User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Tue DEC 13, 2011 NH Adobe Users, "Google+, what's the fuss?", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall Virtualization User Group, "Cloud hopping made simple ...", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham SPIN (SW Process Improvement Network), "Overview of IEEE CS Software Engineering Certificate Programs", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Semantic Web Query Language Tutorial by Lee Feigenbaum", 6PM, MIT Stata Center Boston Azure Users, "Using Windows Azure to extend your applications to Mobile devices", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge OWASP Boston Chapter, "WhiteHat Security", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge BostonCHI, "Designing Spaces for Civic Learning", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem Build Guild in Cape Cod monthly gathering of web folks, 6:30, BBC, Sandwich UPA New Hampshire Chapter, "Test Your Online Marketing Design Intuition", 6:30, Idea Greenhouse, Durham NH Boston Ruby UG, "MacRuby for Fun and Profit", 7PM, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston Boston Unity Group, "Tips, Tricks and the Black Holes of Lightmapping", 7PM, Asgard, Cambridge Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Boston Post Mortem, "Fieldrunners HTML5: Bringing a Hit iOS Game to the Web", 7PM, The Skellig, Waltham Boston.pm (Perl), "Imprompu Holiday Social", 7PM, Cambridge Brewing Co. Wed DEC 14, 2011 Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, "File Management ...", 5:30, Assebet Valley Reg HS, Marlborough Providence Geeks, "featuring 38 Studios’ first release: Reckoning!!", 5:30PM, AS220, Providence Boston PHP Meetup, "Hands-on Paper Prototyping", 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 Windows Phone User and Developer Group, "hanging out, enjoying the food and company", 6 pm, Bison County, Waltham Back Bay LISA, "Usenix LISA 2011 conference recap", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 376 Thu DEC 15, 2011 Boston Orchard CMS group, "our kick-off meeting!", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Google Technology Users, "Lab and Q&A Session - Apps on Tablets", 6:30, Google, Cambridge Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Django Boston Meetup, "Lightning Talks by the Django Dogstars", 7PM, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge North Shore Web Geeks, topic TBD, 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport Fri DEC 16, 2011 Boston Python Meetup, "introduction to Python for women and their friends (2 days)", 6PM, MIT, Cambridge Sat DEC 17, 2011 Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence Mon DEC 19, 2011 Seacoast SQL Server Users Group, "SQL Server 2012 Power View", 5:30, Great Bay Comm Coll, Portsmouth NH Boston .NET Certification Group, "Chapter 21, Security and Vulnerability", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Boston Python Meetup, "Web Performance Testing, lightning talks, and beers", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue DEC 20, 2011 NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Speaker details TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston New Technology Meetup Group, 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed DEC 21, 2011 NH .NET Users, "Playing Games in the Cloud", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua Boston Linux & Unix, "IT Metrics - Being Persuasive with Management", 7 pm, MIT Building E-51, Room 325 So New England Network, "Computer forensics", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, East Greenwich RI Mon DEC 26, 2011 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington 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 Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed DEC 28, 2011 Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "David will be presenting his work", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Tue JAN 03, 2012 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston Wed JAN 04, 2012 Boston Area Windows Server Users, "Presenter TBD, Topic TBD", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem Thu JAN 05, 2012 Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Eliminate the Waste That Management Doesn't See", 5:30, Billerica Marriott Agile New England, "The Path from BA to PO", 6PM, Constant Contact , Waltham NE Visual Basic Pros, "No SQL - Overview", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Mon JAN 09, 2012 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge 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) Virtualization User Group, topics TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Boston Hacks/Hackers Meetup, "How Responsive Design is changing storytelling", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester 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 Boston Security Meetup, "advanced server security in practice", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston NE SQL Server Users Group, "SQL Server 2012 PowerView! - Erik Roll, Bluegranite", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Web Performance Group, "Jonathan Ranger on Benchmarking Web Performance", 6:30PM, Wayfair, Boston Sat JAN 14, 2012 RI Linux Users, "LAMP Install", 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Mon JAN 16, 2012 Boston Tech Meetup, "Welcome to Windows 8", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Wed JAN 18, 2012 NE Midrange Users Group, "Watson Runs on an i!", 6PM, Ramada Inn, Seekonk 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 Society for Technical Communication, topic TBD, 6:30, Hilton Garden Inn, Burlington So New England Network, "Dan Stolts from Microsoft", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, East Greenwich RI Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Thu JAN 19, 2012 IEEE Computer, GBC/ACM, & BostonCHI, "The Secret Lives of Links", 7PM, Constant Contact, Waltham Boston Hacks/Hackers, "The Boston Globe's digital strategy: a peek behind the (pay)wall", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester Mon JAN 23, 2012 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Tue JAN 24, 2012 NH SolidWorks Users, topics TBD, 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH Wed JAN 25, 2012 Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Boston PHP Meetup, "Agile SCRUM Workshop", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Front End Developers Meetup, "Apps with HTML/CSS/JS using Mulberry, and TBA", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center Tue JAN 26, 2012 Boston Azure Users and Microsoft DevBoston, "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 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 Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Tue FEB 07, 2012 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston 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 NE SQL Server Users Group, "SQL Server + Hadoop == Big Data - Mike Walsh", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge 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 Boston Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston Wed FEB 15, 2012 BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, IBM Center for Social Software, Cambridge Boston Linux & Unix, "To be determined", 6:30 pm, MIT Building E-51, Room 325 Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Mon FEB 20, 2012 NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH 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 Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon FEB 27, 2012 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Thu MAR 01, 2012 Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Wed MAR 07, 2012 NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem 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 Boston Security Meetup, "get your security policy the love and affection it deserves", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston NE SQL Server Users Group, "T-SQL Bad Habits to Kick - Aaron Bertrand", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Sat MAR 10, 2012 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Mon MAR 12, 2012 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Boston MySQL Meetup, "Pentaho: open source Business Intelligence Platform", 7PM, MIT Building E51 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, 2012 Boston PHP Meetup, "Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston PHP Meetup, "Boston PHP Job fair", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Linux & Unix, "Linux Soup XII: The Return of Christoph", 6:30, MIT Location to be determined Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Mon MAR 26, 2012 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Wed MAR 28, 2012 Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Thu MAR 29, 2012 Boston Azure Users, "Azure Topic(s) TBD", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed APR 04, 2012 NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem Mon APR 09, 2012 Boston MySQL Meetup, "topic TBD", 7PM, MIT Building E51 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 Thu APR 12, 2012 NE SQL Server Users Group, "Common Backup Problems and How to Deal With Them", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Sat APR 14, 2012 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Wed APR 18, 2012 Boston Linux & Unix, 6:30, MIT Location and topic to be determined Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Thu APR 26, 2012 Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Wed MAY 16, 2012 Boston Linux & Unix, "Federico Returns", 6:30, MIT Location to be determined Sat JUN 09, 2012 RI Linux Users, topic TBD, 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Mon JUN 11, 2012 Boston MySQL Meetup, "topic TBD", 7PM, MIT Building E51 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 Sun JUN 17, 2012 OUR 15th ANNIVERSARY! Our first calendar was published Tue, 17 Jun 1997 Mon JUL 09, 2012 Boston MySQL Meetup, "topic TBD", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Wed JUL 11, 2012 Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: DEC 12-13, 2011 Agile Boston Users, "Coaching Agile Teams" class, Microsoft, Waltham 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 DEC 16-17, 2011 Boston Python, "A project-driven introduction to Python for women and their friends", MIT, Cambridge MAR 09-11, 2012 Gr Boston iPhone/iPad Boot Camp Meetup Group, "Absolute Beginners' iPhone/iPad Boot Camp", WorkBar Boston, 711 Atlantic Ave APR 24-25, 2012 American Society for Quality, "BOSCON", Waltham Woods Conference Center JUN 08-10, 2012 Gr Boston iPhone/iPad Boot Camp Meetup Group, "Absolute Beginners' iPhone/iPad Boot Camp", WorkBar Boston, 711 Atlantic Ave 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.