User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Wed AUG 24, 2011 NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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, "Customer Development 101 ..... and The Lean Startup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge JavaScript Meetup, "Mobile Web-App Development", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NH Python SIG, "informal get-together", 6:30, ABI Hub, Manchester NH Sat AUG 27, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLI", 9-5, MIT Building E51, Room 061 DC401 - RI Defcon, "Class: Metasploit for Penetration Testing", 6 PM, AS220, The Brain Tank, Providence Mon AUG 29, 2011 Boston .NET Certification Group, "asp.net MVC 3", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "MuCash: Micro-payments for Blogs", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed AUG 31, 2011 Boston XNA Developers, "Xna 4.0 - Game State Management - Part 2", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Cold Fusion Users, "Slatwall: Open Source eCommerce for ColdFusion", 6PM, Sun Life Financial, Wellesley 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 Sat SEP 03, 2011 DC401 - RI Defcon, "Class: Metasploit for Penetration Testing", 6 PM, AS220, The Brain Tank, Providence Mon SEP 05, 2011 Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston Tue SEP 06, 2011 Boston Python, "September Python Project Night", 6 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Boston Python, "NumPy & SciPy, plus extras", 7 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Boston Python, "Python Project Night", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE Java Users Group, "Steps you are probably missing in your enterprise development processes", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Developing with SharePoint Server 2010 Metadata", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham 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 .NET Certification Group, "asp.net MVC 3", 6:30 PM, 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 Virtualization User Group, "Advance Virtualization/Simplified Suite", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network) "Changing How You Manage and Cope with Change", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford 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 BostonCHI, "How to Create a Value Proposition that Mattersl", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge Boston Ruby UG "ValidAttribute, Minitest, factory_girl, Capybara (RSpec & Webkit)", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed SEP 14, 2011 Boston PHP Meetup, "Learn Twitter API Programming", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston .NET Users, "JavaScript for C# and Other Developers", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham jQuery Boston Meetup, "Five minute lightning talks!", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St Back Bay LISA, "Converged Networks, Voice/Video/Storage/Data", 7PM, MIT E51-376 Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "ASP.NET with jQuery and MVC 3", 7PM, WPI location TBD Worcester Linux Users, "IPv6", 7PM, WPI Morgan Hall Thu SEP 15, 2011 Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Mon SEP 19, 2011 Boston .NET Certification Group, "asp.net MVC 3", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston Tue SEP 20, 2011 Boston Area SAS Users Group, "ODS Statistical Graphics/Propensity Scoring", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston New Technology Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 7PM, 1 Broadway, Cambridge Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 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 E-51, Room 325 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 Boston Python, "NumPy & SciPy, plus extras", 7 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu SEP 22, 2011 Boston Security Meetup, "Intro to Elliptic Curve Ciphers", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston Boston Maya Meetup Group, "Body Mechanics with Rich Fournier", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Final Cut Pro Users, "BOSFCPUG Mixer", 6:30, location TBD 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 Sat OCT 08, 2011 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI 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 Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 7PM, 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, "Ruby on Rails 3", 7PM, WPI 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 Tue OCT 18, 2011 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 7PM, 1 Broadway, Cambridge Wed OCT 19, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "Usability and Fotoxx", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 325 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 Tue NOV 01, 2011 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston 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 Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 7PM, 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 Sat NOV 12, 2011 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Tue NOV 15, 2011 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 7PM, 1 Broadway, Cambridge 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 E-51, Room 325 Boston HTML5 Game Development Group,7 pm, MocoSpace, Boston 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, "Cornelious J. Van Dyk & Jason Himmelstein", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua Sat DEC 10, 2011 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI 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 BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge Wed DEC 14, 2011 Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "IDeveloping Apps on Android Devices with jQuery and Phonegap", 7PM, location TBD 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 Wed DEC 21, 2011 Boston HTML5 Game Development Group,7 pm, MocoSpace, Boston Tue Jan 10, 2012 BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham Thu JAN 12, 2012 NH SharePoint User Group, "Details TBA", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua Sat JAN 14, 2012 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Wed JAN 18, 2012 Boston Linux & Unix, "Security with TrueCrypt, Snort and OSSEC", 6:30, MIT Location to be determined Thu FEB 09, 2012 NH SharePoint User Group, "Details TBA", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua Sat FEB 11, 2012 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Tue FEB 14, 2012 BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge Sat MAR 10, 2012 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Tue MAR 13, 2012 BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham Tue APR 10, 2012 BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, TBA Sat APR 14, 2012 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Tue MAY 08, 2012 BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham Sat MAY 12, 2012 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Sat JUN 09, 2012 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Tue JUN 12, 2012 BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: 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 10, 2011 UPA Boston Workshop, "Successful Agile/UX - A Framework", Bentley University SEP 20, 2011 Boston Area SAS Users, "The Use of Propensity Score and Instrumental Variable Methods", 1:30-5PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 03-07, 2011 Data Education, "Entity Framework Boot Camp", Boston OCT 07, 2011 Adobe Creative Suite 5.5 Evolution Tour, "ePUB with InDesign", Bunker Hill Community College, Charlestown OCT 08, 2011 Boston Application Security Conference, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge OCT 29, 2011 New Hampshire Drupal, "DrupalCampNH 2011", Manchester NOV 12-13, 2011 Voices That Matter: iOS Developer Conference, The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School 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.