User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Fri MAR 18, 2011 App Development Meetup, "Mobile Application Development Research Study", 12:30, World Trade Center, Boston North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light 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 Manchester Linux Users, "ZFS file system", 6:30, Wings Your Way, Manchester NH 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", 7PM, 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 NH Python SIG, "Hamster the time-tracker", 7PM, Amoskeag Incubator, Manchester NH 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 BizSpark Meetup, "Different Investors for Different Folks", 6PM, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge Boston Security Meetup, "Security-Enhanced Linux (SELinux)", 6:15, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston Fri APR 01, 2011 North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light 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 Drupal Meetup, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Ctr, Bldg E51-145 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, "Lync Server 2010", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, The Lyceum, Salem 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 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 Boston Voice Users, topic TBD, 7:30, MIT, Room 2-135 Wed APR 13, 2011 NE Open Text Users, "RightFax 10.0 revealed", 4PM, One Broadway, Cambridge UPA New Hampshire Chapter, "Rethinking User Research for Social Interaction Design", 6PM, PixelMEDIA, Portsmouth NH Software Quality Group of NE, "SQA in an Agile Environment", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Milford High School Boston .NET Users, "jQuery Templates - Fritz Onion", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Web Design Meetup, "whatever comes up relating to to web design, or not", 7PM, Boston Back Bay LISA, "The Path to Senior Sysadmin", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 376 Thu APR 14, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376 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 Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Agile Development", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Linux & Unix, "Short Takes: Nagios and more", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395 Windows Phone User Developer, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Southern New England Network, "Walter Horowitz: IPV-6", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI 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 NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, The Lyceum, Salem 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 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center Virtualization User Group, "Monthly Meeting - TBA", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Jboss Users Group, "Java and Postgres", 6PM, Boston University New England M Users' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley 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 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 NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, The Lyceum, Salem 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 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 08, 2011 Healthcare Info & Management Systems Society, "5th Annual Project Management Symposium", 8-3:15, Portsmouth, NH 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 12, 2011 Microsoft TechNet Event, "To Manage and Deploy ... with the Microsoft Management Stack", Hilton Garden Inn, Waltham APR 14-16, 2011 Agile New England, "2011 Agile Games Conference", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge APR 29, 2011 Drupaltherapy Training, "intensive workshop: fresh Drupal skills for new and novice users", 9-5, CompuWorks, Boston 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
These listings are obtained from user group web pages, mailings, and from other sources.