User Group events: See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc. 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, "Wally Mead: System Center Configuration Manager", 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 Boston Web Design Meetup, "Cutting edge Marketing trends", 6:30, WorkBar, 711 Atlantic Ave Final Cut Pro, Boston Avid, Creative Pro Users, "Think Metadata Mixer", 7PM, Paramount Center, Boston Greater Boston Chapter GBC/ACM, "IEEE 802.22 Standard on Wireless Regional Area Networks (WRANs)", 7PM, Verizon, Waltham Sat FEB 18, 2012 Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island open house, 1-8PM, Atlantic Mills, 118 Manton Av, Providence 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 So New England Network, "Security Expert Paul Asadoorian", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick RI Tue FEB 21, 2012 SPIN (SW Process Improvement), "New IEEE-730 Software Quality Assurance Standard", 6PM, MITRE, Bedford Boston Java Meetup, topic TBD, 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center Boston Predictive Analytics, "How far away from me is Kevin Bacon? (Social Media & Network Analysis)", 6:30, IBM, Cambridge Manchester Linux Users, "social/networking/gathering", 6:30, 1181 Elm St, Manchester NH Boston Ruby UG, "Love Your Lib Directory", 6:45, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 DataCAD Users (DBUG), "Lessons 1, 2, 3", 5:30 PM, BSA |Space|, Boston Boston XNA Developers Meetup Group, "Monthly Boston XNA Meeting", 6PM, Microsoft, Waltham 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 InDesign User Group, "Designing with Variable Data", 6:30, Boston Beerworks - Fenway Boston Python Meetup, "PyCon on the Charles, part 1", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston Unity Group, "Unity Game Demo Night", 7PM, Asgard Irish Pub, Cambridge Boston Joomla Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Cyber Cafe, Malden Thu FEB 23, 2012 Boston Azure Cloud Users, "Solving Access Control in the Cloud - from WIF to ACS", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston New Technology Meetup Group, "Six innovative and exciting technology products", 6:30, Cambridge Innovation Center, Cambridge Boston JavaScript Meetup, "The Promises Pattern in Javascript", 7PM, SignedOn, 373 Washington St Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Practicing Agile/Scrum", 7PM, WPI North Shore Web Geeks, "How to Transform your Website into a Valuable Business Asset", 7PM, Port Tavern, Newburyport 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 Mobile Software Developers Meetup, "Mobile Developers Meetup 9", 6:30, Dogpatch Labs, Cambridge Boston WordPress Meetup Group, "topic TBA", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Tue FEB 28, 2012 App Development Meetup, "App development and monetization", 6PM, Panera Bread, Quincy 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, "Thinking Functional Style", 6:30, location TBD Boston Hacks/Hackers, "Pros, Cons & Ques of Using New Media Tools to Tell the Story", 7PM, Boston Globe, Dorchester Boston PDA "Developer Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 Wed FEB 29, 2012 IT Job Seekers Greater Boston Meetup, "Java, .NET, SQL, LAMP, etc.", 6PM, Tavern In the Square, Cambridge Boston Front End Developers Meetup, topic TBD, 7PM, Cambridge Innovation Center Boston Python Meetup, "PyCon on the Charles, part 2", 7PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu MAR 01, 2012 Agile New England, "A Practitioner's Guide to Gamestorming", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham Refresh Boston, "Git, Version Control and You", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 North Shore Drupal Meetup, "share your ideas, Drupal projects...", 7:30, Salem Beer Works Fri MAR 02, 2012 North Shore Computer Society computer clinic, 7PM, Peabody Municipal Light Mon MAR 05, 2012 Web Innovators Group, "internet and mobile innovation", 6:30, Cambridge Royal Sonesta Beantown ALT.NET Users, "Introduction to F#", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Boston Orchard CMS group, "hands on development event", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge NE Oracle DBA SIG, "Tips, Tuning, Troubleshooting", 6:30, Doubletree by Hilton, Westborough NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Green Land Cafe, 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 NE Java Users Group, "Learning Scala by Example", 6PM, Constant Contact, Waltham 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 DAMA International, "Yes, You Can Create an Architectural Data Model in UML", 6PM, EnerNOC, 101 Federal St 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, "Drupal 7 and schema.org & biological models", 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, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston PDA "User Meeting", 7PM, MIT Room 3-133 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 Worcester Linux Users, topic TBD, 7PM, WPI Morgan Hall Back Bay LISA, "Bacula: Intro to an Open Source backup system", 7PM, MIT E-51, Room 145 Thu MAR 15, 2012 Microsoft Dev (was Beantown.NET), "Robert Daigneau: Service Design Patterns & Solutions", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston.pm (Perl), "Tech Meeting: Federico topic TBA", 7PM, MIT Room E51-372 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 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 PHP Meetup, "Learn Git and GitHub", 7 PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Boston HTML5 Game Development, "Monthly Meetup", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston So New England Network, "Change Management, Data Loss prevention Regulatory Compliance, and more", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick RI Windows Mobile Users/Developers, "Details to come” 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 Cloud Users, "Introduction to Windows Azure SDK", 6PM, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Lean Startup Circle, "Boston Monthly Meetup", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Final Cut Pro Users, topic TBD, 7PM, Paramount Center, Boston Tue APR 03, 2012 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston 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 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 Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge 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 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at GaggleAMP", 8PM, One Broadway, Cambridge 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 19, 2012 Worcester Web Technology Meetup, "Git/Github in an Agile/Collaborative environment", 7PM, WPI Mon APR 23, 2012 Quickbooks Monthly Meetup, "topic tbd", 6PM, Siegel & Assoc, Lexington Boston MongoDB Meetup Group, "Topic TBD", 6:30, Microsoft NERD, Cambridge Thu APR 24, 2012 Boston Azure Cloud Users, "Building Games with Windows Azure Services", 6PM, 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 Tue MAY 01, 2012 Boston Rubyists, "Hackfest at Thoughtbot", 7PM, 41 Winter St, Boston 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 Ruby UG, topic TBD, 6:45, 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 Wed JUN 06, 2012 NSHappyHour Meetup Group, "informal gathering of iPhone, iPad and Mac developers", 6:30, Salem 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 20, 2012 Boston Linux & Unix, topic TBD, 6:30, MIT Building E-51, Room 315 So New England Network, "Lee Benjamin: Exchange 2010 SP2", 7PM, NE Inst of Technology, Warwick RI Boston HTML5 Game Development, "Monthly Meetup", 7PM, MocoSpace, Boston 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 18-19, 2012 Google Technology Users, "Android Global Dev Camp Hackathon", Google, Cambridge 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 MAR 17, 2012 Northeast GNU/Linux Fest, Worcester State University 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.