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Sat SEP 03, 2011
DC401 - RI Defcon, "Class: Metasploit for Penetration Testing", 6 PM, AS220, The Brain Tank, Providence

Tue SEP 06, 2011
Boston Python, "September Python Project Night", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Network Users, "Tablet computing - Revolution or Fad?", 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, "How to prepare your digital world for the traveling world", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
NH SharePoint User Group, "Interactive Dashboards with PerformancePoint 2010", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua
NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, The Lyceum, Salem
Boston Python, "NumPy & SciPy, plus extras", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
MacTechGroup, "Apperian SDK & EASE", 7PM, MIT Sloan, Bldg E51, Room 335
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
Microsoft Dev Boston (formerly Beantown.NET), "Top 10 Mistakes in Unit Testing", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston Python, "Python Project Night", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Boston BizSpark Meetup, "Build Buzz for startups/Startup Financial Projection", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE Java Users Group, "90 Minutes to a working Enterprise Application!", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
Boston Area Sharepoint Users, "Developing with SharePoint Server 2010 Metadata", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham
Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Leverage existing Business Performance Data to Automate QMS requirements", 6PM, Billerica
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
Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "see website for topics", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134

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
eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company
Web Innovators Group, "nine presentations, see website", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta
BostonCHI, "How to Create a Value Proposition that Mattersl", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge
Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem
Boston Avid Users, "DSLR use in documentary filmmaking", 6:30, Avid Technology, Burlington
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
NH SolidWorks Users, "DraftSight, 3D Content Central", 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH
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
NH Java Users, "Java Concurrent Programming", 6:30, UNH, Durham NH
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
NE SiteCore Meetup, "Workflow and Security Architecture Discussion", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center
NE Midrange Users Group, "Tips and Tricks to Improve System Performance and Save Disk Space", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk
NH .NET Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Global Relief Tech, Portsmouth NH
Bostontech Meetup, ".NET Enterprise Computing: With Domain Specific Languages", 6 PM, Workbridge Boston
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
UPA New Hampshire Chapter, "Design Slam: The Colored Pencil Project", 6PM, Mad*Pow, Portsmouth NH
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
Beantown ALT.NET Users, "HTML 5 - Practices and Adoption", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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
Lean Startup Circle, "topics related to Customer Development and Lean Startup methodology", 6:30, 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
Agile New England, "Planning and Analysis: Value Via Structured Conversations", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham
HPC & GPU Supercomputing Group, "topic*tbd", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
NE Visual Basic Pros, "Interactive Dashboards with PerformancePoint 2010", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham
Microsoft Dev Boston (formerly Beantown.NET), "Chris Bowen: HTML5 Development", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
North Shore Drupal, "Drupal in MAMP or WAMP... haha - when you don't have WiFi :)", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport

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, "DNN6", 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

Mon OCT 17, 2011
Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston

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
DAMA International, "Decision Model for Data Professionals", 6PM, Harvard Pilgrim, Wellesley
Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington

Wed OCT 26, 2011
DataCAD Users (DBUG), 6PM, topic and location TBD
NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Speaker details TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
Beantown ALT.NET Users, ".NET and NoSQL: Relaxing with CouchDB", 6:30 PM, 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
Microsoft Dev (formerly Beantown.NET), "Geo-aware Applications for Windows Phone 7", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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

Mon NOV 14, 2011
Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington

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
Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Beantown ALT.NET Monthly Meetup", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

Thu DEC 01, 2011
Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "Windowing Functions in SQL Server 2008 and Denali", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge
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 DEC 27, 2011
Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Beantown ALT.NET Monthly Meetup", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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:

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 17, 2011
Boston Accessibility Unconference, "share knowledge and learn", 8AM-5PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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 24-25, 2011
Podcamp Boston 6, "share knowledge of podcasting, blogging, video blogging, social media and more", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge

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

SEP 30, 2011
North Eastern SolidWorks User Conference, Westford Regency Inn

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
Boston .NET Users, "Boston Code Camp", Microsoft, Waltham

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

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