User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Tue NOV 15, 2011 SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network) "Cleaning Up Confusion, Jargon, Fads of Software Engineering", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Boston Avid Users, "The Powderhouse Punch", 6:30, Powderhouse Productions, Somerville Boston Predictive Analytics, "Applications From Enterprises to Individuals", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "MongoDB + Boston Predictive Analytics", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NH Java Users, "Cloud Foundry", 6:30, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Boston New Technology Meetup Group, 6:30, Bocoup Loft, 355 Congress St iPhone Developers Meetup Group, "iOS5 Storyboards", 6:30, Raizlabs Corp, Brookline Boston InDesign User Group, "Color Me Creative Suite", 6:30, MassArt, 621 Huntington Ave Boston Ruby UG, "Bundler 1.1, Heroku and Rails 3.1, Scalable Web Apps", 7PM, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston Wed NOV 16, 2011 Boston Area SAS Users Group, "Coders Corner", 8:15AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE SiteCore Meetup, "Proxies and Clones in Sitecore", 6PM, Cambridge Innovation Center NE Midrange Users Group, "Thinking Outside the Box about EDI", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk 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 Windows Phone User and Developer Group, "Microsoft Push Notification Service (MPNS) applications", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Oracle DBA SIG, "Addressing Performance Issues during Change... ", 6:30, Doubletree by Hilton, Westborough Boston HTML5 Game Development Group, "Ubiquitous Entertainment's Enchant.js + IE10 & HTML5", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston So New England Network, "International SMB MVP Community Roadshow", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, East Greenwich RI Final Cut Pro Users, "Sam O’Steen and the Editing of The Graduate", 7PM, Paramount Ctr, 559 Washington St Thu NOV 17, 2011 App Development, Boston Java, and Boston Web Design Meetups, "Mobile App Accelerant", 6:30, Marina Park Dr, Boston Boston AITP $, "Networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $ DataCAD Users (DBUG), "BSA's Build Boston", 6PM, World Trade Center Boston Azure Cloud Users, "What is Cloud, What is Azure, and Intro to Windows Azure", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Google Technology Users, "Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich", 6:30, Google, Cambridge App Development Meetup, "Mobile App Accelerant", 6:30, Marina Park Dr, Boston Lean Startup Circle, "Customer Development and The Lean Startup methodology topics", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Greater Boston Chapter GBC/ACM, "Genome Engineering and Construction of Genetic Codes", 7PM, MIT Broad Institute Django Boston Meetup, "Quick AJAX apps with Django and Backbone.js", 7PM, Compete, Inc., Boston Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Rackspace Tutorial", 7PM, WPI Salisbury Labs room 407 North Shore Web Geeks, networking and great conversation, 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport NH Python SIG, "Informal get-together", 7PM, ABI Hub, Manchester NH Sat NOV 19, 2011 Boston Drupal, "VoIP Drupal Hackaton", noon-6PM, MIT Media Lab Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence Mon NOV 21, 2011 Boston .NET Certification Group, "Using Filters & Controller Extensibility", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue NOV 22, 2011 Agile Boston, "Give Thanks for the Scrum", 10am-5pm, Microsoft Waltham NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Jesse Liberty Topic: TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Cape Cod .NET Users, "HTML5 - A Practical First Look", 6:30, Plymouth Public Library Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed NOV 23, 2011 Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "WP, HTML5, and IE 9/10 & Caching, Scaling, and WP.com VIP", 7PM, 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 Wed NOV 30, 2011 Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden Thu DEC 01, 2011 Agile New England, "Agile Culture and Adoption Survival Guide", 6PM, IBM Innovation Center, Waltham Microsoft DevBoston Meetup, "How to Be a C# Ninja in 10 Easy Steps", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE Visual Basic Pros, "XBox/KINECT using the .NET Framework", 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 NE F# User Group, topic TBD, 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 Web Performance Group, "Dan Bartow on Testing in the Cloud", 6:30, Wayfair, 177 Huntington Ave Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 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 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Boston Security Meetup, "Digital forensics", 6PM, Jobspring, Copley Square, Boston NH SharePoint User Group, "SharePoint Logging & Debugging", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NE SQL Server Users Group, "Enterprise Information Management - Chad Gronbach", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston CocoaHeads, topic TBD, 7PM, MIT Building E51/Room 376 Final Cut Pro Users, "Inside the Cutting Room", 7PM, Paramount Ctr, 559 Washington St Sat DEC 10, 2011 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Mon DEC 12, 2011 Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapter 19, 20 – Review Unobtrusive Ajax and jQuery", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "MySQL HA reloaded - old tricks and cool new tools to guarantee high availability", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue DEC 13, 2011 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Semantic Web Query Language Tutorial by Lee Feigenbaum", 6PM, MIT Stata Center Boston Azure Users, topic TBD, 6PM, 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 Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston Boston Unity Group, "chat about Unity game development with your peers", Asgard, 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 Microsoft DevBoston Meetup "Using Windows Azure to Build Cloud Enabled Windows Phone Apps" 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham North Shore .NET Users, "Cloud Architecture Patterns", 6PM, EBSCO Publishing, Ipswich Boston PHP Meetup, "Paper Prototyping: Sketching and Evaluating Design Concepts", 7PM, 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 Wed DEC 21, 2011 Boston Linux & Unix, "IT Metrics - Being Persuasive with Management", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 325 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 DEC 28, 2011 Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Tue JAN 03, 2012 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston 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 DevBoston Meetup, "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE Visual Basic Pros, "No SQL - Overview", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Mon JAN 09, 2012 Boston MySQL Meetup, "This meetup's topic is TBD, speaker from Tokutek", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue JAN 10, 2012 Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "The GovData Project Winter Course", 1 PM, MIT Media Lab (new building) Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Full recap of DotNetNuke World 2011", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston 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 Boston Tech Meetup, "download and install Windows 8 preview", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge So New England Network, "Dan Stolts from Microsoft", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, East Greenwich RI Wed JAN 25, 2012 Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Tue JAN 26, 2012 Boston Azure Users, "Architecting for Failure: Why Cloud Architecture is Different", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 NE Visual Basic Pros, "Async Programming in .Net 4.5", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Wed FEB 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 Mon FEB 13, 2012 Boston MySQL Meetup, "Scaling MySQL with Transparent Database Sharding", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue FEB 14, 2012 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company Wed FEB 15, 2012 BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge Wed FEB 22, 2012 Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Thu FEB 23, 2012 Boston Azure Users, "February Meeting - Azure Topic(s) TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed MAR 07, 2012 Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford 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 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham 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 Wed MAR 14, 2012 Software Quality Group of NE, "The Importance of Domain Knowledge for an SQA Engineer", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Wed MAR 21, 2011 Boston PHP Meetup, "Boston PHP Job fair", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue MAR 29, 2012 Boston Azure Users, "Azure Topic(s) TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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: 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 17, 2011 HTML5 Web Camp, "HTML5 Game Camp!", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 01-02, 2011 Drupal Module Development, "Custom Coding with Drupal", Isovera, Waltham 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 JUN 26-29, 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012, Hynes Convention Center SEP 11-12, 2012 IEEE Conference on High Performance Extreme Computing (HPEC ’12), Westin Waltham Hotel SEP 18-19, 2012 Embedded Systems Conference, Hynes Convention Center 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.