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Thu JUL 01, 2010
Agile Bazaar, "Products and People over Process and Dogma", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Visual Basic Professionals, "TFS - Basic / Visual Studio 2010 Launch", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Security Meetup, "Windows File Pseudonyms - Strange filenames and haiku", 6:30, Jobspring, Boston
NoSQL Summer Boston, "technology and theory surrounding 'NoSQL' Databases", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri JUL 02, 2010
Boston KM Forum, "Mis-spent Knowledge: Lessons Learned from Disasters", 7:30-9:30AM, Rebecca’s, Waltham

Mon JUL 05, 2010
NE F# User Group, "F# for High Performance, Readable, and Efficient Code, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cent NH Linux Users, "Patent Absurdity", 7PM, Hopkinton Town Library

Tue JUL 06, 2010
Boston Network Users, "Current State of Wireless LAN Technologies", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Drupal Meetup, "hosted by Sustainability@MIT", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, room E51-325

Wed JUL 07, 2010
RI Defcon, "The Economics of Personal Privacy and the Scam of Web2.0", 5:30 PM, AS220, 115 Empire St, Providence
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu JUL 08, 2010
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI
NoSQL Summer Boston, "technology and theory surrounding 'NoSQL' Databases", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon JUL 12, 2010
Boston Java Meetup, "Introduction to Apache Pivot", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET  Certification Group, "studying Microsoft .NET technology", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston BizSpark Meetup, "Market Strategy for Entrepreneurs & Tadashop Pitch", 7 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Tue JUL 13, 2010
NH Adobe Users, "WordPress and Social Media", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall
NE M Users Group, "DEVCON 2010 Highlights", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting ", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Salem Build Guild, "Two Year Anniversary", 6:30, Murphy's, Salem
Boston Rubyists, "Synchronizing Core Data With Rails Web Apps", 7PM, 215 First St, Cambridge

Wed JUL 14, 2010
Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Sun Microsystems, Burlington
Boston Area Sharepoint, "Great Solutions with SharePoint 2010 & Silverlight", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Final Cut Pro Users, "Workflow Mixer", 6:30, location TBD
Back Bay LISA, "Using MySQLtuner 2.0", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149
Boston.pm, "TBA", 7PM, MIT room E51-376
Boston Post Mortem, "Indies Will Shoot You in the Knees", 7PM, The Skellig, Waltham

Thu JUL 15, 2010
Boston Arduino Meetup, "July Meetup", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NoSQL Summer Boston, "technology and theory surrounding 'NoSQL' Databases", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Sat JUL 17, 2010
Boston PHP Meetup, "PHP Beginner Training Series (Part 1)", 11AM-4PM, Digital Imaging Arts Ctr, Waltham

Mon JUL 19, 2010
XTC-Boston, 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston Java Meetup, 6:30, Cambridge
Boston Area Haskell Users, "Continuation passing style, Cont monad", 7PM, MIT CSAIL Reading Room

Tue JUL 20, 2010
NH SolidWorks Users, topics TBD, 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua

Wed JUL 21, 2010
UPA NH Chapter, "Eye Tracking", 6PM, Autodesk, Manchester NH
UPA Boston Chapter, 6PM, topic and location TBD
.NET Architecture Study Group, "Patterns, .NET, SQL, and anything that interests us", 6 PM, Microsoft, Waltham
NE ASP.NET Professionals, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "Free Software and Web Applications", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
Windows Phone Users/Developers, "Silverlight UI for Windows Phone Developers", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston PHP Meetup, "Intro to Apache CouchDB", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu JUL 22, 2010
Lean Startup Circle - Boston, "Performable & Customer Development 101", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NoSQL Summer Boston, "technology and theory surrounding 'NoSQL' Databases", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon JUL 26, 2010
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston Lisp Meeting, "Factor: an interactive, dynamic, stack-based programming language", 6PM, MIT 34-401B
Boston Water User Group, "Topics: TBD", 7PM, One Broadway, Cambridge

Wed JUL 28, 2010
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston
Agile Boston, "Essential Deprogramming For Project Managers", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Thu JUL 29, 2010
Boston Area SolidWorks UG, "Configuration and Design tables Display states", 5:30, Cummings Center, Beverly
Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "Design an app without writing a single line of code", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon AUG 02, 2010
Boston Java Meetup, "Details to follow", 6:30
NE F# User Group, " Understanding F# Workflows", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge SEO Meetup, "Networking Event", 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington

Tue AUG 03, 2010
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 12AM, 41 Winter St, Boston
Boston Cloud Services Meetup, "cloud computing solutions & NINJA for Google Docs", 6:30, Foley Hoag, Waltham

Wed AUG 04, 2010
Boston Area Windows Server Users, "topic: TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn all about HTML5", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, South Boston
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu AUG 05, 2010
Agile Bazaar, "Getting Managers and Engineers Out of Each Other’s Hair", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham

Mon AUG 09, 2010
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge

Tue AUG 10, 2010
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting", 6-9 PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston.pm, "TBA", 7PM, MIT room E51-376

Thu AUG 12, 2010
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI

Sat AUG 14, 2010
Boston Linux & Unix, "Annual Summer BBQ XVI", 1-6 pm, Waltham

Mon AUG 16, 2010
Boston Java Meetup, 6:30 PM, Cambridge

Wed AUG 18, 2010
Boston PHP Meetup, "Progressive Enhancement", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Linux & Unix, "**UNCONFIRMED** To be determined", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325

Thu AUG 19, 2010
Boston Arduino Meetup, "August Meetup", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon AUG 23, 2010
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Wed AUG 25, 2010
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Thu AUG 26, 2010
Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "EditMe and Word Press Systems", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle - Boston, "TBA", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Sat AUG 28, 2010
Boston PHP Meetup, "PHP Beginner Training Series (Part 2)", 11AM-4PM, Digital Imaging Arts Ctr, Waltham

Tue AUG 31, 2010
Boston Post Mortem, "Boston Unity Group - August Unity Showdown", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed SEP 01, 2010
Boston Area SAS Users Group, topic TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu SEP 02, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, "topic: TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue SEP 07, 2010
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 12AM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Thu SEP 09, 2010
NE SQL Server Users, "Kalen Delaney - Topic TBD", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI

Mon SEP 13, 2010
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge

Tue SEP 14, 2010
Boston Jboss Users Group, "Testing with JBoss Application Server", 5-9 pm, Boston University
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting", 6-9 PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed SEP 15, 2010
Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XI", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
So New England Network, "the new Windows phone & new OS", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Mon SEP 20, 2010
Boston Java Meetup, "Details to follow", 6:30

Tue SEP 21, 2010
NE BlackBerry Developers Group, 7PM, Marriott Cambridge

Wed SEP 22, 2010
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Thu SEP 23, 2010
Boston Arduino Meetup, "Sept Meetup", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle - Boston, "TBA", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon SEP 27, 2010
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington

Tue SEP 28, 2010
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects

Wed SEP 29, 2010
Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn how to use API's like Google Maps", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu OCT 07, 2010
Beantown .NET Users, "Shaun Avery, NHibernate", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon OCT 11, 2010
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge

Tue OCT 12, 2010
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting", 6-9 PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed OCT 13, 2010
Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI

Thu OCT 14, 2010
NE SQL Server Users, "Brent Ozar - Topic TBD", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Wed OCT 20, 2010
So New England Network, "SQL best practices: backups, maintenance, etc.", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick, RI
Boston Linux & Unix, "**UNCONFIRMED** To be determined", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325

Tue OCT 26, 2010
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects

Wed OCT 27, 2010
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Thu OCT 28, 2010
Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group, "details tba", 8:30am-4:30pm
Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "Developing iPhone Web Applications with ASP.NET", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle - Boston, "TBA", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed NOV 10, 2010
Boston PHP Meetup, "Usability with Steve Krug", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed NOV 17, 2010
DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston", 6PM, World Trade Center, Boston
Boston Linux & Unix, "**UNCONFIRMED** To be determined", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
So New England Network, "Visualizing Your Network w Visio 2010", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Wed NOV 24, 2010
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston
Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick

Wed DEC 15, 2010
Boston Linux & Unix, "**UNCONFIRMED** To be determined", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325
So New England Network, "Malware, Fake AV, and other threats", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI



Events, Conferences, Education and Training:


AUG 10-12, 2010
LinuxCon 2010, Renaissance Boston

AUG 28, 2010
Boston Post Mortem, "GameLoop 2010: all-day game development unconference", 9 am, Cambridge

SEP 20-23, 2010
Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center

OCT 20, 2010
Northeast Oracle Users Group, "NOUG Training Day", 8 am, Bentley University, Waltham

OCT 20-22, 2010
SPTechCon 2010 Boston, "SharePoint Technology Conference", Hyatt Regency, Cambridge

NOV 01-02, 2010
Linux Kernel Summit, Hyatt Regency Cambridge

NOV 03-05, 2010
Linux Plumbers Conference 2010, Hyatt Regency Cambridge

Ongoing:

Various Course Offerings, South End Technology Center, Boston

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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