User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Mon DEC 26, 2011 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Boston .NET Certification Group, NO MEETING Today 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 Fri JAN 06, 2012 North Shore Comp Soc computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Mon JAN 09, 2012 NE F# User Group, "Mike Burns Haskell and JSON", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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", 1PM, MIT Media Lab (new building) NH Adobe Users, topic TBD, 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall New England M Users, "GlobalsDB demo", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley Virtualization User Group, "Building an iSCSI Cloud SAN, and more", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center BostonCHI "Socialization & Gamification of Health Behavior Change Apps" 6:30, IBM Center for Soc SW, Cambridge Boston DotNetNuke Users, "Full recap of DotNetNuke World 2011", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Python Meetup, "January Python Project Night", 7PM, 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 Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Boston.pm (Perl), "Tech Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room E51-376 Wed JAN 11, 2012 Software Quality Group of NE, "Managing, Measuring, and Improving the Testing Process", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Boston Sharepoint Users, "Making SharePoint 2010 ROCK by Increasing Findability", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Thu JAN 12, 2012 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Boston Security Meetup, "advanced server security in practice", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston NE Java Users Group, "What's new with Grails 2.0", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham NH Joomla Users, "Migrating Joomla 1.5 to Joomla 1.7", 6PM, 530 South Porter St, Manchester NH NH SharePoint User Group, "Developing in SharePoint’s Middle Tier", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua 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", 6:30, Wayfair, Boston North Shore Comp Soc, "The New Digital SLR Camera", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Sat JAN 14, 2012 RI Linux Users, "LAMP Install", 11AM-2PM, New England Tech, Warwick RI Visually Impaired & Blind Users, "VIBUG holiday party", Legal Seafood, Kendall Square 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 Tue JAN 17, 2012 SPIN (SW Process Improvement) "Recognizing & Measuring Software Security Dangers and Risk" 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "Stay tuned for more details", 6:30PM, MassChallenge HQ, Northern Avenue, Boston 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 Building E-51, Room 315 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 Boston AITP $, "networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $ Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham 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, "Working with Imported Geometry, and more", 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH Final Cut Pro Users, "Visual Storytellers Mixer", 7PM, Paramount Center, Boston Wed JAN 25, 2012 IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge 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 JavaScript Meetup, "RightJS - High Performance JavaScript", 6:30, SignedOn, 373 Washington St Wed FEB 01, 2012 NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, 43 Church St, Salem Boston Linux & Unix, "Raspberry Pi Demo Night", 6:30 pm, MIT Building 56-114 - Whitaker Building Thu FEB 02, 2012 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 Boston Security Meetup, "Running an education-focused CTF", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston 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 Visually Impaired & Blind Users, topic TBD, 1-4PM, MIT Building 5, room 134 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 Boston.pm (Perl), "Tech Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372 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 Boston PHP Meetup, "Security-Centered Design: Exploring the Impact of Human Behavior", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Mon MAR 05, 2012 Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta 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 Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Security Meetup, "get your security policy the love and affection it deserves", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston NH SharePoint User Group, "Talbott Crowell: SharePoint & PowerShell", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua 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 Boston.pm (Perl), "Tech Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372 Wed MAR 14, 2012 Software Quality Group of NE, "The Importance of Domain Knowledge for an SQA Engineer", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington Mon MAR 19, 2012 NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH 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 Building E-51, Room 315 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 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Tue APR 10, 2012 Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center BostonCHI, "Regular Meeting - details TBA", 6:30, TBA eXtreme Tuesday Club Meetup, "Extreme Programming (XP) for software development", 6:30, Cambridge Brewing Company Boston.pm (Perl), "Tech Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372 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 Mon APR 16, 2012 NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH 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 Boston.pm (Perl), "Tech Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372 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 Mon MAY 14, 2012 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Wed MAY 16, 2012 Boston Linux & Unix, "Federico Returns", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315 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 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge 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 Boston Wikipedia Meetup, "Eating, drinking, and Wikipedia gossip", 7PM, Clover Food Lab, Cambridge Wed JUL 11, 2012 Software Quality Group of NE, "Annual Hot Topics Night", 6PM, Oracle-Sun, Burlington
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: JAN 21, 2012 Drupal Camp Western Mass, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA, Integrated Sciences Building 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 17-20, 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.