User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Fri OCT 29, 2010 Boston Haskell Users, "Intro to Type-level programming and Agda", 7PM, MIT CSAIL Reading Room, 32-G882 Sat OCT 30, 2010 Hacks/Hackers Boston Meetup, "Making geolocal apps using OpenBlock", noon-8 PM, New MIT Media Lab, Cambridge Sun OCT 31, 2010 Boston Post Mortem, "Play Through The Lurking Horror with PRIF ", 2-5 pm, MIT Building 4 Room 145. 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 Boston .NET Certification Group, "topic tbd", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest @ Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston Tue NOV 02, 2010 Boston Network Users "Virtualization & Storage Consolidation on Physical Data Center Plant" 6:30, ColoSpace, Waltham Boston Drupal, "hosted by Sustainability@MIT", 6:30, MIT Tang Center, room E51-325 Boston Linux & Unix, "PandaBoard - intro to latest open computing platform", 7PM, MIT Whitaker Bldg rm 56-114 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", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu NOV 04, 2010 Beantown .NET Users, "Andy Novick, SQL Server Partitioning & Data Management", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Merrimack Valley Section ASQ $, "Merrimac Brewery Tour", 6PM, Anheuser-Busch Brewery, Merrimack NH Agile Bazaar, "Free Agile 101 Courses", 6:15-6:45, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham New England Visual Basic Professionals, "Visual Studio 2010 Tips and Tricks", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Agile Bazaar, "Scaling Scrum: Applying the Agile Scaling Model (ASM)", 6:45-9 PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham Boston Avid Users and 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 Fri NOV 05, 2010 North Shore Computer Society Computer Clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Mon NOV 08, 2010 Mobile Monday Boston, "Mayor Menino presents Citizens Connect", 6pm, Ned Devine’s, Faneuil Hall Market, Boston Boston Java Meetup, "Effective (Java) Development By Being Lazy And Staying That Way", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Cambridge Boston .NET Certification Group, "topic tbd", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, 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 Boston .NET Users, "SharePoint 2010 Development for .NET Developers", 5PM, 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 NE Digital Artists Group, "BlueSky and Autodesk Event", 6PM, MIT Boston Maya User's Group (bMUG) and NEDAG, "Making 'Ice Age 3'", 6:30 PM, RSVP req'd Final Cut Pro Users, "Finishing for Broadcast: Making It Street Legal", 7PM, DCU Center, Worcester 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 NH Joomla Users, "Joomla! Jumpstart Workshop", 6PM, Manchester School of Technology 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", 7PM, 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, "Solona CAPTCHA and demos of Apple touch-screen apps", 1-4PM, MIT room 5-134 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 NE Digital Media Users, "check website to verify", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Greater Boston Chapter GBC/ACM, "SciDB: Big Analytics on Big Data", 7PM, Broad Institute, 7 Cambridge Center Thu NOV 18, 2010 DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston (DBUG's 23rd Anniversary)", 6PM, World Trade Center, Boston Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Fri NOV 19, 2010 North Shore Computer Society Computer Clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Sat NOV 20, 2010 Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XXXVIII", 9AM-5PM, MIT Building E51, Room 061 Mon NOV 22, 2010 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Wed NOV 24, 2010 Lean Startup Circle - Boston Meetup, 6PM 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 Boston Maya (bMUG) "Maya & ZBrush Workflow - A Next-Generation of Game Character" 7PM, NERD, Cambridge 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, "Agile Metrics, Reporting and Diagnostics", 6:45 PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham Mon DEC 06, 2010 Boston Java Meetup, "Details on presentation tba", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 NH Joomla Users, 6PM, details TBD 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 Final Cut Pro Users, "Holiday Mixer", 6:30, location TBD 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: Harry Drew, M.I.T. Media Lab", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, 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 Thu DEC 16, 2010 Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "Holiday Event - Show & Tell Night", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge GBC/ACM, "Expanding Computing Power while being environmentally sensitive", 7PM, MIT Room E51-345 Mon DEC 20, 2010 Boston DotNetNuke Users, "TBA", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Mon DEC 27, 2010 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Thu JAN 06, 2011 Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge New England Visual Basic Professionals, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham 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, "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 So New England Network, "Client Security with the Microsoft Stack", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI Thu Jan 20, 2011 Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon JAN 24, 2011 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Thu FEB 03, 2011 Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge New England Visual Basic Professionals, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Mon FEB 07, 2011 Boston Java Meetup, "Details on presentation tba", 6:30 PM, 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 Thu FEB 17, 2011 Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon FEB 28, 2011 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Mon MAR 07, 2011 Boston Java Meetup, "Details on presentation tba", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, 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 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 Mon MAR 28, 2011 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Mon APR 04, 2011 Boston Java Meetup, "Details on presentation tba", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon APR 11, 2011 Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, 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 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 Tue JUN 14, 2011 BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge Wed JUL 13, 2011 Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: 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 09-10, 2010 IBM DB2 Workshop for Oracle Professionals, "Expand your skills... its fast, easy and free", IBM, Waltham 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 16-17, 2010 Semantic Web Summit East, "Upgrade Your Business Intelligence", Hynes Convention Center, Boston NOV 20, 2010 Open Web Application Security Project, "web application security conference", 8am-7pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 02-03, 2010 Boston Drupal, "Drupal Essentials Workshop", 6:30, Isovera Consulting, Waltham DEC 06, 2010 Drupaltherapy Training, "intensive all-day workshop", 9-5, CompuWorks, Boston JAN 27-28, 2011 Boston Drupal, "Drupal Essentials Workshop", 6:30, Isovera Consulting, Waltham APR 14-16, 2011 Agile Bazaar, "2011 Agile Games Conference", 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.