User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Tue FEB 10, 2009 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup Group, "Solving Real Problems with Linked Data", 6PM, Cambridge Autodesk Users, "Rendering in Revit 2009", 6PM, AECOM, Long Wharf, Boston Seacoast Mac Users, "25 Years of the Mac", 6:15, Rye NH Junior High BostonCHI, "Fire your boss & build a successful consulting practice", 6:30 PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston.pm (Perl Mongers), "Parse::Gnaw - An extensible parser", 7:15, MIT room E51-335 Boston Rubyists, "Innovation in Rails", 7-9 pm, Sermo, Cambridge Boston Voice Users Group, "Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10", 7:30 pm, MIT room 4-231 Wed FEB 11, 2009 Rhode Island .NET UG "Using & Presenting Geospatial Data", 5-8 pm, room SE-201, Roger Williams Univ, Bristol SW Quality Group, "Nitty Gritty of QA Project Management", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington ColdFusion Users, "ColdFusion 9 and Bolt", 6PM, Adobe, Newton DataCAD Boston Users Group, "February DBUG Meeting", 6 PM, Signature Architects, Berlin Boston .NET "jQuery: Comprehensive DOM, Event, Animation, & Ajax JavaScript Library" 6-8, Microsoft, Waltham BostonPHP User Group, "PHP IDE Bake-Off", 6:30-8:30, Optaros, Boston 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 Boston Avid Users Group, "BAVUG Winter Event ", 6:30 pm, The Stockyard, Brighton Bston Post Mortem, "Global Game Jam Showcase",7PM, The Skellig, Waltham Thu FEB 12, 2009 SQL Server User Group, "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 RI Mac Users (RIMUG), "Bento 2", 7PM, RI College Bldg 6 Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Digital Black & White", 7-9, Desera Interactive, Somerville Digital Arts Meetup, "techniques for processing great black and white images", 7-9 pm, Desera, Somerville Fri FEB 13, 2009 Celebrate with GNHLUG, "UNIX time = 1234567890", 6:31:30, Martha's Exchange, Nashua Sat FEB 14, 2009 Visually Impaired and Blind User Group, "Braille Plus 2 and Icon", 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 Boston .NET Certification Group, "President's Day Holiday" 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 Access Day, Intro & Intermediate sessions, 1-4PM, Microsoft, Waltham Access Day, Developer sessions, 4-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham SolidWorks Users, "Design Tables, Configurations", 5:30, Ramada Inn, Seekonk NE Midrange Users, "ABCs of Coding High Performance SQL Apps", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk Final Cut Pro Users, "Focal Press Author Abba Shapiro", 6PM, BU Ctr for Digital Imaging Arts, Waltham Boston Flex & Interactive Media Meetup "for entrepreneurs and RIA developers" 6:00, Auburndale Boston Linux & Unix "total cost of ownership of Linux in the enterprise" 6:30, MIT E51, Room 395 Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "Meet other local Python Programming Language enthusiasts!", 7 pm Southern NE Network UG, "Dan Sullivan, Territory Manager - New England | VMware", 7-9pm, NEIT, Warwick, RI NE Digital Media Users Group, "Windows 7 Media Center, and New Zune Media player", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Thu FEB 19, 2009 Boston Section ASQ, topic TBD, 6:30, location to be announced Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham GBC/ACM and IEEE, "Bridged Ethernets: RBridges using IETF TRILL", 7-9pm, Verizon Labs, Waltham Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), topic TBD, 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "Free Night at the ICA Museum", 7 pm, Institute of Contemporary Art 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 Boston .NET Certification Group, "TBA", 6:30-9:00, Microsoft, Waltham Social Implications of Technology, "Fighting Malware @ StopBadware.org", 5:30, MIT Lincoln Labs, Lexington Boston Java Meetup Group, "Groovy in the Enterprise", 6:30, MIT's EHS Office, Cambridge Boston Water User Group, "Next meeting", 7 PM, One Broadway, Cambridge 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 New England SharePoint User Group, “Leveraging PerformancePoint Services....”, 6-7:30, Microsoft, Waltham iPhone Developers Roundtable, "Possible date for meetup", Cambridge Wed FEB 25, 2009 Metrowest Ruby Users Group, "Metrowest Ruby Users Group February Meetup", 7PM, Natick Flash Platform Users, "Flash CS4", 7PM, NEIA Annex, Brookline Agile Boston (chapter of APLN), "Ken Schwaber on SCRUM", 6:30-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham iPhone Developers Roundtable, "Possible date for meetup", Cambridge 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 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training, 6-9 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Sat FEB 28, 2009 Boston Linux & Unix UG "Linux InstallFest XXXII" 9 am - 5 pm, MIT E51, Room 061 Mon MAR 02, 2009 Cambridge Search Engine Optimization Meetup, "Open Round Table Discussions", 6:30-9, Robbins Library, Arlington Boston .NET Certification Group, "TBA", 6:30-9:00, Microsoft, Waltham Wed MAR 04, 2009 NH SolidWorks User Group, "Advanced SolidWorks Techniques", 6-9:15, Merrimack, NH Windows Boston, "Astaro product line and current security topics", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Thu MAR 05, 2009 Beantown .NET, "Composite Application Library for WPF and Silverlight", 6PM, Hollister, 75 State St, Boston Visual Basic Pro, "ASP.Net Data Services (Astoria)", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Mon MAR 09, 2009 Boston MySQL Meetup Group, "TBA", 7 PM, MIT Tue MAR 10, 2009 NE M Users (NEMUG), details TBA, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Bldg Web Innovators, "start-ups and individual innovators demo their product/service", 6:30, Cambridge BostonCHI (ACM SIG), "The Art of Information", 6:30 PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston Flex Users, topic TBA, 7PM, Adobe, Newton 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 Microsystems, Burlington SQL Server User Group, "Understanding LINQ to SQL: is it a Better ADO.NET?", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham 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 SolidWorks Users, "PDM Workgroup & more", 5:30, Z-Corporation, Burlington 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 Information Security Group, "Topic to be announced...", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham Tue MAR 24, 2009 DataCAD Boston Users Group, "March DBUG Meeting", 6 PM, Boston Society of Architects, Boston Thu MAR 26, 2009 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training, 6-9 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Wed APR 01, 2009 Windows Boston, "Powershell", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Northeast Autosys Users, "exchange ideas & learn of future product enhancements", 9-2, CA, Framingham 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), Site TBA Mon APR 06, 2009 Boston SEO Networking Group, "informal search engine round table", 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington 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 Thu APR 09, 2009 Beantown .NET, "Unit Testing Throwdown", 6PM, Hollister, 75 State St, Boston New England Java, "JSF 2.0 Updates and RichFaces", 6 pm, Sun Microsystems, Burlington SQL Server User Group, "Using Resource Governor in SQL Server 2008", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Thu APR 23, 2009 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training, 6-9 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Wed MAY 06, 2009 Windows Boston, "thoughts and insights on Windows 7", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Thu MAY 07, 2009 Visual Basic Pro, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Tue MAY 12, 2009 BostonCHI (ACM SIG), "TBA", 6:30 PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington 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 Thu MAY 14, 2009 SQL Server User Group, "Master Data Management(MDM)on the Microsoft Stack", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Thu MAY 28, 2009 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training, 6-9 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Tue JUN 02, 2009 NE Oracle Users Group, "Tom Kyte- Details to come..." Wed JUN 03, 2009 Windows Boston, "TBD", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Thu JUN 04, 2009 Visual Basic Pro, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Tue JUN 09, 2009 BostonCHI (ACM SIG), "TBA", 6:30 PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington 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 Thu JUN 25, 2009 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training, 6-9 pm, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Wed AUG 05, 2009 Windows Boston, "What's in your toolbox? PART 2", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham
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 FEB 28, 2009 Code Camp New Hampshire, Daniel Webster College, Nashua MAR 03, 2009 Adobe Day Boston, Boston Marriott Copley Place 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 20-21, 2009 Annual Pro Video Show, Holiday Inn, Dedham MAR 21-22, 2009 FSF Libre Planet 2009 conference, Cambridge MAR 25-27, 2009 Photoshop World 2009, Hynes Convention Center APR 01, 2009 NE Oracle Users Group, Training Day at Bentley College APR 04-09, 2009 ACM SIGCHI Conference, CHI 2009, Hynes Convention Center APR 06-08, 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 25-26, 2009 Agile Bazaar, "Deep Agile 2009: Agile for Embedded Systems ", Cambridge, MA 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.