User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Tue MAR 03, 2009 MIT Enterprise Forum Interactive Entertainment SIG, "State of the Game Industry", 6-8 pm, MIT Room 32-141 Greater Boston Area Network Users Group, "Massachusetts new data privacy law", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham STC-Boston Technical Editing SIG, "Accessible PDF Documents and Forms", 6:30, Middlesex Comm College, Bedford Boston Rubyists Hackfest, 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston 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 MacTechGroup, "Going from the Simulator to the iPhone", 7PM, MIT Sloan Room 335 Bldg E51 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 eXtreme Thursday Club meetup, 6:30, Kinsale Irish Pub, Boston Fri MAR 06, 2009 Boston Digital Arts Meetup, "academy awards-nominated animation shorts", 6:45, ICA, Boston North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Mon MAR 09, 2009 Boston .NET Certification Group, "A presentation on LINQ by Hoyt", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston MySQL Meetup Group, "Optimizing Concurrent Storage and Retrieval Operations", 7PM Boston Wikipedia Meetup Group, "Wikipedia March Meetup", 7PM, Wagamama, Cambridge Seacoast Linux Users, "Optimizing MySQL", 7PM, UNH Morse Hall, Room 301 Cambridge Enterprise Web, "current issues developing web applications", 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Tue MAR 10, 2009 NE M Users (NEMUG), details TBA, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Bldg Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup Group, "3 presentations - see website", 6PM, Cambridge Autodesk Users, "Sustainability, LEED certifications", 6PM, 66 Long Wharf, Boston NH Seacoast Mac, "Full Session of Mac Mentors", 6:15, Rye NH Junior High Web Innovators, "start-ups and individual innovators demo their product/service", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta OWASP Boston Chapter, "Web Application Analysis and Pen Test Tools", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham BostonCHI (ACM SIG), "The Art of Information", 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston Flex Users, "Building a music notation editor", 7PM, Adobe, Newton Boston Rubyists, "Sphinx Search Engine, Rails Internationalization", 7PM, Sermo, Cambridge Boston.pm (Perl Mongers), "Hacking the WD Mybook 2 with Perl", 7:15, MIT room E51-335 Wed MAR 11, 2009 RI .NET User Group, "ArcObjects with .NET", 5PM, Roger Williams Univ, room SE-201 SW Quality Group, "Testing the Untestable", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington NE OpenSolaris Group, "New Features OpenSolaris 2008.11/Solaris 10 Update", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston .NET User Group, "Interfacing .NET and Java", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham BostonPHP User Group, "jQuery and the Last Mile", 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", 7PM, 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 Boston Web Design Meetup Group, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7 PM, Boston Digital Arts Meetup, 7-9 pm, Desera, Somerville CocoaHeads: Boston Cocoa Programmers' Group, "Next Meeting", 7 pm, MIT Building E51/Room 149 RI Mac (RIMUG), "Q&A Session", 7PM, RI College Bldg 6 Sat MAR 14, 2009 Visually Impaired & Blind Users, topic TBA, 1-4PM, Natl Braille Press, Boston Mon MAR 16, 2009 New England ASP.NET Professionals, "The changing face of ASP.NET development", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Java Meetup Group, "RIA, Adobe Flex with Java", 6:30, MIT's EHS Office, Cambridge Tue MAR 17, 2009 Boston SPIN, "Facilitating the Shift to a Collaborative Culture for Agile Project Success", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Wed MAR 18, 2009 Access Day, Intro & Intermediate sessions, 1-4PM, Microsoft, Waltham Access Day, Developer sessions, 4-8:30PM, Microsoft, Waltham NE Midrange Users, "Putting Run SQL Scripts to Work for You", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk Boston Flex & Interactive Media Meetup "for entrepreneurs and RIA developers" 6:00, Auburndale Boston Linux & Unix UG, topic TBA, 6:30-9 pm, MIT E51, Room 395 So NE Network Users, "Diskshadow and Volume Shadow Copy Service", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), topic TBA, 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "A Whirlwind Excursion through Python C Extensions", 7 pm, Cambridge Thu MAR 19, 2009 Boston Area SAS Users, "Matching Challenge", 8:45AM, Brookline Holiday Inn Boston Section ASQ, topic TBD, 5:30, Hilton Garden Inn, Waltham 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 Information Security Group, "Topic to be announced...", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham Boston ACM Chapter, "The Improbable Success of Probabilistic Models", 7PM, MIT Room E51-325 New Hampshire Ruby / Rails group, "Cascading Style Sheets, Sinatra", 7-9 PM, RMC Research, Portsmouth, NH Fri MAR 20, 2009 North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Mon MAR 23, 2009 Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "Discussions and Questions about QuickBooks issues", 6PM, Waltham area Tue MAR 24, 2009 DataCAD Boston Users Group, "March DBUG Meeting", 6 PM, Boston Society of Architects, Boston Independent Computer Consultants Ass'n, "Your Consulting Business Model", 6-9, Rebecca’s Cafe, Burlington Wed MAR 25, 2009 Agile Boston, "Effective Agile Adoptions", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Cape Cod .NET User Group, "Windows Azure and Azure Services Platform", 6:30-8:30, Plymouth Public Library Metrowest Ruby Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM Thu MAR 26, 2009 IASA New England, "The Event Driven Business", 5PM, Progress Software, Bedford Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training", 6-9 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Plone Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM Cent MA-No CT Solidworks Users, topic TBD, Morgan Const, Worcester 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 BostonPHP User Group, "Lessons from my.barackobama.com", 6:30-8:30, Optaros, Boston 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 Cent NH Linux Users, "Open Source Business Models, Part 2", 7PM, NHTI Library, Concord NH Tue APR 07, 2009 Boston Network Users, "Site Visit to Colospace", details TBA Wed APR 08, 2009 RI .NET User Group, topic TBA, 5PM, Roger Williams Univ, room SE-201 Boston .NET User Group, "Mono 2.0 and More!", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham SW Quality Group, "Security testing w cURL and Perl", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Boston Macintosh User Group, topic TBA, 7PM, MIT Building E51 Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, 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", 6PM, 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 So NE Network Users, "Mass data protection law", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI Thu APR 16, 2009 Boston Section ASQ, "TBD", 6:30, location to be announced Wed APR 22, 2009 Cape Cod .NET User Group, "Bob Depin on LINQ", 6:30-8:30, Plymouth Public Library Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7PM, 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 Cape Cod .NET User Group, "Microsoft Developer Evangelist Jim O'Neil", 6:30-8:30, Plymouth Public Library 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 So NE Network Users, "Tips and Tricks", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI 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", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Exchange Server Users, "Best of TechEd", 6PM, 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 Boston .NET User Group, "A First Look at Windows Azure", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham SW Quality Group, "Test Tool - Make or Buy?", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Chelmsford Linux Meetup Group, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Tue JUN 16, 2009 Cape Cod .NET User Group, "SQL Server Guru Adam Machanic", 6:30-8:30, Plymouth Public Library Wed JUN 17, 2009 NE Midrange Users, "Roundtable Discussions", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk So NE Network Users, "Terminal Services 2008", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI Thu JUN 18, 2009 Boston Section ASQ, topic TBA, 6:30, location to be announced Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), topic TBA, 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI Thu JUN 25, 2009 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training, 6-9 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Wed JUL 01, 2009 Windows Boston, topic TBA, 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), topic TBA, 7 pm, Morgan Hall, WPI Wed AUG 05, 2009 Windows Boston, "What's in your toolbox? PART 2", 6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham Wed SEP 16, 2009 So NE Network Users, topic TBA, 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI Wed OCT 21, 2009 So NE Network Users, "Likley Sharepoint 2007", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: Every Tuesday Massachusetts UBUNTU Team training, 7-9 pm, South End Technology Center, Boston MAR 03, 2009 Adobe Day Boston, Boston Marriott Copley Place MAR 06, 2009 seminar on Scrum and Team Foundation Server, Microsoft, Waltham MAR 07, 2009 Geek Girl Boot Camp - Cape Cod 2009 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 Geek Girl Boot Camp - Boston/South Shore 2009 MAR 14, 2009 SharePoint Saturday, "FREE, open to the public", Microsoft, Waltham MAR 20-21, 2009 Annual Pro Video Show, Holiday Inn, Dedham MAR 20-22, 2009 New England Software Symposium, Sheraton Ferncroft, Danvers NEJUG discount MAR 21, 2009 Mobile Camp Boston 2, MIT Building E51 (Tang Center) MAR 21-22, 2009 FSF Libre Planet 2009 conference, Cambridge MAR 23, 2009 The MSDN March 2009 Northeast Roadshow, Microsoft, Waltham MAR 25-27, 2009 Photoshop World 2009, Hynes Convention Center MAR 27, 2009 SQL Server 2008 Loadfest, Microsoft, Waltham MAR 28, 2009 Code Camp 11: Developer Stimulus Package, Microsoft, Waltham 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 16, 2009 Oracle Technology "Network Developer Day", Westin Hotel, Waltham 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 MAY 09, 2009 ACM and IEEE seminar: A Practical Approach to Programming Algorithms, MIT Tang Center, Cambridge MAY 11-13, 2009 IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST 09), Westin Hotel, Waltham JUN 22-24, 2009 SPTechCon: SharePoint Technology Conference, BZ Media, Hyatt Regency, Cambridge 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.