User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. 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 Nashua Scrum Club, "Agile Success and Failure Seminar", 6PM, Partnership for Successful Living, Nashua 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 UPA Boston Chapter, "PubTrivia Smackdown Challenge", Boston Beer Works Fri NOV 12, 2010 Boston Post Mortem, "Grand Opening of GAMBIT Exhibit", 5:30-7:30pm, MIT Museum, Cambridge 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 Mon NOV 15, 2010 Boston DotNetNuke Users, "TBA", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest @ Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "Introduction to (Geo)Spatial Programming", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Tue NOV 16, 2010 NH SolidWorks Users, (see website), 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, 6PM, Hynes Convention Center Boston SPIN, "Do you have the Right Stuff to Manage a Software QA/Test Team?", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Seacoast SQL Server, "Working to help Great Bay With a DB Design & App Need", 6:15, Great Bay Comm Coll, Portsmouth NH Boston ExpressionEngine Meetup, "Deploying your EE Site: Checklists and Helpful Tips", 7PM, GLAD, Boston Wed NOV 17, 2010 NE Midrange Users Group $, "Taking the Mystery Out of AS2", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk $ Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Legal liability in the age of WikiLeaks", 6PM, BU Student Lounge IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Boston .NET Architecture Study Group, "Domain Specific Languages (DSLs)", 6 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Linux & Unix, "Google's Android Phone OS", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 325 Google Technology Users, "open format discussion", 6:30, The Burren, Cambridge NE Digital Media Users, "check website to verify", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Windows Phone User and Developer Group, "all about Windows Phone 7", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston PHP Meetup, "Usability with Steve Krug", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Python Meetup, "Intro to Twisted: presentation and LAB", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge GBC/ACM / DAMA International, "SciDB: Big Analytics on Big Data", 7PM, Broad Institute, MIT bldg NE-30 So New England Network, "Visualizing Your Network w Visio 2010", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Debugging and Troubleshooting the Greater ASP.NET Environment", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham ? Thu NOV 18, 2010 SEMPO Boston Working Group, "Yahoo! / Bing Search Transition", 7:45AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Azure Users, "Why the Microsoft Cloud?", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Arduino Meetup Group, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston WebsiteSpark Group, "ExpressionEngine and 2011 schedule", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston BizSpark Meetup, "Conversation Media and netBlazr", 6PM, HubSpot, Cambridge DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston (DBUG's 23rd Anniversary)", 6PM, World Trade Center, Boston XTC-Boston, "topic tbd", 6:30 PM, Cambridge Brewing Company Boston Web Performance Group, "Speaker - Jared Rosoff from Yottaa.com", 7PM, Boston 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 Tue NOV 23, 2010 Lean Startup Circle - Boston Meetup, 6PM Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed NOV 24, 2010 Boston XNA Developers, "Kinect Baby!", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Agile Boston, "Give Thanks for the Scrum", 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 So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "Video Conversions", 7PM, Nashua Public Library 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, "Web Site Migration to the Cloud - Amazon vs. Azure", 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 NE F# User Group, "fun and interactive session writing some F# code", 6:30, 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 Django Boston Meetup, 6PM, Venture Café, Cambridge Nashua Scrum Club, "Lean Startup", 6PM, Partnership for Successful Living, Nashua 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 Cambridge SEO Meetup, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington 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 Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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, "On Time and Under Budget:... Software Project Deadlines", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge New England Visual Basic Professionals, "TBA", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham UX Book Club, Boston Meetup, "Living with Complexity by Don Norman", 7PM, 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, "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 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 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 11-12, 2010 RIA Unleashed 2010 Boston, "Adobe Flash Platform and related technologies", Bentley University, Waltham NOV 12-14, 2010 Startup Weekend Mobile Boston, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 03-05, 2010 Drupaltherapy Training, "intensive all-day workshop", WorkBar Boston DEC 04, 2010 Boston iPhone Boot Camp, "Three Day Intensive Workshop", 8:30-5, •Cambridge Innovation Center? 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.