data", 6 PM, Cambridge Wed FEB 11, 2009 SW Quality Group, "Nitty Gritty of QA Project Management", 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 "jQuery: Comprehensive DOM, Event, Animation, & Ajax JavaScript Library" 6-8, Microsoft, Waltham Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7 PM, Java Room, Chelmsford DataCAD Boston Users Group, "February DBUG Meeting", 6 PM, Signature Architects, Berlin Boston Avid Users Group, "BAVUG Winter Event ", 7 pm, The Stockyard, Brighton Thu FEB 12, 2009 SQL Server Users, "Change Data Capture and SSIS", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham New England Java, "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 North Shore Computer Society (NSCS), "Buying and Selling on eBay", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Plant Sat FEB 14, 2009 Visually Impaired and Blind User Group, "TBA", 1-4 pm, National Braille Press, Boston OpenStreetMap Boston, "get Boston mapped the way you want", 11 am, Bloc 11 Cafe, Somerville Mon FEB 16, 2009 Boston Java Meetup Group, "Meeting for dinner & drinks at the asgard", 6:30 PM, Cambridge Boston jQuery, "jQuery JavaScript, iPhone, and Rich Internet Applications" 7 PM. Needham Tue FEB 17, 2009 Boston SPIN (SW Process Improvement) "Strategy to Prepare for the Better Times Ahead", 6-8:30,MITRE, Bedford 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 Access Day, Intro & Intermediate sessions, 1-4PM, Microsoft, Waltham Access Day, Developer sessions, 4-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Flex & Interactive Media Meetup "for entrepreneurs and RIA developers" 6:00, Auburndale Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "Meet other local Python Programming Language enthusiasts!", 7 pm Thu FEB 19, 2009 GBC/ACM and IEEE, "Bridged Ethernets: RBridges using IETF TRILL", 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 Boston Section ASQ, "TBD", 6:30, location to be announced Fri FEB 20, 2009 North Shore Computer Society (NSCS), "Computer Clinic (members only)", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Plant Mon FEB 23, 2009 Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Waltham area Tue FEB 24, 2009 Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Digital Photo Montage", 7-9, Desera Interactive, Somerville Independent Computer Consultants Ass'n, Boston Chapter, “Consultants Chat”, 6:30-8:30, Little India, Waltham Wed FEB 25, 2009 Metrowest Ruby Users Group, "Metrowest Ruby Users Group February Meetup", 7PM, Natick Thu FEB 26, 2009 Boston Plone Meetup Group, "There is no definite topic yet", 7 pm, Betahouse, Cambridge Amazon Web Services Meetup Group, "all aspects of Amazon Web Services, Cloud Computing, SaaS", 6:30, Boston Sat FEB 28, 2009 Boston Linux & Unix UG "Linux InstallFest XXXII" 9 am - 5 pm, MIT E51, Room 061 Tue MAR 03, 2009 Boston Post Mortem (game developers) "State of the Game Industry in Today’s Economic Climate", 8pm, MIT 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, "Testing the Untestable", 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 Thu MAR 12, 2009 New England Java, "Are you ready for Cloud Computing?", 6 pm, Sun Micro, Burlington 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 Boston Section ASQ, "TBD", 6:30, location to be announced Tue MAR 24, 2009 DataCAD Boston Users Group, "March DBUG Meeting", 6 PM, Boston Society of Architects, Boston Wed MAR 25, 2009 Northeast Autosys User Group, "exchange ideas, learn of future products", 9am-2pm, CA Office, Framingham Wed APR 01, 2009 Windows Boston, "Topic TBD ", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Thu APR 02, 2009 Visual Basic Pro, "Geographic Information Systems in .Net", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Sat APR 04, 2009 DataCAD Boston Users Group, "DATACAD's 25th Anniversary", (Tentative Date), Milford High School 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 "UNIX, Linux, and BSD: A Look Back" 6:30-9 pm, MIT E51, Room 395 Thu APR 16, 2009 Boston Section ASQ, "TBD", 6:30, location to be announced 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 Thu MAY 07, 2009 Visual Basic Pro, "TBA", 6:15, 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 Thu MAY 21, 2009 Boston Section ASQ, "TBD", 6:30, location to be announced 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 Thu JUN 04, 2009 Visual Basic Pro, "TBA", 6:15, 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 Boston Section ASQ, "TBD", 6:30, location to be announced 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 FEB 20, 2009 Virtualization Deep Dive Day, "virtualization technologies", Microsoft, Waltham MAR 10-11, 2009 Software Quality Consulting & IEEE, "SW Development for Medical Device Manufacturers", Woburn MAR 12, 2009 Software Quality Consulting & IEEE, "Requirements-based Estimating and Scheduling", Woburn MAR 25-27, 2009 Photoshop World 2009, Hynes Convention Center APR 01, 2009 NE Oracle Users Group, Training Day at Bentley College APR 6-8, 2009 Northeast User Groups Conference, “The Power of i”, Sheraton Hotel, Framingham 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.