User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Thu JAN 19, 2012 Boston AITP $, "networking meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $ NH SharePoint User Group, "First meeting of 2012!", 6PM, Daniel Webster College, Nashua Special Event, "Freedom in 'the Cloud'? Dr. Richard Stallman discusses SOPA, PIPA and more", 6:30, Colonnade Hotel, Boston Natl Info Security Group, "Increasing Profits with Security Analytics", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham IEEE Computer, GBC/ACM, & BostonCHI, "The Secret Lives of Links", 7PM, Constant Contact, Waltham North Shore Web Geeks meetup, 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport Sat JAN 21, 2012 Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence Mon JAN 23, 2012 Boston .NET Certification Group, "chapters 10 and 11", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 NH Java Users, "JVM Internals", 6:30, Kingsbury Hall @UNH Durham NH Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Final Cut Pro Users, "Visual Storytellers Mixer", 7PM, Paramount Center, Boston Wed JAN 25, 2012 Lexington Computer Group, "Digitizing physical books with scanner and OCR & eBook publishing", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center 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 NH Sys Eng & Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "Using Open Source Software to Run Your Business", 6PM, Hilton Garden, Portsmouth NH Boston PHP Meetup, "Agile SCRUM Workshop", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Agile Boston, "Bill Joiner on Leadership Agility", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Boston Front End Developers Meetup, "Apps with HTML/CSS/JS using Mulberry, and TBA", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center So NH Apple Core (SNAC), "Quicktime X", 7PM, Nashua Public Library Boston Autodesk Maya Users, "Marmoset Toolbag and portfolio presentation techniques", 7PM, BU Center for DIA, Waltham Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden Boston Python Meetup, "An evening with Jacob Kaplan-Moss, Frank Wiles, and Alex Gaynor", 7PM, MIT Stata Center Thu 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 Boston Web Performance Group, "Top vs. Weak Performers on Black Friday/Cyber Monday", 6:30, Wayfair Offices, Boston Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "HTML 5 And JQuery", 7PM, WPI Mon JAN 30, 2012 Boston .NET Certification Group, "Check meeting status", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Cambridge SEO Meetup, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington Boston WordPress Group, "WP Queries (Developer) & Restoring from a Backup (Beginner/Int)", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue JAN 31, 2012 Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Introduction to Orchard CMS", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed FEB 01, 2012 Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, topics TBD, 5:30, Metso Automation, Shrewsbury NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Green Land Cafe, Salem Boston Linux & Unix, "Raspberry Pi Demo Night", 6:30 pm, MIT Building 56-114 - Whitaker Building MacTechGroup, "topic*tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335 Thu FEB 02, 2012 NE Visual Basic Pros, "Async Programming in .Net 4.5", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Refresh Boston, "Getting Stuff Done", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford North Shore Drupal Meetup, "General Meetup", 7:30 PM, location Coming soon! (Salem?) Fri FEB 03, 2012 North Shore Computer Society computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Mon FEB 06, 2012 Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "Monitoring MongoDB with MMS and more", 6:30, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge Tue FEB 07, 2012 Boston Drupal, "hosted by the MIT Drupal Group", 6:30 PM, MIT room E51-145 Boston PDA User Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 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 North Shore Computer Society, "Identity Theft and You", 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light 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 E51-345 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, "Interaction and Data Visualizations", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham 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 Thu FEB 16, 2012 Virtualization User Group, "Hyper-V 3.0, and more", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham NE Area SMS Users, "System Center Configuration Manager", 6:30 PM, Microsoft, Waltham Final Cut Pro Users, "Think Metadata", 7PM, Paramount Center, Boston Mon FEB 20, 2012 NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Tue FEB 21, 2012 SPIN (SW Process Improvement), "New IEEE-730 Software Quality Assurance Standard", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Boston Hacks/Hackers, "The Boston Globe's digital strategy: a peek behind the (pay)wall", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 8PM, One Broadway, Cambridge Wed FEB 22, 2012 Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham DataCAD Users (DBUG), "topic tbd", 6PM, BSA |Space|, Boston Agile Boston, "A Culture of Agility", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Thu FEB 23, 2012 Boston Azure Users, "Solving Access Control in the Cloud - from WIF to ACS", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge App Development Meetup, "General meeting and networking to kickoff 2012", 6PM, Au Bon Pain (Kendall), 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 Cambridge SEO Meetup, "6th Anniversary SEO Meetup", 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "topic TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue FEB 28, 2012 NH Sys Eng & Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "Big Data - What it is and What it's Good For", 6PM, Hilton Garden, Portsmouth NH Wed FEB 29, 2012 Boston Tech Meetup, "SharePoint Performance: Best Practices from the Field", 6:30 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Tue MAR 06, 2012 Boston Drupal, "learning about and contributing to Drupal core", 6:30, MIT room E51-145 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston Wed MAR 07, 2012 NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Salem MacTechGroup, "topic*tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335 Thu MAR 08, 2012 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence 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 E51-345 Tue MAR 13, 2012 Virtualization User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Cambridge Semantic Web Meetup, "Subject TBA", 6PM, MIT Stata Center New England M Users' Group, "topic TBD", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley 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 Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Gemvara, 1 Financial Ctr, Boston 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 Thu MAR 15, 2012 Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "Robert Daigneau: Service Design Patterns & Solutions", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon MAR 19, 2012 Cambridge SEO Meetup, 6:30, Robbins Library, Arlington NH Ruby & Rails Meetup, "regular, monthly meetup", 7PM, NH-ICC, Portsmouth NH Tue MAR 20, 2012 SPIN (SW Process Improvement), "Human-Centered Risk Management", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 8PM, One Broadway, Cambridge Wed MAR 21, 2012 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 Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "topic TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Boston PHP Meetup, "Lean UX: Getting Out of the Deliverables Business", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Salem MacTechGroup, "topic*tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335 Thu APR 05, 2012 Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford 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 Virtualization User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham 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, "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 Tue APR 17, 2012 Boston Area SAS Users, topic TBD, 8AM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Wed APR 18, 2012 Boston Linux & Unix, 6:30, MIT Location and topic to be determined Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Mon APR 23, 2012 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Wed APR 25, 2012 Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Thu APR 26, 2012 Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Wed MAY 02, 2012 NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Salem MacTechGroup, "topic*tbd", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335 Thu MAY 03, 2012 Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Tue MAY 08, 2012 Virtualization User Group, topic 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, "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 Thu MAY 10, 2012 Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Boston MySQL Meetup, "topic TBD", 7PM, MIT Building E51 Tue MAY 15, 2012 SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford 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 Virtualization User Group, topic TBD, 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham 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 Tue JUN 19, 2012 SPIN (SW Process Improvement), topic TBD, 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Thu JUN 28, 2012 Boston Azure Users, "Azure Topic(s) TBD", 6PM, location TBA, Cambridge 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 JAN 28, 2012 Agile NE, "Agile 101 course: Kanban Flow for Hardware + Software Work", Constant Contact, Waltham FEB 10-12, 2012 Advanced iPhone/iPad Boot Camp, "Three Day IOS 5.0 Intensive Workshop", WorkBar Boston, 711 Atlantic Ave FEB 14-15, 2012 Agile Boston, "Core Protocols BOOTCAMP PART 1", Microsoft, Waltham MAR 09-11, 2012 Boston Beginner iPhone/iPad Boot Camp, "Three Day IOS 5.0 Intensive Workshop", WorkBar Boston, 711 Atlantic Ave MAR 10, 2012 Boston Predictive Analytics, "Big Data Workshop: Session 1", 9-5, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Virtualization Group - Boston, "Fourth Annual Virtualization Deep Dive Day", Lantana, Randolph MAR 13-14, 2012 Agile Boston, "The Coaching Stance", Microsoft, Waltham 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 22-23, 2012 Boston Azure Users, "Boston Azure Bootcamp (two days, hands-on)", Microsoft NERD, Cambridge JUN 26-29, 2012 Red Hat Summit and JBoss World 2012, Hynes Convention Center JUL 22-25, 2012 SharePoint Technology Conference, "website to be posted", Westin Copley Plaza, Boston 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.