User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Mon OCT 18, 2010 NE Silverlight Guild, "Silverlight as a Transmedia Platform (kick off meeting)", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston .NET Certification Group, "We're covering state management (Chapter 4)", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Java Meetup, "Revisiting Dependency Injection with Guice", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mobile Monday Boston, "Mobile Enterprise", 6:30, check website Boston DotNetNuke Users, "walkthrough on DotNetNuke Professional v5.5", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston .NET Certification Group, "We're covering state management (Chapter 4)", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Android, "Hackfest @ Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston NH Ruby User Group, "open forum and hacking session", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Tue OCT 19, 2010 Hacks/Hackers Boston Meetup, "Knight News Challenge", 6PM, Nieman Journalism Lab, Cambridge Boston SPIN, "Agile Program Management: Another Approach to Large Projects", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford UPA New Hampshire Chapter, "Sun Tzu and the Art of UX Influence", Chester College, Chester NH Wed OCT 20, 2010 Providence Geeks, "featuring GlobalMoxie’s Josh Clark!", 5:30–8:30pm, Firehouse 13, Providence NH Joomla Users, 6PM, details TBD Boston Cold Fusion Users, "Mark Phillips on Project Management", 6PM, location TBD Boston BizSpark Meetup Group, "Financial Projections for Pitch Decks", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston .NET Architecture Study Group, "topic tbd", 6 PM, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Internet Society, New England Chapter, "The Internet: Its Past and Possible Futures", 5:30, Simmons College, Boston GBC/ACM & IEEE, "Interpreting the non-coding human genome", 7PM, MIT Broad Inst Boston Python Meetup, "Processing.py, inside and out", 7PM, Google, Cambridge So New England Network, "SQL best practices: backups, maintenance, etc.", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick, RI Boston Web Performance Group, "Meet for SPEED", 7 PM, Prudential Center, Boston Thu OCT 21, 2010 SEMPO Boston, "Keeping Up with Google Search", 7:45AM, Google, Cambridge Boston KM Forum, "Influences on How I Can Make Better Decisions", 4-6PM, Microsoft, Waltham GR Boston AITP $, "Networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $ Boston Azure Users, "Silverlight and Windows Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "Developing iPhone Web Applications with ASP.NET", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NAISG Boston Chapter, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Sharepoint Users, "Panel on SharePoint 2010", 7PM, Hyatt Regency, Cambridge ASQ Boston Section $, "ISO 26000: How the ASQ and ISO are Promoting Sustainability", 7PM, $ Mon OCT 25, 2010 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Tue OCT 26, 2010 DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 NH Java Users, "Mark Richards - Antipatterns", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Wed OCT 27, 2010 IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston Agile Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham MIT Enterprise Forum, "Picking the Right Initial Market for my Vision?", 6:30, MIT Maclaurin Buildings Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden Thu OCT 28, 2010 Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group, "See Website", 8:30AM-4:30PM, BMC Software, Waltham Django Boston Meetup, 6PM, Venture Café, Cambridge Lean Startup Circle - Boston, "TBA", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Sat OCT 30, 2010 Hacks/Hackers Boston Meetup, "Making geolocal apps using OpenBlock", noon-8 PM, New MIT Media Lab, Cambridge Mon NOV 01, 2010 Boston Java Meetup, "Details to follow", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE F# User Group, "Habits of Successful Software Developers", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston / Cambridge SEO Internet Marketing Meetup, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington Tue NOV 02, 2010 Boston Linux & Unix, "ARM twisting with TI's OMAP, Linux, and the Pandaboard", 7-9, MIT Location TBD Wed NOV 03, 2010 Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford iPhone App Developers Meetup, 7PM, Upper Crust, Waltham UX Book Club, "Gamestorming: Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers", 7 pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu NOV 04, 2010 Beantown .NET Users, "Andy Novick, SQL Server Partitioning & Data Management", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Agile Bazaar, "Free Agile 101 Courses", 6:15-6:45, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham New England Visual Basic Professionals, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Agile Bazaar, "Scaling Scrum: Applying the Agile Scaling Model (ASM)", 6:45-9 PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham Boston Final Cut Pro Users, "Workflow Mixer", 6:30, WGBH Yawkey Theatre, 1 Guest St Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Mon NOV 08, 2010 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Seacoast Linux Users, "Backup solutions for Linux", 7PM, UNH Morse Hall, rm 301, Durham NH Tue NOV 09, 2010 Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Expanding Your Toolkit for Data Management", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE M Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building Boston JBoss Users, "Going Above and Beyond with RichFaces", 6PM, Boston University Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham BostonCHI, "User Interface Goals, Artificial Intelligence Opportunities", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed NOV 10, 2010 Software Quality Group, "Software Quality 2010: A Survey of the State of the Art", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Thu NOV 11, 2010 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Boston Area SolidWorks UG, "Agenda TBA", 5:30, Symmons, Braintree NE Java Users, "JVM Internals: Garbage Collection and VM Optimizations", 6PM, Location TBA NE SQL Server Users, "Baselining, Benchmarking, and Assorted Goodness", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston Boston Post Mortem, "game audio guru George “Fat Man” Sanger", 7 pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston CocoaHeads, "Next Meeting", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376 Sat NOV 13, 2010 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "Further details will be announced ....", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134 Back Bay LISA, "Details TBA" Mon NOV 15, 2010 Boston DotNetNuke Users, "TBA", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Tue NOV 16, 2010 NH SolidWorks Users, topic TBD, 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, 6PM, Hynes Convention Center Wed NOV 17, 2010 Boston Linux & Unix, "Google's Android Phone OS", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325 So New England Network, "Visualizing Your Network w Visio 2010", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI Boston PHP Meetup, "Usability with Steve Krug", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu NOV 18, 2010 DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston (DBUG's 23rd Anniversary)", 6PM, World Trade Center, Boston Sat NOV 20, 2010 Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XXXVIII", 9AM-5PM, MIT Building E51, Room 061 Wed NOV 24, 2010 IT Job Seekers Greater Boston, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Boston Agile Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "General topic discussion", 7PM, Natick Mon NOV 29, 2010 Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta Wed DEC 01, 2010 Boston SharePoint Meetup, 6PM, Barnes and Noble, Burlington Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford iPhone App Developers Meetup, 7PM, Upper Crust, Waltham Thu DEC 02, 2010 Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Agile Bazaar, "Free Agile 101 Courses", 6:15-6:45, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham New England Visual Basic Professionals, "Windows Phone 7 Development", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Agile Bazaar, "Topic TBA", 6:45 PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham Tue DEC 07, 2010 Boston JBoss Users, "Lighting talks 2010", 6PM, Boston University Wed DEC 08, 2010 Software Quality Group of NE, "Career Paths for Software QA Staff", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Back Bay LISA, "Usenix LISA 201 conference recap", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149 Thu DEC 09, 2010 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence NE SQL Server Users, "Tool Time", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston Sat DEC 11, 2010 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Mon DEC 13, 2010 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Tue DEC 14, 2010 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, IBM, Cambridge Wed DEC 15, 2010 Boston Linux & Unix, "Virtualization with OpenVZ", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325 So New England Network, "Malware, Fake AV, and other threats", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn Google Analytics", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon DEC 20, 2010 Boston DotNetNuke Users, "TBA", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Thu JAN 06, 2011 Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon JAN 10, 2011 Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 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 JAN 11, 2011 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham Wed JAN 12, 2011 Software Quality Group of NE, "Add Steak to Exploratory Testing's Parlor-Trick Sizzle", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Back Bay LISA, "Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 149 Boston PHP Meetup, "PHP Framework Bake-Off", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu JAN 13, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston Wed JAN 19, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "Low Cost Mobile Robot Platform using Linux", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325 Thu FEB 03, 2011 Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue FEB 08, 2011 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge Wed FEB 09, 2011 Software Quality Group of NE, "A fundamental approach to improving Software Quality", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Boston PHP Meetup, "jQuery Mobile: How to develop apps for the iPhone, iPad, Droid", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu FEB 10, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston Mon FEB 14, 2011 Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 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 MAR 08, 2011 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham Wed MAR 09, 2011 Software Quality Group of NE, "Build, SCM, and QA: Enablers for Agility", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn about Aptana Studio 3 IDE", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue APR 12, 2011 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge Wed APR 13, 2011 Software Quality Group of NE, "SQA in an Agile Environment", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Mon MAR 14, 2011 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Tue MAY 10, 2011 Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham Wed MAY 11, 2011 Software Quality Group of NE, topic TBD, 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Wed JUN 08, 2011 Software Quality Group of NE, "Maximizing the Value of Testing to the Business", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Wed JUL 13, 2011 Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: OCT 16, 2010 Social Media for the Tech Challenged, "Using Twitter and Facebook", South End Technology Center, Boston OCT 16-17, 2010 jQuery Boston Conference, Hilton Boston Logan Airport OpenSQLCamp Boston, MIT Stata Center Music Hack Day Boston, "build the next generation of music applications", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge OCT 18-19, 2010 2 Day jQuery Hack Class, The Bocoup Loft, Boston 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" HAS BEEN CANCELLED Open Web Application Security Project, "web application security conference", 8am-7pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge OCT 21, 2010 Oracle Technology Day 2010, The Westin Waltham OCT 20-22, 2010 SPTechCon 2010 Boston, "SharePoint Technology Conference", Hyatt Regency, Cambridge OCT 22, 2010 Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Student Conference 2010, 8-5, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge OCT 23, 2010 BostonEErs - Boston ExpressionEngine Meetup, 9-5, "Building your first site in EE", MIT E51-315 OCT 25-27, 2010 Cutter Consortium Summit 2010, "Interact with the Experts in IT", Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge OCT 26, 2010 Agile Software Development in VS2010, 9-5, Microsoft Technology Center, 890 Winter Street, Waltham 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 NOV 05, 2010 F# in Education Workshop, 9-4, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NOV 06, 2010 Design Camp Boston, "SOLD OUT!", 8-5, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NOV 11-12, 2010 RIA Unleashed 2010 Boston, "Adobe Flash Platform and related technologies", Bentley University, Waltham NOV 13-14, 2010 GBC/ACM, "Programming Without Fear: Best Practices for New and Existing Software", MIT Building E51 NOV 14, 2010 GBC/ACM, "The Spring Framework: Powering Enterprise Java Development", Harvard University (Maxwell Dworkin) NOV 16-17, 2010 Semantic Web Summit East, "Upgrade Your Business Intelligence", Hynes Convention Center, Boston NOV 30, 2010 Windows Azure Firestarter, "the latest disruptive (and over-hyped!) technology", 9-5, Microsoft, Waltham DEC 02, 2010 SharePoint 2010 Firestarter, "SP new features, upgrade path, deployment options", 9-5, Microsoft, Waltham DEC 06, 2010 Drupaltherapy Training, "intensive all-day workshop", 9-5, CompuWorks, Boston 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.