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User Group events:
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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
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
IEEE Consumer Electronics Society, "Inaugural meet5ing: consumer digital storage", 4-6pm, Bose, Framingham
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
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

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
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
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
Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence
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

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