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User Group events:
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Sat MAY 14, 2011
RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "survey results and gadget day", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134
Cambridge SEO Meetup, "SEO Class at the BCAE", 1:30, Boston Center for Adult Education

Mon MAY 16, 2011
Boston Scalability User Group, "Hazelcast data distribution platform for Java", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Gr Boston Chapter GBC/ACM, "From Introducing Computer Law in 1960 to the Modern Law of the Mind", 7PM, MIT Room E51-345
NH Ruby Users Group, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH
Boston Android Developers "Hackfest" is canceled.  See May 30th

Tue MAY 17, 2011
UPA New Hampshire Chapter, "Running a Successful Diary Study", 6PM, Autodesk, Portsmouth NH
SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network) "Transitioning to Scrum: Victory and Defeat", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SCVNGR", 7PM, 175 Second Street, Cambridge
Boston New Technology Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Wed MAY 18, 2011
Boston Arduino Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Sitecore 6.5 demonstration", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
NE Midrange Users Group, $ "IBM Power Systems Announcement Overview", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk $
NH .NET Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
Boston Linux & Unix, "Miguel de Icaza: Details to follow", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 395
Google Technology Users, "HTML5 Showcase for Web Developers", 6:30, Google, Cambridge
Boston InDesign User Group, "Using InDesign to Create eBooks", 6:30, MassArt, 621 Huntington Ave
Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston
jQuery Boston Meetup, "jQuery events, HTML5 APIs", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St
Boston Python Meetup, "two scientists sharing their work in Python", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Southern NE Network, "technical changes to the HP server and storage lineup", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick, RI

Thu MAY 19, 2011
DataCAD Users (DBUG), Meeting MOVED to May 31
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Lean Startup Circle, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Data visualizations: Using data to explain the world around us", 7PM, Boston Globe
Boston Web Performance Group, "topic*tbd", 7 PM, 177 Huntington Ave, Boston
North Shore Drupal Meetup, "Let's discuss what we want out of the Group", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport

Fri MAY 20, 2011
Boston Python Meetup, "Python Project Night", 5:30 pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
North Shore Comp Soc Computer Clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Mon MAY 23, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "Framework Bake-Off Part Deux", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Tue MAY 24, 2011
App Development Meetup, topic TBD, 6PM, Au Bon Pain, Kendall Sq, Cambridge
Refresh Boston, "The Art of Disciplined Creativity", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile Boston, "Agile Coaches in Boston", 6:30, 150 CambridgePark Dr, Cambridge
NH Java Users, "Using Google App Engine To Develop Scalable Java Apps in Cloud", 6:30, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH
Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133

Wed MAY 25, 2011
Boston XNA Developers, "XNA 4.0 - Input Management - Mouse/GamePad/Touch", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston PHP Meetup, "Game Storming", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Monthly Meetup", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge
Agile Boston, "Emotional Intelligence and Great Teams", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Final Cut Pro Users, $ "BOSDSLR Mixer: FCP X Recap", 6:30, 395 Western Ave, Boston $

Thu MAY 26, 2011
Boston Azure Users, "PowerShell + Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
OWASP Boston Chapter, "A Web-App Architecture for Regulatory Compliant Cloud Computing", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon MAY 30, 2011
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston

Tue MAY 31, 2011
DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, "Simple rendering, Smart arrows, Going Google", GSD Associates, N. Andover

Wed JUN 01, 2011
Exchange Server Boston, "Microsoft Office 365", 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
Beantown .NET Users, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Agile New England, "Beyond Scrum of Scrums: Scaling Up Agile with Kanban", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham
Visual Basic Professionals, "SharePoint 2010 Development for .NET Developers", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
DAMA International, "Agile and Pervasive BI: Oxymoron or Emerging Trend?", location TBD

Fri JUN 03, 2011
North Shore Comp Soc Computer Clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light

Sat JUN 04, 2011
Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XL", 9-5, MIT Building E51, Room 061

Tue JUN 07, 2011
Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133
Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston

Wed JUN 08, 2011
Boston PHP Meetup, "Introducing the Lithium PHP Framework", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Software Quality Group of NE, "Maximizing the Value of Testing to the Business", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Boston Avid Users, "BorisFX", 6:30, Location TBD 
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
NE Java Users Group, "Special Members Meeting", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
NE SQL Server Users Group, "Disk I/O Tuning - Kevin Kline", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston CocoaHeads, "topic TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376

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

Mon JUN 13, 2011
Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta
NE F# User Group, "Purely Functional Imperative Programming", 6:30, MIT Stata Center
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, SCVNGR Inc, Cambridge
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Seacoast NH Drupal Group Meetup, "newcomers to Drupal as well as experienced Drupalists", 7 PM, Brown & Co, Portsmouth NH

Tue JUN 14, 2011
Virtualization User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Boston JBoss Users, "Fedora", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135
Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Currently setting up the agenda", 6PM, MIT Stata Center
BostonCHI, "Speaker: Matt Boch, Harmonix Music", 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
Boston Rubyists, "Main Event", 7PM, Sermo, Cambridge

Wed JUN 15, 2011
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Metadata in SAS Applications", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Discuss various rendering types", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
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

Mon JUN 20, 2011
NH Ruby Users Group, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH

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

Mon JUN 27, 2011
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston

Thu JUN 30, 2011
Lean Startup Circle, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu JUL 07, 2011
NE Visual Basic Pros, "Identify & Fix Performance Problems with Visual Studio Ultimate", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham

Mon JUL 11, 2011
Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51
Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, 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 Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn SEO (Search Engine Optimization)", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Thu JUL 14, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Mon JUL 18, 2011 NH Ruby Users Group, "Regular Meeting", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Wed JUL 20, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "Open Source Hardware Platforms", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335 Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Wed JUL 27, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, topic and location TBD Thu AUG 04, 2011 NE Visual Basic Pros, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Mon AUG 08, 2011 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue AUG 09, 2011 Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed AUG 10, 2011 Boston PHP Meetup, "Getting things done: Practical Agile", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu AUG 11, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence NE Java Users Group, "Ken Sipe: Enter the Gradle", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Wed AUG 17, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "Android Tablet Wars", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335 Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Thu SEP 01, 2011 NE Visual Basic Pros, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Mon SEP 05, 2011 Boston Java Meetup, "Visualizing java.util.concurrent", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu SEP 08, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Mon SEP 12, 2011 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue SEP 13, 2011 Boston JBoss Users, "Intro to JBoss Application Server 7", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135 Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed SEP 21, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XII", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335 Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "topic tbd", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Wed SEP 28, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects Thu OCT 06, 2011 NE Visual Basic Pros, "Performace Point Server", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Mon OCT 10, 2011 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue OCT 11, 2011 Boston JBoss Users, "Developing in the Cloud", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135 Thu OCT 13, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Wed OCT 26, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, topic and location TBD Thu NOV 03, 2011 NE Visual Basic Pros, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Tue NOV 08, 2011 Boston JBoss Users, "Open Source Licensing and Java Projects", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135 Thu NOV 17, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston", 6PM, World Trade Center Thu DEC 01, 2011 NE Visual Basic Pros, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Tue DEC 06, 2011 Boston JBoss Users, "Lightning Talks 2011", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135

Events, Conferences, Education and Training:

MAY 16, 2011
Azure Deep Dive with Jeffrey Richter, "how to leverage Azure’s data storage and compute services", Microsoft Waltham

MAY 20, 2011
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Evolution Tour, "using Adobe Dreamweaver CS5", Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown

MAY 25, 2011
Boston Mini UPA conference, "Usability and User Experience 2011", Cambridge Hyatt

JUN 01-03, 2011
SharePoint Technology Conference, "90+ classes and workshops", Sheraton Boston

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

JUN 04, 2011
New Hampshire .Net Code Camp 3, New Hampshire Technical Institute, Concord NH

JUN 06-07, 2011
Acquia Drupal Training Sessions, "Rocking Drupal - Crash Course for Developers", Boston location TBA

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

JUN 08-09, 2011
Acquia Drupal Training Sessions, "Module Development & Theming for Drupal Rockstars", Boston location TBA

JUN 09, 2011
Architect Factory 3, "learn the skills to transition into a variety of architect roles", 1-8 pm, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

JUN 13, 2011
HTML5 Web Camp, "The next wave of web standards including HTML5, CSS3, SVG, and more", 9-5, Microsoft Waltham

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

JUN 15, 2011
Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Using Dictionary Tables", 1:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

JUN 25-26, 2011
Third Annual Drupal Design Camp Boston, MIT Stata Center

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

OCT 07, 2011
Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Evolution Tour, "ePUB  with InDesign", Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown



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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