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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

Virtualization User Group, "No meeting due to Deep Dive Day 2011 on March 11th"
Boston Voice Users meeting is canceled

Wed MAR 09, 2011
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Data Visualization in SharePoint 2010", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Users, "Windows Azure", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Software Quality Group of NE, "Build, SCM, and QA: Enablers for Agility", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston Avid Users, "Media Composer v5.5", 6:30, RULE Boston Camera, Boston
Back Bay LISA, "How Splunk manages our Junk", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 376
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston
Worcester Linux Users, "Virtualization Technologies", 7PM, WPI Morgan Hall

Thu MAR 10, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
Beantown .NET Users,  MEETING CANCELED
NE Java Users Group, "The Cloudy Future of Integration", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Nashua Scrum Club, "Agile Release Planning", 6PM, 45 High St, Nashua NH
NE SQL Server Users, "Powershell", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Coding Dojo, "programmers practice to improve their skills", 6:30, First Church in Boston
Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376
DAMA International, "NoSQL Smackdown", 7PM, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Wellesley

Sat MAR 12, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XXXIX", 9-5, MIT Building E51, Room 061
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "Q&A and NVDA, free screen reader for Windows", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

Mon MAR 14, 2011
NE F# User Group, "Scala for F# Developers", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 8-9; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "Understanding Indexing, by Zardosht Kasheff", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, CANCELED? - Check web

Tue MAR 15, 2011
Final Cut Pro Users, "Color Grading with Davinci Resolve For Mac Workshop", 4PM, The Cabaret at Emerson College
SPIN - Software Process Improvement Network, "From Funding to First Iteration for Embedded Systems", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
JavaScript Meetup, "Advanced HTML5 Video with Popcorn.js", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "See what's new and cool : Check Website)", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SVCNGR", 7PM, Cambridge

Wed MAR 16, 2011
NE Open Text Users, "RightFax & Alchemy News & Futures from ContentWorld", 4PM, One Broadway, Cambridge
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH .NET Users, "Azure cloud computing", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
NE Midrange Users Group, $ "Optimizing Business Communications", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk $
NE ASP.NET Professionals, "SharePoint 2010 Development for ASP.NET Developers", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Linux & Unix, "Agile Programming", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395
So New England Network, "Barracuda Networks, Inc - Firewalls, email archiving", 7PM, NEIT, Warwick, RI
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, topic TBD, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston
jQuery and JavaScript hackers, "Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware and jQuery: a successful integration", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, Boston
Boston Flash Platform Users, "Michael Labriola talks about...", 7:15, NE Institute of Art, Brookline

Thu MAR 17, 2011
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Club Pocket PC, "Stay tuned for more information!"

Fri MAR 18, 2011
App Development Meetup, "Mobile Application Development Research Study", 12:30, World Trade Center, Boston

Mon MAR 21, 2011
Boston InDesign User Group, "Using InDesign for Amazing Results", 6:30, MassArt, 621 Huntington Ave
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 10-12; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE Silverlight Guild, "overview of SharePoint 2010, deep dive showing Silverlight", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest: We will be writing code...", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

Tue MAR 22, 2011
Boston Cold Fusion Users, "Using Selenium and TestNG", 6PM, location TBD
Boston Drupal, "Boston Drupal Dojo", 6:30, MassChallenge, Marina Park Drive, Boston
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Hands-on Census class", 7PM, Boston Globe
UX Boston Book Club, "Twyla Tharp: The Creative Habit", 7-9PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed MAR 23, 2011
Boston SharePoint Meetup, "Web Content Management Roundtable", 8:30AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
DataCAD Users (DBUG), "DataCAD X3", 6PM, Boston Society of Architects
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Refresh Boston, "Sassive Aggressive: Using Sass to Make Your Life Easier", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu MAR 24, 2011
SEMPO Boston Working Group, "Product Demonstrations", 7:45am, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Coding Dojo, "programmers practice to improve their skills", 6:30, First Church in Boston
Lean Startup Circle, "TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
North Shore Web Geeks, "the state of Mobile web", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport

Mon MAR 28, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 13-14; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Java Meetup, "NetBeans Application Platform", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "WordPress Theme Framework Bake-Off", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAR 29, 2011
Final Cut Pro Users, "BOSFCPUG + BOSDSLR Mixer", 6:30, location TBD
So NH Apple Core (SNAC), topic TBD, 7PM, Nashua Public Library

Wed MAR 30, 2011
Providence Drupal Meetup, 6PM, McFadden’s Restaurant & Saloon

Thu MAR 31, 2011
Boston Azure Users, "Building Causal Games on Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Security Meetup, "Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)", 6:15, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston

Mon APR 04, 2011
Boston Java Meetup, "Details on presentation tba", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 15; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE F# User Group, "Petr Lepilov", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest: We will be writing code...", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Tue APR 05, 2011
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed APR 06, 2011
Boston Area Windows Server Users, "topic TBD", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
Boston iPad Developers Meetup Group, "Share your iPad / HD Apps", 7PM, Bertucci's, Cambridge

Thu APR 07, 2011
Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group, $ "IT Performance Management in a Financial Crisis", 8AM, EMC, Hopkinton $
Beantown .NET Users, "Lean Startup: How Development Looks Different at a Startup", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile New England, "Pitfalls and Perils of Agile Testing", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Visual Basic Professionals, "Jim O'Neal - Microsoft: topic tbd", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
JavaScript Meetup, "Using RequireJS to write and manage modular javascript", 7PM, location TBD

Sat APR 09, 2011
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Mon APR 11, 2011
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 16-18; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Cambridge SEO Meetup, "Internet Marketing Networking Event", 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Cambridge Enterprise Web 2.0 Meetup, 7:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Tue APR 12, 2011
Virtualization User Group, "RES and eG Innovations", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Jboss Users Group, "JBoss Clustering", 6-9 pm, Boston University
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Tom Tullis, Fidelity Investments", 6:30, Fidelity, 245 Summer St, Boston
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Rubyists, "Main Event at Sermo", 7PM, Cambridge
UX Boston Book Club, "Count me in Christopher Alexander: A Pattern Language (???)", 7-9PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed APR 13, 2011
Software Quality Group of NE, "SQA in an Agile Environment", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Milford High School
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston

Thu APR 14, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence

Mon APR 08, 2011
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 19-20; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Mon APR 18, 2011
Boston PHP Meetup, "Zend: Do You Queue? and Best practices for PHP deployment", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

Tue APR 19, 2011
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SVCNGR", 7PM, Cambridge

Wed APR 20, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "Short Takes: Nagios and more", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395
Southern New England Network, "Walter Horowitz: IPV-6", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Mon APR 25, 2011
Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 21-22; Silverlight 4 unleashed", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed APR 27, 2011
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Boston PHP Meetup, "Web Performance, Scalability, and Testing techniques", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu APR 28, 2011
SEMPO Boston Working Group, "Using the Internet to Expand Business", 7:45AM, Location TBA
Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Lean Startup Circle, "TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri APR 29, 2011
App Development Meetup, $ "Getting started with iPhone App Development for Beginners", 6PM, Courtyard South Boston $

Mon MAY 02, 2011
NE F# User Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed MAY 04, 2011
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford
Boston iPad Developers Meetup Group, "Share your iPad / HD Apps", 7PM, Bertucci's, Cambridge

Thu MAY 05, 2011
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Fri MAY 06, 2011
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "50th Anniversary Celebration", 6PM, Meadow Creek Club, Dracut

Mon MAY 09, 2011
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue MAY 10, 2011
Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston Jboss Users Group, "EnterpriseDB", 6-9 pm, Boston University
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
New England M Users' Group, "** Something Wicked Interesting**", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley

Wed MAY 11, 2011
Software Quality Group of NE, "Career Paths for Software QA Staff", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston .NET Users, "Adam Machanic speaks on SQL Server Parallel Performance", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham

Thu MAY 12, 2011
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
NE Java Users Group, "What Functional Purists don't want you to know about Scala", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston

Sat MAY 14, 2011
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI

Wed MAY 18, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "Open Source Hardware Platforms", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395
Southern New England Network, "Integrating Windows AD and Linux with Likewise", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Thu MAY 19, 2011
Lean Startup Circle, "TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed MAY 25, 2011
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Thu MAY 26, 2011
Boston Azure Users, "PowerShell + Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed JUN 01, 2011
Exchange Server Boston, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston iPad Developers Meetup Group, "Share your iPad / HD Apps", 7PM, Bertucci's, Cambridge
Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford

Thu JUN 02, 2011
DAMA International, "Agile and Pervasive BI: Oxymoron or Emerging Trend?", location TBD

Wed JUN 08, 2011
Software Quality Group of NE, "Maximizing the Value of Testing to the Business", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston PHP Meetup, "Introducing the Lithium PHP Framework", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu JUN 09, 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 JUN 13, 2011
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge

Tue JUN 14, 2011
Boston Jboss Users Group, "Fedora", 6-9 pm, Boston University
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Speaker to be announced", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed JUN 15, 2011
Boston Area SAS Users Group, topic TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Linux & Unix, "Joseph Guarino: Free and Open-Source Software", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335
Southern New England Network, "SharePoint 2010", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston

Wed JUN 22, 2011
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge

Thu JUN 23, 2011
Lean Startup Circle, "TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue JUL 12, 2011
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed JUL 13, 2011 Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization)", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed JUL 20, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "TBD", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335 Wed JUL 27, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, topic and location TBD Wed AUG 17, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "TBD", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335 Wed SEP 28, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects Wed OCT 26, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, topic and location TBD Thu NOV 17, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston", 6PM, World Trade Center

Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

MAR 10, 2011
Boston Post Mortem, "MIT Sloan Business in Gaming Conference", Seaport Hotel, Boston

MAR 11, 2011
Virtualization Deep Dive Day 2011, Regis College, Alumni Hall, Weston

MAR 11-13, 2011
2011 New England Software Symposium, Crowne Plaza North Shore - Danvers

MAR 15, 2011
Boston Drupal, "learn about Drupal", Two 3-hour sessions, Acquia, Woburn

MAR 16, 2011
Oracle Technology Solutions & Systems Fair, 8:30-3, Marriott Burlington

MAR 19, 2011
Microsoft Business Intelligence Firestarter - Full BI Project Life Cycle, 9-4, Microsoft, Waltham

MAR 22, 2011
Transforming IT with Cloud Computing Firestarter, 9-4, Microsoft, Waltham

MAR 25, 2011
BostonCHI, "Professional Development Seminars", Mathworks, Natick

MAR 30-APR 01, 2011
8th USENIX Symposium on Networked Systems Design and Implementation (NSDI '11), Sheraton Boston Hotel

APR 01-03, 2011
iPhone Boot Camp Boston, "3 Day Intensive Workshop", 10-6, WorkBar Boston

APR 02, 2011
SQLSaturday #71, "training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn", Babson College, Wellesley,

APR 04-06, 2011
iPhone iPad DevCon East, "focused on iPhone and iPad apps development", Hyatt Regency Cambridge

APR 05, 2011
Microsoft Web Camp, 9-5, Microsoft, Waltham

APR 09, 2011
2011 SharePoint Saturday, 9-5, Microsoft, Waltham

APR 09-10, 2011
BarCamp Boston 6, "unConference, organized on the fly", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

APR 11-12, 2011
Boston Section ASQ, "BOSCON 2011", Waltham Woods Conf Center
IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, Holiday Inn Select, Woburn

APR 11-13, 2011
NE User Groups Conference, "for IBM i (Power Systems, iSeries, AS/400)", Sheraton Framingham

APR 11-15, 2011
Boston SQL Training, "the most advanced SQL Server training available", Microsoft Technology, 890 Winter St, Waltham

APR 14-16, 2011
Agile New England, "2011 Agile Games Conference", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

APR 29- MAY 01, 2011
New England Give Camp, "Planning is underway", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

MAY 07, 2011
New England Code Camp 15, "full day of knowledge sharing and networking", Microsoft Waltham

JUN 01-03, 2011
SharePoint Technology Conference, " details soon " , Sheraton Boston

JUN 03-05, 2011
iPhone Boot Camp Boston, "3 Day Intensive Workshop", 10-6, WorkBar Boston

JUN 07, 2011
IT Roadmap Conference & Expo, Hynes Convention Center

JUN 13-16, 2011
TechConnect World 2011, Hynes Convention Center

SEP 26-29, 2011
Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center



Ongoing:

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

Boston SQL Training

Apple seminars

Microsoft New England: Local Event Calendar

Boston TechVenue Calendar

Boston Events List for Professionals

IBM Innovation Centers for Business Partners - Waltham

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