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Wed DEC 09, 2009
RI Oracle Users, "Intro to App Express / Cloud / Oracle 11g", 8:30AM-Noon, Providence College
So NE SQL Server Users, "the Under-Used OVER Clause", 6PM, NE Inst of Tech, Warwick RI
Oracle DBA SIG, "Oracle Performance Tuning", 6:30, Sheraton Framingham
Boston Cloud Services Meetup, "Appfirst debut" and "encryption and security", 6:30, Aprigo, Waltham
Boston Macintosh User Group, "Snow Leopard Q&A", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
Back Bay LISA, "Thirty Minute Tools (use in less than 30 minutes after install)", 7-9:30, MIT E51-149
SLUG (NH Seacoast Linux), moved to Mon DEC 14
Boston .NET, MEETING CANCELLED

Thu DEC 10, 2009
Gr Boston Chapter ACM & IEEE Computer Society & DAMA NE, "Task-specific Search", 7PM, MIT Room E51-315
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston
Rhode Island Macintosh Users, 7 pm, "Annual Christmas Party",  Rhode Island College
XTC-Boston, 6 pm, "discuss agile's relation to education?", Kinsale Irish Pub, Boston

Sat DEC 12, 2009
Visually Impaired & Blind U G, "Pen Friend Audio Labeler, HealthTeller", 1-4PM, MIT Bldg 5, rm 134

Mon DEC 14, 2009
Boston Lisp, "Sam Tobin-Hochstadt will talk about Typed Scheme", 6pm, Northeastern Univ, WVH 366, Boston
BostonDotNet Certification Group "regular meeting" 6:30-9, Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "how to play with time zones in MySQL", 7PM. MIT building E51
SLUG (NH Seacoast Linux), "Add meta data to your photos with GPicSync", 7-9 PM, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern in the Square

Tue DEC 15, 2009
SPIN - S/W Process Improvement Network "Strategic Alignment & Portfolio Excellence", 6-8:30, MITRE, Bedford
Boston ColdFusion User Group, "PDF Documents and Forms in ColdFusion 9", 6-8 pm, Sun Life, Wellesley
BFAIG · Boston Flex Application Incubator Group, "Check Website"

Wed DEC 16, 2009
Providence Geeks, (Tentative date) topic TBD, 5:30-8:30, @AS220, Providence
Sitecore Meetup Group, 6PM
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "SharePoint Development for ASP.NET Developers", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "Building Google's Chromium OS", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
Boston Joomla Users, topic TBA, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden
So NE Network Users, "Symantec", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI
Flash Platform Users Group, "Pixel Bender", 7:15, New England Institute of Art, Brookline

Thu DEC 17, 2009
Boston KM Forum, "Deliver Us from Web 2.0 Content Chaos", 4-6 pm, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston NAISG, "Audit and Policy Considerations in Wiretapping, Comm Sec, Network Sec", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Cape Cod .NET Users, "Putting SOAP to REST", 6:30, Venture Hyannis
Worcester Linux Users' Group (WLUG), topic TBD, 7PM, Salisbury Labs Room 104, WPI
No Shore Web Geeks Meetup, 7PM, The Grog, Newburyport

Mon DEC 21, 2009
Boston DotNetNuke Users, topic TBA, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
BostonDotNet Certification Group "regular meeting" 6:30-9, Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge
Boston Java Meetup, topic TBA, 6:30, Cambridge

Wed DEC 23, 2009
IT Job Seekers Meetup Group, 6PM, Boston
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, 7PM
Flash Platform Users Group, "moved to December 16th"

Thu DEC 24, 2009
Boston Plone Meetup Group, 7PM, Betahouse, Cambridge

Mon DEC 28, 2009
BostonDotNet Certification Group "regular meeting" 6:30-9, Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge
Boston Water User Group, "topic TBD", 7PM, One Broadway, Cambridge

Mon JAN 04, 2010
NE F# User Group, "Bring your laptops- Speaker: Mutaamba Maasha", 6:30-8:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
BostonDotNet Certification Group "regular meeting" 6:30-9, Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge
Cambridge SEO Meetup, "two round table discussions", 7 pm, Robbins Library, Arlington

Tue JAN 05, 2010
Boston Network Users, "Cisco’s Unified Computing Systems", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest @ Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed JAN 06, 2010
Boston Computer Eyestrain Meetup Group, 7PM, Cambridge

Thu JAN 07, 2010
The Agile Bazaar, "Tom and Mary Poppendieck", 6PM, location TBD
NE Visual Basic Pros, "Silverlight 3 - SketchFlow", 6:15-8:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon JAN 11, 2010
SLUG (NH Seacoast Linux), "Mono (FOSS .Net Framework)", 7-9 PM, Morse Hall, UNH, Durham

Tue JAN 12, 2010
NE "M" Users Group, "DeepSee by Intersystems", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building
Boston Flex Users, "Adobe AIR player 2.0", 7PM, One Broadway, Cambridge
BostonCHI, No Regular Meeting in January
Boston.pm, "mvhub - perl some modules launchpad bzr for ngo", 7 pm, MIT Room E51-376
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup Group, "3 speakers- Check website", 6PM, Cambridge

Wed JAN 13, 2010
Boston Avid Users, 6:30PM, topic & location TBD
Cent MA SolidWorks Users, topic TBD, The Hope Group, Northboro
Boston .NET, topic TBD, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu JAN 14, 2010
New England SQL User Group, "Power Pivot for Excel 2010", 6:30-9, Microsoft, Waltham

Tue JAN 19, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement, "Becoming a Technology Manager", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford

Wed JAN 20, 2010
NE Midrange Users, "Security Encryption", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
Boston Linux & Unix, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
So NE Network Users, "SBS 2008", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick RI

Thu JAN 21, 2010
Final Cut Pro Users, "Workflow Mixer", 6PM, location TBD

Tue JAN 26, 2010
NH SolidWorks Users, topic TBD, 5:30, Daniel Webster College, Nashua

Thu JAN 28, 2010
Boston Azure User Group, "speakers and topics being worked out", Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge

Mon FEB 01, 2010
NE F# User Group, "Bring your laptops- Speaker: Rick Minerich", 6:30-8:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
BostonDotNet Certification Group "regular meeting" 6:30-9, Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge

Tue FEB 02, 2010
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest @ Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Thu FEB 04, 2010
The Agile Bazaar, "Amir Elfar of MedAvante", 6PM, location TBD

Tue FEB 09, 2010
BostonCHI, "David Rose: Disability Access", 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Thu FEB 11, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, "Parallelism Zen for .NET Developers", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue FEB 16, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "Power of Project Patterns", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford

Wed FEB 17, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "PHP Case Study (Subject to Change)", 6pm, Seekonk

Thu FEB 25, 2010
JavaScript Meetup Group, "Ubiquity and/or JetPack", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon MAR 01, 2010
NE F# User Group, "Bring your laptops- Speaker: Jason", 6:30-8:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
BostonDotNet Certification Group "regular meeting" 6:30-9, Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge

Thu MAR 04, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAR 09, 2010
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Tue MAR 16, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "Ed Yourdon: TBA", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford

Wed MAR 17, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "Soup to Nuts with Triggers (Subject to Change)", 6pm, Seekonk

Mon APR 05, 2010
NE F# User Group, "Visual Studio 2010 Special Event", 6:30-8:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
BostonDotNet Certification Group "regular meeting" 6:30-9, Microsoft NERD Center, Cambridge

Tue APR 06, 2010
BostonCHI, "Candy Sidner: Engagement and Deixis", 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Tue APR 20, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "Using Social Media", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford

Wed APR 21, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "No Meeting, Please Attend the User Conference"

Tue MAY 11, 2010
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Tue MAY 18, 2010
SPIN - S/W Process Improvement Network "Agile in Safety-Critical Environments", 6-8:30, MITRE, Bedford

Wed MAY 19, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "Security Encryption (Subject to Change)", 6pm, Seekonk

Tue JUN 08, 2010
BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, Sun Microsystems, Burlington

Tue JUN 15, 2010
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "TBA", 6-8:30, MITRE Corp, Bedford

Wed JUN 16, 2010
New England Midrange Users Group, "DB Web Query (Subject to Change)", 6pm, Seekonk



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

Every Tuesday and Thursday
Massachusetts UBUNTU Team training, 7-9 pm, South End Technology Center, Boston


DEC 09, 2009
Microsoft and NaviSite Elite Web Optimization Event, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
The MSDN Northeast Roadshow, "Don't Fear the Coder Tour", Hotel Providence, Providence
Oracle Users, "Performance Tuning from Basic to Advanced in 120 Minutes", Sheraton Framingham

DEC 10, 2009
Xconomy Forum: Cloud3, 8:30 AM - 12:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
CloudCamp Boston unconference, 2-7 pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
IEEE Continuing Ed Program, "Virtualization and VMware’s Infrastructure", 6:15-9:30, Holiday Inn, Woburn

DEC 11, 2009
Agile Bazaar "Sashimi Stories - Slicing Requirements for Agile Success", Mass Bay Comm College, Wellesley

JAN 30, 2010
New England Data Camp v2.0 (a.k.a. SQLSaturday #34), Microsoft, Waltham

MAR 20-21, 2010
IEEE Symposium on 3D User Interfaces 2010, Westin Hotel, Waltham

MAR 20-24, 2010
IEEE Virtual Reality 2010, Westin Hotel, Waltham

MAR 25-26, 2010
The Haptics Symposium, Westin Hotel, Waltham


Ongoing:

MIT Electrical Engineering and Computer Science events open to the public

The IEEE Boston Section posts local courses at http://www.ieeeboston.org/

South End Technology Center @ Tent City Course list

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

Boston TechVenue Calendar

IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners - Waltham

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