User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. Wed FEB 01, 2012 Lexington Computer Group, "Computer Update and Maintenance Issues", 10AM, Lexington Senior Center Central MA/NE CT SolidWorks UG, "Animation, Basic Motion and Motion Analysis/DimXpert/TolAnalyst", 5:30, Metso Automation, Shrewsbury Boston Area Windows Server Users, "Paul Thurrott's insights on Windows 8", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham 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, MIT Building 56-114 - Whitaker Building MacTechGroup, "10 (or more) signs that it's time to leave your job", 7PM, MIT, Bldg E51, Room 335 Django Boston Meetup, "Daniel Lindsley presents Haystack and Tastypie", 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center Thu FEB 02, 2012 eCoast Technology Roundtable eBrew, 5PM, The Press Room, Portsmouth NH Agile NE, "Course #1: Agile Execution with Steve Berczuk", 5:30 pm, Constant Contact, Waltham Agile NE, "Course #2: Agile 101: Story Point Estimating in Scrum with Shuyi Xu", 5:30 pm, Constant Contact, Waltham Agile NE, "Agile Reality - The QA stories", 6-9 pm, Constant Contact, Waltham Merrimack Valley Section ASQ, "Making a Quality "Quality" Presentation", 6PM, Blackwater Grill, Salem NH NE Visual Basic Pros, "Async Programming in .Net 4.5", 6:15, Microsoft, Waltham Refresh Boston, "Getting Stuff Done", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge UX Boston Book Club, "User Experience Design", 7-9PM, Gemvara HQ, Boston Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford North Shore Drupal Meetup, "General Meetup", 7:30 PM, Salem Beer Works Fri FEB 03, 2012 Kinect Boston Meetup, "Kinect Accelerator Info Session", 5:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge North Shore Computer Society computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Mon FEB 06, 2012 Boston .NET Certification Group, "Check meeting status", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "Monitoring MongoDB with MMS and more", 6:30, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge Tue FEB 07, 2012 Dev Boston and Azure Cloud, "Architecting for Failure: Why Cloud Architecture is Different", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 NH Joomla Users, "Making the Jump to Joomla 2.5", 6PM, 8 Jenkins Ct, Durham NH Boston Python Meetup, "February Project Night", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Google Technology Users, "Android Hackathon Preview", 6:30, Google, Cambridge Back Bay LISA, "Overview of the oVirt project", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 145 Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7PM, WPI Morgan Hall 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 Java Users Group, "Getting started with MongoDB", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham NE Mobile .NET Developers' Group, "Chris Bowen Topic: Windows 8 (details TBA)", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 .NET Certification Group, "Check meeting status", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 NH Adobe Users, "Adobe Acrobat X Forms", 1:30, UNH Durham, Taylor Hall 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 Boston PHP Meetup, "Security-Centered Design: Exploring the Impact of Human Behavior", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NH .NET Users, "Chris Bowen unveiling Windows 8", 6PM, Portsmouth Public Library BostonCHI, "Interaction and Data Visualizations", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham Boston Linux & Unix, "To be determined", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 325 NE Oracle DBA SIG, "Tips, Tuning, Troubleshooting", 6:30, Doubletree by Hilton, Westborough Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Thu FEB 16, 2012 Boston AITP $, "Networking Meeting", 5:30, Phillip's Old Colony House, Dorchester $ Virtualization User Group, "Hyper-V 3.0, and more", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham NE Area SMS Users, "System Center Configuration Manager", 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham Final Cut Pro Users, "Think Metadata", 7PM, Paramount Center, Boston Mon FEB 20, 2012 Boston .NET Certification Group, "Check meeting status", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Predictive Analytics, "How far away from me is Kevin Bacon? (Social Media & Network Analysis)", 6:30, IBM, Cambridge Boston PDA Developer Meeting, 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 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 Boston Tech Meetup, "SharePoint Performance: Best Practices from the Field", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Unity Group, "Unity Game Demo Night", 7PM, Asgard Irish Pub, Cambridge 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 Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "Stay tuned for more details!", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center, Cambridge Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Practicing Agile/Scrum", 7PM, WPI 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 .NET Certification Group, "Check meeting status", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 NH Java Users, "Venkat Subramaniam", 6:30, location TBD Boston Hacks/Hackers, "Pros, Cons & Ques of Using New Media Tools to Tell the Story", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester Wed FEB 29, 2012 IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Thu MAR 01, 2012 Chelmsford Linux Meetup, "talk about the latest news and software", 7PM, Java Room, Chelmsford Boston Hacks/Hackers, "How to Keep Your News Site Sticky", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester 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, "Common Clinicals impacts", 6PM, Wellesley Gateway Building, Wellesley BostonCHI, "Erin Treacy Solovey, MIT - details TBA", 6:30, IBM Center, Cambridge 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 Salem Build Guild informal get-together, 6:30, Capt's, Salem 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 NH SolidWorks Users, topics TBD, 5:15, Daniel Webster College, Nashua NH 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 NH Sys Eng & Admin Tech (SEA-TUG), "Implementing and Managing a BYOD Policy in Your Organization", 6PM, Hilton Garden, Portsmouth NH 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 Thu MAR 22, 2012 Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "SpringRoo", 7PM, WPI 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, "Introduction to Windows Azure SDK", 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, "David Rose, CEO, Vitality - details TBA", 6:30, Constant Contact, Waltham 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 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Boston Security Meetup, "2 mobile security talks in 1 night. zomg pwnies!", 6PM, Jobspring, Boston 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 Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "Topic TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 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 Providence Web Development Lunch Hour Meetup, "freeform discussion of all things web", noon, Providence Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Chris Bowen: Developing Software for Windows 8", 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 BostonCHI, "Richard C Boly, U.S. State Dept - details TBA", 6:30, location TBA Wed MAY 16, 2012 Boston Linux & Unix, "Federico Returns", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315 Boston HTML5 Game Development Meetup, 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston Wed MAY 23, 2012 Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham Thu MAY 24, 2012 Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Mon MAY 28, 2012 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Thu JUN 07, 2012 Microsoft Dev Boston Meetup, "Speaker & Topic TBA", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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, "Lesley Mottla, Zipcar - details TBA", 6:30, location TBA 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 Wed JUN 28, 2012 Boston Linux & Unix, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315 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 Wed SEP 19, 2012 Boston Linux & Unix, "PGP/GnuPG Keysigning Party", 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315
Events, Conferences, Education and Training: 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 09-12, 2012 New England Software Symposium, Sheraton Colonial, Wakefield 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 MAY 11, 2012 eCoast Cloud Summit presented by TechWorld, Sheraton Portsmouth Harborside Hotel 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 AUG 11, 2012 Boston PHP Meetup, "Boston PHP Northeast Conference (Day 1)", 9am, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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.