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User Group events:
See below for Seminars, Shows, Learning, etc.

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
Natl Info Security Group, topic TBD, 6:30, Microsoft, Waltham
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

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