User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Wed AUG 10, 2011 Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "I need to make SharePoint look like that!", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Worcester Linux Users, "WLUG BBQ", 6PM, near WPI & Elm Park Boston PHP Meetup, "Boston PHP Job fair", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston PHP Meetup, "Getting things done: Practical Agile", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Macintosh Users, "Mac OS X Server Setup", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Back Bay LISA, "No meeting scheduled for August" Thu AUG 11, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Boston Python, "Python Project Night", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE Java Users Group, "Functional Thinking", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington NH SharePoint Users, "Incorporating Social Networks into SharePoint Internet Sites", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua BostonCHI, "Summer Picnic", 6PM, Danehy Park, Cambridge (Postponed from Tuesday) Boston Drupal, "Drupal Self-Help Group", 6:45 PM, Robbins Library, Arlington Boston CocoaHeads, "topic TBA", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376 Sat AUG 13, 2011 RI Linux Users, check website, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Mon AUG 15, 2011 Boston Scala Users, "Missing LINQ less with Squeryl/Scalatra and Scalate", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue AUG 16, 2011 Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "multiple presentations", 6:30, Minot Room, Countway Library, Boston Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SCVNGR", 7PM, 175 Second Street, Cambridge Wed AUG 17, 2011 NH .NET Users, "XBOX/KINECT using .NET framework SDK", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NE ASP.NET Professionals, "Chris Bowen on HTML5", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Linux & Unix, "Tablet Wars: An Overview", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room 335 Windows Phone User and Developer Group, "Windows Phone 7.1. Live Tile Development Techniques", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Flash Platform Users, "jQuery Mobile: Progressive Enhancement with HTML5", 6:30, Digitas, 33 Arch St, Boston Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "Monthly Meetup", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "ASP.NET with jQuery and MVC 3", 7PM, WPI location TBD Boston Arduino Meetup Group, "TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Python, "Alternate pythons: PyPy, Jython, IronPython, plus lightning talks, beers", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu AUG 18, 2011 Boston Area SolidWorks UG, "PhotoView360, Plastic Part Design", 5:30, Nuvera, Billerica Boston Web Design Meetup, "Cutting Edge Marketing", 6PM, WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave iPad Developers Meetup Group, "Augmented Reality Demo", 7:30, Bertucci's, Alewife Sat AUG 20, 2011 Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island, "monthly open house", 1:00 - 8:00, Providence Mon AUG 22, 2011 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston Tue AUG 23, 2011 Agile Boston, "meeting for Agile coaches and those who employ them", 6:30, CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Boston Rubyists, "Tech After Dark", 8PM, Cambridge Innovation Ctr, Kendall Square Wed AUG 24, 2011 Refresh Boston, "Pleasure, Flow, and Meaning in Design", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Agile Boston, "Socializing Agile Using Triads", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Web Performance Group, "Web Performance Culture and Tools at Etsy", 7PM, 177 Huntington Ave, Boston Thu AUG 25, 2011 Boston Security Meetup, "Slapped in the Facebook: Security & Social Networking", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston Boston Azure Users, "Windows Azure Toolkit for Windows Phone 7", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Lean Startup Circle, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Sat AUG 27, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLI", 9-5, MIT Building E51, Room 061 Wed AUG 31, 2011 Boston XNA Developers, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Thu SEP 01, 2011 Agile New England, "Exercising Scrum: Ken Schwaber", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham NE Visual Basic Pros, "MEF and Silverlight Extensibility", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham North Shore Drupal Meetup, "Drupal Theming", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport Mon SEP 05, 2011 Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston Tue SEP 06, 2011 Boston Network Users, "topic and presenter will be announced shortly", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston Boston PDA "discussion of general and unexpected PDA topics", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed SEP 07, 2011 Boston Area Windows Server Users, "Speaker and topic TBD", 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 Thu SEP 08, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Beantown .NET Users, "topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NH SharePoint User Group, "Interactive Dashboards with PerformancePoint 2010", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NE SQL Server Users Group, "NESQL 2011/2012 Kickoff", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Sat SEP 10, 2011 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Mon SEP 12, 2011 NE F# User Group, "F# and NoSQL (MongoDB, CouchDB)", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "A MongoDB case study", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue SEP 13, 2011 New England M Users' Group, "Clinical Decison Support at the VA", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley Boston JBoss Users, "Intro to JBoss Application Server 7", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "agenda TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company Web Innovators Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta Boston Rubyists, "main event", 7PM, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge Wed SEP 14, 2011 Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn Twitter API Programming", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge jQuery Boston Meetup, "Five minute lightning talks!", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Ruby on Rails 3", 7PM, WPI location TBD Back Bay LISA, "to be scheduled", 7PM, MIT Thu SEP 15, 2011 Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Mon SEP 19, 2011 Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston Tue SEP 20, 2011 Boston Area SAS Users Group, topic TBD, 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network) "Changing How You Manage and Cope with Change", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at SCVNGR", 7PM, 175 Second Street, Cambridge Wed SEP 21, 2011 Boston Azure Users, "Kentico CMS for ASP.Net", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham NH .NET Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Global Relief Tech, Portsmouth NH 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 Boston Web Performance Group, "Web Performance Monitoring Tales", 7PM, 177 Huntington Ave, Boston So New England Network, "Windows Home Server and a Windows 8 Beta preview", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick RI Thu SEP 22, 2011 Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "1st annual Hacks/Hackers @ ONA Hack Day", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Sat SEP 24, 2011 NH SharePoint User Group, "Share Point Saturday, New Hampshire!", 8AM, So NH Univ, Hooksett NH Mon SEP 26, 2011 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington App Development Meetup, "Apps beyond 2012", 7PM, Au Bon Pain, Kendall Sq Tue SEP 27, 2011 Boston Water User Group, "concept browser of the forthcoming CCS", 7PM, (Check Website) One Broadway, Cambridge Wed SEP 28, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), topic TBD, 6PM, Boston Society of Architects Thu SEP 29, 2011 Boston Azure Users, "Brian Prince from Microsoft", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Miguel de Icaza Topic: TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon OCT 03, 2011 Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston Tue OCT 04, 2011 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Could crowdsourced news replace professionals?", 7PM Wed OCT 05, 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 Thu OCT 06, 2011 NE Visual Basic Pros, "Interactive Dashboards with PerformancePoint 2010", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Beantown .NET Users, "topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "agenda TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Xmod Pro", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed OCT 12, 2011 Boston PHP Meetup, "Proof you do not need SQL anymore...", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "IDeveloping Apps on Android Devices with jQuery and Phonegap", 6PM, location TBD Back Bay LISA, "to be scheduled", 7PM, MIT Thu OCT 13, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence NH SharePoint User Group, "Details TBA", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua Wed OCT 19, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "Usability and Fotoxx", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room to be determined Boston HTML5 Game Development Group,7 pm, MocoSpace, Boston Mon OCT 24, 2011 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Wed OCT 26, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, topic and location TBD NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Speaker details TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu OCT 27, 2011 Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu NOV 03, 2011 NE Visual Basic Pros, "Scrum Project Management with Team Foundation Server 2010", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Mon NOV 07, 2011 Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue NOV 08, 2011 Boston JBoss Users, "Open Source Licensing and Java Projects", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "agenda TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Xmod Pro", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed NOV 09, 2011 Boston PHP Meetup, "Google Analytics for Developers...", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu NOV 10, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence NH SharePoint User Group, "Details TBA", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua Fri NOV 11, 2011 DAMA International, "Getting Buy-In for Data Quality through Effective Communications", 10AM, Liberty Mutual, Weston Wed NOV 16, 2011 Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Coders Corner", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Linux & Unix, "Rolling out IPv6", 6:30, MIT Building E51, Room to be determined Thu NOV 17, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston", 6PM, World Trade Center Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue NOV 22, 2011 NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Jesse Liberty Topic: TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon NOV 28, 2011 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Thu DEC 01, 2011 NE Visual Basic Pros, topic TBD, 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Mon DEC 05, 2011 Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue DEC 06, 2011 Boston JBoss Users, "Lightning Talks 2011", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135 Thu DEC 08, 2011 NH SharePoint User Group, "Details TBA", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua Mon DEC 12, 2011 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Tue DEC 13, 2011 Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company Thu DEC 15, 2011 Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue DEC 20, 2011 NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Speaker details TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: AUG 11-12, 2011 Drupal Developer Workshop Series with Isovera, "Drupal Module Development Workshop - Custom Coding with Drupal", Waltham AUG 12-13, 2011 ErlangCamp Boston 2011, "hands on workshop", John Hancock Hotel & Conference Center AUG 13, 2011 Boston GameLoop, "self-organizing game 'unconference'", 9-6, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston PHP Meetup Group, "Developer Dorm Room (PHP Hacker Camp)", 9AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge AUG 17, 2011 Oracle Technology Day 2011, "Eliminate IT Complexity", Marriott, Burlington AUG 24, 2011 Agile Boston, "1-day class in Agility and the Scrum framework", CambridgePark Drive, Cambridge SEP 09-11, 2011 New England Software Symposium, "No Fluff Just Stuff", Sheraton Framingham Hotel SEP 24, 2011 SharePoint Saturday New Hampshire, Southern New Hampshire University, Hooksett, NH SEP 30-OCT 01, 2011 Boston Azure Bootcamp, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge SEP 26-29, 2011 Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center SEP 29, 2011 AgileDay2011 Conference, Four Points Sheraton, Norwood OCT 07, 2011 Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Evolution Tour, "ePUB with InDesign", Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown OCT 29, 2011 New Hampshire Drupal, "DrupalCampNH 2011", Manchester 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 Data Education (formerly 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.