User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Sat SEP 17, 2011 Boston PHP Meetup, "PHP Percolate Coffee Club", 8AM, Starbucks, 521 Main St, Melrose Digital Arts Meetup, "Digital Photography Symposium", 8AM, 122 Arlington St, Boston Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence 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 Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "developer's talk on bbPress 2.0", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Seacoast Linux Users meeting is canceled Tue SEP 20, 2011 Boston Area SAS Users Group, "ODS Statistical Graphics/Propensity Scoring", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NH Java Users, "Java Concurrent Programming", 6:30, UNH, Durham NH Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 7PM, 1 Broadway, Cambridge Wed SEP 21, 2011 UPA Boston Chapter, "Ten-Minute and Ignite Talks.", 6PM, Raytheon, Billerica 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 Boston Tech Meetup, ".NET Enterprise Computing: With Domain Specific Languages", 6PM, JobSpring, Boston NH .NET Users, "Intro to modern web technologies", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH NH .NET Seacoast Users, "LightSwitch!", 6PM, Global Relief Technologies, Portsmouth NH Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party XII", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 325 Boston New Technology Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Windows Phone User and Developer, "Windows Phone 7.5", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu SEP 22, 2011 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Semantics & NLP", 6PM, MIT Stata Center Boston Security Meetup, "Intro to Elliptic Curve Ciphers", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston 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 North Shore Web Geeks, "APIs in Life, Music and Wiffleball", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport NH Python SIG, "Layers of info on the GIMP", 7PM, ABI Hub, Manchester NH 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 Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "Toolbox talk", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue SEP 27, 2011 UPA New Hampshire Chapter, "Design Slam: The Colored Pencil Project", 6PM, Mad*Pow, Portsmouth NH JavaScript Meetup, "Advanced Fundamentals of JavaScript Development", 6:30, Google, Cambridge Boston Water User Group, "concept browser of the forthcoming CCS", 7PM, (Check Website) One Broadway, Cambridge Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 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 Metrowest Ruby Meetup Group, "cool Ruby projects", 6:30 So NH Apple Core (SNAC), topic TBD, 7PM, Nashua Public Library Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "ASP.NET with jQuery and MVC 3", 7PM, WPI location TBD Thu SEP 29, 2011 NE Area SMS Users, (see website), 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham 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, "Customer Development and Lean Startup methodology", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Maya Meetup Group, topic TBD, 6:30, BU Arts Ctr, 274 Moody St, Waltham 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 Fri OCT 07, 2011 North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light 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, "Solving Performance Problems Without Denormalization", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue OCT 11, 2011 Boston JBoss Users, "Developing in the Cloud", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "TripleMap: Semantic Search & Associative Modeling for Big Data", 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, "Using MongoDB in Anger", 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston Boston.pm (Perl), "Sean Quinlan's new module", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372 Boston PDA "discussion of general and unexpected PDA topics", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed OCT 12, 2011 Boston PHP Meetup, "Proof you do not need SQL anymore...", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Software Quality Group of NE, "Integrating Testing into Agile Development", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington BostonCHI, "Bill Gribbons: TBA", 6:30, Bentley University, Waltham 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 NE SQL Server Users Group, "Enterprise Information Management - Chad Gronbach", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Boston Python, "Lightning Talk Trick or Treat", 7 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu OCT 20, 2011 Natl Info Security Group, "SMB/MVP Community Roadshow", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Boston Tech Meetup, "What Can Cloud Do for You?", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Gr Boston Computer Measurement Group, "Intro to Web Analytics, Guide to Planning", 8:30AM, IBM, One Rogers Street, Cambridge Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon OCT 31, 2011 Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston 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 New England M Users' Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley 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, 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston Wed NOV 09, 2011 Boston PHP Meetup, "Google Analytics for Developers...", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Software Quality Group of NE, "Management's View of SQA", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington BostonCHI, "Eric Gordon: TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham Thu NOV 10, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence NH SharePoint User Group, "Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NE SQL Server Users Group, "Denali HA/DR - Allen Hirt", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Boston Android Developers, "Hackfest", 7PM, ThoughtBot, Boston 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 Boston Tech Meetup, "So You Want to Be a Rails Developer?", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Boston PHP Meetup, "Lightning talks...", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Software Quality Group of NE, "Developing Extraordinarily Powerful Test Scripts", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington 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 Wed JAN 11, 2012 Software Quality Group of NE, "Managing, Measuring, and Improving the Testing Process", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington 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 Wed FEF 08, 2012 Software Quality Group of NE, "IEEE Standard 730 - an update on the new SQA standard", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington 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 Wed MAR 14, 2012 Software Quality Group of NE, "The Importance of Domain Knowledge for an SQA Engineer", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Tue APR 10, 2012 BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, TBA Wed APR 11, 2012 Software Quality Group of NE, "Use Cases - What are they and how are they used for testing?", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington 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 Wed MAY 09, 2012 Software Quality Group of NE, "Release Management Flow", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington 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 Wed JUN 13, 2012 Software Quality Group of NE, topic TBD, 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Wed JUL 11, 2012 Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: 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 26-29, 2011 Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center SEP 29, 2011 AgileDay2011 Conference, Four Points Sheraton, Norwood SEP 30-OCT 01, 2011 Boston Azure Bootcamp, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Python, "A project-driven introduction to Python for women and their friends", MIT Cambridge 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 26-27, 2011 SolidWorks Users, "2011 BFD User Group & Training Conference", MGM Grand at Foxwoods 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 Nov 29, 2011 Independent Oracle Users Group, "The Real World Performance Tour", DoubleTree Suites by Hilton, Boston 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.