c User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Thu SEP 02, 2010 Boston Area SolidWorks UG, "How to Increase Productivity", 5:30, Advantage, Dedham Beantown .NET Users, "Chris Bowen on Windows Phone 7", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Merrimack Valley ASQ $, "Risk Assessment using Failure Modes and Effects Analysis", 6PM, Holiday Inn, Tewksbury $ Agile Bazaar, "Offshore Agile: Successes and Sorries", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham Visual Basic Professionals, "Windows Azure Storage and SQL Azure Storage", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Boston JavaScript Meetup, "CouchDB for JavaScript Programmers", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue SEP 07, 2010 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 12AM, 41 Winter St, Boston Boston Network Users, "Virtualization Best Practices", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, E51-325 Wed SEP 08, 2010 Boston Sharepoint Users, "Becoming a SharePoint Solution Provider", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston .NET Users, "Test-driven development in .NET", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham So NE SQL Server Users, "Accelerated MDM with SQL Server 2008 R2 Master Data Services", 6PM, NE Inst of Tech, Warwick RI Agile Boston, "New Tools for the Agile Quiver", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Back Bay LISA, "Using MySQLtuner 2.0 to monitor and improve mysql performance", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149 Thu SEP 09, 2010 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Tazza Cafe, Providence NE Java Users, "Cloud Computing for Google App Engine and Amazon EC2", 6PM, Oracle, Burlington Nashua Scrum Club Meetup, "True Agility Requires Us to Re-examine Our Beliefs", 6PM, Harbor Homes, Nashua NH NE SQL Server Users, "Kalen Delaney - Season Kickoff", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston Boston Web Performance Meetup, "Hands on Site Optimization", 7PM, Prudential Center Boston CocoaHeads, "topic TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 372 Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI Sat SEP 11, 2010 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "Details announced in September", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134 Mon SEP 13, 2010 NE F# Users, "F# Web Driven Development", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Cambridge/Boston SEO Meetup, "Philip Nikolayev, writer and marketing guru, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Web Innovators Group, "forum for entrepreneurs to present new services", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta Boston .NET Certification Group, "topic tbd", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM, MIT Building E51 Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Tue SEP 14, 2010 NH Adobe Users, "Photoshop CS5 and 3-D", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall Boston Jboss Users Group, "Testing with JBoss Application Server", 5PM, Boston University Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, 6PM, MIT Stata Center, Cambridge NE M Users Group, "Mobile Device Programming", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building NH Seacoast Mac Users, "Safari In Depth", 6:15, Rye Jr High BostonCHI, topic TBD, 6:30, IBM Research, Cambridge Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Murphy's, Salem Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Boston Rubyists, topic TBD, 12AM, 215 First St, Cambridge Wed SEP 15, 2010 NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Better User Authentication and Authorization", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party & talk by V. Alex Brennan", 6:30, MIT Room E51-325 So New England Network, "the new Windows phone & new OS", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI Boston Python Meetup, "Beginner's Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu SEP 16, 2010 GBC/ACM & IEEE, "Computational & synthetic biology to prevent disease & create materials", 7PM, MIT Broad Inst Mon SEP 20, 2010 Boston Lisp Meeting, "Hari Prashanth on Functional Data Structures for Typed Racket", 6PM, NE Univ, building WVH Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue SEP 21, 2010 SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network "Agile - The Basics and Beyond...", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford NE BlackBerry Developers Group, 7PM, Marriott Cambridge Wed SEP 22, 2010 IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston IEEE Consultants Network, "What Cloud Computing Really Means and the Possibilities", 6:30, Foley Hoag LLP, Waltham 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 Boston Plone Meetup, "Sept Meetup", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Fri SEP 24, 2010 SQL Server Users, "SQL Server Loadfest R2", 8:30AM, Microsoft, Waltham Mon SEP 27, 2010 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Tue SEP 28, 2010 NH SolidWorks Users, topic TBD, 5:15, Rapid Machining, Nashua NH DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed SEP 29, 2010 Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn how to use API's like Google Maps", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu SEP 30, 2010 DAMA New England, "Business Semantics, Metadata Discovery, and Knowledge Management", 6PM, Harvard Pilgrim, Wellesley Mon OCT 04, 2010 Boston Java Meetup, "Details to follow", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mobile Monday Boston, "Mobile Marketing", 6:30, check website Wed OCT 06, 2010 Gr Boston SharePoint Users Group, "TBA", 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford iPhone Developers Meetup, 7PM, Waltham MacTechGroup, "Tapworthy: iPhone design", 7PM, MIT Sloan, E51-315 Thu OCT 07, 2010 Beantown .NET Users, "Shaun Avery, NHibernate", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Visual Basic Professionals, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Area SolidWorks UG, "Agenda TBA", MKS, Wilmington Sat OCT 09, 2010 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Mon OCT 11, 2010 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, 7PM, MIT Building E51 Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Tue OCT 12, 2010 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting", 6-9 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, 6PM, MIT Stata Center, Cambridge Boston JBoss Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Boston University BostonCHI, "over-the-phone interaction design", 6:30, Nuance, Burlington Wed OCT 13, 2010 Worcester Linux Users' Group, "Topic, Speaker: TBD", 7PM, Morgan Hall, WPI Back Bay LISA, "Using MySQLtuner 2.0 to monitor and improve mysql performance", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149 Thu OCT 14, 2010 NE SQL Server Users, "Brent Ozar - Topic TBD", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston Mon OCT 18, 2010 NE Silverlight Guild, "Silverlight as a Transmedia Platform (kick off meeting)", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mobile Monday Boston, "Mobile Enterprise", 6:30, check website Wed OCT 20, 2010 NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Chris Bowen on 'WebMatrix'", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Linux & Unix, "Hardware Hacking: Atomic Clock Building", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325 So New England Network, "SQL best practices: backups, maintenance, etc.", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick, RI Thu OCT 21, 2010 Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "Developing iPhone Web Applications with ASP.NET", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Lean Startup Circle - Boston, "TBA", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon NOV 01, 2010 Boston Java Meetup, "Details to follow", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed NOV 03, 2010 Gr Boston SharePoint Users Group, "TBA", 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford iPhone Developers Meetup, 7PM, Waltham Thu NOV 04, 2010 Beantown .NET Users, "Andy Novick, SQL Server Partitioning & Data Management", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue NOV 09, 2010 Boston Area SAS Users Group, topic TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, 6PM, MIT Stata Center, Cambridge Boston JBoss Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Boston University BostonCHI, "Details to be announced", 6:30 Wed NOV 10, 2010 Boston PHP Meetup, "Usability with Steve Krug", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu NOV 11, 2010 Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston Sat NOV 13, 2010 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Wed NOV 17, 2010 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 Thu NOV 18, 2010 DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston (DBUG's 23rd Anniversary)", 6PM, World Trade Center, Boston 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 01, 2010 Gr Boston SharePoint Users Group, "TBA", 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford iPhone Developers Meetup, 7PM, Waltham Thu DEC 02, 2010 Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue DEC 07, 2010 Boston JBoss Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Boston University Sat DEC 11, 2010 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Tue DEC 14, 2010 BostonCHI, "Details to be announced", 6:30 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: SEP 09, 2010 Agile Boston Workshop, "Protocols for Maximal Agility", Microsoft, Waltham SEP 10-12, 2010 New England Software Symposium, Sheraton Framingham SEP 14, 2010 Agile Boston, "Personal Agility Workshop: Enabling Hyper-Productive Teams", Microsoft, Waltham SEP 16, 2010 Agile Boston Open Space 2010, "People and Interactions", Westin Hotel, Waltham SEP 17, 2010 North Eastern SolidWorks User Conference, Westford Regency Inn & Conference Center Boston Drupal, "Booster Shots for Drupal", (two sessions), Boston SEP 20, 2010 Mongo Boston, "explore the non-relational, document-oriented database MongoDB", 9-6, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge SEP 20-23, 2010 Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center SEP 25, 2010 SharePoint Saturday Boston, "free event with a lineup of 30 sessions", Microsoft, Waltham OCT 02, 2010 New England Code Camp 14, "a free, full day of knowledge sharing and networking", Microsoft, Waltham OCT 05-06, 2010 Lucene Revolution Conference 2010, "Training", Boston Hyatt Harborside Hotel OCT 06-10, 2010 Boston SQL Training, "From Zero to SSIS! Learning SQL Server Integration Services", Microsoft Technology Center, Waltham OCT 07-08, 2010 Lucene Revolution Conference 2010, "Conference", Boston Hyatt Harborside Hotel OCT 14-15, 2010 TechWorld 2010, Pease International Tradeport, Portsmouth NH InfoXchange 2010, Pease International Tradeport, Portsmouth NH OCT 16-17, 2010 jQuery Boston Conference, Hilton Boston Logan Airport OCT 19-22, 2010 58th ASQ NEQC Conference, Royal Plaza Hotel and Trade Center, Marlborough 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 NOV 04, 2010 ASP.NET Web Platform Firestarter, "get up to speed with ASP.NET", 9-4, Microsoft, Waltham 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 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 Apple seminars Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar Boston TechVenue Calendar Boston Events List for Professionals IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners - Waltham
These listings are obtained from user group web pages, mailings, and from other sources.