User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Thu APR 30, 2009 Boston Javascript Meetup, "JavaScript Library Comparisons", 6PM, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Nerd Fun - Boston, "Hear about the Google products being built in Cambridge", 7 pm, MIT Museum NH Ruby/Rails SIG, "State Machines & Git", 7-9 PM, RMC Research, Portsmouth Fri MAY 01, 2009 NH GamingSIG, "Lua & TeeWorlds", 6:30PM, 1230 Elm St, Manchester NH North Shore Computer Society, computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Sat MAY 02, 2009 NE User Group Summit, "help each other by sharing our experiences", 11-5, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Mon MAY 04, 2009 Boston SEO Networking, "affiliate marketing, search engine round table" 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington New England F# User Group, "Introduction to F# and VSLab" 6:30-8:30, Microsoft Research, Cambridge BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 3", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Cent NH Linux Users, "MySQL Optimization", 7PM, Sybase, Concord NH Tue MAY 05, 2009 NH SolidWorks Users, "Non-Native Parts, Surfacing CSWP", 6PM, Nashua Community College Greater Boston Network Users Group (BNUG), "Virtualizing the Desktop", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Wed MAY 06, 2009 Boston Area Windows Server User Group (BAWSUG), "thoughts and insights on Windows 7", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham BostonPHP User Group, "Get Smart - Use Smarty!", 7pm, Optaros, Boston Thu MAY 07, 2009 Beantown .NET User Group, "Joseph Hill, Mono", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Visual Basic Pro, "Beyond the Core Concepts of OOP", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Fri MAY 08, 2009 Boston Area Windows Server User Group (BAWSUG) "Windows 2008 Load & Lab event" 8am-4:45pm, Microsoft, Waltham Mon MAY 11, 2009 Boston MySQL Meetup, "talk about the world's most popular open source database", 7 PM, Boston Cambridge Enterprise Web Meetup "discuss current issues developing web applications" 7:30, Cambridge BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 4", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham DC401-Defcon Providence, "Annual Hacker Jeopardy Competition", 5:30-7pm, AS220, Empire St, Providence, RI Tue MAY 12, 2009 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup "collaborative thesaurus proposal, Semantic Enterprise Wiki" 6PM, Cambridge Boston InDesign Users, "Long Documents and plug- ins", 6:30, Mass College of Art BostonCHI (ACM SIG), "TBA", 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Cape Cod .NET UG, "At Your Break(ing) Point?: .NET Debugging Techniques", 6:30-8:30, Plymouth Public Library New England M Users' Group, "Something Not to Be Missed", 6:30, Wellesley Gateway Building Seacoast Linux Users Group (SLUG), "An overview of the Bazaar Version Control System", 7PM, UNH Durham Boston.PM (Perl Mongers), "TBD", 7:15PM, MIT E51-376 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 Boston Macintosh User Group, "Read Sweater Software", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Boston Avid User Group, "Post NAB Wrap-Up", 6:30-9 PM, WGBH, Brighton Landing DataCAD Boston Users Group, "May Meeting", 6 PM, GSD Associates, North Andover Boston .NET Users Group, "Load and Performance Testing", 6-8 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Thu MAY 14, 2009 Boston SolidWorks Users, 5:30-9PM, American Science & Eng, Billerica New England Java, "Spring and Flex Integration", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington SQL Server UG, "Managing SQL 2000/2005 with SQL 2008 Policy Based Management", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston Boston CocoaHeads / MassMacDevs group, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 149 Mon MAY 18, 2009 BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 5", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Java Meetup Group, "TBA", 6:30, MIT's EHS Office, Cambridge Tue MAY 19, 2009 Boston SPIN (Process Improvement), "Infrastructure - on Premise or in the Clouds", 7PM, MITRE, Bedford Wed MAY 20, 2009 NE Midrange Users, "What’s New in RPG for V6R1", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk ASP.NET Professional Users, "Globalization and Localization for ASP.NET sites", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Linux & Unix UG "Hacking your Portable Linux Server" 6:30-9 pm, MIT E51, Room 395 Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), "TBA", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI So NE Network Users, "Tips and Tricks", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI Cambridge Python Meetup Group, "Meet other local Python Programming Language enthusiasts!", 7PM, Cambridge Thu MAY 21, 2009 Boston Section ASQ, 6:30, topic & location TBD Natl Info Security Chapter, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Gr Boston ACM, "How to Build Programmable Multi-Core Chips", 7PM, MIT Room E51-345 Mon May 25, 2009 Waltham Quickbooks Meetup, "Learn how to get the most out of your QuickBooks software", 6 PM, Waltham BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 6", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Tue MAY 26, 2009 Soc Prof Consultants and ICCA (joint mtg), "So You’re Considering Becoming a Consultant!", 6-9, Burlington Wed MAY 27, 2009 Agile Boston, "Learning Agile via Agile Games", 6:30-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham Metrowest Ruby Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, Natick Thu MAY 28, 2009 Agile Bazaar, "A Jet Engine On Your Pinto", 6PM, Location: Pizzeria Uno, Newton Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Virtualization Training, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Javascript Meetup, "GenevaJS demo, extension to Prototype library", 6PM, Microsoft Research, Cambridge Boston Plone Meetup Group, "using Plone, ..... cool Plone products", 7PM, Boston Sat MAY 30, 2009 Boston Linux & Unix, "Installfest", 9:00 am, MIT Building E51, Room 061 Mon JUN 01, 2009 New England F# User Group "Richard Hale Shaw" 6:30-8:30, Microsoft Research, Cambridge BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 6", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Tue JUN 02, 2009 NE Oracle Users Group, "Tom Kyte- Details to come..." Wed JUN 03, 2009 Windows Boston, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Exchange Server Users, "Best of TechEd", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Thu JUN 04, 2009 Beantown .NET User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Visual Basic Pros, "Visual Studio Report Control, Test Driven Development", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Fri JUN 05, 2009 DAMA New England "Working with Use Cases on Data-Centric Projects" 9:30-11:30 am, Liberty Mutual, Weston Mon JUN 08, 2009 BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 7", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Tue JUN 09, 2009 BostonCHI (ACM SIG), "TBA", 6:30 PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington Seacoast Linux Users Group (SLUG), "Mer built using the Open SUSE build system", 7 PM, UNH Durham 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 Boston .NET Users Group, "Using Web Expresssion and Visual Studio 2008", 6-8 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Thu JUN 11, 2009 SQL Server User Group, "MDM on the Microsoft Stack", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham Mon JUN 15, 2009 BostonDotNet Certification Group, "MCTS 70-503 Exam, week 8", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Boston Linux & Unix UG "Roofnet III - Municipal Wireless" 6:30-9 pm, MIT Location to be determined 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 Wed JUN 24, 2009 Agile Boston, "Greg Smith on Incremental Agile Tactics", 6:30-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Thu JUL 02, 2009 Visual Basic Professionals, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Mon JUL 06, 2009 New England F# User Group "Amanda Laucher" 6:30-8:30, Microsoft Research, Cambridge 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 Boston .NET Users Group, "TBD", 6-8 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Wed JUL 15, 2009 Boston Linux & Unix UG "Another Look at MythTV and MythDora" 6:30-9 pm, MIT Location to be determined Web Innovators Group, "people interested in internet and mobile innovation", 6:30 pm, Cambridge Wed JUL 23, 2009 Agile Boston, "Andy Singleton on Real-world Distributed Agile", 6:30-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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 AUG 12, 2009 Boston .NET Users Group, "Cloud Computing: A First Look at Windows Azure", 6-8 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Wed SEP 16, 2009 So NE Network Users, topic TBA, 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI Boston Linux & Unix UG "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party X" 6:30-9 pm, MIT Location to be determined 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 MAY 02, 2009 NE User Group Summit "help each other by sharing our experiences" 11-5, Microsoft Research, Cambridge MAY 05, 2009 Marketing Your Business On The Web (using websites, email, social media, blogs, etc.), 6-9pm, Boston MAY 07-08, 2009 Independent Game Conference East, Northeastern University MAY 08, 2009 Boston Area Windows Server User Group (BAWSUG) "Windows 2008 Load & Lab event" 8am-4:45pm, Microsoft, Waltham 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 MAY 21-22, 2009 TiECON East 2009 entrepreneurial conference, 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.