User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. 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 .NET Certification Group, "Essential Tools for MVC; DI and unit testing", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Tech Meetup, "What Can Cloud Do for You?", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue OCT 25, 2011 Boston Avid Users, "topic tbd", 6:30, Video Express, Newbury Street, Boston Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed OCT 26, 2011 Boston Cold Fusion Users, "Continuous Integration with Jenkins, ANT, and MXUnit", 6PM, Sun Life Financial, Wellesley DataCAD Users (DBUG), "DataCAD 14 & PhotoShop Elements", 6PM, Boston Society of Architects, Boston NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Speaker details TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge North Shore .NET Users, "Kickoff with Lightning Talks", 6PM, EBSCO Publishing, Ipswich Beantown ALT.NET Users, ".NET and NoSQL: Introducing Cassandra", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Agile Boston, "Teams and Leadership", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6:30, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Cape Cod .NET Users, "Automated Build and Testing", 6:30, Plymouth Public Library Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden Boston Flash Platform Users, "Brass Monkey, Seriously Fun Control", 7PM, Digitas, 33 Arch St, Boston Thu OCT 27, 2011 Computer Measurement Group, "Intro to Web Analytics, Guide to Planning", 8:30AM, IBM, One Rogers Street, Cambridge Final Cut Pro Users, "Boston SuperMeet", 10AM-11PM, Stuart St Playhouse UPA Boston Chapter, "Decision Architecture and UX", 6PM, Bank of America, 225 Franklin St Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Lean Startup Circle, "Customer Development 101, UX Design", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "The Truth about Self Publishing", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester GBC/ACM & IEEE Computer, "Synthetic biology: from parts to modules to therapeutic systems", 7PM, MIT Room 66-110 Mon OCT 31, 2011 Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 7, 8, and 9; SportsStore sample app", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "Ten Must-Do steps in converting to WordPress", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue NOV 01, 2011 Boston Drupal, "Lightning Talks", 6:30, MIT Tang Center room E51-145 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "Visit GlobeLab: The Boston Globe's take on the (near) future of news", 7PM Wed NOV 02, 2011 Boston Area Windows Server Users, "Copy 60 TB in 12 Hours? It's Been Done", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church, Salem jQuery Boston Meetup, "Use Asynchronous Modules with jQuery now!", 7PM, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Thu NOV 03, 2011 Microsoft Dev Boston (was 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 North Shore Drupal Meetup, "Let's discuss the projects we're working on", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport Mon NOV 07, 2011 Boston Python, "November Python Project Night", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE F# User Group, "topic*tbd", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapters 10 and 11", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue NOV 08, 2011 NH Adobe Users, "e-pubs and InDesign", 1:30-3:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall 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 BostonCHI, "Eric Gordon: TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed NOV 09, 2011 NH Joomla Users, topic TBD, 6PM, 530 South Porter St, Manchester NH Boston PHP Meetup, "Google Analytics for Developers...", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Software Quality Group of NE, "Management's View of SQA", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Thu NOV 10, 2011 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence NH SolidWorks Users, "Photoview 360, Configurations and Design Tables", 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH Boston Security Meetup, "The Volatility Framework", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston NH SharePoint User Group, "Richard Harbridge (Details to Follow)", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua World Usability Day Event, "Creating Applications That Connect with Users", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE Java Users Group, "Inside Android's Dalvik VM", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham NE SQL Server Users Group, "SQL Server Denali High Availability Preview - Allen Hirt", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Business Intelligence Group, "Dimensional Modeling Fundamentals for the SQL Server Platform", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston CocoaHeads, "topic tbd", 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376 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 Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "Details announced at the beginning of November", 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134 Mon NOV 14, 2011 Cambridge SEO Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapter 12 – Controllers and Actions", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "MySQL Encryption, by Mike Frank of Gazzang", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue NOV 15, 2011 Boston Predictive Analytics, "Applications From Enterprises to Individuals", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NH Java Users, "Cloud Foundry", 6:30, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 7PM, 1 Broadway, Cambridge Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, topic TBD, 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed NOV 16, 2011 Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Coders Corner", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NH .NET Users, "XBOX/KINECT using .NET framework SDK", 6PM, NHTI, Concord NH Boston Linux & Unix, "Rolling out IPv6", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 325 Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston So New England Network, "International SMB MVP Community Roadshow", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, East Greenwich RI Thu NOV 17, 2011 DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston", 6PM, World Trade Center Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Google Technology Users, topic TBD, 6:30, Google, Cambridge Mon NOV 21, 2011 Boston .NET Certification Group, "Using Filters & Controller Extensibility", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue NOV 22, 2011 NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Jesse Liberty Topic: TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Agile Boston, "Give Thanks for the Scrum", location TBD Mon NOV 28, 2011 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "QuickBooks versions and issues", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Domain Driven Design (DDD)", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapter 15- Views", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue NOV 29, 2011 Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "An inside look at 'Global Post'", 2PM, Pilot House, 2 Atlantic Ave Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta Thu DEC 01, 2011 Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "How to Be a C# Ninja in 10 Easy Steps", 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 Sat DEC 03, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux InstallFest XLII", 9-5, MIT Building E-51, Room 061 Mon DEC 05, 2011 Boston Java Meetup, "discuss Java and related technologies", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston .NET Certification Group, "Model Templates, Model Binding, Model Validation", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue DEC 06, 2011 Boston JBoss Users, "Lightning Talks 2011", 6PM, Boston Univ MCS 135 Boston Drupal, "Meetup topic tbd", 6:30, MIT Tang Center room E51-145 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston Wed DEC 07, 2011 NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Thu DEC 08, 2011 Boston Security Meetup, "Digital forensics", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston NH SharePoint User Group, "Time Is Money. How SharePoint Logging will Save You Both!", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NE SQL Server Users Group, "Enterprise Information Management - Chad Gronbach", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapter 19, 20 – Review Unobtrusive Ajax and jQuery", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue DEC 13, 2011 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 Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston 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 Thu DEC 15, 2011 Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon DEC 19, 2011 Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapter 21, Security and Vulnerability", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue DEC 20, 2011 NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Speaker details TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 7PM, 1 Broadway, Cambridge Wed DEC 21, 2011 Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston So New England Network, "Computer forensics", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, East Greenwich RI Mon DEC 26, 2011 Boston .NET Certification Group, "Authentication, Authorization, Deployment", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue DEC 27, 2011 Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Introduction to MonoTouch", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed JAN 04, 2012 NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Thu JAN 05, 2012 Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue JAN 10, 2012 BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Full recap of DotNetNuke World 2011", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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, "Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier", 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 So New England Network, "Dan Stolts from Microsoft", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, East Greenwich RI Wed FEB 01, 2012 NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Thu FEB 02, 2012 Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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, "Donal Conlon: SharePoint 2010 & FBA", 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 Thu MAR 08, 2012 NH SharePoint User Group, "Talbott Crowell: SharePoint & PowerShell", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua 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 Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Agenda TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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: OCT 25-26, 2011 Agile Boston Users, "The Leadership Gift" workshop OCT 26-27, 2011 SolidWorks Users, "2011 BFD User Group & Training Conference", MGM Grand at Foxwoods OCT 27, 2011 FinalCutPro User Group Network, "Boston SuperMeet", Stuart Street Playhouse OCT 29, 2011 New Hampshire Drupal, "DrupalCampNH 2011", Manchester Boston .NET Users, "New England Code Camp", Microsoft, Waltham OCT 29-30, 2011 WhereCamp Boston, "volunteer-created unconference for geography and technology", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NOV 12-13, 2011 Voices That Matter: iOS Developer Conference, The Joseph B. Martin Conference Center at Harvard Medical School NOV 14-15, 2011 Free Drupal Training for Students & Job-seekers, "Site Builders Training", 9-5, Acquia, Burlington NOV 16, 2011 Northeast Oracle Users, "Oracle Product Fair", Marriott Burlington NOV 16-17, 2011 Free Drupal Training for Students & Job-seekers, "Theme Development", 9-5, Acquia, Burlington NOV 18, 2011 Acquia HelloDrupal! course, 9-noon, Acquia, Burlington Acquia HelloDrupal! course, "Drupal for Decision Makers", 2-5, Acquia, Burlington NOV 19, 2011 AT&T Mobile App Hackathon - Boston, 10-8, MassChallenge, Inc., Boston NOV 29, 2011 Independent Oracle Users Group, "The Real World Performance Tour", DoubleTree Suites by Hilton, Boston DEC 08, 2011 Boston Drupal Beginner Training, New Horizons, Boston DEC 09, 2011 Acquia HelloDrupal! course, 9-noon also 2-5, Acquia, Burlington Boston Drupal Intermediate Training, New Horizons, Boston DEC 12-13, 2011 Agile Boston Users, "Coaching Agile Teams" class Free Drupal Training for Students & Job-seekers, "Site Builders Training", 9-5, Acquia, Burlington DEC 14, 2011 Free Drupal Training for Students & Job-seekers, "PHP for Drupal", 9-5, Acquia, Burlington DEC 14-15, 2011 Agile Boston Users, "The Coaching Stance" class DEC 15-16, 2011 Free Drupal Training for Students & Job-seekers, "Drupal Module Development", 9-5, Acquia, Burlington 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.